| Skill: Heavy Armor |
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| Governing Attribute: Endurance |
| Specialization: Combat |
| Increase: Hit By Opponent: +1.0 |
The Heavy Armor skill is used to move and defend while wearing massive and rigid armors like iron, steel, silver, Dwemer, ebony, and Daedric armor. To use any style of armor effectively, the wearer must be trained, conditioned, and skilled in its use.
Character CreationEdit
The following races receive bonuses to their Heavy Armor skill:
The following classes have Heavy Armor as a Major skill:
The following classes have Heavy Armor as a Minor skill:
FactionsEdit
The following factions include Heavy Armor as one of their favored skills:
- Fighters Guild
- Hands of AlmalexiaTR (not joinable)
- House Redoran
- Imperial Knights (not joinable)
- Imperial Legion
- SkaalBM (not joinable)
- Talos Cult (not joinable)
TrainersEdit
The Master Trainer of Heavy Armor is Seanwen at the Arena Fighters Training in Vivec. Other trainers of note are:
- Shardie at Buckmoth Legion Fort (up to 76)
- Ulms Drathen at the Armigers Stronghold in Molag Mar (up to 71)
See Heavy Armor Trainers for the complete list.
BooksEdit
The following books will increase your Heavy Armor skill:
NotesEdit
- A full suit of Daedric can provide up to 266 Armor Rating, almost twice as much as the best Medium armor (145), and about 100 points more than the best Light armor (168). While it is one of the best non-magic protection, it suffers from several drawbacks.
- A full set of Daedric armor weighs 354lbs; only stronger characters may carry one without enchantments. It limits carrying capacity for weapons and loot. This may also significantly slow one's movement rate.
- Daedric armor is the rarest and hardest set to find. With both Tribunal and Bloodmoon installed, there is exactly one of each piece of the set to be found in the whole game, no more than two of them anywhere near each other. Without the expansions, the only way to get a full set is to do one of two things: either kill an essential character, which can ruin your Main Quest if not done properly (or destroy his armor and pickpocket it which is much harder and takes much longer); or cheat.
- The highest-rated heavy armor stats in the game can be achieved with the following armor combination:
- Helm: Helm of Oreyn Bearclaw
- Cuirass: Lord's Mail or Dragonbone cuirass
- Pauldrons: Daedric Pauldrons
- Gauntlets: Fists of Randagulf
- Greaves: Daedric Greaves
- Boots: Daedric Boots or Ten Pace Boots
- Shield: Eleidon's Ward
ArmorEdit
Heavy Armor is defined by the following weight values. The links provide access to categories that list all of the available heavy armor items of each type.
| Armor Type | Weight |
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| Boots | >18.0 |
| Cuirass | >27.0 |
| Greaves, Shield | >13.5 |
| Bracer, Gauntlet, Helmet | >4.5 |
| Pauldron | >9.0 |
Excluding the expansions, there are six styles of Heavy Armor that provide complete armor sets; four other styles are incomplete.
| Armor Style |  |
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| Complete Sets | ||||
| Iron Armor | 10 | 117 | 3,150 | 266 |
| Steel Armor | 15 | 118 | 1,650 | 558 |
| Imperial Steel Armor | 16 | 114 | 1,760 | 618 |
| Dwemer Armor | 20 | 118 | 2,200 | 3,990 |
| Ebony Armor | 60 | 236 | 6,600 | 133,000 |
| Nordic Mail BM | 66 | 132 | 3,050 | 18,000 |
| Her Hand's Armor TR | 70* | 317 | 7,220 | 178,500 |
| Daedric Armor | 80 | 354 | 8,650 | 257,000 |
| Partial Sets | ||||
| Nordic Iron Armor (Helmet, Cuirass) |
16 | 43 | 640 | 180 |
| Nordic Trollbone Armor (Helmet, Cuirass, Shield) |
18 | 56 | 1,080 | 308 |
| Imperial Templar Armor (No shield) |
18 | 103 | 1,620 | 580 |
| Imperial Silver Armor (Helmet, Cuirass) |
18 | 35 | 710 | 400 |
* The helmet has 75 armor rating but the shield has only 55.