... is there a point to keeping Dragon Scales and Bones? My companion is a mage and neither of use or will ever use any type of physical weapon outside of her using a staff. I've got a cupboard in my house with like 50 of each. Is there any point to keeping them?

As far as I know, you only use them to craft armor. So I guess there isn't really any reason for you to keep them.

You can make dragon scale armor, which is light armor class not heavy. The dragon plate is the heavy version. But I don't think its worth it to take the time to level smithing all the way to 100, so if I were you I would sell em all.

Level that smithing later? I managed to get to level 55 so you should still have enough perks.

Sell them if you don't plan on filling up the perk tree.

@sickVisionz: Considering there are no dragonbone or dragonscale weapons to be made, it is entirely useless no matter what.

If you plan on wearing armor though, you might want to hold onto it. Or maybe you'll switch companions. Who knows?

I'm playing a mage, and I have a wicked set of legendary dragonscale armor that makes destruction and conjuration spells free. I'm able to cut through enemies like butter on master, it's awesome. I'd hold on to them and level smithing up later on.

If you need the money I'd say sell them, if not maybe they'll come in handy one day if you want to make maybe some light armor or just gain some xp by leveling up smithing.

There is no loss of magic potency by wearing armour, so it is in your best interest to max out both smithing and enchanting, as well as their perk trees. That way you can enchant real armour with better buffs than on robes you find. There is no advantage that I know of to robes.

So do it. Or sell for money, there are infinite dragons if you ever need more.

How much bone and scale do you even need to make armor? Could most people get rid of most of their supply and still make armor?

@AlisterCat said:

There is no advantage that I know of to robes.

What about keeping it classy?

well, if you lvl up smithing and enchanting your char is going to gain a bunch of lvls. thus making enemies that scale that much harder because you had to lvl up a bunch for those skills as where a mage can hang just fine in his arch robes and a mask rings etc, plenty of mana and mana regain.

Just sell 'em. Unless you wanna power lvl smithing and spend the 5 perks to get back to Dragon Armor in the tree. Plenty of good armor you can find so it seems like just something to do if you're bored.

@zudthespud said:

@confinedbread: Is there a quest where you got that or did you craft it? Smithing is super easy to level up, just buy a bunch of leather or iron ingots and leather strips and go made with Iron daggers and hide armour. I found that the xp you get from crafting an item is the same no matter what it is, so just spam the items with the smallest resource cost.

Useful tip, thanks very much. I was buying resources to build steel armour for a short while, now I will just do the smarter thing that you did. Shouldn't take too long at this point I'm currently at lvl 80 for smithing and I have a largish collection of Dragon scales by this point. :-)

If your using ironskin and the alteration perks like I am, then there is no reason to hold on to dragon bones. It is frustrating to see people say robes serve no purpose. Armor serves no purpose to a mage when iron flesh with my perk makes me invincible.

I am liking the smithing in this game so far though I have spent a lot of money on it. I did just create my first glass axe and bow though and they look dope :)

If you're never going to delve into smithing, sell the bones. Dragons spawn randomly and respawn at Dragon walls, so getting more bones for smithing (if you change your mind) shouldn't be a problem.

You can throw them at a beggar.

The dragons respawn, so if you need them you can just kill dragons.

Smithing 15 -> 100 levels you. You don't need any perks, just spam iron daggers