u/5colorrice

I really both love and hate custom armor sets in Skyrim.

I feel like SMP cloth is almost a necessity at this point given how visually advanced my game looks. I spend a lot of time making the game pretty, but I also try to keep the gameplay as vanilla-like as possible, besides animations, audio and a few other things. And this is where armor mods kinda fuck things up for me.

I already have a really good baseline with Rustic Clothing + Sentinel, but once your game starts looking this good, vanilla armor for the player can still look a bit out of place. The SMP cloth, materials, cube maps and all that just looks fucking good.

But then there's the progression problem.

Obviously a custom armor set is going to look better to me most of the time. That's literally why I downloaded it. I specifically chose that armor because I like how it looks. So even a "beginner" custom armor set can easily look better to me than whatever vanilla armor I'm supposed to be progressing into.

And then why would I ever take it off?

Normally in Skyrim you find better armor, look at the armor rating and enchantments, and slowly progress through the tiers. But if I've got a custom set I absolutely love, I'm probably going to keep wearing it regardless of what I find. And that's what bothers me. I don't really want to ignore Skyrim's progression, but the moment I find a custom armor set I really like, I've basically already found the armor I want to wear for the rest of the game.

Which is why I no longer use custom armor sets. It just ruins my playthrough for me. Is there anyone else that's wired somewhat similarly that has actually found a way to deal with this?

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