The main reason most people wish to work on their Smithing is to one day achieve Dragon Armor. I have done so about twenty minutes ago, put on a ring that gave me 12% increase to the effectiveness of improving weapons, and I drank the Blacksmith's potion. I created a full set of Dragon Armor ( Legendary ) and I found that when compared to Daedric Armor ( Legendary ), it only gives +2 more rating per piece ( so +8 for a full set not including a shield ). This is very disappointing...

Anyone disagree?

wow yeah--NOT worth the 8 or so perks if true. have you tried looking at skyrim wiki? i dont want to spoil it so i havnt.

But more important,does it look cool?



Also,do you have to craft deadric and and Dragon or can they be found?

I like the way it looks, though I think a full set of Daedric looks a lot more flashy, but that's just coming from a TES really devoted fan.

Edit: I believe Daedric can be found at the higher levels ( I'm guessing like 35ish and higher ), but Dragon, according to what I've read and understand, is completely Smithing-Only.

HOWEVER, I was watching the IGN livestream before the release of the game and the guy stumbled upon Dragonscale Gauntlets, but he claims to have never before seen anything Dragon related before whilst playing.

Please, post a picture.

I tried to find deadric stuff all the way to level 38, without any result. I gave up, then read on the internetz and realized smithing was OP.
Took me about 1.5 hour to level smithing from 20 to 100, and I now have full deadric and dragon set. Smithing is just too easy to level up since
you can buy all the mats for crafting the iron dagger which takes you to 100 skill.

Smithing is godlike. L13 wearing Superior Dwarven gear and only Iron is dropping with the occasional steel piece.

Love it. Haven't even powerleveled it with Iron Daggers to dress in Dragon loot.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2ufyulh.jpg

There ya go, took it with my samsung indulge.

But doesn't doing that mess up the level scaling a little bit? Making so many increases in a non-combat skill would surely level you up a few times and make you weaker.

You'd think so, but the gear given from Smithing is so dirty... a level 12 with full daedric would just murder everything, even with low stats in everything else..

bone is somewhere between dreadric and ebony in stats. Just cant understand why dreadric needs 90 smithing and bone(or was it dragon scale) needs 100?

Yes, that's why I've stopped at Dwarven for now, I don't want to level beyond my combat abilities.

There's two types of Dragon Armor, there's Dragonscale which is Light Armor, and there's DragonPlate which is Heavy Armor ( The one I'm wearing in the picture ).

DragonPlate has higher stats than that of Daedric but only by a little, I could see where Dragonscale would have lower stats due to it being a Light Armor.