Ever since Morrowind I used to roll a two hander wielding, no armor wearing, sneaky killing machine. In Skyrim I don't need see any unarmored tree so this huts me badly cos I don't like the idea running around busted in iron. When it comes to damage mitigation from armor rating how competetive is mage armor vs fully upgraded daedric armor ? In Oblivion I just enchanted random rags with a powerfull fire/frost shield to make up for not wearing any armor at all, is there a armor penetration cap ? Will you mitigade the same damage with let's say 600 armor rating like with 1600 ? or is there a cap at which gaining additional rating is useless.