Light or Heavy?

[Will Olmen]

Why choose? Honestly my single most unkillable character is something of a cleric. Mage robes and a hood with heavy gloves, boots and shield. Top it off with a bit of oakflesh magic and a mace designed for maximum damage and minimum exposure and he's pretty much a mini-god roaming Skyrim. At level 3 he put a giant in its place in melee combat with about 80% of his health leftover. At level 6 he informed a duo of frost trolls in the mountains that their services were no longer required. Walked away from that with full health.

In the end it's really all about play style. Like surprise attacks and stealth kills? Little slower variety of gameplay? Go Light. Like two handers? Go light body, heavy hands feet and head. Like sword and board? Go heavy and be a tank. Like magic? Go robes and light hands and feet.

 

[jjay]

Who uses armour?

I'm playing on a naked dagger wielding mage

Last character i used light armour spec with only steel, elven and dwarven smithing, dwarven for improving the enchanted x-bow and elven armour because i can improve it to the rating of heavy armour with the same weight as light armour, then i dont have to spend perk points on a useless tree (imo)

Although you could always just carry both for whatever the situation might require. Theres no real *need* to specialise in either one.

 

[Bertrum]

When I'm using two handed weapons then Heavy Armour is my preference, but if I'm a mage or one handed warrior I choose light Armour. For my assassin/sneak builds I choose to wear random clothes, nobody will expect a guy wearing party clothes to be a mass murderer, right?

 

[nordicowboy]

Light armor , heavy gloves and boots. Unless I'm trying to play within a set of guidelines.

 

[Kalin of High Rock]

Well I originally set out to level this character with no armor, using clothing and Alteration skills. That worked really well, until all my mage skills were capped and I abandoned the pure mage for a battlemage sort of build. I leveled both light and heavy armor to 100, I would say they each do fine, but I prefer the look of most heavy armors.

I especially like the look of the steel plate armor, but use the heavy dragon bone armor. It's made of bone and leather, so I won't electrocute myself when I use shock spells! Also, dragon bones surely have useful arcane properties... And the RPer in me refuses to wear a helmet, I wear a mage hood. Because Oblivion hammered it home into my subconscious that that's what a battlemage looks like!

I do use light armor exclusively when I leveled the thankless thief skills I really have little use for on this character. That's done, thankfully. Just one level to go.

 

[Mr1cammando]

I almost always use light armor. I wind up acting more like a pack mule because I use Guild Master's armor, Steed Stone and Deep Pockets. I can carry like 600 pounds. My default gear weighs in at 227. I like carrying potions and entire armories.

 

[Sword&Sorcery Super Hero]

I've only played through Skyrim twice (maybe twice more for the Dawnguard DLC; once good and once evil) but both times I went Sword and Board Battlemage with Heavy Armor, as I tend to play that style a lot in my RPG's. Ebony/ Deadric armor & switch up whatever Dragonpriest Masks work best for the situation. If that guy came into the room in real life, most people would stay out of his way.

 

[Malignanttoe]

I typically prefer light armor, even when I play a more traditional warrior type.
I like the mobility and, personally, I like how the light armor looks over heavy.

 

[Monopoly]

I almost always do light. Mainly because almost all the cool armours you get (DB armour, Nightingale etc) are light, but I like ebony armour so much I have to have a heavy armour character every now and then.