I'm just kind of curious. I know that the beginner and starter armors generally tend to look pretty dippy, but in DA:O and DA2 even once you got about halfway you started to look pretty good and finished looking like a badass.
Well, I'm Level 16 now and...pretty much everyone is still wearing the same designed armor they started with. And the helmets look really bad too. Does it ever really get...better?
The Qunari rope armor looks pretty good... 
It does, you just need to usually craft it yourself instead of relying on armour drops that look "cool". I know in my first playthrough I ignored all the crafting because I thought it was too hard and so I was stuck playing with all the ugly armour the entire game. In my second playthrough I finally got the hang of crafting and I have to say it's really fun.
Also, you do get some sweet looking armour with all of the SP DLC.
Hissing Wastes. Sturdy Battlemaster Armor from the dog merchant.
I certainly hope they upgrade the armor look for Inquisition themed armors in Tresspasser.
Battlemage, Prowler, Battlemaster, they need the 4rth tier visual upgrade.
The armors are one of the weak points of the game.
There was a heavier armor type in concept art, but we never saw it in game.
If we don't see in this final, expansion-like DLC, i don't know when we will see some upgrades.
The other SP DLC armors, especially heavy, were the same lame type that misses completely legplates, it's like thigh protection doesn't exist.
I don't know what went wrong in their armor design department.
Hissing Wastes. Sturdy Battlemaster Armor from the dog merchant.
That's one of my favorites, but I prefer it for rogues and mages rather than warriors. I'd like it a lot better if the armor rating went up with more metal showing. The sturdy and superior warrior models all have that leather vest underneath rather than any kind of metal, and it doesn't look quite as sturdy.
Here's a question. I was trying to get my ducks in a row last night for the eventual schematic sharing, when to my dismay I discovered that I don't have any of the top tier battlemage armors (this on my mage game, to boot).
Specifically the superior and refined variants. I think superior might come down to bad luck with the HW vendor RNG, but the refined stuff came from JoH - which I completed. I have the coat and the mail, just no armor. Anyone know what the deal is?
I don't have Refined Battlemage Armor for any of my 5 characters who completed JoH. I am not sure it exists.
I don't have Refined Battlemage Armor for any of my 5 characters who completed JoH. I am not sure it exists.
It is very much down to preference and made more difficult by the fact that you cannot preview schematics.
Armour and weapon design is one of the weakest aspect of this game. They need better designers who look to actual Armour and weapons designs instead of anime as their guiding light. Since we cant mod this game properly we are stuck with weird looking dress which is called Armour and overly massive ugly fantasy weapons.
Armour and weapon design is one of the weakest aspect of this game. They need better designers who look to actual Armour and weapons designs instead of anime as their guiding light.
When you bring up anime, it is generally best to specify which style you are referring to and provide an example because there are many, many different styles.
It was a general term to signify that their Armour and weapons are not designed with form meeting function in mind, instead they went for rule of cool. I rather wish they looked at museums to see what weapons and Armour are actually like, instead we still have 2 handed weapons which bioware believe weight 20 kgs in how they actually animate and model them.
Infact most North American developers are guilty of this as they all fail to realize how weapons and armors actually are, instead they go with their weird assumptions that swords are big and massive, Armour weighs a ton etc.
It was a general term to signify that their Armour and weapons are not designed with form meeting function in mind, instead they went for rule of cool. I rather wish they looked at museums to see what weapons and Armour are actually like, instead we still have 2 handed weapons which bioware believe weight 20 kgs in how they actually animate and model them.
Infact most North American developers are guilty of this as they all fail to realize how weapons and armors actually are, instead they go with their weird assumptions that swords are big and massive, Armour weighs a ton etc.
toot true... wen in fact a full plate amor weighs less than the standard of an American soldier equipment.
toot true... wen in fact a full plate amor weighs less than the standard of an American soldier equipment.
in fact a great-sword hardly weighed more than 4lb (1,5-2kg).I believe the way it two-handed weapons were wielded (not the way they looked) in DA2 is closest to the truth than the slow and clumsy way that is used in DAO and DAI.
A proper set of full plate weighs from 18-20kg (includes plate, helmet, chainmail for non plated parts), which is not a lot as its spread all over your body.
That's a huge bummer.
Yeah, it totally blows away idea that any armor you find, you can continually upgrade it up to par. It's not a huge deal, because my characters are OP anyways, but grrr. And at least it's not stuck at Tier 2 like Orlesian, Carta, Dalish, etc.
Tiered schematics is the one thing I really dislike about the crafting system.
Tiered schematics make zero sense when you're going to stick tiers on the crafting materials too. This is my most fundamental issue with the otherwise terrific crafting system.
It is very much down to preference and made more difficult by the fact that you cannot preview schematics.
Yes, I hated buying schematics(armors and weapons) without being able to see what the final product is intended to look like.
Yes, I hated buying schematics(armors and weapons) without being able to see what the final product is intended to look like.
The times I had to reload after travelling from the shop to the undercroft...
That's one of my favorites, but I prefer it for rogues and mages rather than warriors. I'd like it a lot better if the armor rating went up with more metal showing. The sturdy and superior warrior models all have that leather vest underneath rather than any kind of metal, and it doesn't look quite as sturdy.
The stuff from Decent is pretty metallic and quite heavy in design.
http://dragonage.wik..._Defender_Armor
I kind of miss the days where the armor looked the same with everyone, like how it was in Origins and Mass Effect 1. Don't get me wrong, each person having personalized armor style allows them to better define each individual character's look as the character designers intended, but having universal armor look across characters seemed a bit more realistic, IMO.... especially considering that's how military forces work IRL.
Also it better defines the style of armor... IE. This is how Refined XX Armor looks... rather than This is how Refined XX Armor looks with the Inquisitor, this is how Refined XX Armor looks for Cassandra, this is how Refined XX Armor looks for Solas, etc...
Oh you sweet summer child...
I gotta ask... are you the same Nefla on the swtor forums..?
Anyway... if you craft. There's a lot of neat looking armor. 
Even early on. And this is coming from someone SUPER PICKY about appearances. I have a certain look I go for on all my inquisitors.
The stuff from Decent is pretty metallic and quite heavy in design.
All the Descent Armor is hideous, black and blue metal turd armor. I don't know what Bioware was thinking with that nonsense. Frankly none of the gear from there is really worth it. Hakkon gear is better imo, I'd say only the Dagger look good
Yes, I hated buying schematics(armors and weapons) without being able to see what the final product is intended to look like.
Weapons sure but armor tends to keep the same look after a certain point except the minor stats and cosmetic differences between Regular, Sturdy, & Superior in Tier 3 schematics
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