How to Get the Best Armor in Skyrim

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One of the basic items you’ll need to play Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is armor—not just any armor, but a pretty good one. The available items in the game are so numerous that telling which one is the best can be a bit difficult. Each armor you’ll find is unique and has its own specialty that nothing else has. Getting them requires a few things to do in the game.

Steps

Getting the Daedric Armor Set

Increase your Smithing level. The Daedric armor requires at least a level 90 Smithing. The Smithing level of your character can be increased by constantly forging items in the Blacksmith’s forge. To forge items, approach a Blacksmith forge that can be found in any town. Press the interaction on your keyboard or controller to start forging weapons and armors. Your Smithing level will increase regardless of what item you forge.

Unlock the Daedric Smithing Perk. Open your Skills menu inside the game and select Smithing to view the Smithing skill tree of your character. The second to the top point of the tree is the Daedric Smithing perk. To unlock this, all you need to do is to use all the skill points you gained when you were leveling up your Smithing skill (step 1) and unlock all the perks below the Daedric (there are 8).

Get the items for the recipe. The Daedric armor set composes of five parts, namely: the chest plate, boots, gauntlets, helmet, and the shield. To get the complete set, you’ll need the following: 10 Leather Strips — This can be bought from merchants all over the game for 3 Gold. 17 Ebony Ingots — This can be bought from merchants all over the game for 150 Gold once your character reaches level 27. 5 Daedra Hearts (for each piece of the set) — This can be obtained by killing a Dremora inside the Shrine of Mehrunes Dagon located at The Pale, one of the nine “Holds” in Skyrim.

Create the armor. Once you’ve collected all the required materials, approach a Blacksmith forge and press the interaction key to start creating an armor. Once the armor has been created, it will automatically be added to your bag.

Equip the armor. Open your character’s bag and select the Daedric armor pieces. Using your controller’s navigation buttons, equip each item of the set one at a time.

Getting the Dragonplate Armor Set

Increase your Smithing level. The Dragonplate armor requires your character’s Smithing level to be at max (level 100). The Smithing level of your character can be increased by constantly forging items in the Blacksmith’s forge. To forge items, approach a Blacksmith forge that can be found in any town. Press the interaction on your keyboard or controller to start forging weapons and armors. Your Smithing level will increase regardless of what item you forge.

Unlock the Dragon Smithing Perk. Open your Skills menu inside the game and select Smithing to view the Smithing skill tree of your character. The top point of the tree is the Dragon Smithing perk. To unlock this, all you need to do is to use all the skill points you gained when you were leveling up your Smithing skill (step 1) and unlock all the perks below the Dragon (there are 9).

Get the items for the recipe. The Dragonplate armor set composes of five parts, namely: the chest plate, boots, gauntlets, helmet and the shield. To get the complete set, you’ll need the following: 13 Dragon Scales — This can be obtained by killing a dragon and looting its corpse after. 6 Dragon Bones — This can be obtained by killing a dragon and looting its corpse after. 10 Leather Strips — This can be bought from merchants all over the game for 3 Gold.

Equip the armor. Open your character’s bag and select the Dragonplate armor pieces. Using your controller’s navigation buttons, equip each item of the set one at a time.

Obtaining the Dragonscale Armor Set

Increase your Smithing level. The Dragonscale armor requires your character’s Smithing level to be at max (level 100). The Smithing level of your character can be increased by constantly forging items in the Blacksmith’s forge. To forge items, approach a Blacksmith forge that can be found in any town. Press the interaction on your keyboard or controller to start forging weapons and armors. Your Smithing level will increase regardless of what item you forge.

Get the items for the recipe. The Dragonscale armor set composes of five parts, namely: the chest plate, boots, gauntlets, helmet and the shield. To get the complete set, you’ll need the following: 14 Dragon Scales — This can be bought from merchants all over the game for 3 Gold. 4 Leather — This can be bought from merchants all over the game for 10 Gold. 2 Iron Ingot — This can be bought from merchants all over the game for 7 Gold.

Equip the armor. Open your character’s bag and select the Dragonscale armor pieces. Using your controller’s navigation buttons, equip each item of the set one at a time.