Dombuscus99
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A discussion of everyone's favorite weapon I skyrim so far. I will start the tell by saying my current favorite: a superior Blade's Sword enchanted with shock
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Nighthiker77
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Windshear for 1h, the Longhammer for 2h, and bows either a Forsworn bow, Dragonbone bow, or Bound Bow if I am using magic.
Black Orchid
Death Incarnate
Braith enchanted with a can of whoop-ass.
On a more serious note, this:
Valdr's Lucky Dagger (especially for beginning level characters)
Taken from the wiki:
Valdr's Lucky Dagger grants a 25% chance of a critical hit with each strike. The weapon cannot be disenchanted since its unique ability is inherent to the dagger itself, rather than an applied enchantment.
This means it does not require recharging with soul gems and is affected by the Dragon Shout, Elemental Fury.
It can be upgraded with a Steel Ingot at a grindstone and also benefits from the Steel Smithing perk, which doubles the improvement. The Arcane Blacksmith perk is not required as the dagger is not actually enchanted.
LotusEater
I brake for blue butterflies
shadowkitty
Mistress of Shadows
For me it's a tossup between my Legendary Dragonbone bow, legendary Dragonbone sword, both of which do 25% shock damage and half as much magicka damage. I also love my Legendary, enhanced dwarven crossbow. Which has the same enchantment on it as the dragon stuff.
Chadonraz
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I did a certain quest for the very first time a few days ago, and the reward almost instantly became my favourite weapon. Volendrung.
Prior to acquiring it my character had never used a two-hander (and I'd never used a warhammer, at all), and his skill was still at 15 or 16 (might've read a skill book). Once I started using the hammer, however, the skill skyrocketed. Before I knew it, it had hit the 30 mark, and well beyond. It only took like an hour for the 2-H skill to catch up with 1-H at 50.
Volendrung also looks really cool. The only downside is that it runs out of charge really fast.
So yeah, that's my current favourite weapon of 'em all.
Prior to acquiring it my character had never used a two-hander (and I'd never used a warhammer, at all), and his skill was still at 15 or 16 (might've read a skill book). Once I started using the hammer, however, the skill skyrocketed. Before I knew it, it had hit the 30 mark, and well beyond. It only took like an hour for the 2-H skill to catch up with 1-H at 50.
Volendrung also looks really cool. The only downside is that it runs out of charge really fast.
So yeah, that's my current favourite weapon of 'em all.
Dawn
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The only unique item I have ever found and then used exclusively for the rest of the game is The Longhammer. Non-unique weapons have varied from character to character.
The Longhammer is found in Liar's Retreat, in the final room (full of falmer and chaurus) near a dead bandit named Rahd (look under the table).
It is lighter than other 2H weapons and swings as fast as a 1H axe, allowing for a higher level of sustained damage compared to any other 2H weapon while improving the sluggish feel of 2H combat.
The great thing is that it can be improved through smithing (benefits from the Orcish Smithing perk) and can be enchanted.
Put a stamina drain enchant on The Longhammer, and you can chain 2H power-attacks endlessly while hitting as fast as with a 1H axe.
Unfortunately, most every other unique weapon I have found can be outclassed by crafted items or even generic random enchant items when not using crafting.
I love and use many unique items, they just always end up being used for specific levels or purposes rather than as my primary weapon.
Below are my thoughts on other unique items posted in the thread - just my $.02.
Valdr's Dagger is a great early weapon and great for a dual wield build using only one perk in smithing (Steel) along with the Elemental Fury shout. The 25% crit though is nearly worthless as one levels as it is only a 25% chance for 5 extra damage. And if any perks are taken in smithing beyond steel, better weapons can be crafted.
Windshear would be on my list if it weren't so game breaking. The 100% stagger it does to everything in the game is so overpowered I won't use it (I'll admit it takes a bit of practice to get the timing down, but once perfected, being able to keep a dragon priest staggered like a rag on the ground just makes the game a joke).
Wuuthrad and Volendrung are both nice 2Hs, but neither benefit from smithing perks. Wuuthrad's 'increased damage to elves' is not all that great, and any other weapon can be enchanted with Volendrung's stamina drain enchant. I'd rank Volendrung higher though as it swings a bit faster than normal and the drain stamina enchant is really nice.
And funny no one mentioned any unique bows.
I really like Auriel's bow, both for it's speed and for the unique arrows and effects (extra sun / fire damage, extra damage to undead, ability to rain destruction from sun or block sun entirely). Improved with Elven smithing, it can hold it's own against other bows in close combat, though is outclassed by other bows and crossbows for sneak / ranged archery.
Zepher's is also nice, same speed as Auriel's, and can be improved (Orcish) with smithing. It suffers from an inability to be enchanted while having no inherent enchant other than it's speed, though it is easier to obtain than Auriel's.
The Longhammer is found in Liar's Retreat, in the final room (full of falmer and chaurus) near a dead bandit named Rahd (look under the table).
It is lighter than other 2H weapons and swings as fast as a 1H axe, allowing for a higher level of sustained damage compared to any other 2H weapon while improving the sluggish feel of 2H combat.
The great thing is that it can be improved through smithing (benefits from the Orcish Smithing perk) and can be enchanted.
Put a stamina drain enchant on The Longhammer, and you can chain 2H power-attacks endlessly while hitting as fast as with a 1H axe.
Unfortunately, most every other unique weapon I have found can be outclassed by crafted items or even generic random enchant items when not using crafting.
I love and use many unique items, they just always end up being used for specific levels or purposes rather than as my primary weapon.
Below are my thoughts on other unique items posted in the thread - just my $.02.
Valdr's Dagger is a great early weapon and great for a dual wield build using only one perk in smithing (Steel) along with the Elemental Fury shout. The 25% crit though is nearly worthless as one levels as it is only a 25% chance for 5 extra damage. And if any perks are taken in smithing beyond steel, better weapons can be crafted.
Windshear would be on my list if it weren't so game breaking. The 100% stagger it does to everything in the game is so overpowered I won't use it (I'll admit it takes a bit of practice to get the timing down, but once perfected, being able to keep a dragon priest staggered like a rag on the ground just makes the game a joke).
Wuuthrad and Volendrung are both nice 2Hs, but neither benefit from smithing perks. Wuuthrad's 'increased damage to elves' is not all that great, and any other weapon can be enchanted with Volendrung's stamina drain enchant. I'd rank Volendrung higher though as it swings a bit faster than normal and the drain stamina enchant is really nice.
And funny no one mentioned any unique bows.
I really like Auriel's bow, both for it's speed and for the unique arrows and effects (extra sun / fire damage, extra damage to undead, ability to rain destruction from sun or block sun entirely). Improved with Elven smithing, it can hold it's own against other bows in close combat, though is outclassed by other bows and crossbows for sneak / ranged archery.
Zepher's is also nice, same speed as Auriel's, and can be improved (Orcish) with smithing. It suffers from an inability to be enchanted while having no inherent enchant other than it's speed, though it is easier to obtain than Auriel's.
NachyoChez
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Well, I was going to mention both of these, but it seems I've been beaten to the punch!!
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Wolf-Runner-Bosmer
Member
The Nightingale Bow is my favorite weapon. I patiently wait for it to come to me while I work under Brynwolf...if only I could get under him. Unf. Anyway, I do want that bow, though...
Mm-hm.
Mm-hm.
Adam Warlock
Well-Known Member
I change armor , clothes , weapons , and rings according to my mood or the mission at hand , but I always wear my Amulet of Talos !
Ritterkreuz
Active Member
For me it's my Dragonbone weapons duel enchanted with fiery soul trap and whatever else I feel like putting on them, effectively giving the weapon 3 effects.
Medea
The Shadow Queen
This is probably my favorite item as well. This weapon is simply go to for me almost all the way through the entire game.
