Tips for a one handed sword and shield

[Hero]

Its my first time doing this build, ¿in what else should i invest level points? I was thinking something like enchanting or alchemy maybe

[Skumboni]

You will want enchanting, alchemy, and smithing.

[Hero]

Originally posted by Skumboni:

You will want enchanting, alchemy, and smithing.

¿Should i go with heavy or light armor?

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by Hero:

¿Should i go with heavy or light armor?

In the end it doesn't matter, however I always go with light armor because you don't have as many wasted points in situational skills before the good stuff. Also I do the Brotherhood stuff really early most times, and they give you some really good light armor.

[Hero]

Any recommended shields?

[gyaru enjoyer]

it's skyrim...you don't need to min/max lol

[alexander_dougherty]

Learn how to kite around enemies, and watch for the ones attacking from behind.
Improve every piece of armour and weapons before selling, so you can have the best improvements on your gear.
Get the dual enchantment perk and put a chaos enchantment on your weapons, doesn't matter what the second enchantment is the chaos enchantment will boost it.
Oh and make sure your armour and weapon skills are higher than everything else or enemies will become op for you.

[Ωmega]

Specialized perks for each weapon type are pointless, they don't add much damage compared at all compared to the 5 ranks of Armsman and using Smithing. Savage Strike is good too, all other perks are not

[light-dan]

Originally posted by Hero:

Any recommended shields?

Spellbreaker without a doubt IMO. It has a special ward that protects from magic whenever you block. Extremely usefull when fighting mages or dragons on higher difficulties/levels.

Otherwise, there is probably some other OP shield added through the Creation Club content you get for free with the AE edition :p

[Zero McDol]

Shield type doesn't matter, if you're using enchanting and smithing. Personally, I'd recommend using a light shield, and then enchanting and smithing it.

You can easily up the block mitigation with the block % increase enchantment. You can up the magic reduction once you have the resist magic enchantment. You can disenchant weapons and armor to get enchantments to use.

Only things like how much you've fortified gear with smithing and enchanting are going to affect gear the most. You won't even need alchemy if you add a health regen, stamina regen, and disease resistance enchantments to your gear,. Basically, enchanting can pretty much keep your character pretty well protected, once you get the enchantments and up your enchanting skill.

This is all my opinion and ingame experience of course, and shouldn't be treated as fact.

[Hero]

Thanks everyone