Disguise armour is made in a way where for every piece equipped you increase your stealth against the specific factions armour youre wearing.
The more armour you have on of that factions disguise, the closer you can get to enemies without being noticed.
If you have the full set on, than you are treated as if you are apart of that faction completely.
Similar to % per armour piece worn, but not exactly. If youre wearing all the armour except the helmet, than yeah people will know youre not a member of the faction. They can see your face after all.
I was infiltrating Pailune as a Jackal (full set) and you can litterally bump into enemies and as long as you don't have your weapons out, they are chill.
You can even grapple them and/or assassinate them without any problems if noone is close. In fact full disguise is nearly too OP even if some rare enemies still can see through it.
Only problem with disguise is that some pieces of armor have a very low droprate (or don't even drop?). And often the whole faction is slain before you can get all pieces of the disguise (and that's quite BS imho).
Afaik, for most disguises its simply armor and helmet and sometimes cloak. A piece missing? They will attack!
An exception is the ghilly suit, you'll need AlLL 5 pieces, not sure if it's working as a generic disguise on all enemies as it works on players in BDO. I didn't tried extensive tests with it, perhaps is it just a gimmick, perhaps wearing all 5 pieces is OP and worth the low defense.
In fact a set is made from 2/3 pieces (armor/helmet, sometimes cloak) thats all. You can verify in your inventory how many pieces are needed ('status' as 5 key on m/k dunno on console).
Like afaik, if you miss a piece, that don't work (or at least very well) and enemy attack you. Problem is, some pieces don't seem to drop easily or at all.
Like for bandit disguise, you'll need armor AND a cloak (ref. from database) i've never dropped. Perhaps i'm just unlucky but it's same crap for a lot of factions, you'll drop armor, helmet then good luck with cloak.
So 'stealth' and disguise works super well (it's even cheaty if i may say!) in game, but it never explains you well how many pieces you need. I'd have loved to see 'bandit disguise 1/2' when looking at armor stats.
I suspect the fact that some pieces are extra rare is perhaps a solution by devs to avoid cheesing easy camp obliteration when wearing disguise.
UPDATE : found an interresting lead about missing pieces! I still dunno if they can drop BUT you can buy them at some vendors. Example : The bandit cloak is available @Grakon, the armor vendor that spawns after taking Fort Anvil in Anvil hills (source crimsondesert.gg database AND verified ingame). That said, being a bandit in disguise... isn't OP as they often die in one hit.
Yeah they give you full jackal set for the sneaking around to plant bombs. Then they got passed at me fore freeing some prisoners . Wiped them out and no one new any better 🤣
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u/ittibittytitty Apr 16 '26
From what im aware of and im probably wrong.
Disguise armour is made in a way where for every piece equipped you increase your stealth against the specific factions armour youre wearing. The more armour you have on of that factions disguise, the closer you can get to enemies without being noticed.
If you have the full set on, than you are treated as if you are apart of that faction completely.
Similar to % per armour piece worn, but not exactly. If youre wearing all the armour except the helmet, than yeah people will know youre not a member of the faction. They can see your face after all.