» Thu May 17, 2012 11:34 am
The sad thing is that you unlock Elven before Scale and very shortly after unlocking Sclae you can make Epic Elven gear which is better than the best Scale you can make at the same level. I had +29% Smithing from an Amulet and Gloves I found, at about lvl 5 and 12 (no, I didn't have 60 Smithing at lvl 12, that's when I found the items, I hit 60 Smithing at 25/26), and at rank 60 I was able to make Epic Elven or Superior Scale (okay, it might have been Exquisite or Flawless but it still had less armour than Epic Elven).
I think someone screwed up with the Scale stuff, too, because it is not, in any way, shape or form, Scale Armour. The Stormcloak set is Scale. I don't know what the hell this "Scale" armour you can create at 60 Smithing is, but it's not Scale.
The Armour Crafting seems horribly incomplete. There's armour types you can't make at all (Stormcloak, Horned), there's an entire section devoted to a single piece (Studded) while there is another category that has at least three different sets (Steel, Steel Plate, Scale), and then there's the things like Gilded Elven that seem put in purely so that you can't get the full set perk if you wear it.