Constellation Order of Smithing: Steel-->Dwarven-->Plate/Orcish-->Daedric-->Dragon I think Plate and Orcish are the same. Edit: Let me simplifiy my post for the purpose of this thread. Is plate heavy? Because, it's under the light armor side of the constellation.
It does svck that to make plate, you need to waste a perk on elven. I think it looks cool but I have no desire to ever use light armor with my current character.
That wasnt to you sorry. And the plate I got was heavy. I also just got Dwarven and it was dissapointing. I spent crazy money to buy a ton of ingots for weaker armor.