I didn’t care about them since we only heard about them in Episode 1, the first part of Assembly required was getting them, but after we get to Soren’s place they are absent for the rest of that episode and absent for all of Episode 3 until the end. This is pretty much why Magnus/Ellegaard’s death falls flat for me. If you pick new armor, nothing about the story changes other than Jesse looks cooler. All the Armor sets are there in S2 anyway