I was wondering if I made a new character, how likely could I reach armor cap with this shout, without many smithing upgrades? Especially if I used Deathbrand (with it's Set armor boost)?

The reason I'm asking is if I trained Light Armor, then I don't want to go up the Ebony Armor tree to make Stahlrim upgradeable. If I could temporarily boost it with a Shout, that might be kind of cool.

Sorry if this is a convoluted question.

I haven't really read everything you said because well.. I'm lazy. But seeings as we can now basicly respec doesn't this give us the ability to upgrade/make armour then reset the smithing skills?

lol, thats' funny... didn't think of that. kind of cheesy though.

Indeed but it facilitates your needs.