I miss the Black Hand robes from OB, they are much more evil looking than the shrouded robes or the hooded black robe

I agree...i was highly disappointed that there isnt an extra set of grey beard robes in high hrothgar.

Also most robes look like they were cut and paste from OB and theres no hoods beyond the apprentice robes which is lame

I agree about the lack of non-enchanted robes, I hope they add some in the dlc. A high level perk in the enchanting tree where you could disenchant an item without destroying it would have been nice (maybe just for non-unique items).

Yes! We need more hoods.

Personally I am a fan of the blue mage robes that the guy in Dragonsearch wears. I also like the Greaybeard robes but I am not sure if you can wear those.

use a mod if you are on pc, then you can use Graybeard robes.

According to UESP, there are actually files for Grey/Red/Green/Other colors robes in the game, but they are unattainable by the player. Unfortunately I play on 360 so I can't use mods or console to get the other robes. I do wish I had the money for a better PC, but there's no way my laptop could handle Skyrim or I'd have been playing on PC since release.

As for the gloves, I totally agree, there is a SERIOUS lack of cloth gloves. As far as I know there are the brown "worker" type gloves that you'd picture a gardener or harvester using. Then there are the Thalmor Gloves. That's literally all there is for un-enchanted. As for already enchanted ones, there's Mythic Dawn, Mystic Tuning (College of Winterhold quest ones), and the DB cloth gloves that increase backstab. While that is an extremely sad line-up of cloth gloves, at least it's a step up from Oblivion, where my Mage was forced to use the wrist-irons he had back when he started the game as a prisoner. THAT was so sad.

I miss wrist irons

Yah, if you want to be an "All Schools" mage... which IMO is the only way to play a full mage (free casting is a dumb and broken mechanic), there is NO better option.

Even if I couldn't get it higher than 10% to all schools (and then restricted to robe/chest pieces), at least it would be something comparable (and grinders could surpass it with the lame alchemy/enchant loop)

The other thing that bugs me is that the combo enchant for -15% on 1 school, and +% magicka regen.... the magicka regen never improves! If it at least did that then I could put 2 schools on 15% off and have increased magicka regen on my robes.

Personally, I wish they'd just give us the bloody command console on... console

Sure, it's be a pain to type in commands using the virtual keyboard, but I for 1 would really appreciate the feature.

It'd be especially welcome if they aren't going to bother fixing every minor issue in the game, which they should do, but we know they won't.

I agree. I know mods would never be allowed on consoles because of legal issues or something like that, but I don't see why console commands would be a problem. I certainly would love a way to fix broken quests as well.

because people would be able to mod their precious achievements and alter online play...i recently dusted off world at war and laughed at how many people were using mods, being immortal and flying thru the air unchecked.

Its possible to mod consoles but you can get permanently banned from online services and charges brought up against you if caught

woopy do da day... GamerScore is 100% irrelevant. It's ONLY for personal satisfaction. Who gives a flying hoot if 1 game's achievements can be "faked"

And not like it'd be hard to fix either... Any save where a console command has been entered, can't unlock achievments. I'll take that sacrifice. Because the gamerscore is meaningless and IDGAF about it. I laughed my bum off when MS bragged about the new arcade games having 400 GS... like who gives a flyin monkeys basket ball bag?

And there is no online play, so no threat of griefers there either.

Okay, so just do what lots of games do with cheat codes: ban that save from achievements/trophies if cheats/console commands are used.

And don't allow console commands on games with online play.

Problem solved. Tee hee, leadership's easier than I thought.

Good point. Although i stopped using cheats back when i the 360 released. Before then i played a PS2 and the games were boring without the cheats. But i wanted Halo 3 so i got the xbox and now i dont even use cheats for games that still feature them like Saints Row. The same with Console Commands as i really dont need them...although fixing broken quests is really needed

I don't want the console to make my char god... I can just use smithing for that

I'd like to get certain, otherwise unobtainable gear though... and place said gear on NPC's (like mah waifu) and other misc things it lets you do.

I'd certainly have fun tweaking the jump height variable lmao

This. It could be used to become OP (I personally wouldn't use it for this), but so what? As stated it could just lock achievements or something, like how GTA(4) does when you activate cheats. It's seriously needed to fix quest bugs too. Instead of having to start a new game every single time we find a gamebreaking bug, we could at least use console commands for some of them.

And I certainly wouldn't mind being able to obtain some of those awesome looking robes using it too! I'd rock Psyjic Order robes or Unenchanted Mythic Dawn robes in no time!

Or even just changing the time scale to make it slower or something small like that.

You mean the completely plain black robes that had no special quality to them?

I don't disagree with the fact that the Dark Brotherhood Pajamas are absolutely ridiculous looking (as is their leather armor), but I don't get what you saw in the normal black robes from Oblivion, unless of course it's just yet another case of nostalgia.

Actually the BH robes from OB have dark blood stains all over them. Turn up the brightness on your tv and look closer. Plus they have black cloth gloves and boots as well

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120123021861/elderscrolls/images/0/01/BlackHandsmall.png It may be hard to see but it is there

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Black_Hand_Robe#Black_Hand_Robe

Given that the Black Hand Robe is actually a magic robe...yeah.

I suppose that the other reason is that in Oblivion we had modders who worked to expand the choices available to mages. Mods like Slof's Robe Trader, Mage Equipment, Mannimarco Revisited and so on dramatically expanded the robe selection for spellcasters, while Mc's Staff Pack and the Armamentarium gave almost every vanilla staff - and new staves - unique meshes of their own, from the tree-branches of vanilla to gem and skull staves.

Even Morrowind was handled well, with unique meshes for artifact staves (Magnus, Hasedoki) and each weapon tier (remember how badass the daedric staff looked, or how the Silver Staff looked like a snake?)

In vanilla Skyrim...eh, some robes are nice, some look horrible. Most mage robes look like their tailors were living in dirt-poor slums, and the Archmage robe is a poncho. You can't tell the difference between necromancer robes and normal black robes, and the really nice robes are either unobtainable or have really bad enchantments. Staves were handled better, but still lack variety.

i miss the staff of worms, not for the effect but for the look

I like the hooded Monk robes, but most of them are pretty boring.
I agree that robes have been neglected in skyrim, it'd be nice if they added some more in DLC perhaps, as I RP a lot of magic based characters.
It doesn't feel right parading around casing spells in armour

If you are on PC, and like me want to wear archmage robes but think they look dumb, this is the mod you are looking for:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=16194


Oooo or you could get this http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14128 and learn the archmage robes enchantment so you can put it on anything.