Which is better, daedric or dragonplate?
If I was choosing based on looks, I'd have to go with Ebony or Blades armour, the ebony looks really good, with the completely black colour scheme with the silver marking, and the blades armour looks like traditional Samurai (But not helmet) armour, although I really like daedric weapons look. The dragonbone weapons really put me off, they look terrible, and I hate the dragon armour. So really, Ebony is the strongest armour I will wear and enjoy wearing.
See the deal-breaker for me on Daedric, at least for my mains, is the color scheme. I don't do red. If it was silver and blue, it would be spectacular. Also, it's heavy armor, while I generally prefer light.
I've been tossing around an idea for a mod in my head: Aedric armor.
Light armor/weapons, with stats about the same as Daedric/Dragonscale (Daedric for weapons, that is) but WAY lighter, about as light as elven armor
Visuals? Silver with blue crystal highlights. Basically, to glass and elven armor what Daedric is to enoby*. Symmetry, sweeping curves.
Materials and related quests: here's where it gets interesting. This stuff would be made primarily out of malachite and quicksilver, layered in thin sheets and pounded together. Backed with ebony, because everything important uses ebony for structure. It would also require some aetherium, which would now be mineable in Blackreach, probably with related quests. In addition, each piece of armor/weapon/set of arrows would need a dragon soul. After all, this is Aedric armor. And that, I think, is what makes the idea so special: where Daedra hearts are relatively easy to get, really, because Daedra frequently manifest in Mundus, there's only one real way to get something similar from Aedra, and only a Dragonborn can do it. So it's sort of like a really custom, ideal armor for the LDB. And anyone he chooses to give it to, of course.
What about perfectly symmetrical daedric stuff for a change? Plus some color edits
Firstly, I sure wouldn't mind a nice daedric armor with both shoulders using the bigger pauldron and with a black and blue color scheme, with ethereal blue mists coming from the gaps.
Secondly, I would so prefer it if the daedric sword was like a small daedric greatsword, with both prongs equal in length, plus the red filigree changed to blue and some ethereal aura around it.
Thirdly, no more daedric helm. GIve me a black crown with the evil blue jewels in it so i can be an evil king!
Maybe there should be greaves too, plus right gauntlet, left gauntlet, right ring, left ring. That way, I can soooooo break enchanting.
I found that Blades for heavy armor with the Shrouded Hood gives you that bad mofo Ronin look, good or bad. Light armor would have to be Nightingale Armor agian with the shrouded hood. Why.. Because the shrouded hood is the only damn hood that really looks like a hood and not some pullover your grams gave you for your birthday. Clothing would have to be unenchanted black robes with you guessed it the shrouded hood.
now as for daedric or dragon i would go with dragon, with out the helms. Why do all the helms make you look like Professor Chaos?
i still like Daedric, the asymmetry just makes it look even mo badass to meh...