another Skyrim thread: Best looking armour?

[ReservoirAngel]

Nightingale, easily. If I didn't have armour with better stats, I'd still be using it because it looks so fucking badass.

As it stands I'm using the Guild Master's Armour, but with the hood you get from the Dark Brotherhood on account of the increase to bow damage.

 

[hazabaza1]

Wolf armour looks fucking badass.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Iron. Come at me bro.

 

[SeeIn2D]

Well as far as full sets go I'll go with the Guild Master's armor. However I absolutely LOVE the armor my assassin character currently wears. My armor set is:

Head: Rahgot
Torso: Ebony Mail
Gloves: Ancient Shrouded Gloves
Boots: Daedric Boots
Ring: Gold Diamond Ring
Necklace: Gold Diamond Necklace

This armor set looks so cool. And when I'm crouched the Ebony Mail puts like a black smog around me and it looks even more badass.

 

[the abyss gazes also]

I'm going to have to go with the Nightingale armor. I just feel like a badass ninja with my character in that armor.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

I just love the Ancient Nord armor on females (looking at you, Aela!)

I'm running around with the Guild Masters armor though it's retextured to look like a Skyrim version of Link's armor so it's green and has a Triforce on its shoulder pad. Oh, and I'm also wielding a Hylian Shield

Edit: I'm not wielding the Master Sword though, doing Dark Brotherhood quests with it would just feel wrong...

 

[DementedSheep]

I actually like the low level armours, most of the high level ones look a bit out of place to me and I'm not a fan of gaint pauldrons.
Steel and the thieves guild armour (not nightingale) are two of my favourites. I also really like the guard armour minus the helmet.
Ebony I like on male characters but I dislike the way it is moulded to the chest of female characters. Not because of sexualisation or anything like that, I just think it looks silly.

 

[Nouw]

Dwarven Armour. The helmet is just fucking state of the art badassery. Then you have your massive pauldrons for extra awesome.

 

[TheOneBearded]

Am I the only one who puts on the Masque of CV, Daedric boots and gauntlets, and the Nightingale armor and pretend to be a super sneaky, murderous Batman? I certainly look the part.

 

[Wyes]

What looks the best? The steel armours, even the steel full plate (maybe excepting the helmet, though it's not too bad compared to others), because they're not as stupidly over-designed as every other type of armour. I get this is a fantasy setting and it's just par for the course, but it irritates me because I know how much it'd annoy me to fight wearing that shit, especially things like the Daedric armour which has spikes all over the damn place.
That said, what I actually wear when playing my Nord sword-and-shield brute is the Daedric heavy armour, and for my current light armour run-through I have glass, though that will become Dragonscale soon enough.

 

[Doclector]

I like the thieves guild armor.

Dont know why everyone loves the Nightingale armor so much, doesnt seem like anything special to me.

It's the cape, methinks, but I like the thevies guild armour as well.

Personally...it's gotta come down to either the steel plate armour for a traditional "knight in shining armour" look, or the dwarven armour, just for being ridiculously huge. It's like some medieval version of the iron man suit made in the cave in the first film. Also, doesn't anyone else find it kinda strange that you find suits of dwarven armour that fit a fully grown man in dwarven ruins?

Honestly, it's a shame I usually favour light armour...

 

[SajuukKhar]

The dwarven armor is my personal favorite. It just looks so kickass. You look like a demigod in that thing.

I mean, if I saw someone walking down the street with that dwarven armor set on... Phew. Daedric would impress me, but not as much as the dwarven.

What is scary to think about is that some Dwemer metal was made of souls.

Dwemer armor = armor made of souls

 

[Doclector]

I like the thieves guild armor.

Dont know why everyone loves the Nightingale armor so much, doesnt seem like anything special to me.

It's the cape, methinks, but I like the thevies guild armour as well.

Personally...it's gotta come down to either the steel plate armour for a traditional "knight in shining armour" look, or the dwarven armour, just for being ridiculously huge. It's like some medieval version of the iron man suit made in the cave in the first film. Also, doesn't anyone else find it kinda strange that you find suits of dwarven armour that fit a fully grown man in dwarven ruins?

Honestly, it's a shame I usually favour light armour...

The dwarven armor is my personal favorite. It just looks so kickass. You look like a demigod in that thing.

I mean, if I saw someone walking down the street with that dwarven armor set on... Phew. Daedric would impress me, but not as much as the dwarven.

I went to the mages college in dwarven armour once. That looked...odd.

 

[DementedSheep]

I like the thieves guild armor.

Dont know why everyone loves the Nightingale armor so much, doesnt seem like anything special to me.

Also, doesn't anyone else find it kinda strange that you find suits of dwarven armour that fit a fully grown man in dwarven ruins?

If I am remembering this right dwarves/dwemer in TES are a type of elf and not actually short so it would fit a person. TES lore is random.

 

[SajuukKhar]

If I am remember this right dwarves/dwemer in TES are a type of elf and not actually short so it would fit a person. TES lore is random.

The name Dwarf was a term given to the Dwemer by the giants.

Because the Dwemer were, as all other races are, dwarfs compared to the giants.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

right now im rocking a certain jesters light amour and it looks really good on a female...like harley qiunn

 

[BathorysGraveland]

The best looking vanilla armour for me was the steel plate, minus the helmet. It was the most practical looking, and also had a little Nordic flavour. A close second is the Stormcloak officer armour, including the "helmet". That armour is fucking perfect if you want to play a Nord or Orc berserker.

 

[Mike Easter]

I had a little nerdgasm when I got the Nightingale for the first time. Even after a full clear and several hundred hours of gameplay, I still think that armor looks the best.