Best "Heavy stealth armor" and a few tips to play with it

I give an example of one of the best armor to be as good in steath as in combat, and a few tips to play with it.

One of the best heavy stealth armor

I didn't find any info on an armor like that, just "best stealth gear" or "best heavy gear". But in this game you have to play stealth even for main quests, and you have to fight against several oponents even for main quest. So this is one of the best heavy stealth armor, with which you can play both.
The armor is heavy enough to win a combat against anything (i killed 50 rattay guards with it) and is close in "stealth abilites" to the best stealth armors. Honestly with high enough stealth (only 10+) i don't see the difference.

Where to find each pieces

Aachen dark brigandine - Rattay - Armorer
Lords of Leipa gauntlets - "Rattay Tourney"
Black (Brown?) hood/Dark Waffenrocks - Bandits
Dark Saxon gambeson - Rattay - Armorer
Golded spurs - Neuhof - Horse trader
Tight Red Hose - A bandit can be found wearing one in the Ore Processing Yard, south of Skalitz.
Hounskull - High level bandits (Example : If found one on the 'boss' in "Robber Barons" quest, but it seems to be random.)
Mail chausses - Rattay - Armorer
Mail coif (11 14 8 armor version) - Rattay - Armorer
Necklace (0 Noise) - in a chest of the bandit camp in "Robber Barons" quest
Padded black coif - Bandits
Saxon composite chausses - Rattay - Armorer
Quiet dark shoes - Rattay - Cobbler
Silver sing (there is a better ring at the end of the "Restless Spirits" quest) - Bandits
Simple plate pauldrons - Rattay - Armorer

Note : You can take any heavy hemlet instead of the Hounskull, I just took it because he had one of the (if not the) highest armor value.

Some interesting perks

After you trained a lot with captain bernard, you need a way to raise your stealth. I found a good, and rather fun way to raise it fastly. First you have to find a bandit/cuman camp, and kill every soldier except one. Best way is to knocked one at the beginning of the fight. If one flee it's good enough too, he will come back.
Anyway, once you knocked this one, remove all his cloths and weapons, then ... go a bit further and wait about 20 minutes that he wakes up, then go behind him and stealth knock him out, and repeat.
You should do this up to 8 stealth to unlock the Slim Fit perk.

2 other perks are really useful for this kind of gameplay :
Maintenance - Stuffing - Level 10 - Less noise (vital)
Hunting - Forester - Level 10 - Less conspicuousness and visibility in forests.

Random tips

Combat tips
When someone is fleeing don't tackle him, when you're close to him crouch and "stealth knock him out". This will save you some time and raise your stealth ability. + you avoid a combat, and you can do the same with several fleeing enemies at once.
The master strike : Before doing this I only did them once in a while. Then I understood. To do them much more often you have to follow the weapon movements of the enemies, not the center of the screen where the green shield appears because it will appear after the enemy began his attack !. So as soon as the enemy moves his weapon, click block and you will block with perfect timing.
Stealth tips
You should open chests whenever you can, even if you don't take anything in the chest, because lockpicking is long to train.
You can buy 10 lockpicks to Votava in Talmberg
The lockpick perk - Luck of the Drunk is very useful, with this perk you can open chests way over your lockpick skill if you drink alcohool
All tied NPC or crouched NPC can be "stealth killed/knocked out" so if an enemy surrender you can just go behind him and use your "stealth abilities"...

If you want informations for new players, it's here http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1312917145

[Erathanos]

umm... Swampfox.. what does your reply have to do with the OP's topic? I have to ask because..
This is an older post... and its about "The best heavy armor to have a chance to be stealthy in, WHILE still wearing heavy armor.." key words are IN Heavy Armor and you might be surprised how stealthy one can be in armor... might try it.

[swampfox]

i never use any heavy armor...never.
i always go for no armor at all relying on being quiet and unseen and use my cuman bow or dagger.
i carry a good fast sword just in case i need to...but rarely need it as i am unseen most of the time and if i am spotted i usually retrograde and shift positions and go to crouch and they lose me.
armor and stealth dont go together!!!!!

[Erathanos]

Mods? uhhhgg Heheh have to do the best with Default gear..

[Norm MacDonald]

download the mod Midnight Armor for a really good light armor stealth set, and Holy Sepulcher armor for the most beautiful knightly plate

[Myyrä]

You could also get black brigandine pauldrons. Also quiet dark shoes are better than silent shoes by 3 points on both in vis/con, also tight black hose are the best stealth hose since all hose have the same defensive stats, but tight black hose have only 9/9 vis/con, charisma is pretty much meaningless with right skills so just go for the lowest vis/con you can get.

[Dad in a reasonably priced car]

ADRIANNN!

[Sudo Modding]

You're welcome, well i'll add it (it is indeed vital)

[MasterOfPuppies]

@Sudo Modding & @Erathanos

I already finished the game, but thank you for the answer. I made the build work - but you forgot to mention (or maybe back when you made the guide there was no need for that) that the Maintenance "Stuffing" perk is vital. You mentioned that is only "recommended".

Anyway, much respect for still answering to questions after so many years..

[Sudo Modding]

I see that your visibility, conspic and noise are in red, your strength too. Also you seem to be over encumbered. So maybe try to increase your strength and try to carry below you weight max limit (here ~149) then check again ?

[Erathanos]

andy, if anything the current items have gone through a balance pass. Sudo like me played when it first came out. For example I had 5 different brown hood all with different stats. Sudo stated he played when it first came out. Hope this helps or clears things up for you?