' Wrote:From what I've seen Smithing is for more of the Heavy Armor, swords, maces, greatswords, type of thing. I don't use that.
The left side of smithing is for light armor. The right side is for heavy armor.
Every type of material you can work with (except the dragon stuff) allows you to make any weapon, including bows.
More importantly, any type of material you have the perk for can be upgraded quite a bit, depending on your smithing skill.
Unfortunately, daedric stuff is the strongest weapons you can get, so if you take the light armor side of the tree you'll be kind of behind where you could be, but the ability to upgrade things is invaluable. It's also unfortunate that when you think about it, there's almost no reason to use light armor at all, given how much better heavy armor is, and there's no disadvantage to it (other than the weight to carry it until you get the perk to lighten it).
The way smithing is currently, it's pretty strong for any character that uses armor or weapons--which is pretty much any character, because there's no disadvantage to spellcasting for using armor.
