is it just me or does all Medium armor look pretty terrible?

Kronosphere · April 2014

i was looking through visuals of all the medium armor. and they all look horrible to mediocre at best (not including the ordinator looking armor but im a morrowind fan so im biased and dont count that to the normal persons opinion)

seriously they are all dusty looking brown hunks of stitched together leather it seems. even the deadric medium barely looks any different (it still has 0 colour and the horrible helmet)

am i the only one who thinks this or do the design team need to pull their fingers out?

(lucky for me, i use heavy armor, which mostly looks much better)

KiroElmarok · April 2014

Bosmer toward the higher tiers looks nice. And daedric (other than the shoulders) looks decent enough.
(I'm a 5heavy/2light so idc enough. The two said above are the only meds I actually like.)

Brennan · April 2014

I look good in leather because I am hot as hell!

columbineb14_ESO · April 2014

This game is designed to have reasonably realistic-looking armor, which means it's mostly going to be pretty unattractive and drab. Check out a history-of-armor book and you'll see what I mean. Built for practicality, not visual flair, unless you were a rich person commissioning something you were probably never actually going to wear in the field anyway.

I agree that the leathers got the worst of the lot. Heavy armor can occasionally have some vanity quirks, and the light armor people can get a little color in their stuff once in a while.

I suspect the ESO folks (and some players!) are opposed to this, but dyes would really help a lot, and everyone wouldn't look so identical.

Sorpaijen_ESO · April 2014

I wish I knew what they looked like before crafting them --- I made an Argonian styled leather jerkin and it was PINK. Since I have a wood elf girl who WOULD wear pink, I went ahead and made a complete set for her, and she looks fabulous (until she loots a better piece of gear and looks like a circus trainwreck)....

But until I created it, I had no idea it was going to be pink. There were some Breton pieces that looked VERY cool (black) but then I immediately replaced the pants with some teal and grey monstrosity with better stats. I know people get tired of hearing comparisons to other games, but RIFT has a wonderful "wardrobe" feature where you can place purely cosmetic or even simply out-leveled gear into the slots and check a little box and then THAT appearance will show on your character, not the superior-stat fugly gear you wear in your main inventory.

AreoHotah · April 2014

I really like my lvl36 full medium redguard armor

Woogawoman · April 2014

Check out http://eso-fashion.com for previews. Still building the database (use submissions!) but it has a lot of great stuff already.

Elencha · April 2014

I'm personally very fond of my Altmer medium armor. Not very colorful, but then I generally don't like a lot of colors.Nice neutral tones work for me.

ClaudiaMay · April 2014

Sorpaijen_ESO wrote: »

I wish I knew what they looked like before crafting them --- I made an Argonian styled leather jerkin and it was PINK. . .

PINK? Goodness, what material type (level) is this? I needs me some pink armor!

Tabia · April 2014

ClaudiaMay wrote: »

Sorpaijen_ESO wrote: »

I wish I knew what they looked like before crafting them --- I made an Argonian styled leather jerkin and it was PINK. . .

PINK? Goodness, what material type (level) is this? I needs me some pink armor!

I would really like to know as well please! Ive managed to find some pieces of skink (not sure of spelling) that is pink khajiit leather style but im missing the pants.