Skyrim Light Armor vs Heavy Armor
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Skyrim Light Armor vs. Heavy Armor comparison commentary.
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This is why fashion is the only thing that matters.
Yes.
Same goes for me I prefer Dragonscale set just for this reason..
The Uncanny One i love fur :^)
Janggz Original im calling the cops stay where you are
Janggz Original great for my huntress caster build
I use Wolf armor from the Eorlund. Man's steel is legendary.
I hear the Windhelm blacksmith aims to change a few minds on that.
Literally the first time I talked to him all I could think was "tiny dick complex". Also, I always loved his quest; he basically tells you "hey, making a replica of an ancient (low quality) steel (easy material) battling sword (little detail) is difficult, how about you go into a cave infested with necromancers/frost zombies/bandits/robots/bears/all of the above to get the original thing? I can pay you by teaching you a tiny bit about smithing! SMITHING!"
Vicente Temes Yep xD
The only reason i do his quest is to get that 1 point of Smithing
Old fool can't even remember where he left his hammer
He keeps leaving it behind the forge and wondering about it out loud while I'm trying to smelt 600 leather gauntlets again.
Bro, wat?
500 hours and had absolute no idea about max armor cap, thanks.
500 hours wow
NERDDDDDDDD
only 500 hours? pfft casual
~1200h in skyrim and had no idea... xD
I've played since 2013 :(
Five years of playing. Five years of lies...
How so? The only thing that's really changed is being able to level up as much as you like, making the idea of wasting perks a joke.
What?
Correction it would be a few decimals less than 100%. Which is till very broken
The cap is far too low though. Elven armor is able to hit the cap, which is quite silly and makes the higher tiers of armor and heavy armor almost entirely useless. So you take 18 damage at the cap, why not make it so the cap is doubled and you only take 9? For some weak enemies this might mean you take very little damage at all, that's a pretty small price to pay for making the heavier and end tiers of armor actually viable.
Also the amount of perks that are ineffective or downright broken is inexcusable. "Five years of lies" is very apt.
Abbath Ivanov This is the only game I ever played that has a cap, what I always see is diminishing returns.
In the end the best armor is the most cool to you
Grevivk007 your going places
Agreed. It's a toss up for me between the Blades armor and the Nordic Armor sets. Both look incredibly well designed. Especially the helmet and shoulders of the Nordic while the Blades armor gets its design from Japanese samurai.
The Daedric and and Dragonplate Armor feels rushed and incomplete for some reason.
Not in legendary
Grevivk007 funny that in this game as well as fallout I always play in 1st person but always consider the looks of any armor I wear. Totally ridiculous.
@ anderson Souse. In real life you also only see yourself in mirrors and yet you care to look good. I see and experience those similarities myself. Art makes games more enjoyable and it does not really matter it just takes place in your head or if you can see it through your eyes.
Now that i mentioned mirrors, why do we almost never see any mirrors in games that offer a 1st person perspective? they could even add npc behavour that say "you look terrifying, stay away from my children" and other unique lines depending on the stuff you wear. But those phrases should not be used to often, npcs saying the same thing all the time dont provide the thought about them being humans.
there's a reason for Armor cap is because Skyrim lets you chose which armor looks cooler :^)
the reason the amour cap is in skyrim is so you are totally invincible. I think the devs didn't know how broken the crafting system would turn out to be
David Nguyen. I think the best looking armor set is the Nightingale set tho
Antoniomartin Doroteo yeah but my weapons glitch trough the caepe
Hey true that happens so much on PC it's hard to even say the cap exists,
Antoniomartin Doroteo but the enchantments are shit pretty much :/
I agree that light armor is more practical, but I just think the heavy armors look so much nicer
Two of a kind, can't be one if there are two of you lol.
XD
that was deep bro
+Sally Saitama that's hilarious
***** there is no true downside, both armors can be crafted above the armor cap
I play as an invisible khajiit how punches people to death and sneaks in heavy armor
eowsley8 lmao
Lydia kills her foes with sick burns about them not being Nords.
You mean suplexing people to death, right?
“Now, I believe that is superior” -Link from GMM
Same
Still wish that there was medium armor as well.
Destroyer94100 Why? I love Morrowind but medium armor had the worst traits of both light and heavy, frankly it is just pointless.
well if you think about it like any mmo, there is medium armor. clothes are light, leather/hide is medium, metals are heavy
However in Skyrim clothes has no armor rate at all
Technically, you can get Medium Armor. In the Imperial questline, you choose from Light, Medium, or Heavy. Medium is:
Light Chestpiece
Heavy Everything else
Morrowind
If you can enchant a ring of smithing high enough using the rest exploit, you can upgrade even a single pair of fur boots to 567 or more and wear normal clothes if you wanted to.
Rest exploit?
@@dr.piggyhoneybear7952 Restoration Loop
@@dr.piggyhoneybear7952 check spiffing brits video on making an op fork if you want to see the rest loop taken too far
u couldnt type out restoration bro... really.......
@@DerexWolfheart no
Most underrated line in the video: “I didn’t cover Cushioned, because you can strafe down a 90 degree angle in this game....”
Shoulda made the armor cap different for different armor....that way there is still a cap...but different armor is of better quality than others
light armor is better than heavy armor think about it deathbrand armor is the best light armor and daedric armor is the best heavy armor deathbrand armor is op so if guys do a warrior do either one but I would pick light armor that's my opinion
Steve Gee how about they'dd just make a light armor/mixed armor cap and than a heavy armor cap? that seems most logical to me because heavy armor is supposed to be for those who choose a fighting style in which they get hit alot and light armor is supposed to be for those who want to dodge alot. atleast that's what it seems like to me. they should also make sure that you atleast need some potions or other boosters to get to the armor cap in my opinion... what else is the use of getting 100 smithing and 100 heavy/light armor skills other than getting more perk points...?
Steve Gee not so. Just place a percentage limit on how much any singular item can be improved. The issue currently is that you can upgrade a single item to hit the armour cap. If you play things right you can run around with hide bracers on while the rest of your body is naked and still have an overall rating of 567. The way to solve this would actually be to set a limit on the percentage increase per item. A single algorithm would solve it all. For instance. If the general algorithm limited it to 5x. Set the base defence of Deadric to 100 and the max would be 500. Etc etc. With the breastplate taking up 300. The boots 100. Helmet and gauntlets 50 each. That's just an example because I couldn't be bothered doing the math to work out the percentages of 567. Essentially with a fixed percentage increase you get a scaled armour system. All issues solved
+TheConfusedFox 789
Deathbrand is nice but only if you don't have enchanting and smithing skills.
If only they balanced smithing and enchanting.
I... I think I will just stick with robes.
Cookie Donut Kyun
Nah, I’ll slice y’all’s heads off with my heavy armor and swords. As in, I will be wearing the swords, and killing everyone with my heavy armor.
Necrosis the Fucking Lemon Sure you can kill with weapons and armor, but magic.....magic is true power!!
Necrosis the Fucking Lemon You won’t get near me when I turn into vampire lord and send you to the moon.
@@thatlemonguy1107 I will send forth his army of undead. While I annoyingly spam destruction and paralyzing spells.
Treasure- Knight
That won’t do anything, if you’re flying in the sky from a quick fus ro dah while I bash you while spamming stamina potions with Peryite’s shield.
Whole nightingale set looks cooler than daedric!
No, daedric with the nightingale hood 👌
@@DarthPotatochip I really don't see what's nice about daedric armor... Ebony is where its at for heavy and dragonscale for light armor
@@s8theninjawarrior916 I just thought that daedric with the hood looks cool
@@DarthPotatochip I don't diminish your opinion, just not looking that cool to me
@@DarthPotatochip i thought i was the only one who wears it like that haha
I personally find the look of Daedric very *extra*. I've never found it aesthetically pleasing and never understood the hype.
+Nick Rhodes? i like ebony more i know but everyone have an opinion even if you dont understand it
I’m a steel plate guy myself.
Steel nordic carved armour is awesome.. but its ultra rare and i cant find a helmet and gauntlets.. only have the chest piece and boots 😄
Razor mhhm. Why steel plate is so good to use. Rather common.
You can get the cuirass (chest) in the beginning of the game during riften during the horse frost quest. Get 6 of them if I remember correctly. Plus it’s a minimal good looking armor that fits a lot of looks. Plus plenty of characters wear the armor especially at like level 20.
@@vdoxsamp7283 Try training your smithing skill. Unmodded, you'll find nordic carved armor in Advanced Armors on the light armor side of the perk tree. The Nordic Carved chest is one of the most valuable pieces in the game, relative to the rarity of its material costs, and can gain a lot of value from upgrading, which makes it one of the best ways to train smithing the rest of the way, as well as being IMO one of the better looking heavy armors available and having some of the best looking weapons as well. In terms of where to find it without crafting, hit a bunch of bandit camps. Bandit leaders at high enough level will often sport a near-complete set plus matching weapons.
The armor types lack balance. Light armor has been obviously favored. I say the armor cap for light armor should be lower, or heavy armor cap should be higher. It just doesn't make much sense that light armor designed for versatility is as protective as a super thick and heavy metal plate. I mean come on wheres the love for badass heavy armor using warriors. Also, its not a waste to get the parks for ebony/daedric smithing, because while upgrading your armor past the armor cap is pointless, there is no cap for physical weapon damage, and daedric weapons does considerably more damage than steel.
+Rod Erriuga light armor = sneaking thief assassin type of build
heavy armor = warrior knight
cloths = mages
that's for the look and effectiveness
The best light armor was made by a Daedric lord, the Nightingale armor, who knows what Nocturnal put in it.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex the best light armor is dragon scale tho
@@lucasfranke3326 It depends on your build, no doubt from a purely raw strength point of view DS armor is better but the Nightingale armor buffs fit my builds better.
@@lucasfranke3326
the best light armour is the deathbrand set and that's not even that good.
one of the biggest mistakes in this video (aside from saying that magic resistance is important dispite the fact that spell absorption is better because it can actually scale to 100%) is ignoring all the useful unique heavy armour sets and pieces you can get your hands on, ahzidals boots of water walking alone are reason enough to go heavy over light.
The muffle enchantment beats all other noise canceling options. Mainly because its effectiveness is not affected by enchantment level and always works even if you are enchanting at level 15 with a petty gemstone.
Most Hated Number 567. why? because I feel the dude behind the Maximum limit just basically "Meh" the thing and type [5] [6] [7] because the numbers are just in order of each other on the keyboard.
Nolan Beardy Technically it's 667 but each armor piece is 25 plus it's rating. With a shield it's 512.
armor can only block a certain percentage of damage, and when you figure the strongest attack times the maximum reduction of damage due to armor, you get 567. Or so I've been told.
THEY COULD HAVE EVOLVED INSTEAD OF THE EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING UNEVEN 7 NUMBER THEY HAVE DONE 668 JUST WHY COULDENT YOU HAVE A CLEAN EVEN NUMBER
Nguyen Ten arggggg!
Nguyen Ten could have 560, but no no
567
why not 568? -_-
This came out more than half a decade ago and I'm still playing this game. It's so good.
It's 2021 yet im still relying on your video.
I think this guide is pretty underrated. There's a lot of testing result in this brief record , yet its well explained.
Thanks for the upload, i'll definitely check out after this if you have some more :)
Work with iron and steel leave the elven armor to the elves
Ah yes legendary iron armor set that has the same armor rating as a legendary daedric armor set because both have the same cap anyway
daedric is pretty overrated. dragonscale and ebony ftw
oh yeah and who cares about maxing out armor and damage. make skyrim fun again
NJA2k8 it's awesome! helmet looks like a badass demon dragon! Go fuck yourself.
Ebony is really the only armor set in the game that isnt ugly, uncool or dumb. Daedric and dragon are laughable, the early level armors are boring and everything else is just ugly.
Christian McGuire yeah ebony is the best looking, especially with the bulky ebony armor overhaul mod
I kinda always liked glass armour
Outstanding analysis, I wish there were more videos with this level of detail. The quality of your video is amazing.
Thanks for the breakdown! I didn't realize the level cap prevents insane armor levels so for an efficient build this is really helpful!
who else lost it at 10:16.LMAO
the lolz were real
meh, stuff flying around in a bethesda game gets old after a couple of years, but it has it's charm
I think I'll just play naturally, and not worry about all these complicated complications. I'm a sneaky, light armor, whatever it takes to beat the bad guy type of magical, backstabbing punk of a dysfunctional jerk.
I'll drink snarky potions to get the job done. Hell, I'll even hire some drunken slog of Skyrim's societal cesspool to help get the job done.
Chase me after my backstab, run to my magical runes, shocking flames, familiars, conjurations, zombies, and poisoned arrows. You have no hope you clanking metal tanks!
Surrender now before you're subjected to my 50+ speechcraft. >:|
thats what its all about
Jon Doe th
Jon Doe 50 plus lol mine is 100
I mean I don't play light armor and I have speech 91, I don't think light armor has like ANYTHING at all to do with what armor you're using lol....
My max character level, max level destruction magic, heavy armor, archer, two handed, block, & dual wield Orc with legendary enchanted dragonplate armor & weapons will destroy you & all others just like the rest, shield raised charging right through all those weakling familiars & skeletons, blocking all your arrows & spells, using unrelenting force against any others & chopping your head off at the nape with a single blow with berserk rage 😂 Come try to backstab me sneak-thief we'll see how far you get... You'll be running away with your tail inbetween your sneaky little Khajit legs like all the rest of those milk-drinkers with the Dark Brotherhood & Thieves Guild... Bunch of dishonorable skeevers is what ya are, not tough enough to fight your own battles so you conjure up some poor dead saps soul against their will to fight the good fight for you while you sneak away shooting arrows heading for cover & hiding... This is a joke btw 😂 not being serious... But seriously my Orc would fuck you up 😂😂
This is incredibly helpful!
Thank you so much for helping organize my thoughts. I was about to invest in light armor, and now I can go into it with full confidence.
I appreciate you!
7 Years later I finally made it to the vid fam, it was an amazing journey. Glad to be finally here
In an update they added legendary skills and infinite leveling so no wasted perks
After watching this video, I must say that the only legitimate use of heavy armor would be for a role play build. Great information and well done.
Max light armor vs max heavy armor. Light armor has a 10% chance to nullify all damage. While heavy armor also has the same 10% to reflect all damage back to the attacker. Stamina region is also something you can get by potions and enchantments (or you can use vegetable soap to be able to endlessly power attack) while reduced fall damage (which is the cause of many accidental deaths in game death) is something you can't get anywhere else. So heavy armor ends up a lot better. Easier to max out both it's skill tree and reaching the armor cap with it while also looking a lot more asthmaticly pleasing. There is zero competition.
Love your guide man, very in depth and worth watching. My only criticism is not to jump between trees when comparing them. I think the audience will have the first tree in mind when comparing it to the second.
Keep up the good work!
I appreciate the decent informative videos i come across on youtube because they are few and far between
If you want light armor but don't like the look of elven or glass, you can wear scaled armor. The advanced armor perk makes scaled armor very good and you can easily reach the cap with some advanced smithing.
The information about the amour cap is so usefull, i didnt know this so it really helps my character build. so thank you very much kind sir :-)
Your insight into the game is extremely valuable. Thanks for the good work.
Fought Ebony Warrior. I got one shotted by my own weapon when the reflect perk activated.
Played years and never knew about the armor cap xP thanks man
I wish there was a Deadric light armor :(
www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16103/?
I’ve played over 1000 hours and recently found out about the armor cap lol. Also I appreciate the in depth explanations :)
9 years ago… checking in. i miss you
8 years later and this guys build still stronger than mine lol
It doesn't really matter what armor your wearing you can reach the armor cap with any armor it just matters what you prefer in style or for a playthrough/roleplaying.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took information and facts in a straight to the point video!
Can't wait to get special edition! It will be the first time I've ever played Skyrim or any Elder Scrolls game but I'm planning on making a Nord, dual- wielding berserker. Seeing this guide I'm definately using light armor in that build!
"Heavy armor absorbs more damage, but also weighs more than Light armor."
The More you know
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I just fashion souls it. I wanna look sexy as I slay dragons. I welcome the extra challenge if there is one.
after 567 like he stated, nothing is challenging. Even with the quest perks dwarven set hits 567.
Yup, I just ruined my 29 hour playthrough. First time I've done the whole enchanting/smithing build and I ended up killing giants in one single bow shot, Elder Dragons in three. It became boring.
Yeah only reason i used heavy and light armors are to gain level, the Master Alteration spell does the same thing anyways
***** No, not on Legendary. But even on Legendary it took like 4-5 or something like that. It became boring to me. Now I'm doing a hyper-realistic playthrough with the Frostfall mod!
***** It's not tedious at all but that mostly comes out of my not using a fast travel mod. Without fast travel a in game day becomes very long. I'd say that my character needs to eat, drink and sleep every 40 minutes or so. (INeed mod) Building into it, the Frostfall mod doesn't really do much either besides lower your skills when your character gets cold. So it's more of a mechanic, rather than a must. You can ignore the cold, but it will have negative effects on your skill. You can turn it off and on however often you want, so there is no negative in installing it either. Even if you do want to uninstall it, it doesn't corrupt your save file. So try it out and see if you like it.
Literally a perfect video. Thank you for running your test to prove everything talked about. I would be that person that would be like "no way dude" but you proved it so I don't have to verify it somewhere else.
Finally a well explained video, every other video I saw before this concludes with "Heavy armor better because you're a tank", and you did a good job explaining every skill.
Honestly it depends on the build. For a warrior, I highly reccomend to get the Steed Stone and go with heavy. The Steed stone gives you more weight, and when you wear a full heavy set it completely gets rid of the weight. It also gets rid of the movement speed decrease when you wear heavy. It is a good stone and Its my main stone for my main account. It is just north east of Solitude and is easy to get to and find bcs if you fast travel the icon on the compass shows up instantly. For other builds, maybe use light. Right now I am building a stealth archer for the first time. Hoped this helped all you fellow warrior users ❤❤
50% less stagger is a miswording on the part of the talent. It is supposed to mean you're staggered 50% less often.
Right, but he gets staggered 100% of the time in the demo.
Yeah I always interpreted it that way, because I had not seen any difference between being staggered with or without the perk so I just figured it was the percentage chance
Cwolf: also this
@@cwolf208 it was with a broken item that always staggers though
this video was pretty good and well made. You deserve more subs bro
This was an exceptional analysis. Bravo sir.
I genuinely love Glass Armor. It's beautiful.
I wore it on my last archer toon but with a black hood instead of that horrible looking helmet. The overall look was awesome.
@@michaelforsythe4335 horrible looking helmet? The glass helmet is beautiful
glass armor with morokei or ragoth >>
Been playing elder scrolls since morrowind, I still have a "wait what?" moment anytime someone talks about stealth/archer perks/attributes/play. Since day 1 I have always played characters with heavy armor, 1-handed axes, and rush in to battle. I tried a stealth archer once and was bored out of my mind sneaking around.
mindless yoloing enemies instead of using brain and strategy....cool story bro
Any new video on Skyrim and patches would be amazing. I really like your style.
I never once take myself to a workbench. It's insane how quickly you can hit the cap even still.
Information overload and mind officially blown!
bayingjase2006 If he tellin the truth how come I do more damage to people with fist of steel....i have fakas wearing the deadric armor at adept lvl
you do more damage with fists of steel because it does add damage, just not very much.
If you can reach the armor cap with light armor then what the fuck is the point with heavy armor at all?
The Extinct Surgeon because daedrics look badass
The Extinct Surgeon Heavy armor is better unless you are really high level
boffifis1 Yeah but im 71 level. Heavy is shit now.
***** Elven Armor is better--> lighter and with high enough enchanting skill its the best armor in the entire game.
***** The heavy armor thing perk which is supposed to make it weightless is not 100%-->switch on light and i'm faster
I don't even play Skyrim anymore, but I found this video pretty interesting. Kind of crazy to think this vid came out 7 years ago though.
You are very well spoken brother, great video!
Me: in the emperors armor
You guys are getting armor?
I knew this game was pretty bugged... but screwing up something that is essential to every player's experience... wow, just
The cap is deliberate. The number at which the cap happens however, may not be.
excellent video man! to this day people are using this video to their benefit!
Well this was just about the most helpful video I've seen
Thanks for the useful tips!
Best Heavy Armor: Ebony (looks amazing my favorite)
Best Light Armor: Nightingale (pretty cool, too. Reminds me of Ezio Auditore)
Your videos are so well done its amazing.
You made the best Guides. Are you even alive anymore? Come back and just do a quick video saying you are alive bro.
Me 8 years later: 👀
If you play most of the game with light armor you will notice that light and heavy armor will be the same and then light will pass it. So even if you do play with light armor then the rating the points you spend on it will make your armor just as good if not better than heavy armor
Max light armor vs max heavy armor. Light armor has a 10% chance to nullify all damage. While heavy armor also has the same 10% to reflect all damage back to the attacker. Stamina region is also something you can get by potions and enchantments (or you can use vegetable soap to be able to endlessly power attack) while reduced fall damage (which is the cause of many accidental deaths in game death) is something you can't get anywhere else. So heavy armor ends up a lot better. Easier to max out both it's skill tree and reaching the armor cap with it while also looking a lot more asthmaticly pleasing. There is zero competition.
This video is a great argument for perk overhauls like SPERG or Ordinator XD
I miss u and your guides :(
"it wasn't intentional but it's funny how things work out"
lmao, or alternatively! spend 3 perks in the alchemy tree and 1 in enchanting and do the resto-loop, forget about armor entirely! run around in roughspun trousers w/ fortify health, make yourself a pugislist’s ring and run around and one shot alduin with your bare hands. for the true aesthete
Thank you so much for this video by the way. It has helped me out a lot over the years XD
Data talk and live testing. Excellent work.
if you get all the perks, light armor is better at defence and heavy armor is better at offence, but in the mean time going faster and using less stamina makes light armor have better offence, and the stamina perk improves dps
Max light armor vs max heavy armor. Light armor has a 10% chance to nullify all damage. While heavy armor also has the same 10% to reflect all damage back to the attacker. Stamina region is also something you can get by potions and enchantments (or you can use vegetable soap to be able to endlessly power attack) while reduced fall damage (which is the cause of many accidental deaths in game death) is something you can't get anywhere else. So heavy armor ends up a lot better. Easier to max out both it's skill tree and reaching the armor cap with it while also looking a lot more asthmaticly pleasing. There is zero competition.
Getting over 567 does have a tiny use because if the enemy has armor penetration it attacks as though you had 20% less armor for example if your new armor rating is still equal to more than 567 your physical damage resistance will still be maxed.
Most enemies in skyrim don't use armor piercing though. Watch out for high level warhammer wielders.
I bet the Ebony Warrior has something of that nature...
Thank you. My next Skyrim run will be based on light armor, because of what you revealed about the cap - and of course I like to play the stealthy archer. 👍🌞
Damn. This is an amazing video, so much analysis!!!
I actually love the way that Glass Armor looks probably because my first Skyrim run was using light armor and dragon armor looks shitty.
Glass armor is so flashy and girly and gay
@@lokisfriend Ain't that the truth!
Since this is an old video, i re-tested everything on PS3 and the armor cap still is 567 (80%). However, you need to spend more perk points in the light/heavy armor tree to acheive the cap than you see on this video, so getting Ebony or Glass isn't a waste of points considering you also upgrade better weapons.
Also, its possible to achieve the armor cap with the Light Ancient Shroud armor with the same amount of perk points as Glass (9) even though you only upgrade it to flawless, assuming your only using 100 Smithing and Light Armor.
IMO, Alteration>Light Armor>Heavy Armor.
With Alteration, you just need to get the Dragonhide spell at master level and it will get you to the 80% cap, no need to grind Smithing skill to 100 and waste a load of perk points on armor skills. It also levels up very fast compared to armor skill.
Your character won't have any armor noise penalty for stealth and moves at 100% speed without spending more perk points. You also have the "Magic Resistance" perks that can boost up to 30% magic resistance.
Alteration is awesome indeed, too bad it scales horribly earlygame and it is hard to get a decent armor rating below level 10-15 using alteration, late game it is awesome however :)
Only thing i hate about it is having to recast it in mid fights :)
NordicEagleVids Yes you are right, the recast thing every 30sec (45 with stability) makes it boring to use and that 4/5 sec charge before cast makes it worse although you can mitigate it with slow shout. It works very well with a one-hand dual wield character build since you kill enemys very fast.
Another build that works very well with alteration is the basic Sword and shield (One-hand and Block), the 30% magic resistance and the 50% from the Block skill perk makes you acheive the 80% magic cap, add the shield Spellbreaker and you are pretty much magic-proof.
Dont forget elemental resist since magic and elemental resist stack :)
80% magic + 80% elemental resist Will make any mage appear to be nothing more than a conjourer of cheap tricks.
I like Dwarven armor, after doing the from-deepest-fathoms quest you can easily reach the cap. I'm a sucker for it's design and the purple cloth.
Been playing this game for 6 years now and I did not know this
on tower of strength to be fair using the wind sheer to test was a mistake i believe because it is guaranteed to stagger 100% of the time, unless i'm mistaken
You're right. Windsheer is definite stagger everytime.
thanks bud
Tower of Strength perk wouldn't reduce how often you are staggered. Instead, it would reduce your stagger duration, so using the blade windshear wouldn't disregard the perks effectiveness.
only broken on console, works fine on pc. I have both an Xbox one and a custom build pc. just got to choose which platform to play your game on right so you don't get screwed.
+MEME STAR lol I have 360 to :p I'm one of those guys who keeps all his consoles and PC's
The chad lightweight agile warrior vs the virgin clunky heavy hindrance
best comment
After 5 years play and stop and replay and stop... and I'm just told about the armor cap. Thank you!
Great video. I play Skyrim on legendary and I though I knew everything there is to know. You proved me wrong.
I've decided its just not worth the time wasted deciding what perk to spend points on from now on I am just going to pick one and get on with the game :D
Yes, way too much overthink in this game
with the DLC's you can get as many perks as you want and there's alot of crappy no good perks anyway, so even without them, there's more than enough of them to waste, and than the cushionned perk is just so usefull to take shortcuts when going downhill without dying... well i suppose you can go vampire lord mist form aswell or just use the shout that makes you invulnerable but still the heavy armor is nice cuz it lets you do that for an unlimited amount of time. also early game heavy armor just gives the best defence and who really cares that it makes you slower if you can ride a horseback?...
Wow, an actual informative video on the game, without all the random bullshit incorrect talks that other people usually spew in their videos. I didn't learn anything new from this one as I already know all of that, but I still very much appreciate the correctness of this video.
Remember to have more than the armor cap to protect against enemies with armor penetration perks. I usually aim to have 800+ armor. Still easy to hit in a lot of light armor sets if you use 1 or 2 perks points.
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It´s kinda sad that not all perks in the game work as they are supposed to do. For example, there´s a perk upgrading the "eagle-eye" zoom by reducing the amount of stamina needet and slowing down time by 25% while doing it. However, the second level of this perk is not only supposed to slow the time by 50% which actually works, but also to make you consume no more stamina at all for zooming. This second part just doesn´t work which is very sad because unlimited zooming at slow motion is quite a powerfull skill...
well remember the acrobatics skill was there and with maxed skill level you could jump buildings almost like you were the hulk jumping around the place
the perk never said it would stop using stamina altogether at rank 2
Funnily enough, in the english version it doesn´t indeed.... In the german version I am playing it does...
Just knowing the exact armor cap alone makes a HUGE difference.
Wish I knew this shit before...
7 years later this is in my recomended
It is pronounced "may-lay" but kudos to you for not bowing to pressure. Fuck em, I say.
Light is better, you can use deathbrand, it is op as f***
not really, if you've got enchanting and smithing maxed out
+Kapello Mg you know it can be upgraded and has the the most powerful enchantments, for a duel wielding warrior. And it has the armour of daedric without enchantments
Lone Hound most powerful enchantments? the carrying capacity can easily be overthrown by one enchantment on whatever piece of gear, my boots give me +41 carrying capacity (not to mention my gauntlets, ring and necklace giving me an additional +41 each) and I don't even have the left side of enchanting perks. as for the dual wielding, you can have much more one-handed boosts, I for example have +44% of one-handed damage on my boots, gauntlets, ring and necklace. waterbreathing can easily be put on any item, really.. I don't know about stamina, though. but +40 ain't that much, bet you could top that as well. You must be talking about the most powerful *unique* armor in the game?
edit: not to mention the horrible looks of it, got myself some Legendary Stormcloak armor with an armor rating of 750 ^-^ excl. shield
+Kapello Mg i haven't seen anything above them, didnt know there was a way to get any higher
light is better for some but if u get the steed stone ur heavy armour weighs nothing at all
Brilliant and helpful video! Answered all of my questions😜
Use what you find fun and think looks cool. This goes for weapons as well. You can use smiting to buff armor and damage of any weapon to max.