Eh, it's not really hard to level armor skills. Just stand around being hit by something and spam healing spells. Or just pay a trainer. Either way.an enchanter could make better pieces, but it takes a long time to reach that point, and if you don't wear heavy armor the whole game your heavy armor skill will be gimped. so in theory it still pays to wear robes and hoods unless you want to gimp yourself for most of the game in order to be strong as fuck later on.
Besides, armor apparently caps at 672, so heavy armor is pointless, since that's easy to reach with light armor.
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and the fuck at the blades asking me to kill parthanax fuck them. did anyone els go thru with it? i didnt.
