I was doing some Smithing with my Warrior character and it made me much stronger, with a full set of heavy armour + 2h (no shield) i had 250 armour rating, but i still got gimped by some of the higher end bandits @ late 20's level early 30's(edit: on Master difficulty). When i changed back to a Thief character with normal/non smithed weapons & armour, i felt so vulnerbale :cold: