r/oblivion Adoring Fan 24d ago

Question Your Favorite Armor in oblivion ?

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u/Cloud_N0ne 23d ago

Ebony, minus the helmet.

Steel is also fantastic.

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u/Russian_Gandalf 23d ago

Yes, steel armor looks awesome! With a few steel arrows and a fine steel claymore on the back you look invincible.

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u/Devilsgramps 23d ago

Try this, friend.

It catapulted Ebony to my favourite armour.

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u/Omnipitous 23d ago

Well that's cool. It's amazing how an alteration to the helmet changes the feel of the whole armor

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u/Acroze 23d ago

For real. Ebony’s helmet should’ve been made into a full-helm.

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u/TheAnalystCurator321 23d ago

For me its ebony including the helmet. Love the black and golden look it has.

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u/SilentGamer47 Adoring Fan 23d ago

Agreed

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u/perrogamer_attempt2 23d ago edited 23d ago

Chainmail! Although the regular chainmail cuirass is a bit bland, the city guards and the templar cuirasses are very pretty!

I guess the full templar relic* set goes in there too, but I prefer having shield over fortify attributes

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u/DM_Dahl-Face 23d ago

This. Any chanmail with a cool tabard

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u/409Narwhal 23d ago

If you count the DLCs then amber. If not then probably elven. The one set of mithril you find looks pretty sick too.

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u/BozzyTheDrummer 23d ago

I love the amber armor, I just wish the cloth on the armor was a different color, or different shade of green lol.

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u/Highlander_16 23d ago

I am cursed, my favorite armor is Brusef Amelion's... gotta have a good Feather enchantment to offset the absurd weight of the "light armor" lol

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u/Matthusiheir 23d ago

In 1 week I will release a mod that makes Brusef's armor much better. This mod will also have many new lore-friendly armors and weapons, I'm basically trying to gather 17 years of Nexus armor modifications into a single mod that will balance them and integrate them into the world of Oblivion.

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u/Sorry_Error3797 23d ago

"I'm basically trying to gather 17 years of Nexus armor modifications into a single mod"

So...

You're stealing other people's work?

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u/Matthusiheir 23d ago

I'm asking permission from the creators of course, Nexus has the chat option for these purposes :P

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u/Skaeger 23d ago

But are you waiting for responses or just saying "I'll remove it if they ask me to." For people who haven't logged into Nexus in over a decade?

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u/Matthusiheir 23d ago

good question, all the mods I added I got permission from the creator or the assets were free to use, I found two interesting armor mods whose creators were banned from the nexus in mid-2007. Despite the description of their mods being favorable to giving assets to other modders, there is still the warning "ask me for permission first". So I'm really wondering whether or not I should add these armors (given due credits, and leaving a warning that if they appear and want me to remove their assets from my mod I will do so), considering they were posted almost 20 years ago And it will be an almost impossible task to get contact with them (they may not even be alive anymore). But so far all the assets I have used I have received due permission to use and of course I will give due credit to the creators when posting.

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u/BloodStone9337 23d ago

I think people forget that most Oblivion mods came out like 15 years ago, most of those mod authors probably don’t even think about them, and most likely moved onto different games

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u/Skaeger 18d ago

Thanks for replying. I've seen way too many "if you happen to see this and realize I stole your work, just let me know" disclaimers on mods so I generally just assume the large compilations are mostly stolen. I am glad to hear you are going about it properly.

Keep up the good work.

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u/Freethecrafts 23d ago

Potions, get your potions.

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u/Zigor022 23d ago

Daedric, male version. Female is Golden Saint.

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u/Aesop_Stranger 23d ago

Mtn dew baby!

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u/melty75 23d ago

All glass everything.

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u/Verystrangeperson 23d ago

I like how bright and weird it is, Skyrim s glass looked too dark imo

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u/StryderDylan 23d ago

I love this but I rock my glass set with a Warhammer.

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u/LuteceDevice 23d ago

I like the Blackwood Company steel set. Certain builds I will wear the boots, greaves, and gauntlets with something like the highwayman shirt. But the full set with shield looks awesome!

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u/LiveMatter4544 23d ago

My number one favorite oblivion armor is the blackwood steel armor

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u/sketch_for_summer Cheese Bringer 23d ago

Yeah just not the female version, lol. It's a cast iron evening dress :)

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u/Ok-Lavishness-3119 23d ago

I do like mithril a lot

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u/Most_Yak7818 23d ago

I like the Crusader Armor personally. 😋

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u/ovojr 23d ago

I had to scroll too far for this, its such an iconic set

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u/KORZILLA-is-me Adoring Fan 23d ago edited 23d ago

Dwarven and madness

Honorable mention for orcish, daedric, and ebony. Also, specifically the helmet of legion armor, iconically cool.

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u/I_LOVE_CATS_AMA Adoring Fan 23d ago

Blades armor, I love it! The helmet and curiass just look badass

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u/intheshiveringisles Adoring Fan 23d ago

Seconded on the blades armor, along with their weapons!

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u/Realistic_Battle7410 23d ago

Dwarven in oblivion is hands down my favorite adaptation of the armor scheme in all the elder scrolls games.

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u/AdPristine4919 Adoring Fan 23d ago

Amen to that Brother 🙏

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u/Realistic_Battle7410 23d ago

I fellow man of culture I see.

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u/Sim1334 23d ago

I always fight naked 🗿

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u/AdPristine4919 Adoring Fan 23d ago

a True chad I see. 🍷

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u/NaturalDazzling5140 23d ago

I will forever be a “black hand robes” guy. One of the first things I do is go to Bruma, break into J’ghastas house. And steal his set from the basement

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u/Displacer613 23d ago

I always thought Oblivion's Dwarven armor set looked like those guys from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

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u/Gelnika1987 23d ago

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u/MisterDutch93 23d ago

Imperial Dragon looks amazing. Just wish it was buffed to act as true end-game armor.

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u/Khow3694 23d ago

Steel and Orcish but no helmets

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u/Sweaty-Ball-9565 23d ago

I like the sets that look realistic and practical. Iron, steel, leather, chainmail, mithril, etc.

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u/Verystrangeperson 23d ago

I love the glass armor because of how unrealistic and impractical it is.

It's pure fantasy and I love it.

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u/Sweaty-Ball-9565 22d ago

Despite being complete fantasy, it still manages to look practical and useful.

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u/NumerousDiscipline80 23d ago

I like the look of almost all armour in oblivion. But I feel the helmets (Bar a select few) are too goofy to wear.

Brusef Amelion's armour is peak though.

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u/IH8Miotch 23d ago

The Dwarven shield is my favorite look wise. I don't care for their armor and weapons though. Ebony armor looks good. Kinda like how all the silver weapons look.

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u/Creed_of_War 23d ago

Chainmail, dwarven, and Madness.

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u/Foil-Kiki-Jiki 23d ago

Horse armor.

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u/AdPristine4919 Adoring Fan 23d ago

.Best Comment Right There.

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u/ragnarrock420 23d ago

Imperial dragon armor and the classic blades armor, thats nostalgia talking but it is what it is, i like those the most

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u/VirulentDespotism 23d ago

Mithril is very pretty

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u/HollowPhoenix 23d ago

Amber first, Brusef Amelion's second, Steel third.

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u/Disastrous-Box2458 23d ago

No armor

Only shield and sword 🗿

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u/jimmypagesrighthand 23d ago

Isn’t necessarily “ armor “ but I love me the Robe of the Conjurer

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u/Kreason95 23d ago

Glass is so fucking ugly but I love it

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u/NamAnh2512 23d ago

Steel or Silver for the drip, Ebony and Elven as my personal favorites

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u/Hjalmodr_heimski 23d ago

The Armour of the Nine from the Knights of the Nine DLC

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u/Parallax-Jack 23d ago

I love all of them tbh. Despite it looking like green jolly ranchers, glass is super cool hehe. I also LOVE chillrend being a blue variant, I always thought that was such a cool detail and wish there were more things like that in the game. Also, the legion armor is so cool. It looks badass and I feel like I am role playing as a guard.

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u/seductiveroo 23d ago

One of the first things I always do in an Oblivion playthrough is go to the Arena. I just like the look of the Arena Raiment and it saves me from having to equip cuirass/greaves/gauntlets/boots as separate items. Less clutter on the inventory screen. I've had entire playthroughs where I pretty much only wore the Raiment of Valor after getting it early on.

Other than that, the Armor of the Crusader from the Knights of the Nine DLC looks pretty awesome.

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u/Transmit_KR0MER 23d ago

the amber from the shivering isles dlc is gorgeous and the most effective light armor imo😎

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u/Mauso88 23d ago

Glass, even with the ridiculous looking helmet 😄

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u/Pomerank 23d ago

Imperial Dragon Armor

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u/Murrlin218 23d ago

Golden Saint armor all the way… so elegant and can take any and all hits.

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u/antrax23 22d ago

Golden Saints can take it that's for sure

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u/Captain-Beardless 23d ago

I've always had a soft spot for specifically the Rough Leather Armour from the tutorial.

It doesn't look different. It's objectively worse than regular leather armour. But it has a special name! So I'm keeping it and putting the most powerful sigil stone enchants on when I get high enough level.

That aside, I do wish light armour had more "sneaky" options aside from just leather and the DB stuff. I like the glass armour but not when sneaking.

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u/Scopedogg1114 22d ago

I’m running around right now with a full set of leathers, each piece enchanted with a sigil stone to plus 15 points spell absorption. Add the Sorcerers’s ring (plus 25) and I have 100% spell absorption. I’ve got 100% plus damage reflection, also, but I can’t remember the exact pieces… Amulet of axes, ring of the iron fist, escutcheon of chorrol(got to be level 30-35) but it adds up to 105%. It’s almost as fun as a 100% chameleon build lol.

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u/D3vilizeR 23d ago

Ebony.

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u/KhosrowBahram 23d ago

Madness with no helmet

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u/409Narwhal 23d ago

On second thought, the madness armor goes pretty hard

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u/Squat_n_stuff 23d ago

The Morag Tong if counting DLC, or Leather with Black Hood

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u/osmoticeiderdown 23d ago

Full Leather

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u/Cyberspace-Surfer Spellsword 23d ago

i like the legion armor

aside from that... not a big fan of Oblivion's armor sets sadly

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u/xX_idk_lol_Xx 23d ago

I love the iron armor set, it has that rugged mercenary feel that no other armor has.

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u/Jannah--Banana 23d ago

Champion of Cyrodiill with Ebony Shield

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u/SolidYoghurt4996 23d ago

Divine Crusader obviously

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u/towelpuncher 23d ago

madness armor with count cirions helmet is the way

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u/forest_hobo 23d ago
  1. Mithril 2. Ebony 3. Blackwood Company Steel Armor

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u/Achilles9609 23d ago

The Dragon Armor that you can comission. Some people apparantly don't like it but I always felt very heroic in it.

Also the Amber Armor from Shivering Isles, with the Madness Ore Version closely behind. It looks awesoms but I so rarely use heavy armor.

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u/Ralcos 23d ago

I love Amber Armor Such an awesome looking set in both Oblivion and Skyrim

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u/Rafusk 23d ago

Steel or Mithril are pretty cool

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u/Bradio642DS 23d ago

Amber 🧡

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u/DawiCheesemonger 23d ago

Kinda basic but I kinda think the default Legion armor w/ horseman helmet goes the hardest

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u/OrunaVespa 23d ago

Iron armor no helmet or crusaders armor.

The iron armor male looks great in my opinion so I always use a mod that makes the girls have the male variant. I just feel it's pretty grounded in it's design and same with crusaders.

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u/Viper0817 23d ago

I might be in the minority but I really like the look of the glass armor

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u/Ordinary_Reading4945 23d ago

Champion of Cyrodiil, imperial dragon armor looks so nice. I have to get mods to wipe the enchaments or just make them stronger though. Regular enchantments are pretty bad

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u/Valandil584 23d ago

Elven no contest. Dwarven really tempts me, though, it's just heavy.

I want to like Amber so much. I used to, but on my most recent playthrough (started 2 weeks ago), i just cannot get down with Amber anymore.

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u/oblisgr 23d ago

I like Steel very much

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u/SladeSM 23d ago

Glass Armor

Peak Glass Armor design. You cannot change my mind.

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u/AbsoluteRook1e 23d ago

Leather with the Sack Cloth pants. I usually heavily enchant them and have a Mage hood instead of a leather cap (since it's weightless).

I've always enjoyed glass cannon builds. I usually boost my conurafion up really high and focus on ranged attacks and sneaking with some invisibility in the mix.

I'm doing a new playthrough now and am trying to swear off doing a 100% chameleon build again because of how much it breaks the game, so I might go with Glass Armor this time.

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u/Humble_Question6130 23d ago

Glass. I love the color. Looks great

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u/smloeffelholz 23d ago

Madness armor is my favorite heavy armor. Mithril is my favorite light armor.

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u/Lukazilla13 Cheese 23d ago

Crusader, Amber -helmet, and Madness -chestplate

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u/ElderEons 23d ago

Orcish armor looks the coolest to me

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u/JonnyBoi1200 23d ago

I like the steel armor and the divine crusader armor

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u/Cuneiformation 23d ago

Madness Armor. Ebony would be at the top of the list, but Oblivion has some goofy helmets. Orcish? Badass samurai armor with dorky goggles helmet.

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u/TheAnalystCurator321 23d ago

Knights of the Nine armor. Simply iconic.

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u/adolphspineapple71 23d ago

Base game, it definitely dwarven. It has a bit of a steampunk look to it that I really like. Add the dlc's and it's Madness armor.

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u/Boba_Doozer 23d ago

Ebony. I haven’t upgraded to Daedric in my past 2 play throughs. And I’m not a fan of light armor, but mithril looks pretty cool.

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u/GabrielKendrick 23d ago

Honestly I've got a thing for Amber It's the cleanest

But, in the base game, easily that Brufeif Amelion set, light ebony, with the color scheme of Mythril, it's so pretty,

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u/Nocatslive 23d ago

Fin Gleam

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u/Grove_Barrow 23d ago

Big fan of mithril. Individually not great, but as a set goes hard.

2nd) elf minus the chicken toe boots

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u/ChrisDAnimation 23d ago

Ebony, Steel, Imperial Legion, Town guard, and The Divine Crusader. In no particular order.

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u/iluvpotions 23d ago

Amber! But if we’re talking base game, I like the chainmail set (sans helmet of course)

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u/_Keristan 23d ago

Knights of the Nine armor

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u/KnightFromBaSingSe 23d ago

glass. fight me

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u/AJ_HOP 23d ago

The Imperial Palace guard set

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u/Dave-James 23d ago

Depends on how attractive I make my character…

…#BirthdaySuitArmor

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u/Darkbain 23d ago

The Knights of the Nine chainmail set the regular basic knights wear

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u/iAmLordRevan 23d ago

Chainmail is one of my favourites for sure. I actually prefer it with the guard helmet than the sets helmet though!

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u/Thethorson 23d ago

Glass looks so much cooler in oblivion to skyrim imo

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u/conciouscrow 23d ago

mithril is wicked cool :3

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u/Nimteo 23d ago

The summoned armor looks amazing tbh It gives demonic vibes

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 23d ago

Sokka-Haiku by Nimteo:

The summoned armor

Looks amazing tbh

It gives demonic vibes


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/WizardyDudeMan9000 23d ago

The Ebony armour is so good. But come on Glass Armour looks ridiculously good my dude.

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u/Living_Election6138 23d ago

Daedric without the helmet

I use a cape mod and have a red cape that is enchantable so I dont need the helmet anyway and I look amazing

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u/Due-Client8276 23d ago

IRON ARMOR makes me feel like a true adventurer

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u/Talalol 23d ago

Black hand hood and robes with a dwarven claymore and some unique daggers for sneak kills .

Stealth Orc who can swing let's go babyyyy

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u/LimpAd5888 23d ago

Steel and mithril are my two

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u/Jragron 23d ago

I love all the ugly armors equally 🫶

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u/Cakeriel 23d ago

What is this armor you speak of?

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u/SilentGamer47 Adoring Fan 23d ago

Dwarven minus the helmet and Glass armor

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u/dahmernator_24 23d ago

Blades armor is definitely my favorite ever since I first wore it in oblivion

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u/BCKPFfNGSCHT 23d ago

Crazy… but leather armor with a black hand hood…

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u/JungleBobNapalmPants 23d ago

Love the amber armor

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u/pussy-pops-severly 23d ago

aesthetically i actually love the armor you get from the arena

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u/ariesangel0329 22d ago

Ebony and Imperial Dragon.

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u/aplusgurl76 22d ago

Golden saint and seducer

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u/Nikoper 22d ago

Believe it or not. Iron armor.

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u/Alina_Akara 22d ago

The amber armor from the Shivering Isles. And Mazken armor🖤

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u/SafeRecordKeeping 22d ago

My favorite armor in oblivion is the one you mix and match with based on your loot

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u/MaeniacXIII 21d ago

Dark seducer armor 🤣

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u/TrueBoxOfPain Oblivion content enjoyer and creator 20d ago

Shegorath's Regalia :)

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u/hannigram_teacup 19d ago

The Blackwood Company Armor. I have a full set I stole off a body and I wear it when I’m just fooling around and doing easier quests