Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-128.205.100.234-20140202212243/@comment-85.241.128.211-20150720120913

Prince of Thieves wrote: UPDATE:

So, I finally had time to test out my theory about the silence of weapons, and it turns out that my hunch was right. Get this: The silence of your weapons when dual-wielding is determined by the weapon you're holding in your RIGHT HAND. In other words, so long as you're wielding a dagger in your main hand, both of your weapons will be silent. This is why I thought it was so strange that the dagger in my left hand wasn't silent. Normally it is, but because I was wielding a sword in my right hand, it took the sound level of the sword.

On a funnier note, this also means that other one-handed weapons (swords, axes, maces) become silent as well so long as you have a dagger in your right hand.

At least this is what I've found on the 360... Iv done some testing on PS3 and yes you are right. However its more complicated than you think, daggers are not 100% silent, an ancient dragon level 90 legendary dificulty will be alerted if you swing a dagger (even if you are invisible and have 100% muffle) if you don´t have high enough sneaking skill. With 100 sneak skill all one-handed weapons became silent.

It seems that Sneak skill, perks and enchantments do have impact in other things other than visual detection.

As an example I was unable to dual wield sneak attack the ancient dragon using shadow warrior perk/skill until i unlocked all sneak perks or wear a sneak enchanted equipment.