Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24.157.223.172-20131009010947/@comment-99.114.177.205-20140121001252

If you're going to use Heavy Armor, just make a trip to the Steed Stone a priority. Not being weighed down AND the +100 carrying capacity is great and lets you use your enchants on something more useful than Fortify Carry Weight.

Personally I prefer Light Armor, though. As long as you put in a lot of effort with Smithing (and have smith-boosting clothes/gauntlets/necklace/ring and a Blacksmith Elixer), you can easily reach Heavy Armor levels of defense. My current character is wearing full Glass and is just a few points shy of the defense cap (and that's without any Light Armor-boosting enchants).

I prefer Light Armor because I switch between my "melee gear" (Light Armor) and "mage/assassination gear" (+Destruction clothing) as needed in combat - if I was carrying Heavy Armor, my carry weight would skyrocket whenever I took it off (as the Steed Stone only makes WORN armor weightless) and that'd be a problem.

But as others have said, it's all a matter of preference - you can hit the armor cap with either.