Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24.157.223.172-20131009010947/@comment-202.156.8.15-20131125133422

219.87.176.11 wrote: I use light, much easier to come across dragon armor pieces than Daedric and near end game. In my own experience, I found material to make SEVERAL sets of both Dragonscale and Dragonbone armors before I even had enough to make 1 set of Daedric armor.

Also, Dragon Smithing perk allows you make BOTH Dragonscale and Dragonbone armor (essentially allowing you to pick and choose by that point), and the number of perks required going up through the left (light armors) is 1 less than going through to the right (heavy armors).

I'll need to play around with perks and enchants to see if it takes less perks to max out armor on light armor than heavy armor though.

But, a good rule of thumb is, whichever you choose to invest in the beginning, stick with it to the end. Eventually they will become nearly as useful as each other under all circumstances. Its easier (and much safer) to make daedric if you know how. Make a short trip to gloomsbound mine near narzulbur and then finish mehrunes' quest. Thats 4 daedra hearts which respawn (dremora are easy to kill). Steal the 5th one from jorrvaskr and you have enough to make daedric armor+ a weapon. To make dragon, you have to beat down a dragon and retrieve the body (very hard for me cause I normally kill them mid flight and dunno where the body goes.)

Also, I normally just fill up the smithing tree so I can improve all weapons.

Anyway, if you follow hadvar, the first armor you get is a light armor any you cannot find heavy until later on, but if you follow ralof, you can get the imperial heavy armor

You need less perks for light armor, cause the perk which make light armor weightless only frees up 20 carry weight, unlike the heavy armor one, which frees up 70+ carry weight.

I am not advocating light armor as better, but you last statement is essentially correct, because it is better to master only one armor type and leave the other one alone to save time and perks