I'd like to make a character simply on what I enjoy, but want it be playable..
Can this work?? I'm rerolling my character and I want to playthrough using skils I enjoy but I duno if it can make sense
What I'd like:
1. Archery - b/c I enjoy it!
2. Shield - b/c I enjoy melee tactical bashing!
3. Light Armor - b/c my understanding is I'll be more mobile, and I like being fleet of foot
Can this work? What other perk trees would you suggest I accompany this to make it playable?
And playstyle tips, how would I have to play him?
And what are the main differences between light n heavy armor??
Thanks everyone in advance!!!
Certainly, I have a character that fights
only with a shield. Then again depends on who you wanna paly with, since you're having a bow in there. My character was an orc, I figure a wood elf wouldn't be much of a foe bashing people with a shield with his size, for example. Bow is a good alternative for anything you can't reach, or for tactical advantage by taking down/adding damage before making any physical contact with your enemies. Also I
think that pushing/hitting an enemy with a bow (not arrow, an actual bow) adds towards block skill.
Considering I play on master, I had to rely on alchemy and restoration, for
lots of healing and increasing armor rating further by magic at the beginning of the game (cause on hard difficulty, killing things with a shield only is a long-time job), and I used heavy armor. Also I didn't raise magic at all but enchanted all my gear towards fort. restoration, and out of 80 levels all went into health, end game all my needs were covered trough enchantments.
Other than smithing, block and heavy armor, my perks were used for all possible passive abilities such as atronach, 30% magic resistance, snake blood etc. and restoration. You have plenty to choose from depending on your playing style.
I love this "class", so I hope you'll have a great time playing in that style as much as I did.

EDIT: About the heavy/light armor... not much, you can basically reach the armor rating cap with both, you're just much more faster in light armor and it spends less stamina, for which you have to spend a perk on with heavy. So it's more of a matter of taste and RPing. I used heavy, cause it suppose it would look funny to see a massively muscled 6.5 foot tall set of elven armor charging into bandits and breaking their jaws with a shield, or just seeing an orc in a "pretty" armor like elven or glass alone.
