Do I need to ascend the perk trees in order

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Do I need to take each child perk along the perk tree in addition to meeting the skill requirements for perks?

For instance, the smithing perk tree is split into two sections: The left, which features light armor (Elven, Glass) and the right, which features the Heavier armor (Orcish, Ebony).

The Capstone Perk in the tree, Dragon Smithing, has "feed-in" lines from both Glass Smithing and Daedric Smithing.

Do I need to need to take Glass Smithing and Daedric Smithing if I want to learn the Dragon Smithing perk? Either or? Neither (as long as I have 100 smithing)?

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In the case of your example, it's either/or.

You need to move up the perk trees in order, but you don't need to clear every branch.

You also don't need to max multi-rank perks to move past them. One point is sufficient to move on.

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I saw Karliah perform a Silent Roll which is Sneak 100. You may want to look at http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Classes for more information.

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I tried this out in-game and yes, it does stack as in your first example.

Using a steel dagger with 10 display damage (10.36 actual) and the Dark Brotherhood gloves, I achieved 932.4 damage; without the perk, 621.6. The exact damage formula without the sneak bonus from UESP is as follows:

Damage = 
((Right Hand displayed Damage * (1 + Power Attack Bonus) * (1 + Dual Power Attack Bonus) * (1 + Power Attack Perk) * (1 + Dual Power Attack perk)) * Dual Power Attack Mod)
+ ((Left Hand displayed Damage * (1 + Power Attack Bonus) * (1 + Dual Power Attack Bonus) * (1 + Power Attack Perk) * (1 + Dual Power Attack perk)) * Dual Power Attack Mod)

Power Attack Bonus = 1 if power attacking
Dual Power Attack Bonus = 0.125 if power attacking with dual weapons
Power Attack Perk = 0.25 if power attacking and you have Savage Strike or Devastating Blow
Dual Power Attack Perk = 0.5 if power attacking with two weapons and you have Dual Savagery
Dual Power Attack Mod is 2/3 for the right and 1/3 for the left hand

As the wiki notes, you don't actually need to attack with both weapons to get the bonus, just have 2 equipped.

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