Any point to armor alteration?

[Starwight/ttv]

So I have yet to find a decent purpose. I thought maybe it was for cosmetics, but even with the 2nd needle (golden I think it is?), just the cosmetic options all...well suck. And stats-wise it doesn't do much except lower weight--but also stats.

So there's no benefit aesthetically wise because they all look like crap altered so far. There's no stat benefit. Is there something I'm missing here, or did From just screw the pooch on this part of the game?

[Xalynden]

Excuse me? No benefit aesthetically? You've obviously never altered Rotten Gravekeeper Cloak before.

[Toad]

There's a few armour pieces that drastically change in appearance, and when min-maxing weight load can be important. Other than that, most changes are just capes.

[rkmugen]

Now.... if Boc let us design our own capes, well....

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by Xalynden:

Excuse me? No benefit aesthetically? You've obviously never altered Rotten Gravekeeper Cloak before.

Nope I don't have this one. I'm playing a magic user right now though so if you can still recommend it I'll seek it out. I have yet to see any armor piece that looks better altered than unaltered sadly :(

Originally posted by Toad:

There's a few armour pieces that drastically change in appearance, and when min-maxing weight load can be important. Other than that, most changes are just capes.

Good to know there's at least SOME things that have decent changes. I've yet to find them, I keep running into the cape variety x_x

[Xalynden]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Originally posted by Xalynden:

Excuse me? No benefit aesthetically? You've obviously never altered Rotten Gravekeeper Cloak before.

Nope I don't have this one. I'm playing a magic user right now though so if you can still recommend it I'll seek it out. I have yet to see any armor piece that looks better altered than unaltered sadly :(

Originally posted by Toad:

There's a few armour pieces that drastically change in appearance, and when min-maxing weight load can be important. Other than that, most changes are just capes.

Good to know there's at least SOME things that have decent changes. I've yet to find them, I keep running into the cape variety x_x

Oh don't get me wrong 95% are just the cloak gets removed or if its a helm a hood will be removed. Protip though? Armor doesn't matter too much. Just wear what makes you happy. My favorite run through the game so far was as "Rotted Roderika". Basically Crimson Hood with Rotted Duelist chest(altered) and greaves and I think Cloth Manchettes because they didn't cover up the arm snakes from the chest piece. Have fun finding stuff you like!

[ɸ It That Dwells ɸ]

I personally really appreciate Malenia's armor altered, as one of the standout examples to me. But I agree for the most part, I didn't find all too many armors that looked any preferable altered.

[Forest]

Fashion mainly with a little bit less weight sprinkled on erm off.

[Rama]

Not much. It's clearly an unfinished feature or a half-ass attempt to give us a customization system. I hope they overhaul it in the next dlc.

[Sabaithal]

> Makes armor slightly lighter
> Also slightly reduces resistances

Neither does so to any significant degree whatsoever, the armor shaves off its weight by one unit, and the resistances are reduced by about 1%.

[Lenox]

If you're constantly swapping out armor and weapons to stay at 69.9% equip load, it can be useful. That 1.0 weight can make all the difference. Especially on a low endurance character (my Astrologer beat the game with 9 endurance).

If you're only going to wear your favorite armor all game and stay at like 50% equip load, then it probably won't matter and will just be for looks.

[Hypnosis]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

So I have yet to find a decent purpose. I thought maybe it was for cosmetics, but even with the 2nd needle (golden I think it is?), just the cosmetic options all...well suck. And stats-wise it doesn't do much except lower weight--but also stats.

So there's no benefit aesthetically wise because they all look like crap altered so far. There's no stat benefit. Is there something I'm missing here, or did From just screw the pooch on this part of the game?

Man, you are clueless, and have very low problem solving skills. It's kinda scary that people like you are driving cars, and etc.

Anyway, the reason for alterations is to lower weight of an item, which is for certain builds to be able to function at certain levels.

/thread

[Lenox]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Originally posted by Xalynden:

Excuse me? No benefit aesthetically? You've obviously never altered Rotten Gravekeeper Cloak before.

Nope I don't have this one. I'm playing a magic user right now though so if you can still recommend it I'll seek it out. I have yet to see any armor piece that looks better altered than unaltered sadly :(

On my magic user (Astrologer) I altered almost every armor because I prefer the cape-less look. I found that with unaltered armor, I couldn't see my weapons from the back as easily. But to each their own.

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by Lenox:

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Nope I don't have this one. I'm playing a magic user right now though so if you can still recommend it I'll seek it out. I have yet to see any armor piece that looks better altered than unaltered sadly :(

On my magic user (Astrologer) I altered almost every armor because I prefer the cape-less look. I found that with unaltered armor, I couldn't see my weapons from the back as easily. But to each their own.

See I like the capes. I wish alterations had done more with being able to change aesthetics, colors, maybe add or remove patterns, etc

[Lenox]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Originally posted by Lenox:

On my magic user (Astrologer) I altered almost every armor because I prefer the cape-less look. I found that with unaltered armor, I couldn't see my weapons from the back as easily. But to each their own.

See I like the capes. I wish alterations had done more with being able to change aesthetics, colors, maybe add or remove patterns, etc

Totally understandable, regarding both liking capes and changing all that other stuff. I would like some of that stuff too. And I do use cape sometimes, but moreso on melee characters.

But if past FromSoft games' character personalization options are any indication, there will be slow progress in this department. Maybe there's only one dude stuffed in the basement assigned to this while the rest of their staff figures out ways to kill us.

[SadPlatty©]

The only one I really used was the big sorcerer hat with the face wrap and red gems in it that boosts thorn sorcery.

On one hand, it's the closest thing to Big Hat Logan's hat I am getting.
On the other hand, it is a near total head-wrap (all but nose and mouth) with gems jammed into it, which with some visual mods matches the Azur/Lusat manchettes.

It is a tad lack-luster of a feature though. Like, why can't we just palette swap stuff...