It's an option I guess, you would lose a little armor rating but get the benefit of double backstabs from the gloves. Muffle enchant is only 50% from the shrouded armor as oppose to the 100% guaranteed by the muffle spell so you wouldn't be wrapped in a cloak of silence...
I don't think you need the increased damage from smithing better items, most enemies can be dropped quickly from dagger sneak attacks.
When you 'destroy the dark brotherhood' you can pick up 'the blade of woe' from astrids corpse, that dagger has the highest base damage in the game, it ties with dragonbone but uses the steel smithing perk which is already taken in my build, grinding your way upto ebony or daedric would definitely be a waste when you could potentially pick up that dagger at low levels...
It's an option I guess, you would lose a little armor rating but get the benefit of double backstabs from the gloves. Muffle enchant is only 50% from the shrouded armor as oppose to the 100% guaranteed by the muffle spell so you wouldn't be wrapped in a cloak of silence...
I don't think you need the increased damage from smithing better items, most enemies can be dropped quickly from dagger sneak attacks.
When you 'destroy the dark brotherhood' you can pick up 'the blade of woe' from astrids corpse, that dagger has the highest base damage in the game, it ties with dragonbone but uses the steel smithing perk which is already taken in my build, grinding your way upto ebony or daedric would definitely be a waste when you could potentially pick up that dagger at low levels...