Now a look at the Shrouded ArmourвЂ™s alternate counterparts, the Dark Brotherhood offers Ancient Shrouded Armour (only if you kill Gaius Maro in a major city and use OlvaвЂ™s Token when talking to Olva, then retrieve it from a secret room in a ruin) which has higher armour values and much higher enchantments. Shrouded Gloves remain valuable even when youвЂ™re a high level (if you miss the Ancient variety). Thieves Guild Hood 15 1ВЅ +10% better pricesД«oots 10 1ВЅ Pickpocket success is 15% betterДЄll in all, Guild Armour is better for thief-oriented classes who will use Lockpicking and Pickpocketing more, whereas Shrouded Armour is much better for assassin classes. Thieves Guild Armour (the easiest to acquire): Armour Weight Bonus Okay, so first weвЂ™ll look at Shrouded Armour vs.

LetвЂ™s just end the Skyrim assassin build armour debate once and for all, I wonвЂ™t give monetary values as it is recommended that you keep all the armour pieces because getting extraвЂ™s if you lose any is EXTREMELY difficult especially with the advanced sets (Nightingale Guild MasterвЂ™s and Ancient Shrouded). You can make a single target (or groups at higher levels) stop fighting, fight each other, or run away. Illusion gives you crowd control for when the brown stuff hits the fan.Illusion grants you the invisibility spell, perfect for a thief.Illusion skill tree (at level 50) lets you cast spells silently.This is awesome as a thief, totally reduces the chances you have of getting caught off guard. Alteration grants you the detect life spell.Decent magic resistance from the alteration skill tree (up to 30% magic resistance).This means you can benefit more from the magic attributes below: Robes give +x% magica regen and -x% spell cost on x tree.

Decent armour rating with alteration stone flesh skins, combined with mage armour.

If you decide to go this route, I'd recommend going with illusion + alteration. Using robes is also a very viable option, depending on your character set up.

You can still sneak effectively once you hit level 70 and get the conditioning perk.

(You are a bad thief if you get caught off guard ) )

Tower of strength stops you getting knocked back if you get caught off guard.

Light armour still gives a decent armour rating, so if needed you can go toe to toe without taking a huge beating.

Is pretty important for you running away, positioning etc.

Windwalker is great for a thief, your stamina regenerates 50% faster.

Leveling your armour takes longer than you would expect. As a thief you don't tend to get hit often, so That light armour weights nothing is at skill level 50, in heavyДЄrmour, it is 70).

You are less detectable in lower levels with light armour (the perk.

The thief guild provides you with some nice light armour. I am playing a Khajit thief and I use light armour.

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