Dwarven Armor Crafting Guide

This crafting guide for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim covers the Dwarven Armor pieces that can be crafted by your player character through the use of the Smithing skill and related Dwarven crafting perk, unlocked through advancement in the skill tree. Within this guide you will find details covering the overall profit you can make, considering the rise in value from base ingredients against the finished product, as well as the base statistics granted through using the equipment.

The Dwarven Armor pieces all share a common gold colored theme, possessing various patterned inlays on the equipment and a general look of wear to the armor, which can be considered odd especially when freshly crafted. Bolts that seem to hold the pieces together are common, with some browns and blues mixed in to the color scheme.

All of the crafted items of this category, including Dwarven Weapons, require some amount of Dwarven Ingots to create. The ingots used for Dwarven Armor are found by breaking down the Dwemer Metals that can be found through searching the various Dwemer Ruins in the lands of Skyrim. In addition, you will also need to spend one of your perk points to unlock the Dwarven Smithing perk, which in turn requires that you have at least a skill level of 30 in the Smithing skill tree along with already having unlocked Steel Smithing.

As a final note, using a workbench to upgrade your Dwarven Armors all require a single Dwarven Ingot as well, so make sure to have some extras lying around. The benefit of the workbench will depend on various stat boosts and your skill level.

All the equipment crafted in the Dwarven group of armor pieces are considered to be Heavy Armor, deriving their increase in armor rating from that skill and effects that modify it.