Poll: Another Skyrim thread: Favourite weapon/armour set aesthetically?

[I Have No Idea]

I tend to lean towards Elven. It looks cool, and is Light Armor, which is my specialty. But I really don't like the look of my Elven Gilded Armor, though - the shoulder plates make me look too bulky, but I wear it anyways because it was a huge jump in armor points from the regular Elven Armor. But the Apprentice Hood I wear makes my Khajiit look badass, so it kind of evens out. I wear Dark Brotherhood boots along with that (silent steps), and Dwarven Bracers of Eminent Archery. The only reason I haven't ditched those ugly and out-of-place bracers is because of the 30% bonus in Archery damage.

As for weapons, I use my Ebony bow almost exclusively, and when close-quarters becomes a must, I switch to either magic or my Dawnbreaker/ Grimsever + magic combo.

 

[tzimize]

So recently, I've found myself particularly drawn to several weapon sets in in Skyrim due to their looks. I've always loved Dwarven weapons - they have all the bling of weapons made of gold due to that wonderful Dwarven metal, and they also look practical and to-the-point (no pun intended). The warhammer in particular looks badass.

I also really like Steel - weapons from there have cool patterning all over them (particularly the War Axe) without looking overly flashy or ineffective. Too bad it's one of the weaker weapon sets (though you also get Skyforge Steel, which is much more powerful and looks the same).

Finally, there's Glass, which just looks ridiculously pretty and elegant. "An elegant weapon from a more civilized age", indeed.

So guys, what's your favourite? I haven't talked about armour much, because I don't pay much attention to it - but feel free to mention that, too. Sadly, there was no room for an "other" option on the poll, so if you like the mini-sets such as Falmer or Imperial just say so in the thread.

Some of the Assassin stuff is pretty cool, and I also like the steel one. My current character is wearing Wolf Armor/boots, imperial bracers, a steel horned helmet and looks extremely kickass. One of my other favs is the Nightingale armor. Beautiful.

Edit:
Weapons: The Skyforge steel 2h-sword, daedric dagger, the Daedric prince dagger (unique), Wuuthrad and the Blades 1h-sword. The glass swords are also quite awesome imo.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

I love the dwarven armor the most with dragon coming in a close second. Whenever you have the whole suit equipped you feel like an ancient Romanesque Robocop. The dragon armor is just plain badass, especially because of how many dragons you have to kill to make it.

 

[Akytalusia]

none of the above. my favorite weapon is the bound bow. for armor, i like robes.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I love my fully enchanted Glass armor; I don't know what it is but I like that green color.

I do have a full set of enchanted Ebony armor(Got the armor itself from a random encounter with high-elf that was throwing ice attacks at me out of nowhere, he was wearing of course. I sort of like the looks of it, but I like wearing armor that I can at least see some of my face while in it.

I gave that Ebony armor to Lydia.

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I tend to like Glass armor and Ebony weapons. Especially Glass armor, Ebony Greatsword, and Ebony Bow.

 

[Phlakes]

Ebony is too stereotypical "badass black death armor" or whatever. I use Dragonscale armor (which I like the simplicity of) for the practicality, but I still hold onto a Glass Sword because they're classy. Decapitate dudes like a sir.

 

[GameChanger]

I'm torn between the bird-like visuals of the elvish weapons, and the leaf-like curves of the glass weapons. They're both too awesome.

 

[Ix Rebound]

The nightingale armor
looks fucking AWESOME!
Also the daedric bow sort of looks like a compound bow, sort of

 

[Promethax]

The Orcish armor, to me at least, screams "*****, I'mma razzz you up!"

 

[Lev The Red]

Nightingale, hands down.

Spoiler: behold the majesty

 

[Vuliev]

Dwarven stuff is very warrior-of-good-and-awesome (except for the helmets, they look silly), so it fits very well with the whole "heavy knight charging into battle thing."

IMO, though, the best looking set is female Orcish with Otar as the head-cover when you're going with a dual-wielding berserker kind of style. Functional, brutal, and honestly not something I'd want charging at me in battle, yet still visually appealing.

 

[Wayneguard]

I'm a big fan of the glass armor in Skyrim. The more muted color palette was a VAST improvement over the neon green bullshit that they had in Oblivion and Morrowind. For heavy armors, I liked the steel plate. It was a good, basic looking armor set. One thing that always pissed me off was that I was never able to create a legitimate looking paladin/shining knight type character because if I wanted my armor to be more effective than toilet paper, I had to wear ebony or daedric armor. Steel Plate was a step in the right direction.

 

[Blue Hero]

I'm surprised that ebony has the highest number of votes. To me, it looks absolutely awful. Like a goddamn hunchback without a neck and elf ears. My guy doesn't even wear armor. He just wears clothes. He's very fashionable.

 

[Domehammer]

Scaled armor was favorite of mine.. though dragonscale isn't half bad if you don't wear the weird helmet.

 

[thelittleman66]

Orcish armor. Not as over the top as Daedric or Dwarven, but not as boring as Ebony.

 

[Faux Furry]

The lack of Fur, Dragon scale/bone(just like Fur Armor on a Khajiit, Dragon Scale or Bone Armor on an Argonian works best for me. Sometimes, the best equipment types look more like a part of the character than something to detract from the general plainness of the character's features),Nightingale and Dark Brotherhood armors leaves me to choose Daedric since the Ancient Nordic Hero armor is found in the Daedric crafting table when using the Sky Forge.

 

[oZode]

I like dwarven gauntlets and boots, but the helmet looks cool. I dunno about the body though. My character is meant to be psychotic so he wears a dragon priest mask and fine clothing and it looks weirdly badass.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Ebony from those choices but I really enjoy the Nightingale Armor. Steel Plate looks really good too.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Without the helmet, ebony armor is my favorite in aesthetics. Deadric looks cool but just too cool....

By the way, on my evil Kahjiit, I have him wearing an adept hood with the ebony armor, it looks so badass.

I agree, Ebony is amazing. Daedric is cool but a bit too over the top. Also, it looks "evil" which is awkward in some situations, such as when some guy is all surprised that you're trying to attack some tree (in a quest), when you look like a fucking demon. Ebony is more sleek. Also, the sword is amazing. Amazing.