what plays in to stealth

[deuceyd]

Weight of armor? Weight of weapon?

[AllergicToBrainRot]

pretty much, wearing heavy armor and trying to sneak by. They will hear you. Best to use light armor for sneak and use muffler enhancement which mask the sound of your footsteps. Also there is invisible spells, invisible potions. Don't forget the skills too.

[every1hasnames]

For weapons the heavier the weapon the more noise it will make when you swing and miss or swing and hit. Daggers being the low end of the spectrum that make 0 noise. Unless you power attack with a dagger.


But simply having a weapon out or having equiped weapons wont affect sneak. Only swinging the weapon does.



as far as armor. Unlike with weapons. The weight of the armor affects sneaking. wearing no armor will not affect sneak. The more weight the armor has the more it affects sneak.

Heavy armor affecting sneak more then light armor.


both skill trees for heavy and light armor have perks that bring down the weight of your armor.


Light armor these parks are more easily accessible as they are not as high up the perk tree as the ones in heavy armor.


Its all about weight with armor.

[Rez Elwin]

Try and find a pair if muffle boots that you can disenchant, nearly all boots that are enchanted with muffle are only at half magnitude, meaning they only cancel out 50% of noise. If you enchant a pair yourself regardless of skill or soulgem used you get 100% Muffle.

[deuceyd]

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Try and find a pair if muffle boots that you can disenchant, nearly all boots that are enchanted with muffle are only at half magnitude, meaning they only cancel out 50% of noise. If you enchant a pair yourself regardless of skill or soulgem used you get 100% Muffle.

isnt muffle a really hard one to find, also only spawning starting at level 20+?

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by Deucey D:

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Try and find a pair if muffle boots that you can disenchant, nearly all boots that are enchanted with muffle are only at half magnitude, meaning they only cancel out 50% of noise. If you enchant a pair yourself regardless of skill or soulgem used you get 100% Muffle.

isnt muffle a really hard one to find, also only spawning starting at level 20+?

It is pretty rare but merchants start selling em at level 11. Not sure what level they start spawning.

[voehringer_nitron]

Originally posted by Deucey D:

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Try and find a pair if muffle boots that you can disenchant, nearly all boots that are enchanted with muffle are only at half magnitude, meaning they only cancel out 50% of noise. If you enchant a pair yourself regardless of skill or soulgem used you get 100% Muffle.

isnt muffle a really hard one to find, also only spawning starting at level 20+?

There's a set of boots with muffle at Hag's End, with the full 100%.

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by voehringer_nitron:

Originally posted by Deucey D:

isnt muffle a really hard one to find, also only spawning starting at level 20+?

There's a set of boots with muffle at Hag's End, with the full 100%.

Ya the Prowler's Grace or something like that. They are the only boots that give 100% but they are only hide boots. While the goal in stealth is to not be seen accidents happen.

Those are the exact reason I said "nearly" all.

[lizrdfishr]

Don't walk around with a torch or an armed spell or heavy armor if you want to sneak.

Stay in the shadows and keep your weapons and armor from emitting light.

If I play with a shield, I use a buckler. They are lighter and have less impact on my stealth ability.

Line of sight, light and sound all play a part in stealth.

[arcasor]

Here's everything you always wanted to know about sneaking (and you never dared to ask)
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sneak

[deuceyd]

Originally posted by arcasor:

Here's everything you always wanted to know about sneaking (and you never dared to ask)
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sneak

Yea I dont get the formulas

Originally posted by lizrdfishr:

Don't walk around with a torch or an armed spell or heavy armor if you want to sneak.

Stay in the shadows and keep your weapons and armor from emitting light.

If I play with a shield, I use a buckler. They are lighter and have less impact on my stealth ability.

Line of sight, light and sound all play a part in stealth.

a buckler in skyrim? surely thats a mod

[lizrdfishr]

Originally posted by Deucey D:

a buckler in skyrim? surely thats a mod

Very possibly.

I run Immersive Armors as well as Immersive Weapons.

I actually play as a rogue, smith and merchant not so much a warrior. The two mods give me tons of cool stuff to craft.

[General Frost]

For early stealth Alt is your friend.

[Veeshan]

Casting also creates noise.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by lizrdfishr:

Don't walk around with a torch or an armed spell or heavy armor if you want to sneak.

Stay in the shadows and keep your weapons and armor from emitting light.

If I play with a shield, I use a buckler. They are lighter and have less impact on my stealth ability.

Line of sight, light and sound all play a part in stealth.

Armed spell too eh? Just wondered that a few minutes ago, clearing Embershard.

[lizrdfishr]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Originally posted by lizrdfishr:

Don't walk around with a torch or an armed spell or heavy armor if you want to sneak.

Stay in the shadows and keep your weapons and armor from emitting light.

If I play with a shield, I use a buckler. They are lighter and have less impact on my stealth ability.

Line of sight, light and sound all play a part in stealth.

Armed spell too eh? Just wondered that a few minutes ago, clearing Embershard.

Yep. From the page linked above:

Factors influencing visibility:
Light: you are more visible in brighter light; this modifier carries significant effects across the entire range of light levels.
The glow of light over your hands when you have a spell equipped makes you easier to detect, but the aura given from enchantments does not.


In my experience spell casters make crappy stealth operators and horrid companions for stealth operators, particularly summoners. Flame Atronachs may be spotted a mile away.