Minimum perks needed for Dragon Armor? : V - Skyrim

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:26 pm

From UESP

While the skill tree might appear to be a circle, it's really two paths leading to Dragon Armor, essentially forcing the player to commit to either the left or right side. Both sides end with Dragonscale Armor, which is the best light armor available in the game. Damage reduction from armor maxes out at 567 armor rating displayed in the inventory. With all relevant perks and 100 Heavy Armor skill, this is achievable with Legendary Steel Plate, therefore making the left side a viable choice for a heavy armor character (Steel Plate is obtainable via the Advanced Armor perk).

Now that this is brought up. I found it odd for Steel Plate, some of the best HA in the game, to be on the LA side. It woule have been better to have the Advanved Armors of each to be included on there side. Maybe an addition to high end armor and not just another perk.

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:14 pm

Wiki:
Dragon Armor is the final http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Smithing http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Perks in http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim. It requires a Smithing level of 100 and either the http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Glass_Smithing or the http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Daedric_Smithing perk. Dragon Armor allows the http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonborn to craft two new armor sets, http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Armor.

The steel armour point is a good one, it shouldnt be combined with scaled. makes no sense.

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:03 pm

Ahhh...the joys of reading someone's power smithing exploit and doing it first thing in the game without actually looking at the skills tree.

Here's how you do it:

Go to the menu;

Select Skills;

Select either Heavy Armour or Light Armour skill;

Count the number of perks you need along the skill tree.

There's your answer.

If you want dragon armour, you are going to have to actually play the game and kill some dragons.

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:38 pm

Ahhh...the joys of reading someone's power smithing exploit and doing it first thing in the game without actually looking at the skills tree.

Here's how you do it:

Go to the menu;

Select Skills;

Select either Heavy Armour or Light Armour skill;

Count the number of perks you need along the skill tree.

There's your answer.

If you want dragon armour, you are going to have to actually play the game and kill some dragons.

Where did that come from? How do you know all of that about the OP?

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:30 am

First off are you using heavy armor or light?

If you are using light armor, you need to go up the light armor side.
If you are using heavy armor, you need to go up the heavy armor side.

He's already level 100 in smithing. There's little reason to go the light armor side no matter what is his armor preference. He should go the heavy armor side because he'll get both the best light armor in the game (dragonscale) and the best weapons (daedric and ebony)

If he was building slowly his smithing and upgrading his armor now and then, the light side makes sense but now, in the long run I'd say taking the Daedric + Dragon armor perks is the best way to go. Unless he's REALLY short on perk points of course.

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:12 pm

Where did that come from? How do you know all of that about the OP?

States he's at 100 smithing already, which would indicate that he has gone up a number of levels, or is on the road to leveling up. Anyone who has played the game for the first few levels would have an understanding of how the leveling and skill system works, which indicates to me that the OP hasn't either leveled up, or taken any perks.

To get to 100 in any skill requires either a lot of gameplay, or a power-skilling approach. Based on the question itself, I consider that the OP has power-skilled Smithing.

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:56 pm

To get to 100 in any skill requires either a lot of gameplay, or a power-skilling approach. Based on the question itself, I consider that the OP has power-skilled Smithing.

So you are being stern with the Op because of the way they are playing their game? What difference does it make how or when they get to that point? I just thought to answer their question and leave their gaming to them.

» Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:06 pm

I wasn't being stern, I was actually instructing them on how to better understand the game which should improve their enjoyment of it.

I wasn't telling the OP how to play the game, that's just your interpretation...I was telling the OP how to open the skills menu, something that the OP apparently didn't know.