Objectively speaking, Light Armor is superior to Heavy Armor in terms of practicality. While Heavy Armor outperforms Light Armor by a landslide in terms of protection, it’s not worth the sacrifice of mobility, stamina, and weight load for what can be accomplished using a shield or Restoration spells.
Is Stalhrim armor light or heavy?
Stalhrim Armor is a set of heavy and light armor that appears in The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn.
Can You sneak well with heavy armor compared to light or?
Heavy Armor is obviously, heavy. This makes it have a very noticeable affect on the ability to sneak while wearing it. The perk for weightless is deeper in the heavy armor tree compared to Light armor. The heavy armor perk is called ‘Conditioning’ and is 4 perks deep, and requires 70 skill in heavy armor.
What do you get with heavy armor gauntlets in Skyrim?
Unarmed attacks with Heavy Armor gauntlets do their base armor rating in extra damage. Sneak attack bonus is two times the damage. Khajiit and Argonians gain bonus unarmed damage from their claws, which stacks with this perk. Gloves of the Pugilist provides the Fortify Unarmed enchantment for further damage.
Can you make heavy armor make no noise?
As discussed here, if you have a 1.0 magnitude of the muffle effect your armor will make no noise at all. Does this also apply to heavy armor? Has anyone tried to sneak with heavy armor and muffle (from a spell or armor effect) successfully?
Is there any way to fully silence from armor?
You will not make more noise when using more pieces. The noise produces does not scales with the number of heavy armor pieces equiped. There are different ways to reach full silence from armor. Yes, it is possible and doable of Sneaking with Heavy Armors and it does not needs more perks or whatever than it would with Light Armor.
