I loathe most of the main "three" armor types. Especially whoever the hell stuck those beige pads on the Warrior armor. Really?
If you're a human, you at least get some changes - Orlesian, Warden, Free Army, etc. Problem is there, it's random for some of them, because everyone except the Orlesians are idiots who can't actually make the crap they wear.
If you're non-human, though, you're just up you-know-what creek without a paddle.
The lack of variety is disappointing, but would you rather have a wide variety of outfits for a human-only Inquisitor, or three outfits and an Inquisitor of any race? That's what I remind myself, anyway. 
It bothers me that companions only get two different armor models, though. "Armor" and "Coat" look the same, only "Mail" is different.
I didn't start messing around with crafting until really late in my first game, but I'm pretty happy with the Battlemage Armor for my human mage Inquisitor.
I can only say I'm fine with the variety. For my mage I have:
*The apprentice/enchanter line
*The battlemage line
*The adventurer line
*The mercenary line
*The Orlesian battlemage line
And that without considering that I can use the armors from other classes once I have tier 3 rare ingredients. Add that you can have a dozen different colors and all the combinations thereof. I think the variety is fine, particularly ocnsidering how good they all look.
I would like to know more about this "schematic farming" though. How does that work and where does it work best?
Here are the four basic designs. I think they look sufficiently different:
I feel like they really treated armors for the Inquisitor as an afterthought. They all look the same except for a few unique craftable armors, but those armors can't be modified with arms and legs so you have to sacrifice usefulness for aesthetics. I hate that. I also hate that the craftable armors look pretty much identical between classes, that good helmet schematics are uber-rare and that you can't craft vitaar. I'm so desperate for better armors, helmets and vitaar that I will buy any and all DLC they put out.
Here are the four basic designs. I think they look sufficiently different:
Not really especially in a game where crafting is supposed to be a feature.
I can only say I'm fine with the variety. For my mage I have:
*The apprentice/enchanter line
*The battlemage line
*The adventurer line
*The mercenary line
*The Orlesian battlemage line
And that without considering that I can use the armors from other classes once I have tier 3 rare ingredients. Add that you can have a dozen different colors and all the combinations thereof. I think the variety is fine, particularly ocnsidering how good they all look.
I would like to know more about this "schematic farming" though. How does that work and where does it work best?
Here are the four basic designs. I think they look sufficiently different:
If the armors weren't race-restricted and randomly dropped it would be a decent variety. If you play a Qunari then your options are cut in half and if you don't get lucky and/or schematic farm your options become even more limited. On my first playthrough, to which I devoted just under 100 hours, I ended up with apprentice, enchanter and Orlesian battlemage schematics for my mage, but I was an elf so I only got to use 2 of the 3. I had twice as many rogue schematics, but your rogue companions only seem to have 2 variations in armor appearance so it didn't really make much of a difference.
I think he's talking about the tower on the frozen lake. Straight out from first camp in Empris into town of Sahrnia, then head out onto the frozen lake. There is a tower that's locked. I think it actually has a few chests in itWould you mind telling me where this chest is?
I love the armor designs - all of them actually - but getting schematics is a pain. I'd do any kind of cheat to get them more reliably. Weapons schematics too btw.
I don't know what they were doing. too little armor variation and schematic drop is a pain
Valeska's Watch in Emprise du lion, no load screen just in and out and 5 or 6 chest right near each other
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Would you mind telling me where this chest is?
I love the armor designs - all of them actually - but getting schematics is a pain. I'd do any kind of cheat to get them more reliably. Weapons schematics too btw.
Sorry leldra never came bak to the topic till now, yeah as was previously posted, tower on the small island on the frozen lake, 15 minutes of save/reloading i norm got all the schematics i need to outfit me an my party, just make sure u dont talk to cass an get her quest to track down rogue mages/templars or you have a trio of lvl 19's i believe barring your way
There 3 chests in the tower, i norm loot the first one as u enter door, one as u get to top of stairs as thats always the same thing, mask of carsac or something, an farm the one next to the table with the epic 2haxe on it, you can save right next to the chest an just reload, no need to zone out or anything
Watch what you do you can also get some snofleur leather and everite, which is nice for a lowbie
sadly armor is super scarce. I guess the devs thought creating a huge forest was more important than character customization.
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yeah im a huge aethestics fan in these types of games tbh just a pity BioWare aint that big on that
what i like about SWTOR an there armors/outfits
I don't think the rogues had only 2 variations. I played a human rogue the first time and it seems to me they have numerous variations of armor.
Sad thing is, the armor models are there in game. Just look at the NPCs. For example, I really like the blades for hessarian outfits, and I also think the horse masters wife has a nice look. Why can't I craft those. Hell, I don't care if it's armor is 0.
Standard unnamed NPCs are usually created in one piece, which means their outfits are part of them and not worn in the way player characters do. Creating wearable outfits is a rather tricky business, so usually you have either a limited selection of high-quality ones (which we have here) or a bigger selection of badly-fitting or average-looking ones.
@Caladin:
In which way are SWTOR outfits better? I haven't played it myself, but the stuff I've seen is singularly nonimpressive and low-quality. Thanks for pointing me to that island, btw..
Standard unnamed NPCs are usually created in one piece, which means their outfits are part of them and not worn in the way player characters do.
I am on a xbox one and have no pc and i dont have a kinect so i dont know how to share my quizzy but i made a badass sturdy battlemage armor and looks good, use dragon webbing for armor rating and utility and lurker scales for defence then fade touched neverrite. Then dragon webbing and lurke scales and everite for defence battlemage upgrades. If you have orlisean helmet make it with neverrite and everite. Magic, Ranged, melee defences will be very good and you will look good at least to me
I still don't understand, how it works, when I put in an ingredient, which removes class restrictions.
Example:
I found a T3 heavy armour schematic. I crafted it with a snoufleur skin. Nevertheless, it still says "Warriors Only" and my mage can't equip it.
What did I miss respectively misunderstand?
EDIT:
Solved.
Snoufleur = leather armours
Silverite = metal armours
I agree with the general consensus that there is just not enough armor variety. Crafting is great in this game, but you still can't make to many different items.
Nope. 3 armors. 1 for each class. = Variety.
Don't you mean 3 looks for each class? Plus the Grey Warden armors, the Orlais armors and the elven keeper robes? Free Army?
My mage has the trenchcoat, the one with the breastplate and the one with the wrapped midriff. Solas gets the keeper robes on top. Both can wear Grey Warden battlemage armor and my Inquisitor can wear orleasian mage outfits.
While I agree that T3 armor should look different/better from lower tiers, we do have some variety in looks. Also, most armors look differently depending on the wearer.
The main problem I see is that they have a crafting system that allows you to make armor. Then they SHOW you a bunch or armor in the game that you just can't get. Why is this armor not available to you? No idea. You can get it in multiplayer. But single player. Nope you are stuck with these 4 dumb looks.
If all they had made was the 4 dumb looks ok. But we KNOW they made a bunch more armor models and then just decided we can't use them.
In my opinion, the inquistor's iconic outfit, (light, medium, heavy) is too feminine in design for my liking. I mean no disrespect to anyone that likes/loves the design, But as a dude, it isn't bad ass to be wearing thigh high boots, a sash cloth belt thing and a music conductor butt flap jacket. The leg upgrade for the light armor is some type of legging that goes over the pants all the way to your crotch. Thank the creators for the Dalish Scout Armor and the ancestors for the Legion of Dead armor.
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Standard unnamed NPCs are usually created in one piece, which means their outfits are part of them and not worn in the way player characters do. Creating wearable outfits is a rather tricky business, so usually you have either a limited selection of high-quality ones (which we have here) or a bigger selection of badly-fitting or average-looking ones.
@Caladin:
In which way are SWTOR outfits better? I haven't played it myself, but the stuff I've seen is singularly nonimpressive and low-quality. Thanks for pointing me to that island, btw..
Basically its the idea i love, the armor aint class restricted, its a shell say, whats restricted is the modules you put in the armor, each class has different modules etc with there class stats to insert into armor, so you could basically have the same outfit as me but class specific stats, in swtor i agree there is alot of bad looking armor, but there is also alot of good looking stuff aswell, an enough choice that not one of my chars looks the same, unlike in DA:I where all my toons look the exact same an tbh prob just look exact same as your toons aswell
Hopefully DLC will solve my problem with it tbh, i just hate tier systems and class restricted armor, for me its a system that needs left behind especially if you give the player so few choices as you get in DA:I, but the game is still new an although i moan (because im a aesthetics kinda guy) the choices that are there are nice looking if very very limited.
Btw you should try swtor, some really good stories to be had there 
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