The Glade 4.0

made it to 100 smithing last night, made my first batch of dragon armor.

Frustratingly, Heavy Armor requires both bones & scales, where light just requires scales. (I had been hoping to make a set of light, and a second set of heavy) But as it was I only had enough scales to make Chest+Boots+Gloves (and then improve all three to Legendary --available at 90+, apparently the highest upgrade)
Now, I just need to get my enchanting up. This strikes me as the hardest to master, I need to find an item with soul trap, so I can de-enchant it and re-enchant my bow.

FYI There are no Dragon-weapons. I may pick up daedric smithing just to make weapons. (somewhat disappointing, given every other type of smithing has both armor & weapons)

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According to some info Sean shared with me, you can max your armor benefit in steel.

Armor Cap

Damage reduction is capped at 80%. If you are wearing all four pieces of armor, this occurs at 567 displayed armor rating. If you have 100 skill and all relevant armor perks, this requires a smithed armor rating of about 135. You can increase your smithed armor rating by 1 roughly every 2 points of Smithing with the appropriate perk, or every 4 without. Therefore, at 100 Smithing you will need 85 base armor with the appropriate perk, which is not achievable with Light Armor (though Dragonscale comes close at 82 for the set) and requires at least a Steel Plate set for Heavy Armor. With Fortify Smithing apparel you can boost Smithing even further, which can potentially allow any material for which a Smithing perk exists to reach the cap. At the extreme end, you will need about 126 Smithing to make Steel Armor hit the cap, and about 154 Smithing for an Elven set. Unfortunately, Fur, Hide, Studded, Leather, and Iron armors are not affected by any Smithing perks and so cannot be improved as much.
Spells and the Lord Stone can reduce the base armor required to hit the cap even further, but these require more management.

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I think i'm going to re-roll. I wanted to go pure caster but as I gain cool weapons and such I am reminded that casters get boring upgrades.

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Do all parts of the weapon/armor creation process (hide tanning, weapon sharpening and creation, armor upgrading and creation) all count toward smithing increases?

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It was working fine for me tomorrow ...

Buy leather strips from merchants
Create iron daggers
Enchant said daggers with a life drain or paralyze
Sell for MAD MONEY YO
Repeat ad nauseum until you're maxed smithing and rich

The tomorrow of yesterday....

I was playing fine late last night. *shrug*

Sorry to hear it's not working for you Ulfynn. Do you run any mods? I would try disabling those first.

Edit: Looks like if you used a mod that allowed the game to use more than 2GB of RAM, that this patch may have issues with that. At least at first google glance, that is what I've found.

I don't get it.

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This is an Elder Scrolls game, Dash ...

You can just change what you're doing.

Dont you get a limited number of perks though? Not sure if that is a big impact. Guess not.

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