Ricksnowy Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Ok I dont know if this has been done yet or not but...... I hate playing tank I would prefer light gear that is good... to me this game seams to be geared toword tankers while the magic is almost WORTHLESS it takes too long to cast a spell and how are you supposed to know when its ready? anyway never mind that the topic is armor and weapons UNMODDED of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted3362774User Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 (edited) So what's the question? If you want to use light armor, you can eventually reach the armor cap with proper perks and item improvements anyway. Heavy armor hits the armor cap way too easily Edited January 18, 2012 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feanoro Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 There's a point (up to perhaps level 20) during which the game is hard if you play with light armor and sneaking. After that everything becomes easy. What you need to do is start training some smithing and get some light armor perks. Also you have the option of joining the Dark Brotherhood or Thieves Guild early on. That'll give you an armor you can improve with smithing at relatively low levels (both fall under leather armor perk I think) that has great enchantments on it (particularly the DB armor I'd imagine would be HUGELY helpful early on). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invertedpanda Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Smithing makes both light and heavy armors very, very viable. Heavy becomes a little more viable early on, but realistically, it's all about personal preference. With all the perks Alteration gives the armor spells are also very viable. My first mage I actually didn't even screw with them, and did fine completely unarmored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanchan05 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Magic is not worthless. Its actually VERY powerful, if you know how to use it. As for knowing if the spell is ready, I don't know, I kind of felt that easy on the start lol. When I noticed that if I cast a spell and the magicka bar goes down, its when you are casting. If the bar is still moving and you let go of the button, you dont cast, but if it already stopped moving, you can cast it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surg23 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 On my first character i used Heavy armor, which like Pheanoro said, heavy armor is overpowered, and though you might enjoy tanking dragons and Giant's, but ultimately it will break you game. I can only recommend playing light armor or un-upgraded heavy armor. My new character is an Assassin with roughly 60 armor rating, which is perfect because if i mess up a stealth kill i am dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModelV Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 On my first character i used Heavy armor, which like Pheanoro said, heavy armor is overpowered, and though you might enjoy tanking dragons and Giant's, but ultimately it will break you game. I can only recommend playing light armor or un-upgraded heavy armor. My new character is an Assassin with roughly 60 armor rating, which is perfect because if i mess up a stealth kill i am dead. Heavy armor isnt overpowered. Heavy armor is broken. Any armor over 580(or a little less then that) does nothing and you can hit that cap ridiculously easily with Heavy Armor to the point where everything over steel plate is pointless. If you want to use anything better then that dont mix heavy armor perks with smithing. Personally I play a light armored pure warrior. game gets pretty hard when you hit lvl 20 though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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