Elden Ring Image Shows How Hilarious Players Can Look When They Equip Armor Based on Stats

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Since it first released a little over a month ago, players have actively discovered a multitude of content within Elden Ring. From weapons and armor sets, to meticulously detailed locations, to optional boss fights, Elden Ring has a lot to offer its player base in terms of how the game can be individually approached. However, those looking to optimize armor based purely on stats might end up with a strange-looking player character.

One of the hallmark features of FromSoftware titles is the variance in armor sets. Each piece of armor possesses individual stats that vary depending on the equipment in question. While titles like Bloodborne tend to have much more aesthetically pleasing armor sets, Elden Ring features many armor sets that are reminiscent to sets featured in the Dark Souls series. As one player recently found out, mismatching armor sets can make the player character look absolutely bizarre.

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Over on Reddit, a user named Craft_zeppelin posted a screenshot of their in-game character wearing a mismatched set of armor, complete with a pig mask and a gigantic piece of torso armor shaped like a pot. If not for certain aesthetic characteristics and set decorations in the background, this likely would have been mistaken for the Winged Night armor in Dark Souls 3.

For how ridiculous this character might look, this is honestly something that players should expect when trying to optimize armor, especially when it comes to different kinds of builds. Therefore, there will be innate sets of armor and weapons geared towards certain builds, whether that's magic builds, intelligent builds, or faith builds.

It's amazing to see just how much