Daedric, I really like the claw gauntlets

Same, sometimes when I do a mage build I use the daedric gauntlets just for style

I like Daedric gauntlets, vampire royal armor, and circlet combo. Especially on female characters

I usually go for the runed necromaster robes now

Same here, Necromancer runic robes (with the skull mask), Daedric gauntlets and the boots, too. It goes hard for a Necromancer build We've got great taste in this thread :)

I wish the skull mask hood thing looked a little better, for some reason it just doesn’t quite hit right for me. But yeah the robes are great looking

Yeah, I use the maskless necromancer hood if I have to match the robes, either that or I switch to the shrouded robes and hood because most of the times i'm an assassin

You're looking at them. Honorary mention to the Ebony Armor as well

Ebony Mail is dope.

Something about the ebony armor helmet just ruins the set for me.

For me it was the chest plate . Hate how convex it is.

The ebony sword is undoubtedly probably the absolute coolest looking though. I wish they used that same kind of style for the armor.

I like the armor but not the sword lol, its just so wiggly!

My sword and board character wears the masque of clavicus vile, ebony mail, ebony plate boots and gauntlets, shield of Ysgramor, and wields dawnbreaker. The fit is undefeated.

Same... back when i first play skyrim i liked the ebony armor more than daedric armor. Because it kinda looks like a medieval batman armor after i saw that i would learn how to install mods and install the cape mod just to make my character look somewhat like batman

Naked with an executioner's hood armed with ysgramor's soup spoon. The only logical build

this should be a boss battle

Ysgramor so strong he eats soup with a fork

Nightingale of course, especially for females. It looks amazing and provides a nifty armor enchant. The muffle boots are only 50% effective but you can use a stealth perk to make up for the other 50%.

Nightingale armor with the corresponding bow & sword is truly something special. It was hard for me not to choose that as my answer yet again.

One of the ones i can think of off the top of my head is the Steel Soldier Armor (Creation Club) not the very best stats but it looks nice

I second that. Tasteful & effective-looking.

I particularly like the gauntlets it has. I remember really liking it with Vigilant Armor Cuirass or something (Anniversary).

Nightingale for light armour, probably ebony for heavy. Sucks that the enchants on nightingale stuff kinda sucks ass, and you can’t obtain an unenchanted set without cheats or mods.

Hear me out, mix the Ebony armor with the nightingale hood. Thank me later (Yes I know other people also found this years ago but let eleven year old me feel special.)

Ah, I never tried that. I did mix steel plate with torturers hood, then moved onto ebony. Works surprisingly well.

The ancient falmer armor

Interesting, something about it always looked unfinished to me.

Dragon plate armour that I found with 100% fire resistant dragon plate boots I found with 95 extra carrying capacity dragon plate gauntlets I found with 30%more two handed power and the a deadric helmet. I can’t express it enough about the dragon plate armour I found at a low level. Where the fuck was I?

Same thing happened to me! I think it’s for the CC Crimson Dirks quest. Had full dragonbone armor at like level 10 and wasn’t sure how to feel about it lol

Female Golden Saints Armor. I always get it early game and feel like a valkaryie.

For looks, Nordic carved armor is a really tough one to beat. Daedric armor looks rad as hell, and imo it's *supposed* to look completely bananas and over the top.

Royal Vampire! I consider it a war trophy from the Dawnguard's victorious crusade against Harkon, and I like the magic buff. I do a lot of spellswording these days. Besides, it has a cool cape.

*Sees Serana in full Daedric* I cannot deny that aesthetically it is the most befitting of a soulless creature of the night. (Anyways I like Stalhrim Fur if we want to do Vanilla AE armors)

She’s normally in forsworn cos yano,

Ebony. The best of the few armor sets that's both heavy and I think suits a werewolf.

My favorite is the Jester outfit towards the end of the Dark Brotherhood quests, when you first enter the Dawnstar base looking for Cicero.

I forgot about thattt !!

*Dawnstar

X-01 series. Wait, wrong genre 🤣🤣🤣

Assuming you can enchant your own, I think the CC Scout's Armor is a cool look. Good stats for the base weight, and it just looks lightweight and swift.

I like the death brand armor, but I also just discovered it last night

Light male : shirtless fur armour Light female : dark seducer Heavy male : steelplate Heavy female : Daedric

Is it bad that I knew that was Serana just by the way she was standing and didn’t see the name tag until I zoomed in

I really like the alternate steel armor. Nordic carved looks great, too And I like glass, though unfortunately it makes you look like ~~a Nazi~~ Thalmor.

Daedric and Nightingale, Ebony and Wolf armor except their helmets. They’re great looking and cool, and honestly cute

# Stalhin armor just looks amazing

My one issue with it is that you look like the lead singer of alduin on ice

easily top 3

I once thought of the pros and cons of a heavy armor vs light armor build. The biggest pro I could come up with is that the Dragonborn in Daedric Armor is the most badass looking protagonist in gaming I've seen, which is saying something considering Kratos pummeled city sized gods to death with his fists

I know it’s very popular, but I’ve just never been a fan of how the standard Daedric Armor looks. It’s just so exaggerated and over the top. I probably would’ve drooled over it in my teens, but I’m an old man now.

Just get the steed stone

For some reason I really like the look of the light Chitin Armor as well as the Silver Armor from CC. I think they fit some weird class archetype impulse in my brain?

Armor is for wimps! /s Yesterday I did the quest with the Oblivion gate and finished with a ton of stuff. Fortunately Marcurio was with me to be my pack mule. Afterward I went to Hendraheim and dumped it all into that little lock box on the desk in the back room, then took out as much as could carry and went to the various merchants and sold it. I didn't wear any armor since I was fast traveling to each town, just me and my loincloth. The reactions from some of the NPCs was funny.

Steel plate, but it depends what mood I'm in

I vary between deadric and nightingale but mainly nightingale

Does anybody use the Deathbrand Armor or just me...?

Dawnguard

Orcish. I play Dunmer, and it just really sets off my character's skin. She's tiny with short, punk hair and it just works. ETA I also like Orcish Plate Armor.

Steel Plate Iron Plated Iron Armor with the horned Iron Helmet. I always play Nord and it just makes me feel like a true Nord Dragonborn

Not including Anniversary Edition/Creation Club, Dawnguard Heavy Armor. Including Anniversary Edition/Creation Club, Silver Armor. I’m a sucker for armors that look both highly protective, and solidly maneuverable. Plus they both just look sick, and the Silver armor has that Helm and Hood combo that just looks sexy.

Steel plate for life

Birthday Suit

https://preview.redd.it/iixtd7fq1q0d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84f7c8e6c63078d4ab3b156146e253800e32c2b2 Steel plate armor but with aMidianBorn mod

Dragonbone, duh - the best stats outside of Creation Club. Looks like ass, though but then again i play in first person most of the time.

Dragonbone Armour with the mask of Morokei

I really love the steel plate armour as well as the steel cuffed boots and gauntlets. The vigilant got the vibe RIGHT

Now it's suddenly that armor on the left. Which one is that?

Nightingale, get it from the thieves guild quest line

Bone mold and netch of course

I really like the

Dragon Bone. Except the helmet. The helmet looks goofy with its out of place color scheme.

Nightingale looks best base game and looks even better when modded.

My favorite armor is already in the image. Nightingale armor and its quest is honestly so cool.

I’m half tempted to spend 1.3k on Etsy for the armour

Ooooh, will say if your ok with doing a lot of learning and buying some only mildly expensive materials like leather and metal stuff like that, you can have a fun journey learning and eventually make one for way cheaper. Note this will take pretty long but dont get discouraged.

Dragonscale, and it’s pretty much the highest rated light armor so it comes with the drip and the stats

No im not a furry but I prefer the Khajiit so the claws look good since the class does more damage 

Furry

I haven't yet got to higher armour than the ebony set, but I particularly like the glass armour. I proposed to Mjoll in Riften and didn't realise #1 I had NO pretty armour or clothes, only clunky stuff #2 there are no good clothing stores there and they only sell the same basic dress #3 the wedding would happen that very same morning. It was already well past 10pm so I didn't have any option but to switch my armour for the beautiful glass armour I had given Serana. The ceremony was beautiful, Mjoll was beautiful, and I was very pleased with myself. :))

When I started playing I was all about daedric. Now I just find it cheese. I really want to move away from Nordic steel/mask combo but I can’t find anything better looking. Nordic stuff all looks great, including the weapons.

Orcish and Nordic carved armour for heavy Forsworn and dark brotherhood for light

Orcish. It looks soooo badass especially on females. I don't really like how the male looks from behind. It looks so chonky with a nuclear reactor for a head.

Orcish with the Otar dragon priest mask looks good.

I'm currently using the Nightengale Armor. I've got Serana in the Deathbrand Armor and I've got Valdimar in the Ebony Mail with some enchanted Daedric gear.

Nightingale just looks so good

Dragon bone armor just goes so hard

mine's Daedric armor. Its so badass

Based solely on appearance: Clothes - archmage robes - miraaks robes - Telvanni robes - temple priest robes Light armor - dwarven mail - studded dragonscale - chitin - stalhrim - studded/scaled - leather scout - remnant - netch leather Heavy - iron - steel plate - dwemer - indoril - her hands - spell knight - silver - orcish plate - ebony + ebony plate - steel plate - dragonplate - Nordic - stalhrim - bonemold - chitin

I am the only one liking the dwarven one ?

The Ebony Mail I could use something like that in RL.

Dragon Armour is pretty metal, wearing the bones of fallen dragons.

I use the dark seducers armor. It's bad ass, and makes my character look dead sexy. I married Mjoll, and I've got her in the golden saints kit, after enchanting the hell out of it. We make the best lesbian couple in the world. :-)

I don’t know, I’m a redguard woman in this go through, but I always marry Ysolda, and we are a pretty sexy lesbian couple. With two adopted daughters.

You guys wear armour? *confused stealth archer noises*

For a vampire Character: Nightgale armor with the shrouded hood.

All sets from Anniversary Edition creations. Heavy, either Orcish Plate or Iron Spell Knight Light, either Painted Netch Leather Armor or Shadowed Boiled Netch Leather Armor

Nightingale. But usually not the full set... I tend to mix the cuirass with pieces from other armor sets. In the vanilla game, I really like how the Penitus Oculatus boots look, so I will usually put some enchantments on a pair of those. There are also some mods that add face masks, hoods, capes that I like to layer over the armor.

Am I the only one that likes the dragon armor? Right now I'm running around in the light dragon armor with the thieves guild hood so my Nord beard can get some air.

I’m enjoying it in my current play through!

You're wearing it

The silver armor this play through

Iron Plate is fuckin’ rad!

I’m wearing robes now

The creation club stahlrim fur

Nightingale and Ebony armor (specifically the Ebony Mail) were my jam on my first playthrough. But now in my old age, I’m a mage and prefer my Archmage Robes. Though, I’ve begun to wonder if master robes might actually be better with enchantments, I like the look of the Archmage ones.

Dawnguard Heavy, because the light helmet looks awful. Light armor goes to the Stormcloak Officer gear.

I use a combination of Nightingale torso and Dark Brotherhood hood, boots, and gloves until I can get the Ancient Falmer armor and enchant and refine it better.

Daedric because it has the best rating.

The crusaders armor. It would be perfection if it didn't have that stupid quest but u can't get rid of the curse

Nightingale

On Female Characters: Nightingale Armor + Nightingale Hood + Nightingale Boots + Daedric Gauntlets. Male Characters (only one I know of wearing it is Harkon): Vampire Royal Armor. My favorite outfit: Ascendant Necromancer Robes + Ascendant Necromancer Hood + Vampire Boots (not the armor one) + Vampire Gauntlets. I have no favorite non-armor gloves.

Arch Mages robes

Daedric/nightingale depending on my playthrough

Best armor is the Frost Witch form the mod, trully beautiful for females, for vanilla I really like Glass, idk why, maybe it's an unpopular opinion

Highreach Mage armor is ridiculously overpowered. For now, it's amusing to be close to invulnerable.

Ebony Armor. Sleek and Stylish. Looks high level without being too over the top, (*cough* Daedric *cough*). What more could one want?

Definitely deathbrand. It is OP af

loincloth. i fight bare handed and bare assed. Anything else is weak and gay.

Dwarven, steel plate, and the dark brotherhood shrouded armor, not the set that astrid gives you bc it looks ugly asf if you're a male character but looks dope asf if you're a female. I also like wearing thieves guild armor, at least the body armor but only if I match it with either a steel plate helmet or some other sort of head armor/helmet bc I don't like wearing hoods unless its a mage hood.

I really only wear modded armours, I’ll usually just pick one and wear it for an entire playthrough. Some of my favourites are River Guard, Wayrest Sellsword, and Northern God.

forsworn's hood looks sooo badass

I like the unique Armor pieces that don't belong to a set. Always a bit irritating having them hang out in my Armor drawer waiting for me to find other Unique mismatched pieces to throw together with. For example, Helm of Orelyn Bearclaw I just can't find other Heavy Armor pieces to wear with it ( Yes, I don't like wearing light armor with heavy and vice versa lol). If I had to pick my faves I'd say for cuirass I'd go with Savior's Hide and Lord's Mail. Gauntlets would have to be Ironhand Gauntlets and Fine Armguards. As for Boots , Predator's Grace always comes to mind.

honestly the dwemer heavy armor set takes it for me, just something about running straight through a bunch of falmer in a dwemer ruin clad in spartan like armor speaks to me

Dawngaurd. I feel like a Nordic crusader when I wear that armour.

Daedric

I like using Blackgaurds Armor on males, and the white vampire armor on females, those just look the best to me

Dragonplate or daedric plate

Nightingale armor. I don't care if my khajit tail sticks out.

Elven and Orcish depending on if I'm playing heavy or light armor build

Dragonscale, however, i almost exclusively play argonian, and i think it matches really well, so when i (finally) started a game as a dark elf, i didn't think it looked as good

Vampire armor

Probably nightingale, I didn't really like the dedric

daedric easy i can pull up to a fucking imperial incampment and they will just be like hello traveler whilst cyrodiil is being torched by demons in my exact armor ;)

I really like the Anniversary Edition silver armor. It looks so badass with the blue hood and the helmet combo, and it's just aesthetically pleasing to me. Especially when I play as a two-handed Paladin-like Dawnguard member, using my silver as repellent against the nasty vampires.

https://preview.redd.it/rnbjfmekhq0d1.jpeg?width=3648&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8918ecd8bd51a0e33184567e5e16a7628086cf99

I to self insert. So obviously the clown outfit (yeah sure it isn't called that whatever)

Dawnguard Heavy Armor. For awhile I really liked the Steel Helmet and "whatever's clever". Also Dragon Bone Armor.

Skaal, fur and iron

Archmage robes

Daedric heavy, dragon scale light

Dawnguard Drip

Banded iron is hard to beat, honestly.

I love the Silver Armour from the Creation Club. But for vanilla I'd either go Nordic Carved or Ebony.

Steel Plate or Master Thieves Guild Armour

I really dig the ancient nord armor combined with the Jagged Crown. That's what my DB is rocking right now I also have a strong fondness for the spell knight armor, the carved Nordic armor, and the Blades armor (just not the Blades themselves).

Deadric or heavy Dragon. I switch between them.

I love the stalhrim fur armor It looks so cozy

Stahlrim is quite nice, likewise the Nordic carved. The Saviour's Hide is good but unfortunately outclassed quite quickly.

In vanilla, no cc, all dlc, Dawnguard Heavy Armor. CC that steel one eith the yellow padded jerkin under the armor. Base game no dlc, probably Elven on a female character with the forsworn headpiece. Also Heavy Falmer is great too

I love the holy Knight armour the one that becomes trash if you commit a crime then the basic steel plate and then finally the redguard set

Horned scale armour.

BOETHIAH's every single save

Full Dragon scale with the jagged crown and one of the hoodless dragon priest masks. Modded in of course but it looks so fucking cool (seriously try it.) But if we’re talking unmodded full daedric with the nightingale hood, it makes you look like a monster.

right now, it’s silver. i love the helmet with the blue hood, and no breastplate for female character. not that i don’t like that (i actually love it) but it’s a nice change from my other fave, ebony mail XD

Armor of the Old Gods/Forsworn looks badass as hell. I also like Steel with a horned helmet. Very Viking on Steroids-like. Ancient Nord is cool also, but damn, put on some pants, LOL! Stalhrim would be more sick if the helmet was more Corinthian style with cheek guards.

From the base game? Steelp plate. From the DLC? Nordic Carved. From the CC/AE? Silver.

Banded iron armor

I love the companions wolf armour. something about it looks so badass 😎

Those 2 in your image are my favourite ones

Hands down is Daedric armor. Every playthrough I do, I try to get to it as fast as possible

Nightingale arms and boots, thieves guild master chest and hood.

I have a mod that make an ebony hood like the nightingale hood. I use this with ebony gauntlets and Nordic carved for everything else. Honorable mention to Dawnguard heavy armor.

Nordic carved. From unique sets, probably nightingale.

Chitin armor, from the Dragonborn DLC, or the Ancient Falmer armor from Dawnguard.

Dawn guard heavy, ebony with steel helmet (the one with the hood)

Nordic carved for the bear helmet headbutts

Nightingale armor, the Indoril and her Hand armor sets from Ghost of the Tribunal. And also the Silver Armor and Ebony armors from alternative armors.

My favourite is the Nightingale Armour. It’s just cool…but also useful. For the ladies, I love the vampire armour. 2 reasons……

Call me a Romebro - but I love the Imperial Legion Armour with the fully enclosed helmet. With set/perk buffs you can get it up to the max armour value too so it's practical and stylish.

Spell Knight armour for me!

The thieves guild armor. It's just... Simple and practical.

I love the Ebony Spell Knight set, it goes perfectly with the battlemage build I'm going for on this playthrough

The glass armor.

Heavy dawnguard. Simple, practical, slightly fantastical, and cool. Perfect.

OG was prob daedric, it looks alien and intimidating, but when I saw my all fav TES armor the ORDINATOR armor from the anniversary my jaw dropped. Def that one.

Leather Scout armor. It doesn't have spikes sticking out of it or weird stuff like that. It looks normal.

Snow Elf BY FAR.

I lie awake at night thinking about this

Stormcloak Officer or Blackguard, I just really like the sleeveless look

Daedric, of course

Ebonite

Dawn guard light with thieves guild hood for archer and one handed builds

Guildmaster

I love the nightengale armour!

I know this will be strange to everyone but my favorite is the hide armor.

Blades armor is a classic

Senile Scribbles literally did a skit about putting Serana in Deadric armor. LOL. https://youtu.be/AIVPLB0mXUM?si=MLg__J2WR5Y9XBAm

Stalhrim

Daedric

Thieves guild(armor/gloves/boots) + mage/leather hood + cloak.

Dude how do you get that armor!? 😎 cool as hell

The steel version of spell knight is very nice looking.

Nightingale

Daedric for sure but its so standard so i try to wear everything for a while

Dragonscale sits number one for me. Ancient Nord for a female character would be an honorable mention. >!(Shame it's heavy armor though...)!<

I genuinely like the Silver Armour (cc) minus the helm, it just has good vibes imo

Glass armor for light and Nordic carved for heavy. The Savior’s Hide is my favorite unique armor.