Dragon Armor

Drachen Rüstung (Skyrim) The Dragonplate armor and Dragonscale armor are armor sets found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Smithing
Light and heavy variants of Dragon Armor can be forged from Dragon bones and Dragon scales. The "Dragon Smithing" perk must be awarded before this armor type can be crafted. The perk requires Smithing level 100.

Locations
Starting around level 50, Dragon armor pieces can be found as random loot from chests and containers, or on corpses. Armor pieces can be found at lower levels, if the Dragon Armor perk is acquired before reaching level 50. Aquiring it without the Dragon Armor perk is very rare but possible.

Versus Daedric
While Daedric armor has a higher armor rating than Dragonplate or Dragonscale, armor rating is capped at 567. This means that with a combination of Smithing improvements and Armor perks, both Dragonplate and Dragonscale provide the same protection as Daedric. In this case, Dragonscale has the advantage of being much lighter than Daedric using fewer perks. However, both heavy and light armor can become weightless when equiped using the right perks or by activating the Steed Stone.

Crafting materials
The materials for crafting Dragon Armor are much more common than those for Daedric armor. While dragons are common in Skyrim and defeating them generally yields multiple Dragon Scales and Dragon Bones, Ebony is relatively rare and Daedra Hearts are even more so.

The primary drawback to Dragon Armor is that the perk to craft it does not provide weapons.

Attributes by piece
These are the base attributes of the armor pieces, calculated without skill level or perks.

NPC reactions
Occasionally, when walking by a guard, they whistle and say "Is your armor made of... dragon bones/scales? By the gods, what I wouldn't do for a set of that."

Bugs

 * When wearing Dragonplate armors and carrying additional dragonplate armors, the weight of the other armors are completely negated.
 * When worn by bestial races, such as Khajiit or Argonians, their cranial features and tails might disappear or function abnormally.

Gallery
Drachen Rüstung (Skyrim)