I've never actually tried having a character speced in both Heavy Armor and Sneak. But here's my ideas
My character is going to be speced in six skills
One-Handed
Two-Handed
Sneak
Heavy Armor
Archery
Enchanting
You may ask, why both One-Handed and Two-Handed? Because this character will use a greatsword and duel wield daggers. Get the dual wield perks in one handed and get the decapitation perk in two handed
For sneak, you will need the noice muffling perk and the sneak damage increase would be good.
For Heavy Armor, Conditioning is a must. If you're Heavy Armor isn't high enough, use the steed stone.
For Archery, you mainly need the zoom in and the slow down perks in particular.
For Enchanting, you'll need it maxed out. You'll need 5 in the base perk and all the perks on the right side, and fire and frost perks on the left side. The perks on the far right are optional.
For Armor, you'll want health and stamina regen. You don't have restoration, so you'll need to substitute for that. You'll also want health and stamina increased.
Good Apparel would be Namira's Ring. This ring not only gives you 50 extra stamina, but it also gives you extra health and health regen when you activate its special ability.
Other necessary Daedric Artifacts would be Mace of Molag Bal and The Black Star, because the Black Star will fill black souls.
In racial choices, choose Orc for their Beserk power.
You could use Redguards for their adrenaline rush power. Their poison resistance isn't bad against Falmer, Charrus, and Frostbite Spiders Either.
Lastly, Nords are a very good choice for their Frost Resistance, which can be life saving against Frost using Dragons. Their Battle Cry ability is good because you can hit enemies while they're running away.
Let me know what you think. I will try to update this if you have any questions.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ebony_Mail_(Skyrim) says that it is possible

Yeah use ebony mail along with muffle perhaps, or if you perk out heavy armor you can negate some of the bad effects of sneaking in heavy armor and possibly some stuff in sneak too

Besides two handed that's what I use. I dual wield dragonbane and akaviri katana or ebony war axe. I also use complete set of blades armor with the heavy armor perks and fully enchanted I can sneak by guards in broad daylight

Ah Ebony Mail! Forgot about the fact that it had that muffle enchantment. But my lvl 19 Redguard can sneak in Dwarven Armor

I would recommend using Muffle spell until you get silence or muffle boot enchants. It requires some investment in magicka, but it's very very helpful for sneaking.

I have the perk in sneak that muffles armor noise by 50%. Not as good as muffle boot enchantments, but its great.

Stretching your status too broadly imo

Dual wield daggers (One-handed still gives chance to decapitate)
Heavy Armour
Sneak
Smithing
Alchemy
Enchanting (These 3 are necessary if you want to max out your armour and enchant it to its full potential)

My friend suggested once that he speced the character for dual wielding. Darn it, forgot about smithing

I suppose you can sneak in heavy armor, if your sneak stat is high enough, but you undoubtedly sneak better in light. But that's the cool thing about Skyrim: you do what works for you.

The fact that my sneak is around 60 at lvl 19, so yes, my sneak stat is high enough
I love light armor, but usually you can't spec a character for Daedric and light armor smithing, since you have to go all the way around. I would like for Bethesda to give us the option to get the Daedric Smithing perk after getting the Dragon Smithing perk.

I'm the same way. I love light armor so if I have a light armor character that smiths I justify getting all the smithing perks by rationalizing that I can up grade any followers that wear heavy armor myself instead of waiting for something to show up in loot or shops, as well as getting access to the weapons those perks provide.

I'm actually playing a Breton like that right now.
Sneak, Block, One-Handed, Archery, Smithing, Restoration, & Illusion.

I found it's pretty easy just grab muffle in some manner.
And honestly, the Ebony Mail isn't really a requirement. I'm using steel plate, with a muffle spell as needed, & no one hardly ever hears me.

I'm currently playing a character who mostly uses Heavy Armour, Sneak, Archery, and Restoration, and I'm having quite a lot of fun with it, I can hardly wait for crossbows to become available.

It's definitely possible, and of course, any character who has sneak as a primary is going to be super unbalanced and win at everything without even trying.

No. Ebony Mail isn't a requirement at all. As good as it is, at early levels, as long as you have the muffle perk in sneak and the steed stone you'll be fine. Plus the roll perk so you can just roll past enemies before they see you

All the jibber jabber aside- you want to be an effective sneak in heavy armor?

1 of the following is needed.

1. Depend on muffle.

2. Get 2 worthless perks and grab the -late game- weightless heavy armor perk.

3. Sacrifice your choice of starsign to save yourself from taking the worthless perks to get weightless armor

4. Use ebony mail.


Incorrect- you do not need perks in the crafting trees to max armor or get great attack values. Putting perks in all 3? - bad decision IMO, unless you won't get bored being god. Not to mention a boring-crafting type god.

She wants to max. That's why I said that. It's hard to smith and everything naturally (buying in a town when you're in it, not fast travelling around).

My recent character will not fast travel unless absolutely necessary. Carts are allowed, but only for extremely long distance areas. If they run/horseback and pick up supplies when they're in town then they should be fine when using all 3.

Another option is to not use any smithing and wait for daedric to naturally spawn in dungeons, then use enchanting and alchemy to temper and enchant it.

Not to quivel- but there isnt such a thing as "max" in this game- so advising using heavy crafting to ""maximize ones self"" doesnt really apply since all our characters can never interact and thus compare to one another. I.E i am by default - "maxed" in any character in skyrim, crafting or no.

My characters have never seen a daedric clad 500 damage claymore weilding max damage enchant character- and they never will. If you dont craft it- it wont exist- and if you find it and its the best- it is unique.

In other words- crafting is as necessary as you make it (even on master)

I love Skyrim's crafting system. Probably because it reminds me of crafting in the Zenonia series

wolf armor is naturally pretty quiet for a heavy armor. probably because of it's light weight.

I've always seen, but never bought it.