User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Skyrim Dragon Armor/@comment-95.145.125.195-20111112233036

Surely someone with smithing at 100 deserves to have better armour than those who decide against it. Thats the incentive to invest in your smithing skill. It doesn't mean that other armour won't be amazing, just if you have total mastery over the art of smithing then you can make armour no one else can create.