toastysquirrel Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 (edited) I'm about to start my 2nd game, this time with intent to be a full-on Mage. My original characters was pure melee with Heavy Armor. For a Mage, what's the best armor choice to go (light, heavy, none), and why?Are there advantages of no armor over light armor over heavy? Appreciate your input everyone, thanks! Edited January 23, 2012 by toastysquirrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elricshan Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 well if you go pure mage and remember enchanting you can have that armor yourself want. my witch runs around in ebony armor and can take some damage before she kills the enemies (or dies just as often because i always forget to by mana potions :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModelV Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Id have to recommend Mage Armor(alteration skill) for pretty much any mage. With Light and heavy Armor you usually will need to invest in smithing to keep up the armor rating but with mage armor you only invest in a single true and gain another tree of magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimF Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I prefer no armor, and developing alteration for several reasons. It brings additional benefits, much easier to level, and doesn't require smithing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanchan05 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 (edited) No armor - well you get the mage armor perk. It allows you to cast double the amount of armor alteration spells normally give you if you aren't wearing any armor. At max perked I think it gives 3x armor (Wiki says that it makes spells like Stoneflesh 2x as strong, the +0.5x per additional rank), and you're even sneakier with this than any armor. Light armor, well you get the perks, and you're sneakier than heavy Heavy armor, you get the heavy armor perks too. The main difference is you'll be spreading yourself a bit thin IMO if you will be using armor since you'll be spending perks on that apart from the mage trees. For armor, you'll need perks in two additional trees: Smithing and the Armor tree (light or heavy). For no armor mage, just stick to alteration. Al lot of the perks armor trees give are augmented by wearing no armor (no noise perks and no weight perks) and other mage skills (muffle, armored flesh, mage armor perks, etc). Edited January 23, 2012 by chanchan05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrknSoul Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 All armors can reach the 80% armor cap, and Alteration has the spell Dragonhide which provides 80% armor for 30 (60 with Stability) seconds. All that really matters is what perks suits your character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanchan05 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 All armors can reach the 80% armor cap, and Alteration has the spell Dragonhide which provides 80% armor for 30 (60 with Stability) seconds. Dual casting extends duration for alteration right? So you get 120secs max? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwannaddl Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I am a summoner and necromancer so armor doesn't do much for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrknSoul Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 (edited) Dual Casting is a 2.2x multiplier. Dragonhide ArmorBase: 30 secStability: 45secDual Cast: 66secStability + Dual Cast: 99sec Edited for fail-math. DH can be dual-cast. Edited January 23, 2012 by BrknSoul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corakus Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 (edited) You can't dual-cast dragonhide, you can't dual-cast any master spell because the master spells take up both hands.Also, stability only increases the duration of alteration spells by 50%, not 100%, the max duration for dragonhide is 45 seconds. Edited January 23, 2012 by Corakus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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