Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.197.17.180-20140717102252/@comment-24700384-20140727070714

As to the EB, I purposefullly stated numerous times that the idea was to the OP's current level/skill/whatever condition at the moment he posted the question, and still you miss the point....but whatever.

As to the wep comparison, how does speed matter at 1k+ damage? What survives to hit 2? A group of enemies....?... that would all die in one power hit from a 2h? When everything dies in one hit, the higher damage wep with aoe capability (You sure you can kill 5 before or while I kill 2? Cause I can kill 5 in one blow...(I love you sweep!)...or the same "anything" in one hit that you can) wins on damage. Period. Your preference for what you like is just that, a preference, and both work very well, but I like raw power, and only 2h's bring enough to wipe a room in one swing. Try The Longhammer, its not a beast in the warhammer department, but it has increased speed over any other, and use EF if you're really obsessed with watching your wep(s) streak by. Amulet and Blessing of Talos work wonders combined. Again, 500 is overkill anyway, so why bother?

You proved me right on the max above bit though, appreciated.

Chaos on average?? (thats a truly stupid sounding phrase btw) Lets set aside the fact that your calculations saw a 130ish lead for the warhammer before perks, and 100 after....that's some incredible math there, but I'm going to say no more about it. You mean you took a defined set of swings and averaged out the damage from all three variables....how many swings did you use in your set, and what were you hitting that had zero resistance to all 3?? On average, you get 50-51 heads on 100 coin flips, but you can also have runs that go 99 tails too. Don't get me wrong, it's a BEAST chant, but it's not a reliable output, at all. You'll have massive swings in efficiency from hit to hit. Some will be one hit killers from CD alone, but others will hit for nothing on CD. Some enemies will resist whatever hits more thoroughly. Maybe find a more constant enchantment output for the sake of defining damage.

The only variable that changed was my alts gender, and their wep preferences..the rest was raised equally between two members of the same race, and I'm guessing I was at or (more likely) over what the OP has/had/could have been. Granted it's a guess, but I had enough to smith Daedrics, and double chant...soo....yyyeah...Anyhoo, the whole idea of my post hinged on the OP, not your super fantastic amazing stupendous mastery of skill points/levels. WE KNOW what happens when skills and bonuses hit peak; they realize they hit overkill halfway back and were running a race against themselves for quite a while. That's what I saw on those 30ish alts, that a Dwarven Warhammer with even a semi-junk smithing could be doing what your Dragonbone sword does at max smithing; killing whatever it touches in one swing, but doing it aoe style too. This side of it could even be taken a step further to say that my bow with 50% enemy time slow, natural paralyze chance, sword level critting, binocular vision, 50% stagger to nearly all enemies, a sneak multiplier, and one hit kills from a quarter mile out is better than any other weapon, period, but we can argue (it's really no contest) that in another thread.

Whatever you like man, keep at it. Just remember that by the time you smithed your 700+ 1h sword, the EB was probably a DISTANT memory, and you could have been one-shotting anything you came across MANY levels earlier with a crappier smith on a better choice of wep, which I guess is the point of making a 700 sword. Maybe give up the dual wield and go sword n board. You only need one 7sword anyway.....