For barbarian characters and assassins etc (light armour users in other words) is it prudent to get the entire smithing tree because while you wont want deadric armour you will want deadric weapons?

Is there any advantage to glass weapons over deadric or is deadric just *better*?

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Wow, this forum is moving fast, has no one an opinion or any insight?

You'd think glass is on par with daedric since they are both the last steps to Dragon armor, just one light and one heavy. as far as the entire smithing tree, absolutely not. That's going to strip valuable perk points that can be used in much better other places imo.

Yeah, I made my first character foolishly choosing to go up the light half of the armor tree 'cause I wear light armor. My new character will wear dragon scale and use daedric or ebony weapons. No point taking the elven/glass side of the tree if you're going all the way to dragon IMO, unless you like the look of glass weapons enough to lose damage for them - which I don't.