Skyrim:Chitin

Chitin armor can be crafted with the Elven Smithing perk and comes in light and heavy armor variants. All items can be tempered using one piece of chitin plate. Chitin light armor is between elven and scaled armor in terms of quality. Chitin heavy armor has the same armor rating as steel plate armor, but is lighter. Morag Tong armor is a variant of chitin with more of a brown color.

Chitin Armor

File:DB-item-Chitin Armor Female.jpg

Female Chitin Armor

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Male Chitin Armor

	Name (ID)	Weight	Value	Rating	Raw Materials			Delta		Ratio
					N Leather	Iron	Chitin	Weight	Value	Weight	Value
	Chitin Armor (xx01cd87)	4	240	30	2	1	5	-6	188	0.4	4.62
	Chitin Boots (xx01cd86)	1	50	8.5	1	1	3	-5	18	0.17	1.56
	Chitin Bracers (xx01cd88)	2	50	8.5	1	1	2	-2	23	0.5	1.85
	Chitin Helmet (xx01cd89)	1	125	13.5	1	1	3	-5	73	0.17	2.40
	Chitin Shield (xx026235)	8	215	24.5	1	1	4	2	178	1.33	5.81
Totals (with shield):		16	680	87	6	5	17
Totals (without shield):		8	465	62.5	5	4	13

Heavy Chitin Armor

File:DB-item-Chitin Heavy Armor Male.jpg

Male Heavy Chitin Armor

File:DB-item-Chitin Heavy Armor Female.jpg

Female Heavy Chitin Armor

	Name (ID)	Weight	Value	Rating	Raw Materials			Delta		Ratio
					N Leather	Corundum	Chitin	Weight	Value	Weight	Value
	Chitin Heavy Armor (xx01cd8a)	35	650	40	2	1	6	24	560	3.18	7.22
	Chitin Heavy Boots (xx01cd82)	6	135	14	1	1	4	-1	65	0.86	1.93
	Chitin Heavy Gauntlets (xx01cd8b)	5	135	14	1	1	3	-1	70	0.83	2.08
	Chitin Heavy Helmet (xx01cd8c)	5	135	19	1	1	4	-2	65	0.71	1.93
Totals (without shield):		51	1055	87	5	4	17

Notes

• Heavy Chitin armor offers the most armor points per unit weight (1.71 armor per weight), but at a cost of 25% less defense than the best heavy armor (daedric with 108 base defense and 81 weight). Dragonplate offers a compromise between weight management and best defense with a weight of 64 and defense of 102 (1.59 apw, 94% max defense). Once you reach the armor cap, take the Conditioning perk, or activate the Steed Stone power, your choice of heavy armor becomes purely cosmetic.

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