UPDATE - I took my original set of dragonscale gear back to the workbench wearing my +100% smithing gear and was able to 'upgrade' that set to legendary with the new armor ratings and that set worked just fine, must have just been a buggy set of dragonscale gear. Has this worked properly for anyone else? Could it be a bug? Is this intended? Any information would be helpful =] I'd really like max armor resistance without the shield on. Īnd I still get the same armor ratings, 502 without shield and 584 with shield. I got gear with much higher ratings as follows. I took another set of dragon scale armor and made and improved them while wearing +100% bonus gear to smithing.

It is extremely heavy, but also has the highest armor rating in the base game and its add-ons.The armor set contains five pieces: a helmet, boots, gauntlets, a cuirass and greaves, and an optional shield. This adds up to 586 (or 503 without the shield) and yet the armor rating I get is 502 without the shield, and 584 with the shield. Daedric Armor is a set of heavy armor available in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Here are the individual ratings for each piece of gear (with 5/5 light armor skill bonus, 25% all light armor bonus, and 25% matched set bonus). I created a set of Dragon Scale armor with 100 smithing and improved them to legendary, they had an armor rating of 584(502 without the shield).

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