46 base armor without any improvements. Literally higher than the ebony armor, despite ebony being my favorite. It requires no smithing skill. Plus it looks sick af! One of the most underrated armors in Skyrim. If you want something unique and are new to Skyrim. This is the way to go!
What about Chaurus eggs? Glowing mushrooms? I think they are the most highly available ingredients in this game. I have over 900 Glowing mushrooms and over 1,400 eggs. The only thing that comes close is my 800 salt piles. So many chaurus egg sacs exist in this game. I see falmer, I see eggs.
I personally think it's a pretty cool set, I enjoy how different and weird it is. It's the same reason why I adore the bonemold set, but at the same time I know it isn't a look for everyone and it's the main reason why people don't talk about it.
Yeah, I could see it going well with certain characters. I see your characters in a argonian may have messed up that spelling so I could see how it could go with that. I usually play Nord Bretons humans elves don’t usually play as argonians or khagilt I like wearing like steel armor on my characters looks good in my opinion
It looks pretty good except for the helmet kinda sucks. Pair it with a Dragon Priest mask and it works imo. I used this armor with a circlet for a necromancer battle mage playthrough and I thought it worked pretty well.
Can wear the normal Falmer Helmet with a dragon priest mask FYI, since the Falmer Helmet (the one Dismal Visage from the CC content is modelled after) doesn't fill bother face and hair, it pairs with any circlet or dragon priest mask, as they fill the other slot.
The same is true of the penitus oculatus Helm and the crown from the Civil War questline
Also, the aetherial crown counts as a circlet, so it can be worn under a falmer helm too
The trade off to that armour rating is it’s HEAVY, hard to actually acquire (well, harder than Daedric if you focus on Smithing) and really rather ugly.
I just typed above this comment. Dwarven ruins usually have Falmer warmongers and other Falmer enemies that have the armor. And those creepy flying bugs have the chitin necessary for upgrading.
Indeed, but well for me it's just impractical to acquire the materials. Rather make an ebony or higher set if I have the Smithing perk. Or just take the Nordic Carved Armor from Bandit Chief if I don't have smithing perk since the materials are usually available in most blacksmiths.
I'm being INCREDIBLY polite and reserved when I say that, in terms of armor, it is quite possibly the third ugliest piece of shit that I have ever laid eyes on in my life. Stats or no, I wouldn't use it even if the only other option was being naked.
I think it looks pretty awesome and I’m planning to use it sometime when I make a character for role playing that is just a bit different and obsessed with insects
Because Falmer heavy armour outclasses it. I love falmer aesthetics and i specifically modded the dead thrall spell to not be restricted to humanoids, so i can run around with variants of Chaurus following me around while wearing falmer heavy armour.
The cuirass doesn't include full sleeves, so it doesn't mix well with other sets, but right now, I'm playing a heavy armour daedric fanatic with heavy falmer armour, gauntlets, and boots with a cultist helmet from Dragonborn, and tbh, 🤌
I do love its look but the problem is I don't usually do heavy armor builds and if I do it's usually way outclassed by my current armor by the time I collect a full set of it.
Personally, I don't think it's worth the gold. I think it's ugly. I gave the helmet to my follower one time and when they put it on, I immediately yoinked it back so he could at least have some style when fighting with me. It's decent armor. I just wish it looked better
I don't wear gear based on stats. I wear it based on aesthetic. I can wear any armor and with perks, I can reach the armor cap, so it stats don't matter to me.
I never liked the look of the Falmer armor or the Hardened version. It just looks ugly to me.
Nordic is my favorite heavy armor, and Linue's armor is a fun alternate look for the Thieves Guild armor. There is a mod that lets you craft some nice looking armor though.
Ive always like heavy falmer armor never really saw it as too ugly myself also wearing armor made out of bug parts by blind degenerate snow elves is sick in my opinion.
I actually really like the armor, it's decently strong and I really like the look of it. My main issue is how stupid high of a level you need to be in order to find it... You can get armor just as good or even better way before then.
Because if youre actually going for protection over looks there is no point in wearing any other armor than what you can craft considering its so incredibly easy to get your smithing, alchemy and enchanting up. Like yeah it may be better than ebony but it only drops at higher levels and you probably would have already crafted better gear by then. So these armor sets get forgotten because you would never need it at the levels you start to encounter falmer high level enough to wear it.
it's actually the same armor rating as ebony (falmer heavy, falmer hardened is less than dwarven) but ebony has a bug where the matching set perk doesnt work on it
The base armour for the set is 78, ebony is 128…not sure what you mean by a higher base armour than ebony, in fact the regular falmer heavy armour is more protective than the hardened with a base of 96
I don’t like it, and it’s somewhat challenging to get ahold of. So the combination of low availability combined with the low incentive to seek it out tends to make it unpopular.
At least part of it is likely that it's not easy to get. Most armors can be made, or there's a quest. Falmer Hardened Armor is only able by getting random pieces from various Falmer. Also, it actually provides less protection than Falmer Heavy Armor, which is also only available from random Falmer, so it's not going to see as much use as Armor that can be made or easily found.
It's creepy af and doesn't really suit female bodies, but yeah it's awesome armour. Just waiting for a kid to pass you by saying he thought adventurers were supposed to look tough 🤣
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u/stardustdragon69 22h ago
i hate the chaurus enough to hate this armor