best looking armor in the game -

Leviathan

Yeah good choice, that

Helm is ugly as fu** though, take a screen shot without it!

Screams too much price-gouging-nvidia for my liking...

So the armor also provides fake abs... interesting

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

So the armor also provides fake abs... interesting

Used to be very common for parade armors of political leaders. Somewhat silly on real battle gear.

Arkaine's Valor!

iamergo wrote: 2 years ago

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

So the armor also provides fake abs... interesting

Used to be very common for parade armors of political leaders. Somewhat silly on real battle gear.

Maybe today, seeing how abs tend to not stop bullets.
But (waaaay) back in the day, where battle was all about "simple" hand to hand combat (prior to "true armor engineering", from deflection through absorption), abs = perceived strength = intimidation = makes sense for battle gear to provide solid fake abs, even though there's precious few examples of going all out on that. The square gapped padding you see on some samurai armors and the horizontal "stripes" on some roman battle armor for example though are both quite reminiscent of it. Whereas your average European knight often times just looked like a chubby little walking can.

I won't pretend to be an expert on the subject, but I think I've heard that medieval plate armor should ideally be curved with as smooth surface as possible, to be better at deflecting blows (and the curved shape would probably make the armor stronger in general, too?). You don't want your armor to absorb the full force of an attack, you want it to deflect the attack to the sides or down so only a portion of the force is absorbed. Those "abs" would just help to catch a blow, wheres a smooth surface would deflect the blow downwards or to the side. Also one of the reasons why "boob armor" is probably idiotic in practice (another being that they are probably downright dangerous, if you fall over and land on your chest). Buuuut I'm definitely no expert on armor, soo... don't take what I wrote at face value

DiabloPlayerKiller wrote: 2 years ago

Yeah good choice, that

Helm is ugly as fu** though, take a screen shot without it!

here, much prettier! xD

krathkor wrote: 2 years ago

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do you like my green lantern cosplay? ;p

*facepalm*

With that

Horned Helm, it looks like a buff Loki parody lol

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 years ago

I won't pretend to be an expert on the subject, but I think I've heard that medieval plate armor should ideally be curved with as smooth surface as possible, to be better at deflecting blows (and the curved shape would probably make the armor stronger in general, too?). You don't want your armor to absorb the full force of an attack, you want it to deflect the attack to the sides or down so only a portion of the force is absorbed. Those "abs" would just help to catch a blow, wheres a smooth surface would deflect the blow downwards or to the side. Also one of the reasons why "boob armor" is probably idiotic in practice (another being that they are probably downright dangerous, if you fall over and land on your chest). Buuuut I'm definitely no expert on armor, soo... don't take what I wrote at face value

The real threat were maces: no one like having theirs bones crushed.
The breast plates were curved to absorb blunt shocks, and knights who wore plate armors also wore a thick leather jacket under thoses plates.
As a side note: the design is unisex, there is enough space under to accomodate any cup sizes.
That why any fantasy female design with breasts is useless and even probably counter productive.
Armour for Gustav I of Sweden by Kunz Lochner, c. 1540 - Source: Wikipedia

Em24x7 wrote: 2 years ago

krathkor wrote: 2 years ago

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do you like my green lantern cosplay? ;p

Loki? Is that you?

On barb, best looking armors imo are

Kraken Shell n

Shadow Plate. Not that crap-shouldered

Sacred Armor, of course. Standart color works just fine - but here, I'm surprised the head isn't something green -

Shako, or

Vampire, something.

Asha wrote: 2 years ago

that crap-shouldered

Sacred Armor

My last

Lo rune recently found this out the hard way

Shadow Plate looks so much better!

Dishonorable mention goes to the design for the

Great Hauberk, too (what were they thinking?)

undertow wrote: 2 years ago

Dishonorable mention goes to the design for the

Great Hauberk, too (what were they thinking?)

Skipping leg day has been an common oversight for centuries.

Snakecharmed wrote: 2 years ago

Skipping leg day has been an common oversight for centuries.

LOL

Nothing like going out for battle and realizing you're wearing armor on top and a shower towel on the bottom >_<

the

Splint Mail variant is the best looking to me.