I think this is the armour that a lot of people are choosing as late game armour; which isn't a problem, but highlights that the other sets such as Cat and especially Griffon armour (IMO) aren't up to the same standard.

If people are choosing to ignore armour with better attributes that match their playing style better because the armour doesn't look good; or even worse choosing to invest points in skills that mesh well with one of the few good looking armour sets(Ursine) and ignoring the other play styles, then I think it is important that CDProjekt take note.

It doesn't make the game bad by any means, but I don't recall people complaining about armour in the first 2 installments of the witcher series; the game is gorgeous, but it is let down with the poor choices in armour sets.

I would be more in favour of much fewer, but better looking armours; for example discard all armour classess except Wolf, Cat, Griffon, Ursine and create 3 upgrades for each. That is 4 different armour types with a total of 16 different models.

I wouldn't of minded even if they removed the armour drops alltogether to focus on creating really slick nice witcher class armour that you look forward to wearing.

Most Heavy armor is pretty boss looking.

Except that nilfgaardian heavy armor. Looks pretty silly with that neck thing, cloth, whatever.

I miss the Oathbreaker armor set from TW2 Dark Mode. It was featured in the "52 And A Half" official short movie and it looks piiiiiiiiimp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pomQy5JkRAw

Used it all the way till the end of the game because it looks a thousand times better than the Kingslayer set. And it actually looked practical.

Also I really wish the game could have the "values scale with player level" thing from TW1. I wish we could upgrade the Wolf school set and make some aspects scale with player level, like, insane crit chance and crit damage, or +200% Sign intensity, or something like that.

Medieval gambesons looked much better than what is in this game, besides this is a fantasy game, Geralt is a Witcher he needs armor that stands out... lol

I think this is a fantastic idea. Already we have armour that scales in game (different levels of the same armour type), how much harder would it be to make the witcher sets scale with level up as well?

Rather than focus on the basic stats with upgrades, let these be determined by your current level (and the type of armour: cat shouldn't have as much armour as Ursine and so on; but they all scale during level up).

For each upgrade level (enhanced, superior, mastercrafted), focus on adding unique armour abilities that enhance your chosen style of play (for example add abilities that can't be obtained in the character skill tree, and are exceptionally powerful providing you have grown your character into that play style).

Bear has a nice warm look to it, stamina is slow as hell tho. Cat armor upgraded looks pretty decent aswell.

But i just cant take the Griffin armor serious, its freakishly hilarious when Geralt enter a cutscene with that beer gut hanging out, and top it with green tights. Makes it even more "lol" if he has full beard, a santa witcher!.

Heck no you can cosplay spanish conquistatdor with it! To me the most shittiest looking armor is that old cotton thing with steel plate that looks like Geralt stole it from the homeless guy because it's torn apart in so many parts called Angren ciras or something like that.

Anyone like the new DLC Nilfgaardian armour?

I didn't really like the pants (Using griffon leggings and boots with the Nilfgaardian chest & gloves currently), but so far this is the most detailed, intricate armour i've seen in the game. I love it, even though I can't see how it could offer all that much protection as it appears to be fairly soft leather.

Amazing intricate metalwork on the buckles and the fine leather embossing on the gloves and chest. The leather texture is perfect.

With all the detail in this armour, I can't help but wonder if CDProjekt actually built a real version of it and then scanned it into the game.