WARNING: Daedric style Heavy Armor Looks...

ZoM_Head

Oricalcum Heavy Armour (hidden Helmet) Khajiit Style level 26 White (Normal).

Looks great in my view, and better than Daedric.

Faolanhart

It's very difficult to like this when Skyrim pretty much made the perfect look for it. Hell even Oblivion's looks better than this.
It's just very underwhelming for something that is supposed to look demonic.
I love the armor in this game, Wood Elf, Khajiit, Argonian & High Elf are favorites of mine but it is perplexing when the rarer motifs don't look nearly as cool as most of the veteran stage race armor.

rtx

As I said before - es gustibus non est disputandum, IMO it's the best daedric armour in the series and also I think, that everything looks better than oblivion daedric armour. You think different and I understand your statement, but I don't understand your butthurt.

Cheatingdeath23

Personally, I love the Daedric look you have in the first post.

I can see why you might prefer the larger horns of Skyrim/Oblivion, but that might be related to the issue of skins being used in ESO. I don't remember the details, but previously the armor was unique and the size varied between each piece. To make it easy to fit onto every character in ESO, they made it more universal, which prevents it from being the big armor of the past.

Could be wrong, but that is my thought. I'd gladly pay 30-40K for Daedric.

vencibushy

Guys you should not expect armors to look like the ones in Skyrim. There is a perfectly good reason for this.

Armors in Skyrim are fully 3D rendered over the character's body. In TESO this is not the case. 80% of the armor is purely textured over the skin of the character. Only few elements are actually 3D rendered above the character.

The reason for this is that in Cyrodiil the engine will become slow as f*ck. Even on high-end PC's.

That is why almost every heavy armor in TESO looks absolutely ridiculous!

I've got to agree that Daedric armors look like crap. It's a joke.

ascention7ub17_ESO

I agree, it doesn't look "heavy enough", but its still better than some of the other armors. Still though, who the **** decided that cobalt blue and grey were acceptable colors for daedric armors needs to have their lore checked. Jus sayin yo.

Ysbal

Hm, not our current perception of "Daedric" but I am reminded of the armor worn by Dremora in Battlespire. Colors are a bit off, needs to be mostly green (or was is blue? might have been both) with red highlights. Ah, memories...

Found a picture: http://images.uesp.net/3/38/BS-creature-Dremora.jpg

Maotti

Can someone post a picture of daedric light and medium armors too?

Abeille

Maotti_Nor wrote: »

Can someone post a picture of daedric light and medium armors too?

Here: http://eso-fashion.com/clothing-by-style/#Light-7
I like the light armor, to be honest.

nalimoleb14_ESO

The good news is that armor dyes and tinting will be one of the future updates...

tordr86b16_ESO

I agree it looks like ***.

twnakita

Well ***. I was planning on saving up for the Daedric motif, but I'm glad I saw this. It looks pansy. Definitely doesn't strike fear into my heart. :P

badg3rband1tb14_ESO

I would agree with some here that it just doesn't capture the true essence of what daedric armor is supposed to MEAN. Daedric armor is worn by Dremoras mainly so that it can serve to create a terrifying visage that will demoralize their foes. There is the added benefit of it being the most powerful type of armor in some games as well, of course. This armor is supposed to be forged in the fires of Oblivion, and stained with wretched black blood wrung out of a daedra's heart. When I look at the daedric armor I've seen so far in this game...it looks like it was forged in someone's basement with pieces of plastic and shined with turtle wax. That doesn't scare me, if anything it makes me giggle at how flimsy it looks. Now don't get me wrong here! These guys have made some amazing armor models, especially the racial armors, but come on...How did this pass for daedric? It needs to have more weight, and I personally think all daedric armor should come off the forge black and red, and can only be changed with dye. That's my two cents...Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim made me worship deadric armor and this game sort of threw it to the wayside.

Enkil

Wow.. Glad I haven't forked any money over for a Daedric motif.

In these pics, the characters look silly rather than sinister.

For people playing EP, could you believe the model they used for Veloth's Judgement?? It looks like an everyday worn and old sledge hammer.

I really hope they make things consistent with previous titles and less laughable.

AlexDougherty

Samuruzi wrote: »

^ THIS is how it should look. Current build looks like the Daedric equivalent of Abercrombie and Fitch. Does it come with a size 3 hoodie too?

No that's how it looked in Skyrim, it looked different in Oblivion and Morrowind.
Current version lloks like a cross between Morrowind and Oblivion armours, literally they took the spikes off Oblivion armour and put it on the smoot Morrowind armour.

As for the colour, someone suggested it's because the Enemy in this game is Molag Bal, and Blue/Silver seems to be his style.

Vraneon

Laura wrote: »

it changes based on many factors just like not all argonian armor looks the same. By the time you have this you should have known that and you also should have known the best stuff has all the things you are looking for.

I don't agree with your post and it's also wrong. The basic look of an armour doesn't change and you should know that by now too! The only thing that changes by upgrading is the coloration.

And I have to agree, the heavy daedric armour does really look quite disappointing. I loved every daedric amour look from morrowind over oblivion till skyrim, but in eso it doesn't look threating or heavy at all. The shoulders look small and weak, it lacks spikes, red colouring or magma/bloodlike lines, it doesn't cover the whole body with heavy plates to protect, but has many open places at arms legs, arm pits, feet, underneath maybe normal chainmail...
I also believe many people who played former elder scrolls games are disappointed with the armour look too. I really love a lot of armour types in eso (my favourites are imperial, khajiit and Breton), but as I first saw the heavy daedric armour I just shook my head.

Daedric heavy armour compared to almost any other racial type of heavy armour looks like medium. Other types are fully covered (!) in steel while daedric has way too many leather straps and open places. To be honest with the rather fancy colouring of daedric armour and the robot like look it reminds me of optimus prime or some other transformer.

Even the summoned Bound Armour spell of wizards look better. And I have to say the light and medium version don't look very threatening or special either, quite casual actually, but still better then the heavy one.

I REALLY hope Daedric Armour graphic will get reworked heavily!

drunkenmastarb16_ESO

So actually, for all those who hope the VR10 daedric armor (light, medium and also heavy) will turn black/red or black/blue at legendary... here are the bad news: it simply won't. Every single piece will stay (nearly) the same ugly light green, as it gets when being upgraded to superioir (blue). Saw the full heavy set going thru the quality levels on a mate, upto legendary, and crafted the light set myself.

I can not express my dissappointment about that fact, i kinda wanted to keep it on fine (green), as the light armor atleast had greyish/blackish parts with some gold in between on that quality.... so besides it aint the best looking set around, nor compareable to previous daedric armor, the texture designer has failed aswell... not even talking about the laziness of said designer, giving the last 3 quality stages the same look...

ArRashid

what did you guys expect?
"rare" motifs are just for spending gold (and making farmers filthy, game-breakingly rich), they actually suck and look even worse than racial motifs.
They at least have 4 tiers of weapons and 4 tiers of armor.
"Rare" styles just have 3 tiers of weapons (2nd and 3rd material have the same look) and 1 tier of armor, which is REALLY sad since their price is generally 100+ times higher.

Seriously.. I ended up saying "*** it", bought myself a black variant "Sea Viper Armor" disguise and I'm done trying to craft pretty sets - THIS is what a pyromancer looks great in - a black armor... although it ofc would be better if the metal parts were orange/red instead of teal.. but one can't have everything..



(the only set so far I found pretty was a lvl 16 matchup of heavy khajiit steel shoulders and hands and light khajiit linen everything else, with helm hidden).

ThisOnePosts

TBH out of the rare motifs, I like Barbaric the best.

Tintinabula

i dont know why they cant just make the purple or legendary daedric armor look like the NPCs armor..black with that iridescent red hemming.Couldnt have been that difficult.

Animus0724

http://eso-fashion.com/

You are welcome

huntgod_ESO

Deadric looks like old people fu...procreate.

NO clue why people pay for that style...primal. barbaric and ancient elf look profoundly better!

Whether it looks like it does in single player games is immaterial, it looks awful in the mmo.

Zershar_Vemod

I actually like Daedric in this game.....

Hopefully I can find someone who would trade me that motif....or pray that whenever I get to VR6 areas that I actually have a chance in looting one.

EDIT: Funny thing, later that day I got a Daedric for 20k (traded a barbaric with that deal).

Snowstrider

Thats why i always ignore the daedric motifs sellers,Too high price for such ugly armor.
But yeah its rare and you can trade it for better ones

s2firestar

Brennan wrote: »

Is it possible that the Daedra were wearing different styled armor in the 2nd age versus the 3rd and 4th age?

Everyone knows that Daedra have no sense for fashion. Or for anything. They can just copy. Looking at this heavy armor, I'm seriously starting to think that the Mesh Artist who did this was a dremora himself... or a xivilai.

AngryWolf

It's not bad...but getting a light bright with the blue. Looking less realistic...and more like WOW...let's NOT go there!

Morticide828

So we're two months on in this thread, many replies stating that we're unhappy with it.

Still no comment from ZOS, and Daedric heavy looks medium at best, still.

I like the blue. I like the helm. I almost like the shoulders, and the chest is tolerable.

Open back shoes? Ever fought with bladed weapons? (LARP)? ***'s just dangerous. No armour on pants? Goodbye Femoral artery, in a blaze of glory (And sanguine).

I don't want skyrim armour, nor do I want morrowind or oblivions armour (whos shoulders are rather similar). But I want to be covered. For protection from people hitting me with weapons and spells. Like heavy armour should offer (not just as a stat on the character screen).

Lets not ruin immersion any further.

Vazkahkatz

i always thought that the armor looked different because the daedra aren't from the same daedric prince, same way jyggalag's minions wore crystal armor in stead of daedric back in tes: oblivion.

twnakita

Vazkahkatz wrote: »

i always thought that the armor looked different because the daedra aren't from the same daedric prince, same way jyggalag's minions wore crystal armor in stead of daedric back in tes: oblivion.

that would be a good reason as to why it's mainly blue, maybe..?

Morticide828

twnakita wrote: »

Vazkahkatz wrote: »

i always thought that the armor looked different because the daedra aren't from the same daedric prince, same way jyggalag's minions wore crystal armor in stead of daedric back in tes: oblivion.

that would be a good reason as to why it's mainly blue, maybe..?

The colour makes sense, the fact it looks like medium armour does not. Swords would still do the same amount of pain regardless of which prince's minions