Anyone go no helmet? What difficulty? : V - Skyrim

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:09 pm

scaled armor
axe + shield

only smithing

no helmet, on master. shield makes everything so easy. maybe gonna make a char only wearing ragged trousers + sword and shield.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:02 am

I alternate with game setting on Adept. Just make the game challenging but when I do throw on a helmet it is Helm of Yngol.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:24 am

i've never used a helmet, i find argonian characters look really bad with most of them, other then orcish that one actually looks decent on argonians, i think Daedric might look good but i'm not a high enough level to get on of them yet. :tongue:

Funnily enough, a recent character of mine used Orcish Armor, but his RP (2H melee berserker) required no helmet. Which was kind of a shame, since you're quite right that the Orcish Helm is the best looking of the lot on an Argonian head (depending on skin color, the Dragonscale helm is a close second).

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:39 pm

My personal experience with the game has been that it's closer to Fable 2/Fallout 3/NV than it was in Morrowind or even Oblvion.
In Obliv/Morrow if you didn't armor up all the time, you were severely punished for it.

I play in third-person unless I'm in a dungeon, so I see my character a lot and grow quite attached to them, so I try to keep my helmet off as much as I can.
For most characters I play in Skyrim, I take my helmet off in towns (Unless roleplaying demands otherwise), and tend to keep it off until right before I enter a dungeon.
There just doesn't seem to be that much of a penalty for not wearing one, which I love.