Sneaking Important?

[anossXVIII]

Okay, so I recently let my younger sister make a character to play on while she was recovering from an appendectomy (spelling?)...big mistake. Her female bosmer, named "asdffdsa" was saved over my character when I was saving for her, I accidentally saved over mine. Anyways, I need to make a new character, because asdffdsa killed Vivec with an overdose of Sujamma.

My last character had light armor, because I wanted to do EVERYTHING I possibly could on him, and figured I'd need to be light on my feet when I did the Morag Tong and other quests to assassinate people. I haven't done any of those quests yet, but I saw a YouTube video of one of them, and he didn't sneak, murdered the poor Argonian, and had an arrest attempted on him, but he just gave the guard a Writ, and was set free.

My question is, is sneaking important? It doesn't seem like it is, and if it's not I'll take heavy armor instead of the light variant this time.

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[Uther Pundragon]

Honestly I never used sneaking in Morrowind all that much useful. I never used it but then again I always liked playing as a warrior/mage over a thief or assassin in that game.

 

[anossXVIII]

Is it worth taking heavy armor over light armor then, if sneak isn't that important?

 

[Neriad13]

I think sneaking tends to be a lot more important for a thief than an assassin in this game. Assassination is government sanctioned, after all.