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Just wondering what the advantages of light V heavy are late game. I'm going a mix of Elven and Steel at present, but I'm curious about the best long term path, and where\if to spend perks. Course I could end up wearing mage clothing which'd make the point moot but that's another issue. Here's my conclusions based on perk descriptions:

• Early game light means more room to carry other stuff but you take more melee damage.
  Both give 100% increases plus 2x 25% bonuses (all light\heavy + all matching).
  Both weigh nothing and don't slow you down, albeit different light armour offers this sooner, and offer a 10% avoidance\reflection bonus a max level.
  The difference seems to be heavy halves fall damage and staggering, whereas light armour recharges stamina faster. Good if you swing weapons a lot I guess e.g. a dual wield ranger.

So is there any reason why to use light armour late game, aside from looks\RPG considerations?

Also, is Dragon Armour really any good? From what I've read it's actually a step down, plus Daedric's cooler looking in additional to being better than Dragon. Not sure about the Dragonscale looks but again, may not be the best light armour. Okay might be a bit early with this question as well but ...

I think it just sucks that there's no dragon weapons. I was really counting on it. I'll be investing perks in Heavy armour, but I'll be using it after getting to lv 100 with Light armour, so I'll be using it later on in the game. At first I thought of Putting perks in Light armour, but I find Dragon smithing to be quite useless, so I'm not even getting it, and I'll stick with Daedric.

My experiences: At low levels, I needed Steed Stone to compensate the weight (as at the beginning there's huge need for money, i.e. carrying capacity). What I didn't first notice, was that I also need magic resistance at the beginning (later it could be enchanted to armor; and vice versa, light armor can be enchanted to protect more). So, I changed to light armors + shield; I will later try heavy armor playing again. It takes time until you are ready to pick the perk to make heavy armor weightless, and those can be hard times...

Well, light armor definitely is good for someone who carries around a lot of stuff. Heavy armor limits your encumbrance to an almost decapacitating degree, but it deifinitely helps if you want to get close.

Of course, since I'm playing unarmed, I'm not that into it. But it works rather similar to Oblivion in that regard.