» Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:15 pm
Your mileage may vary, but what I'm kind of doing on one of my characters is this - I was doing 2-handed weapons and heavy armor, so like the first 5 levels, I perked those skills . . . but then I reached a point where I couldn't level either of those two skills, because the skill levels were not high enough (e.g. maybe 2-Handed was level 25 or 30, and I needed to be level 40 before any additional two-handed perk would unlock, and same situation with heavy armor.
So, if you reach a level where you *can't* spend a perk on one of your two or three "preferred" skills because none of them are high enough level, toss it into smithing or enchanting.
Also, if you reach a point where you feel the enemies are kind of getting too tough, and you'd like to do more damage or have more armor to help you survive, well, that's a great time to skill up enchanting 10 or 20 levels, to get a couple character levels, and perk up smithing, then forge yourself some slightly better armor/weapons and improve them at the workbench/grindstone.