Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-117.79.232.255-20140406213419/@comment-173.26.227.97-20140407180450

The Reasoning is valid, yes. Most artifacts, with the exception to the Ring of Hircine and the Book of Something I cant Pronouce correctly found in the dwemer vault, are indeed useless at late game, estimating that late game for most people is around lvl 50.

However you can't deny their importance at early game. For those around lvl 10 to 30, the dawnbreaker is very useful for dealing with mass undead oppenents, went inside a ruin once vampires everywhere and they decide to summon up skeletons. I was lvl 32, I'm sorry to say I can be taken out with mass numbers, The Dawnbreaker helped out alot that round.

The reason why The ring if Hircine is an exception along with the book is for other reasons, if one is a werewolf then having that ring is helpful being endless transformations, the book of whatever its called up in the north with the crazy wizard is also incrediably useful no matter where you are in the game, the levels gained is much welcomed. Another 2 exceptions if your an enchanter would be the mace of molag and the black star, makes enchanting a breeze.

So in my opinion only 4 arnt worthless late game.