Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.197.17.180-20140717102252/@comment-29458028-20140727073358

You can't one shot everything with 1000+ damage unless you play on novice to expert. Legendary dragons have 16000 practical HP on well, legendary. Do the math. I wasn't saying exactly that one handed is extremely superior, I was just going with DPS. Plus what would survive 1000 damage? Draugr deathlords, dragons, random encounter enemies etc all have nearly 4000 practical health. Your point being? Sweeping for every strike is not practical if you don't have that much stamina (again, if you specced 1000 into stamina, that's not applicable for me). Without power attacks, one handed weapons do have better damage output, which is why I like them more, for versatility (2 handed is only usable by warriors and stuff with a mountain of stamina, other classes cannot use them effeciently as power attacking literally chews up stamina.)

I did say a 10% difference. 10% of 1200++ is ??? I didn't want super specifics, but I did say the warhammer does exactly 135 more damage with all the gear added, no matter what other improvements to it (so long as said improvements are applied to the one handed comparison weapon). I just was lazy to be specific all the way because I thought everyone else is not that fussy about such, looks like I was wrong XD.

I don't need to smith my weapons to stupid values, but then again, that is a mechanics testing account, not one I use to play seriously. I test all exploits/raw values/stuff on that, so all variables are constant. I was stating mechanical values, not time to kill. If you want time to kill, it varies for enemy to enemy.

The EB is crap no matter what level you are. It does less damage than an ebony sword of the vampire that is 1 handed. If a 2 handed weapon swings at the same speed as a one handed but deals less damage, you might as well not use it. THIS IS MY POINT.

Plus you cannot elemental fury with an enchanted 2 handed weapon. Anyway, averages for chaos work because it seems pseudo-random, not perfectly random, thus the coin flip point is not exactly legit. Plus there is 127 lifeleech as a constant, which ignores all resists. The chaos is a booster for the lifeleech, not so much the star of the show.

Yeah, an enchanted bow beats everything when you have stupidly infinite arrow supply (500 ebony arrows, dbone bow, dual enchanted chaos lifeleech). Only one thing it sucks at is close combat, since any melee weapon will be way faster.

I really hate explaining the same point over and over again. Never mind, you win. Although I have nothing against 2 handed weapons in an RP sense, they just suck to me overall. Sweeping 5 enemies? There's only one dragon for you to hit, cleaving it or not makes no difference! To sweep 5 enemies you need to wait for them to cluster, in that same time I could have took out all of them with a sword/bow/spells.