Do you wear a "SET" of armor?

Pheefs

I like to Mix & Match with light & medium armor, and sometimes to wear pieces from the special Armor Sets that give bonuses for the number of pieces worn...

I usually don't end up with a full set of anything & I don't mind that.
& I will admit that I won't wear things when I hate how they look, & so what?
I have to look at them, right?



I was wondering, do you Mix & Match? do you collect or create Armor Sets?

dharbert

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

All heavy, all the time....

Kalann_Pander

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

One of the benefits of crafting is getting to choose what you wear.

+1 Awesome for using "couldn't care less" correctly. I thought it was a dying species .... thanks !

Equinox

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

5 Piece Heavy Hist Bark, 2 parts of whatever in either full or mix of light and medium! Depends on the situation =P

Senet

Mix & Match & So What Set! - I like to mix it up, but couldn't care less about sets.

I always mix and match my armor class. Usually only between 2 classes and not three.
As for sets, I've never been much for an armor set. If I do use pieces of the same set it's because I like the way they look.

jelliedsoup

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

Wear 4 Night's Silence, and 3 Nightshade all Med.
Use 1 Night's Silence Bow and Dagger to get the 5 piece 'bonus' (when it works)
Wear 3 piece Nighjtshade to get the detection bonus (when it works)

Lurrrrrrrrrrve 1.4.3 So much I keep singing, Love will tear us apart....again.

Pheefs

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

Senet wrote: »

I always mix and match my armor class. Usually only between 2 classes and not three.

yeah, that seems to be the popular choice, picking your 2 to mix ...but not mixing them all

Stx

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

5 piece bonuses for sets and for armor skills are too good to pass up on. Personally I usually wear 7 medium or when I'm solo PvEing 5 Heavy+2 Light.

Pheefs

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

Kalann_Pander wrote: »

One of the benefits of crafting is getting to choose what you wear.

+1 Awesome for using "couldn't care less" correctly. I thought it was a dying species .... thanks !

as the joke goes, "my ability to care any less about it, just ran out"



& I agree, I really enjoy crafting most of my gear

MercyKilling

Mix & Match & So What Set! - I like to mix it up, but couldn't care less about sets.

I wear 4 heavy/3med on my DK, 4 heavy/3light on my templar and 4med/3light on my NB. I -think- my NB has three of five of a set, but I'm not sure.

Zorrashi

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

When I wear gear I tend to focus on one type (already maxed both heavy and medium). For the sake of my personal immersion, I typically have it in the same racial style.

Now the real question is weather they are of the same special set...ashen grip, hundings rage and the seducer sets are among my primary favorites. I wear all of a particular set on most of my PvE runs, can't say the same about PvP....

tplink3r1

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

7/7 heavy.

UrQuan

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I've got a lot of alts, and the answer depends on the character. I use crafted sets on all of them, but some mix between the different weights, and some go all one weight. It just depends on the character. I mean I've got 1 alt who's all about maximizing crit chance (it's significantly over 50%), so he wears nothing but medium. I've got another who's all about PVE tanking, so he wears nothing but heavy. Most of my characters wear a mix, though.

Probitas

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I wear Ashens Grip/Death Wind on my NB pretty much always since I tested Silence and found it wanting. Moving fast out of combat while sneaking isn't really as fast as running then sneaking.

Anvos

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Other as using weapons you can have one 5 and one 3.

Answer is Full Set, style by end on main is a mix of AE, Dunnmer, and Deadric for Weapons and Shield.

Currently been using Lamae 5 and Seducer 3. (also picked up a random 2 piece from jewlrey)

ThoradinBloodfire

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

I wear 4 med hundings, 3 med night mothers. 2hndr hundings. S&b night mother and hundings.

Wearing unassailable neck and rings. Need something better i think though

ThoradinBloodfire

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

Oh, all matching nord. Gives a cold weather viking barbarian feel imo. Hate barbarian and primal traits

Zabus

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I don't care, I wear a costume anyways.

GnatB

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All of my characters have 5 pieces of one set, and 3-4 of a 2nd. (Not high enough for set jewelery)
*Most* of my characters wear all the same class of armor except for my heavy armor "dps" Paladin. She wears 2 or 3 pieces of medium. Belt, Gloves, and maybe something else? Not sure.

PBpsy

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

Most of my play style is magicka based NB so as of now 5Seducer+5Warlock 7light. I used to have a magicka based NB tank 5L+ 2H+S&B build. I used Twilight and Willows. I did everything except COH with it but i haven't tanked since 1.3 mostly because there are to many DK or Temp tanks around. I am trying to get figure out some good magicka based tanking combo now.

Sindala

Never wear made set piece armours, only those greens that drop occasionally. Half the time I don't even wear armour

AngryNord

Armor All & All Alike! - I like to wear one armor class AND I like a set.

All heavy all the time. Heck I even craft new almost every level, gotta use all those mats for SOMETHING :P

Greatfellow

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

I wear 2 Heavy and 5 Medium, and I mix three Sets. I'm very particular about my armor and weaps, not in the way of trying to have a matching set, but in the way of maximizing my various perks. When I'm all geared up I put on a Servant's disguise. Pretty particular about doing that too...

Srugzal

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Three characters, three armor strategies

Templar Tank (S&B, destro) - 5 heavy, 2 medium, 5 piece Hist Bark, 5 piece Vampire's Kiss (when I swap to destro, Vampire's Kiss goes to 5, Hist goes to three. When I swap back to S&B, VK goes back to 4, and Hist goes to 5)

Sorcerer Warrior Mage (destro/resto) - 1 heavy, 1 light, 5 medium, 5 piece Vampire's Kiss, 3 piece Magnus' Gift (including weapons)

Templar Healer/Archer - 2 heavy, 5 medium, 5 piece Willow's Path, 3 piece Magnus' Gift. (incl. weapons)

AlexDougherty

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

I do like types of armour, for example my Templar wears Imperial Heavy Armour, while my Dragonknight wears Dunmer Heavy Armour, and My Sorceror wears Dunmer Light Armour. But I will change pieces if I get a piece with better stats, especialy the pauldrons (I get better stats on them an awful lot).

I also like sets, the set bonuses give you something nice, and I use them when I can. But I'm not married to them, if changing a piece out increases my survivability, I'll lose the set bonus without a second thought.

Iago

I wear all heavy armor but I have no clue what ZOS defines as a "SET of ARMOR"

AlexDougherty

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

Iago wrote: »

I wear all heavy armor but I have no clue what ZOS defines as a "SET of ARMOR"

@Iago

I'm going to say a set is a range of pieces which confer a bonus if you wear two or more pieces.

Like the "Hundring's Rage" set, or the "Warlock" set. they usually have culmative bonuses like "2 pieces +3 to magic regen" "3 pieces +5% to spell damage"

Iago

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Iago wrote: »

I wear all heavy armor but I have no clue what ZOS defines as a "SET of ARMOR"

@Iago

I'm going to say a set is a range of pieces which confer a bonus if you wear two or more pieces.

Like the "Hundring's Rage" set, or the "Warlock" set. they usually have culmative bonuses like "2 pieces +3 to magic regen" "3 pieces +5% to spell damage"

I have been trying to get the superior and epic attire achievements and have tried several different variations to get these and still no luck.I have also filled out several/bug reports with no response. Which is why i just filled out a cs ticket hoping to figure out wtf I am doing wrong.

This is why I am unclear of ZOS's definition of a full set of gear.

smacx250

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All light, and two 5 piece sets (with jewelry).

AlexDougherty

Mix & Match & Match AGAIN! - I like to mix it up, AND I like a set.

Iago wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Iago wrote: »

I wear all heavy armor but I have no clue what ZOS defines as a "SET of ARMOR"

@Iago

I'm going to say a set is a range of pieces which confer a bonus if you wear two or more pieces.

Like the "Hundring's Rage" set, or the "Warlock" set. they usually have culmative bonuses like "2 pieces +3 to magic regen" "3 pieces +5% to spell damage"

I have been trying to get the superior and epic attire achievements and have tried several different variations to get these and still no luck.I have also filled out several/bug reports with no response. Which is why i just filled out a cs ticket hoping to figure out wtf I am doing wrong.

This is why I am unclear of ZOS's definition of a full set of gear.

@Iago

Ah, as I understand it a full set of gear is five pieces, but the superior and epic attire are different.

To get the superior Attire achievement I had to wear blue level gear in all the slots, that's eight pieces of armour + two rings + Amulet (necklace), but just to be safe I wore a Blue shield and Blue weapon too. It can be any type of armour, even mixed (I had light medium and heavy), it just has to have the name coloured blue.

The epic Attire is the same but with purple level gear.

Note it has to be Blue only for Superior Attire, wearing purple or higher will not register for it.

Kitsy

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While i level up, i go for a full armor type set to have all the bonuses. When i am done, i dont care at all what armor set bonuses i have. I will make my character look as good as possible, even if i gonna wear a level 8 hood on a veteran 14 character.