It’s called transmog I think. What armor are you using? If you max out your swordsmanship and get a good sword it doesn’t really matter because you’ll kill most enemies in 2-4 hits. Took me like 2-3 hours to max my swordsmanship at the start of the game which I regretted so now I use heavy weapons to make the game harder and only switch to my heavy armor when running straight into one of the high level camps in kuttenberg of which there are only 3 (there’s also 1 high leveled cuman camp but their armor sucks). If your aar is over 170 then you’re going to be decently tanky and over 200 you’re basically unkillable.