Hail ! Also it got a mask.

Daedric gauntlets and boots with Ebony mail for heavy class. I haven't found a good hat yet....I don't want to encase my head so I can't see anything(I'm using a forged circlet and my own enchants atm).

For my light armor class I like the Nightingale set, although the boots look kinda crappy. But they match at least. Same issue for the hat here too....

I like most armors. It would be easier to list the ones I do not like (Dwemer / Dragonscale / Dragonplate / Glass)

I tried a lot of mixes and ended up with:

Ancient Shrouded Gloves
Ancient Shrowded Hood (Female) or Nightingale Hood (Male)
Nightingale Armor
Ancient Shrouded Boots

Wolf armor: simple, efficient & elegant.

Steel plate armour definitely looks badass! But you need to have the right kind of character to pull off the look. Same goes for stuff like glass and nightingale. It looks out of place on certain builds.

Storm Cloak officer set is my favorite.

The helm & briastplate is cool but i use a tan plain mage hood (crafted/enchanted) and only use the officer gloves & boots with the longsleeve fur briastplate. with: shield of ysgramor, hunting bow (legendary/non enchanted), nord hero sword (legendary/non enchanted),

scaled, ancient nord and a straight steel set i also like.

deadric is nice but doesnt fit how i play my game. Maybe if there was a city of darkness and fire benieth skyrim, then id prob run that set to quest in. Cap is around 567 anyway so no real need for heavy imo.

I like the Ancient Nordic Armor, tried to on my Argonian; FLIPPING AWESOME

For my main character (warrior) steel plate was my favourite; it looked great, and I could improve it via smithing, not wear the helmet, and it still had good armour rating. I thought the Thieves Guild armour looked great too, minus the hood.

Female character in Ancient Nord Armor with Dragonbone Helm is classy as hell. Very Bersekerish. Male Orc/Nord/Altmer in Ebony Armor/Daedric gloves and boots looks pretty sick. Kinda like Dark Night meets Assassin's Creed. I'm about the cool factor though. Skyrim has given us the option to wear whatever armor we want. Whether that be "realistic" armor or something more over the top.

To the haters on non "realistic armor":

Too much realism is a bad thing in video games. I remember reading an article about Halo and why it was great. (like 10 years ago) The developer talked about immersing the player in a fantasy world where they could enjoy themselves instead of rushing around in game looking for a toilet so their character could use the bathroom. Again, it's not like at the end game you have two choices, daedric or glass. You have the tools to wear whatever you want and make it good. And there are a few options for realistic armor as you know.

i'd say the same, but switch the shrouded gloves with the normal handwraps, muuuch more stylish that way ^^

Daedric + Forsworn helmet (female version). I just love how the spiked gloves look in first-person spell-casting mode.

Edna Mole: "NO CAPES!"

I like Ebony with a dragon priest mask. Epic.

It's in his name.

Steel plate, iron, Steel Imperial, fur armour, hide armour, studded armour, elven armour, dragonscale armour.

Scale for light armor character

Jagged Crown, Dragonscale Armor, Gauntlets & Boots

Helm of Yngol, Ebony Mail, Daedric Gauntlets & Boots (on a femme there black without the red)

Fur, iron and steel as well as the steel variations.

You cant take the game seriously when wearing glass, daedric or dwarvern.

I used to lik the nightingale set, until I realised you look like a medieval Batman!

The developers spent a lot of time making skyrim a realistic and gritty fantasy world. They then kinda spoilt it by making all the 'best armour' look out of place. IMHO the banded iron armour is way more badass than daedric will ever look.

Daedric fits the look of demons. My Nord Ranger looks better in steel, iron and fur armour with the use of steel swords and wooden bows

Hoping for decent authentic weaponry is not too realistic IMO.

Forsworn armor on a female Khajiit. Awesomeness.

Plain iorn, steel, steel-plate, ancient nord...and plain Stormcloak/Windhelm guard armor

It's not the idea of a two-handed sword or a gun-blade combo are ridiculous, it's the specific examples used in FF, the buster sword is so [censored] broad it'd serve better as a paddle, and Squall's gunblade is designed in such a way that makes it useless as either a gun OR a blade.

Also a musket is a type of rifle, the word you were looking for is bayonet

I wear dragonscale and a fine hat. I look baller.

Dragonscale looks the best.

Skyrim's vanilla armors aren't my taste, therefore I use mods. So far Triss armor is the best.