» Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:10 pm
Well, I would not recomend using heavy armor unless you planned to put a fair amount of perks into it, simple because without the added protection from the perks it will not offer enough defense comparred to its weight. I would also recomend the Conditioned perks which removes the weight of worn heavy armor, or you can use the Steed Stone.
With all of the defense boosting perks anything over orcish/steel plate whould offer excellent protection. This assumes that you have some smiting ability which your original post slightly implies.
If you do not want tp use many perks in the smithing tree I recomend Steel Plate, since can achieve the 80% damage reduction cap and only require you to put 3 perks into smithing(up to advanced armors) to make it possible to forge it and upgrade it to legendary.