Skin or Layered Armor

[ESOS]

Can we apply a skin or layered armor to covered up our real armor that mix matches? Looks ugly lol

[Ironwu]

I have not found a way. Some armor will actually change your physical appearance as well (I am now a short, pudgy guy!).

Note that Altered really does little or nothing and will often DEGRADE the armor's stats. So check carefully before altering an armor.

[UrbanNoodles]

Other than finding a combo that fits your fashion desires, no. You can alter some armor with the golden needle, but only a few are altered in a significant way. I always find any pants that shows maximum cheek and any top that shows maximum midriff to be the best for me, personally.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Just take the armor off

[Nihrahk]

Nope. There's no way to do that, and it should be like that too, because some armor has special effects. It's fair game in pve, but because pvp exists it's just a bad idea. Then there's also poise to consider. I mean, there could be some dude in full bullgoat, but you would be unaware, because you see him wearing goldmask set or something else with basically 0 poise.

What you can do however, is mix and match until you get the look you want. We call it Elden Bling.

[Fineous🔥]

You want ugly? Here you have peak ugliness

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3293366918

Not bad stats after all!

[2001 Space Oddity]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Nope. There's no way to do that, and it should be like that too, because some armor has special effects. It's fair game in pve, but because pvp exists it's just a bad idea. Then there's also poise to consider. I mean, there could be some dude in full bullgoat, but you would be unaware, because you see him wearing goldmask set or something else with basically 0 poise.

What you can do however, is mix and match until you get the look you want. We call it Elden Bling.

There's no reason it couldn't just be a local effect so pvp opponents see the real armor.

[Madao]

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Nope. There's no way to do that, and it should be like that too, because some armor has special effects. It's fair game in pve, but because pvp exists it's just a bad idea. Then there's also poise to consider. I mean, there could be some dude in full bullgoat, but you would be unaware, because you see him wearing goldmask set or something else with basically 0 poise.

What you can do however, is mix and match until you get the look you want. We call it Elden Bling.

There's no reason it couldn't just be a local effect so pvp opponents see the real armor.

that sounds unnecessarily complicated and might introduce a slew of different issues, that make everything worse

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Nope. There's no way to do that, and it should be like that too, because some armor has special effects. It's fair game in pve, but because pvp exists it's just a bad idea. Then there's also poise to consider. I mean, there could be some dude in full bullgoat, but you would be unaware, because you see him wearing goldmask set or something else with basically 0 poise.

What you can do however, is mix and match until you get the look you want. We call it Elden Bling.

There's no reason it couldn't just be a local effect so pvp opponents see the real armor.

why don't you just put on the armor that looks nice

[2001 Space Oddity]

Originally posted by Rando MacArthur, Crit Horologist:

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

There's no reason it couldn't just be a local effect so pvp opponents see the real armor.

why don't you just put on the armor that looks nice

Because the armor that looks nice doesn't always have the stats I want.

[toughnails]

There's a transmog mod on the Nexus. https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3596

But it won't ever be a thing officially because this game has PvP unlike Monster Hunter and Nioh, being able to read your opponent's build is very important. Same reason why there's no hide helmet option.

[2001 Space Oddity]

Originally posted by toughnails:

There's a transmog mod on the Nexus. https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3596

But it won't ever be a thing officially because this game has PvP unlike Monster Hunter and Nioh, being able to read your opponent's build is very important. Same reason why there's no hide helmet option.

I know it's never going to happen without a mod, but like I said before, there's no reason they couldn't make it a local-only effect. In fact it's probably easier to code it that way.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

Originally posted by Rando MacArthur, Crit Horologist:

why don't you just put on the armor that looks nice

Because the armor that looks nice doesn't always have the stats I want.

Who cares? The stats aren't very impactful or important.

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

Originally posted by toughnails:

There's a transmog mod on the Nexus. https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3596

But it won't ever be a thing officially because this game has PvP unlike Monster Hunter and Nioh, being able to read your opponent's build is very important. Same reason why there's no hide helmet option.

I know it's never going to happen without a mod, but like I said before, there's no reason they couldn't make it a local-only effect. In fact it's probably easier to code it that way.

There's no reason you can't just wear the armor you want to wear instead of wearing ugly things.

[2001 Space Oddity]

Originally posted by Rando MacArthur, Crit Horologist:

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

Because the armor that looks nice doesn't always have the stats I want.

Who cares? The stats aren't very impactful or important.

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

I know it's never going to happen without a mod, but like I said before, there's no reason they couldn't make it a local-only effect. In fact it's probably easier to code it that way.

There's no reason you can't just wear the armor you want to wear instead of wearing ugly things.

I'm looking back through the thread and don't see anybody saying they can't wear the armor they want to wear. Not sure what the point of this comment is.

[UrbanNoodles]

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

I'm looking back through the thread and don't see anybody saying they can't wear the armor they want to wear. Not sure what the point of this comment is.

You're the one that said it. The armor you are wanting is armor that looks nice and has the stats you want, which you admit you can't have.

Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity:

Originally posted by Rando MacArthur, Crit Horologist:

why don't you just put on the armor that looks nice

Because the armor that looks nice doesn't always have the stats I want.

[Silyon]

Originally posted by toughnails:

There's a transmog mod on the Nexus. https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3596

But it won't ever be a thing officially because this game has PvP unlike Monster Hunter and Nioh, being able to read your opponent's build is very important. Same reason why there's no hide helmet option.

People always cite that reason, and it's always a BS excuse of a reason. Think for a single minute, who has the time to play elemental Rock-paper-scissors when they're presently being beaten on by a dude dual-wielding great stars, or watching for a spellcaster's windup, or trying to play keepaway with a dual-dagger blender? Nah, it's all about throwing your opponent off-rhythm and stun-locking them.

Doesn't matter what the armor is anyway, none have so significant of a stat difference to change the fact that anyone's going to go down in 4-8 solid hits at most. Even the poise argument doesn't hold water, because in practice everyone's rocking either 100+ poise or 0 poise with no inbetween. And you know which it is the moment either they roll or you land a hit regardless of what the armor looks like. Granularity is not helpful in this circumstance, either they're fast but stagger or they're slow and don't stagger.

But more than any of that, the question ought to be why hideous dishrags of armorsets exist in the first place. There's no reason for it beyond the Devs wanting people that hyper-focus on stats to look like they crawled out of a dumpster. It was a conscious and deliberate choice they made.