User blog comment:Juliana McClendon/The "best" weapon issue.../@comment-4787430-20130710173655

Hi, welcome to the wiki! I think the problem you may be having comes from not taking the right perks in the perks skill tree. If you're using mostly two-handed weapons you want to use your skill points on things like Two-Handed perks. Weapon damage increases 20% with each perk if you take the "Barbarian" perk. If you take all 5 in "Barbarian" your weapon damage will increase to do 80% damage.

The same is true if you decide later that you want to use mostly One-handed weapons. You would use your skill points on the One-Handed perks tree, and if you take all 5 in "Armsman" your weapon damage with one-handed weapons increases 80%.

Smithing is also something to take into account if you're looking to improve your weapons damage. If you want to improve higher damage weapons, such as an Ebony War Hammer, you have to get the Ebony Smithing perk.

If you are not able to find a really strong awesome weapon yet, then it could be that your still at a low level. Better weapons start to appear at around level 30. Elven, Glass, Ebony.