All,

I am thinking about crafting Elven armor for my Rogue. I am playing an Imperial law-abiding Rogue, so I do bandit quests and missions and whatnot using stealth, but I dont rob or take assassin jobs, etc. So basically, I will not be able to get any of the cool stealth/evil faction armor since I'm a Lawful Neutral Rogue.

Anyway, so I am just curious if Elven Armor will negatively affect my Sneak Rating? I have Sneak 100, The perk tree is maxed (I have Muffled Movement, Silence, Stealth 5/5) and i have a ring of 25% Stealth. I am not quite high enough in Light Armor yet to take Unhindered. But once I do, will I be as stealth as the ghost-like levels of stealth I enjoy now?

I ask because I played around with enchanting and put a resist fire enchant on my normal leather armor, and a -1% destruction cost on one of my other leather items, and I found scale armor (Light) with 30% resist fire, and I dont know which it was but one of them was majorly jacking up my stealth. I took off all my stuff and was naked and suddenly I was hard to see again.

So I am just wondering if Elven Armor will let me be sneaky, and what you think might have been messing me up?

Thanks!

now don't quote me this is just my understanding of it.
The only difference that elven armour would have is it is most likely a bit heavier (weight wise) than what ever you're wearing now.
Your amours weight does factor into sneaking but I mean if you have 100 in sneak with all the perks you should be just fine.

Ok. I guess I'll just keep on with my plans for Elven armor then.

Hmm. I wonder if it was just my imagination that my sneak svcked? But one of my enchantments made me glow slightly.