
The following are the confirmed light armors that will benefit from this skill:

Completing this objective also increases the Alchemy, Sneak, Lockpicking, Pickpocket, and Speech skills.


The following books provide a permanent one-time increase to the Dragonborn's Light Armor skill. To level up the skill in complete safety, especially at low levels, one can find a brawl opponent willing to brawl repeatedly without charging a wager - usually during a quest such as the " Hired Muscle" quest often dispensed near the beginning of the Companions questline or the " Taking Care of Business" quest for the Thieves Guild. Taking on larger groups and/or more powerful enemies will level the skill(s) faster, but one has to balance their ability to restore their own health against the amount of damage they will be taking. If you have a shield of the appropriate Armor type, one can also upgrade the block skill as well during this process. Restoration magic and healing potions can be used to restore any damage taken (thus one can also level up the Restoration skill simultaneously). Mudcrabs are useful in this regard, as they have low health yet can do enough damage, especially the larger varieties. One can rapidly level up the skill simply by finding an enemy (or group of enemies) which uses physical attacks and allowing them to attack without attacking back. The Diadem of the Savant also increases the Light Armor skill when worn in battle. Conversely increasing armor rating does not decrease the rate at which the skill advances.įor those who are Guildmaster of the Thieves Guild, wearing the Amulet of Articulation when taking hits will increase the Light Armor skill, as the amulet counts as Light Armor. Being the victim of power attacks likewise grants more experience than a standard attack. Thus, taking multiple attacks from a skeever or wolf levels Light Armor at a significantly slower rate than blows from giants or mammoths would. The rate of skill gain is based on the total amount of damage incoming before armor is applied. To level up the Light Armor skill most efficiently, wear a full set of Light Armor (head, hands, feet, chest). Leveling up armor skills is relatively simple: take physical damage in combat while wearing armor pieces of that type.
