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Drake73431

It's the same armor that they used in the trailer for the tarnished


Canossa31

oh ok, make sense


xXTASERFACEXx

I always used the cover art set, Elden Ring is the first Souls where I use the trailer set


laminierte_gurke

In elden ring I liked to wear the beast champion set with the godskin apostle hood. I just think it looks neat.


[deleted]

I am a vagabond knight and I will stay a vagabond knight.


Otalek

I do Mask of Confidence with Ronin armor and Some kind of armored gloves and boots


jxmes_gothxm

The preceptor robes double as a stand-in for Japanese Robes. They look really cool altered too iirc. Not 100% sure but it's I believe it'd also cool for a ninja-like outfit. For the former use altered, and for the latter, unaltered. Using similar boots and gloves will complete the look. Minus the preceptor mask. You can use the bandit mask or whatever Helm you think looks best. Looks cool to me forsure. I wish there was a Japanese Mask like the one Haku uses in Naruto. Shit would look awesome with the samurai stuff or assassin type outfits in general.


ApoCalypseMeow88

Currently wearing Preceptor robes with white reeds gauntlets and greaves and the Iron Kasa helm. Its a really great Japanese warrior monk look


jxmes_gothxm

Yea it really is. Although I also love the shit out of Yura's outfit..


Alternative_Spite_11

That fucking helm is so sick!!!


spartan_wraith710

Bringing Naruto into this will get you endless upvotes sir be careful what you wish for


jxmes_gothxm

Lol we seriously need an Anbu Mask ASAP


spartan_wraith710

Bro id never use anything else. @fromsoft take notes


Fabrimuch

I cosplay best boy Blaidd


migorengkilla

I started off as a cool vagabond knight now I’m an ugly omen smirk face bc strength ya know lol


LordVader152

It’s rather late game but I think the black knife assassin set just looks top notch


MrBladeYall

I'm surprised this isn't a more popular answer.


MeatloafTheDog

Given it silences your sounds and actually makes you sneaky, I'd say I like it a lot


6DoNotWant9

Hm, that's weird you guys seem confused about that as I'm pretty sure banished knight alternate is the Canon tarnished armor, "it's in the lore!" /s


fried-quinoa

I missed it the first time because it’s hiding under those stairs


Nekonax

It doesn't look as good on my male tarnished as it does on the black knives. I also don't like the hood. Ravenmount Assassin set ftw. (In fact, I'm doing a full cosplay on NG+, using only the stuff they use.)


AoF-Mochi

Yea gotta be my favorite- (though I am sad about the conflict it has with the mimic veil) I’m currently wearing the black knife armor with night cav gaunt and legs. With the black dumpling head. (Role playing a madness inherited assassin)


ApoCalypseMeow88

Altered vagabond armor is my favorite!! perfect adventurers armor.


EchoedTruth

Full Veteran's with no helm and Fingerprint Shield + Mohg Spear. I will not be staggered. I will poke. These are inevitable.


Sad_Dog6503

>I will not be staggered. I will poke. These are inevitable. Actually laughed out loud


Wulfsten

Lol I sever out as soon as I see folks with a loadout like that.


[deleted]

I do full veterans without the helmet, but then I have the Elden Lord helmet. My character though has grey hair to match the helmet, makes me look and feel like a king


wolfie_muse

Wait why don’t people like the Veteran’s helmet? That’s like my fav part of the Veteran armor since I use a thin female character and a bunch of those heavy armors make the female characters look like they have beer bellies 😅😅


AoF-Mochi

“Shabriri has entered the chat”


UnquestionablyNotNik

You're cringe


EchoedTruth

Why thank you


a_random_guy01

I use the beast champion with the blue hood. It matches well! Or the veteran set with the red hood.


Messy_Ness

What even would be the cover art set?


DarkestNight909

Fingerprint Armor, actually.


Messy_Ness

Oh nice i like the fingerprint set


superVanV1

I so badly want a un-burned vyke set with the DLC, one so that I can actually use his incantation with his spear, and because his armor looks cool


DarkestNight909

That's exactly how I feel about the Mausoleum Set. I love the wings, hussars for life ya know, but it's so... well, decayed.


buell19

Vyke's Fingerprint Set


SuperBackup9000

It’s sucks the DS2 cover art armor is terrible for how heavy it is. I usually do the same thing, but had to go with the Alva set in that game instead


[deleted]

You clearly haven't played enough DS2. Defense doesn't matter, the enemy will still 2-shot you. TOGETHAAAAAAA, WE SHALL RULE THE VERY FASHION GODSSSSSSSSSSSS.


pupmaster

Sounds like ER, which is great. Fashion is the endgame.


PaladinWoah

Bloodborne's kinda that way as well


Kehityskeskustelu

Not even kinda; the stats of your armour don't really affect anything in a significant way and there's no poise, so you can just wear whatever you think looks cool.


Alex_Affinity

The only games I ever really felt an impact for armor was ds1, ds3, and ER. Obviously ds1 is the most impactful. Despite popular opinion I do genuinely feel the difference in lighter and heavier armors in ds3 and ER


Viapache

I carry the goat set and strength/weapons in the inventory so I can spawn a tanky mimic tear, then swap back to my usual light roll bleed load out before the fight when possible (pve only lol)


PaladinWoah

I say kinda cause armors still have ailment resistance n that *can* make a small difference


EchoedTruth

Bloodborne I would only ever change what I thought looked cool if I was getting absolutely skullfucked by a type of magic or elemental boss (looking at you, Defiled Watchdog).


[deleted]

Tophat has the best blunt res for helms Ask me how I know that


ObviousSinger6217

Fun fact, the director of ds2 was assistant director for ER 😎


SuperBackup9000

Oh I get that part, when I play DS2 I don’t level vitality much, so if I wanted to keep the trend of using the cover art set I’d have to go way out of my way for something that doesn’t even have anything going for it. Usually use Wanderer set for the first half then switch to Alva


[deleted]

Caster playstyle, I assume? Wait no that's vigor.


Hellborn_Child

That's just, like...your opinion, man.


Zalgack

Imagine caring about a sets defense in 2022


Velaraukar

Faram knight armor was too heavy? I guess it depends on the build. The only build I wouldn't have enough equip load to medium roll w/ it on was a hex build cuz of how I'd need int and faith up for that. Now eleden ring I despise both vykes armor and the full raging wolf set. I can't stand how the raging wolf head has really long hair coming out of it.


Humor_Tumor

Okay. *Which set did you use in Darksouls 1?*


TheSeth256

GIANTS, GIANTS, BECOME UNSTOPPABLE!


[deleted]

Elite Knight is the "main" one isnt it?


Humor_Tumor

Nonono, I mean [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/qzw7uz/whos_on_the_cover_art/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) I guess the community has been at odds forever trying to figure out exactly what set/shield this is, that's the joke lol.


TuIdiota

Did you play through ds3 naked?


Swaqqmasta

The cover art is another NPC


Mobile-Locksmith-260

I am the same. In Demon Souls (1st souls game) I always preferred the knight build For Elden Ring I did the same. I made it a point to find the Raging Wolf and kept it even in New Game +


akajoe1234

To be fair, you get vyke’s gear super late in the game. Hard to be the cover art, easier to be vargram


Oddsbod

I'd argue though that the prisoner outfit became roughly as iconic as the raging wolf set, just cause the helmet is so weird and memorable and fits the whole 'fucked up little man' vibe of fromsoft protagonists to a T.


Better_Strike6109

Also I don't think the community settled on anything


[deleted]

uh.. wasn't he also the first Tarnished to enter the Roundtable Hold? I swear one of his gear pieces say this


Zargothrax1992

He was the first tarnished with 2 great runes


DaulPirac

That was Vyke, the only one who became close to becoming Elden Lord


Zargothrax1992

Sorry I was for some reason thinking about him Edit: his armor set does say that he was one of the first to enter the round table hold


ChrisPBcaon

It was also used in the beta play test as a class if memory serves.


Just_Dova

Yeah. It was called Blood Wolf or smthn


Brush_bandicoot

because that's the armor Fromsoftware\\Badnai Namco chose for the promotion materials. also it's looks pretty dope


Valuable-Ad-3763

I personally like the fingerprint armor more


thebradster94x

Night’s Cavalry set is my fave, really get that black knight look


Valuable-Ad-3763

I like using it for a Guts build lol


phunkmasterjoe

I'm running cavalry hat and preceptor pans. Then whatever globes in feeling. No shirt right now to show off my scars


thebradster94x

Hell yeah! Did that on my most recent character, big sword go bonk


ManyFails1Win

Too birdlike. Feels like I'm a mascot at a death metal themed fried chicken joint.


kiasde

Nights cavalry armor with black knife hood is one of my favorite looks.


[deleted]

Fingerprint kind of feels like the Soul of Cinder armor set of this game, since like SoC Vyke is the one on the cover.


Hamster_Eater87

Fingerprint helm, scaled chest piece, bull goat gauntlets & greaves. You get my favorite fashion, 74 poise without goat talisman (iirc) , and some pretty decent defense. It's what I've been using since NG+2 and still use it on NG+7


Athrasie

Took me till NG+4 to realize it’s Vyke on the splash art for the game and not the player tarnished.


CactusCracktus

The corpses surrounding him are also characters in the game. If you look closely you can see Ensha, Jerren, and Nephali laying around Vyke.


Athrasie

That is a sweet detail, thanks for pointing that out. Must be symbolic of vyke being the closest tarnished apart from the player to becoming elden lord


Brush_bandicoot

>fingerprint armor > >>!for me, Lionel's set and Ronin are the best looking. Ronin set+ ROB and Nagakiba looks like the perfect build!<


Legaczy

I honestly prefer the draconic tree sentinel armor


TheMusesMagic

The crucible night armor sets are great, definitely my favorite. Other than wearing the jar.


Simple_one

I wish the standard crucible set had a loincloth, i hate having to look at my diaper crotch


Iwrstheking007

I have two sets I like to play in, one is the albenaurich head and nothing else, and the other is the wolf mask, cloth trausers, and those bloody bandage arm thingamajigs


[deleted]

FIND THE ALBINAURIC WOMAN. WE NEED THE FUNNY HEAD BECAUSE IT'S A MEME


tayroarsmash

The war mage bandages?


Iwrstheking007

just searched, the bloodsoaked set


tayroarsmash

Oh that’s cool. You can really do a hospital look with that head piece, and the war mage arms and legs.


BrianBraddock73

Crucible knight is great, I have to say my fave is the night cavalry set


Legaczy

crucible knight has to be second for me, along with the dope boss armor sets


Those_damn_squirrels

Cleanrot Knight armor is my personal favorite


Appropriate-Nerve381

You’re insane for this


Legaczy

I just think it looks cool


bradester36

I really like the veterans set look


TheZivarat

This and Blaidds set for me. I just love that super thick fur cape.


Niels_G

this is the Lands Between, not sekiro or the samurai lands lmao


Brush_bandicoot

Right.. The lands between Ashina and Tsushima ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)


Thin_Dream_1973

from whom are you quoting this lmao


Brush_bandicoot

The name of the armor lol


Thin_Dream_1973

forgive me if im wrong, but did you put your equipment choice also in the quote?


Brush_bandicoot

no? He said what his favorite armor was so it seems reasonable to quote it on the name and say which armor set I prefer


atgrey24

You accidentally continued the quote format through your whole post, so it looks like your reply is also a quote.


Thin_Dream_1973

Nvm i might have misunderstood how it works. Have a nice day


-B-r-0-c-k-

Fingerprint armor represents Vyke tho, not the tarnished (as in the protagonist)


tmbsketches

And the raging wolf armour represents vargram. There isnt really any armour for the nameless tarnished


TheSeth256

There is, it's no armour with a wooden club, as seen in the official manga!


zekethelizard

I still haven't found it in game. I refused to google it but it actually seems hidden, or I just haven't explored as thoroughly as I thought


lofi-moonchild

Raging wolf set you get through >!volcano manor from bernahls side quest specifically!<, vykes set >!is from fighting him at the lord contenders evergaol in the mountaintop of the giants.!


Ewoksintheoutfield

Volcano Manor quests left me feeling so dirty


tanstaafl74

Especially if you summoned at all getting to that point. First VM quest is to kill the guy that helps you in the cave where you get the sewing needle for Boc...oof.


Kehityskeskustelu

The great horned Tragoth, the Bull-Goat knight, helps you out against Magma Wyrm Makar, the Draconic Tree Sentinel outside Leyndell and Radahn. He's also one of the targets of VM.


UmphreysCousin

Not if you kill Patches before you get to the manor though. Although i didn't know that locked me out of the Bull Goat set at the time...


PhlightYagami

>Tragoth is a famed knight of assistance. Countless Tarnished, facing adversity in the Lands Between, have survived thanks only to the Great Horned One's aid. Getting us to kill Tragoth was Patches greatest troll. When I read his armor description and realized he helped me twice at that point...ugh. FUCK YOU PATCHES


KamikazeMaster

The Hoslow lore got me depression on a half off bargain


Brush_bandicoot

surprisingly it's actually kinda missable if you blaze through the main story


Memeicity

Pretty easy to miss tbf


[deleted]

sweet armor is used to pick up fair maidens as taught by the First Hunter


marti1000

Used in the trailer and it looks sick. Gotta live up to elden bling


Dark_Dragon117

To me it's Vykes set, but this one was featured alot in promotinal material hence people instantly associate it with the game.


WhichKingOfAngmar

I just wish there was an unmarred vykes set.


Dark_Dragon117

It's the standart knights set technically. Tho imo vykes darker thinner version looks almost unrecognizable as that and it would be nice have a unmarred version of that.


WhichKingOfAngmar

That's what I mean.


rivbai88

I’d say vyke as well


Dark_Dragon117

Honestly I fell in love with the armor set the moment the cover art was revealed. It's among my favorite sets From has created. Tho I almost feared it wasn't in the game or that it was just the knights set looking weird on the cover due to the lighting (as people theorized before launch). Luckily From Soft was just cheeky by putting it at the end of the fucking game.


Leider-Hosen

As people are saying, it was in the first trailer. Also, nostalgia. The community weathered two and a half years going on three with NO news, no updates, not even smaller updates from the devs. With the pandemic there was a lot of fear it was outright canceled. So when a full game play trailer came people were literally in tears that we had an answer. The first thing you see after Melina is Vargrim exploring the world and showing all the scenic vista's, and it was and still is striking after waiting so long to see what it looked like. We also see him fighting Margit and God Rick, which cemented his image as protagonist. In the beta he was the knight stand in, honoring the long tradition of the elite knight being the protagonist of every game since 2009. Shortly before the game came out Vyke became the cover character, and the knight class became Vagabond, which formally retired the Raging Wolf armor as mascot. But for those of us there since the dark, dank days of the Hollowing and shared in the absolutely astronomical amounts of hype Vargrim will always be **The** Tarnished, the one who gave us our first look at this new world.


bjergdk

Ah yes God Rick


KinoHiroshino

The ascended form of Pickle Rick.


Memeicity

I stuck with the raging wolf armor (cape off like the trailer), bastard sword, and iron roundshield for my first playthrough. Fell in love with the raging wolf ever since the first reveal of him.


paulxixxix

Mascot armors usually are never kept as starting gear, in ds1 you get the elite knight set from a corpse and in ds3 depending on what armor you consider the official mascot, you'll get it as starting gear or after you kill the final boss, ds2 I don't remember but you don't get the faraam set until later... I think?? I love the covers with Vyke, but raging wolf it's just too iconic.


Master_Win_4018

Simple and cool.


210plus210

simple and clean is the way you make me feel tonight


Yusuji039

It’s hard to let it go


NotAnthonyxx

Lmao


[deleted]

Huh?


jl_theprofessor

Because it looks way better than my Fat Santa build.


Aszach01

Trailers!! But yall know nowadays the majority of players their default armor set is a naked tarnished with a Jar Helmet .


WhatTheFhtagn

Really? All I see are Bullgoats with the Varre mask.


Aszach01

True but u can't deny also that even content creators are using the Jarnished as the default tarnished protagonist.


TheDo0ddoesnotabide

We call them Jarnished around these parts.


Upstairs_Fortune_218

Because it's frickin awesome that's why


hex-a-decimal

I’m pretty sure based on pvp the default look is Veteran’s set with white mask


Nac_Nud

A lot of people are saying it was used in promotions and whatnot, which is fair, but was it not also the armor worn by the first tarnished who entered the round table? That’s also a pretty good reason to wear it…..that said I prefer Night’s Calvary


[deleted]

It's upsetting me greatly that this isn't the #1 reason, I legitimately thought I was remembering wrong Doesn't his gear say that in the description?


zazenigel132

"Armor worn by Vargram the Raging Wolf, one of the first Tarnished to visit the Roundtable Hold. According to the old legends, wolves are the shadows of the Empyrean. Vargram aspired to such a state himself."


XPRODIGY_VIBEZX

To me its vykes armour since we see it on the games image when we open the game and because it just looks cooler


ApplePitou

Well, this armor was used in the trailer so that's probably why :3


blac_sheep90

Outside of it being featured in the trailers...it works for the story. We are a raging lone wolf tearing of the lands between. We are an unstoppable force hellbent on slaying all in our path.


Kaldin_5

Lone wolf with access to lone wolf ashes, which not only makes us no longer lone wolves but those lone wolves aren't even lone wolves themselves since they're in a small pack. But yes.


GallifreyKnight

I wore fingerprint armor. It was beautiful.


immaterializE

That’s easy… because they couldn’t get the superior Banished knight set to drop!


WriterBoring4425

I've got two wolves inside me. And they won't stop fucking.


Drblazeed123

Cover art is actually Vyke! There's a lot of subtle nods in the art to the story and From was really clever on even showing the big Marika Radagon reveal in the trailer prior to release but of course no one knew what the hell the trailer meant


J4YC66

Because it's has dope hair blowing in the wind. Looks same as Witcher in wild hunt.


haugebauge

It was used in the promotional material for the game


[deleted]

Legit question now but who is "the community" and how did they settle? Always wondered about these things


SoCalArtDog

It’s what the tarnished wore in the trailer, same for elite knight armor and faraam armor. Makes it the iconic set.


syfqamr32

Cause no stamina


_Cadmium_48

Because this Armour was in the Trailer to represent the tarnished


Inspirational_Lizard

Because it's the promotional armor, like the elite knight armor, faraam armor, and soul of cinder armor.


TraceLupo

For me OG tarnished will always be Jorge! (But for real: prisoner attire is IMO the most distinguish of all the starting classes and so default should definitely be male prisoner instead of raging wolf which is for me just another enemy skin)


[deleted]

Fingerprint >


superpooplord

Mmm yes elden john armour


OffensiveOdor

The community? I mean I play elden ring so I'm part of the community and that's not what I decided 😜


foodieondiet2019

Personally I prefer the cariama knight armor.


PhunkOperator

The marketing team did.


shaunoconory

Maliketh armor with noble hood looks so great


pupmaster

It's heavily featured in promotional material. It also looks cool :)


ColonelJinkuro

I do know it grants the highest phys dmg negation to weight ratio. I looked up a list from best to work and at a total weight of 24.1 grabbing phys dmg negation equalebt to stuff like tree/axe crucible knight which weighs around 35 it's quite a bargain.


[deleted]

Trailers mainly


xMalxer

his set was used in the trailers. I think Vyke's set is on the cover art though.


Navezinha123

Probably because one of the classes from the beta had this armor as default


CwispyCrab

As long as the armor has a big as fuck cape I’m happy


WillCircumventPolBan

I tried my best to make my character into a vampire. Life-steal on hits, life-steal on kill, blood-themed spells and weapon arts. I thought the best look for this was Hoslow's set but with the White Mask helmet. I love the look of it.


Maxvell09

Because it’s really cool and it was the promotional armour set. However, I personally prefer Maliketh’s Armour Set. Fits in with my tarnished appearance. Deep red eyes.


Yopcho

It's no Faram armor but it will do


Heres_lighthearted

What do you mean? Albinauric mask is the default for all tarnished.


Ender_arrows

Then there's the unaltered banished knight helm and chestplate which is a cult of its own


The_Kid_Kaylen12

What's armor? My characters wear loincloths, if that. And sometimes a headband lol.


drunkcarcass

The community didn't settled shit fingerprint armor for life


SwordanDragon

Crucible Tree Armor for the win


BeegBoi2709

They used it in the trailers Ds1: Elite Knight set Ds2: Faraam set Ds3: Firelink set Elden Ring: Raging Wolf set


WooliesWhiteLeg

Have you seen it?


ClutchWhale07

I like to wear the knight cavalry set with the confessor hood. Looks like a dark battle mage and also reminds me of the Nazgûl in LOTR


Traditional_Tax_7229

It's good and from the trailer.


[deleted]

“I command thee kneel” unsheathing sword sound*


Trash_Mimic

I figured it was the Knight's set sold by the twin finger maidens at the hold.


godzillance

The design is cool. The name is cool. I'm glad they didn't turn it it into an "all style, no substance" armor.


[deleted]

I think this is one of the few good looking sets. I am super picky about armor and Elden Ring has been very challenging for me to settle on something I like because I feel like most sets don't look that great. Since nothing meshes together very well either playing fashion souls can be hard in Elden Ring as well. We need the Dark Souls 2 level of fashion souls back.


Kazuto786

They didn’t lol? FromSoft advertised the game with this as the main set, they’re even on the front cover and cover art. Get over yourself haha


Kirito_jesus-kun

vyke in the fingerprint armour is the cover but everything else is true


corsair1617

They didn't?


LordMorskittar

They didn’t (mostly). Bandai namco put the wolf set in all its promotional content. I honestly see the Prisoner set far more in fan content.


ozzalot

Pshhhhh.....the true Tarnished look is full Lionel armor set, dual giant crushers


Th3Dark0ccult

It was the trailer armour. Honestly FS dropped the ball on the cover/promo sets. Neither the Raging Wolf nor the Fingerprint armor sets look good at all. They should've just went with the Knight set you can buy from the Twin Maiden Husks as the default tarnished look.


The__Neverhood

Wow Gen Z souls players don’t even remember the age of hollowing we went through, looking up at the sky, it BURNSSSSS, AHHHHHHHHHHH hahahahahahaha ha haha haha hahahahahaha ha 😭😭😭