I honestly dont see why anyone would get light armor, with the heavy armor perk it makes heavy armor weigh nothing, same as light armor, and with muffled boots, well you are well off without any sort of light armor. What the hell is the point of it? Same goes for food, never even have to bother doing any of that when you have potions at hand, I have found I have never had to eat a single thing in all my playtime of Skyrim.

So go ahead, tell me any pros of light armor over heavy armor?

Edit: Not to mention the light armor perks are all for increasing the armor rating of light armor (what the heck for? might as well use heavy armor if your looking for armor rating).

I can out run giants in light armor , but not heavy.

It's light so you can feel more naked in it...

Increased stamina regeneration. More power attacks = more damage
10% chance of avoiding all damage from attacks.

Higher armor rating makes magic weaker.

Todd knows you can't simplify the game to "Press X to win" in one go without pissing off a lot of people, so he has to do it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normalcy. And it's pretty clever, you already question the need for light armor, another skill to remove in order to dumb the game down make the game more accessible.

Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all....








Stupid sixy Flanders.

Yes but heavy armor also has that perk only better, you not only avoid the damage but reflect it back to atacker. Im honestly not seeing any good pros so far

You have more stamina regen and %10 chance to avoid all damage in light armor. And considering that there is a cap to armor rating, light armor might be more beneficial overall. Heavy armor gives %25 less stagger and %10 chance to reflect damage thats all..

So the only good thing about light armor is that lil stamina regen perk? The 10% chance to avoid damage is lesser to the heavy armor perk of reflecting it...

I've heard you can reach the armor cap with light armor as well. Can anyone confirm this?

The perk that removes the weight of heavy armor only comes at level 70. Light weighs next to nothing from level one. So unless you are grinding your heavy armor skill, it should take you quite a while to get to the point where heavy armor gets all of the benefits of light.

there's a couple of unique light armors in the game for stealth characters, and also, there's a big difference in appearance if you care about that kind of stuff

Oh, its this thread again.

You can sneak in it.

Also, the armor rating is almost the same. My brother uses heavy armor, and his armor rating is lower than mine, even though he's the same level as me.

If you need a more mobile character, Light Armour wins.

Having a stealth character - light armor makes it harder to get detected (through sound).

I thought that reflect damage perk was just that: Reflect damage.
It doesn't cause you to negate the damage.

You can also sneak in heavy armor given you weigh nothing and have the muffled boots enchantment, i do it all the time and quite very successfully on my "warrior" (appears more of a rogue now)

There's also the encumbrance factor. My first character wore heavy armor. Personally, I got really sick of getting over-encumbered in every dungeon. My current character wears light armor and it's such a relief to not have to go into the inventory every five minutes to drop items.

This. Also, how is stam regen not a perk?

Its confirmed to negate it as well as reflect it, its what reflect usually means

:rofl:

Light armor looks exactly 3.5x cooler than heavy armor. 5x if you swap your helmet for a mage hood/diadem

I'd like to see where it's confirmed. I can only speculate that the effect may have mirrored Oblivion's, which did negate as well as reflect.