Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.197.17.180-20140717102252/@comment-24700384-20140727083629

Both of our responses have no rhyme or reason to order compared to each other, so I figured I'd number the last one.....

1. Nice point, 4-5 enemy types in game make it not true, and require a few more hits, or sneaks, or crafted poisons, whatever. That's legendary, that's higher lvl fighting, and I'll take the ability to block over "faster weapons" on legendary anyways, which DEFINITLEY isn't what the OP is running on, so you can throw that out too. I'd bet my life he threw it down or left it normal.

2. Yes, you CAN EF with The Longhammer, and that was the ONLY 2h I suggested it on. It comes with a unique enchant of weight reduction to improve speed, as I said. Why you would even try to tell the pro Warhammer side that he doesn't know Warhammers is, again, beyond me.

3.With draw speed reduction and time slow for enemies, bows do melee range just fine, in fact almost as fast as swords in real time, somewhere just above maces.

4. The EB can be attained FAR before you can do anything else you're mentioning, and at that point it IS an amazing follower tanking wep, restoring what they lose taking each hit means they go forever and don't die except to giants. You're a fool to categorically dismiss it in any form at any level, even if MOST of those combinations DO mean it's crap, it has a purpose at a time. Forget your godly leveled self for a moment and get back to the OP here.

5. No, I didn't spec 1k into stam, I specced health/stam 50/50. Why would I EVER need to? I'd use a stam leech FAR before that became necessary. And what wrong turn did your spec take to be worried about stam in a 2h build? Are you just 1000 health? Or is it worse and you specced all magic until you realized you had swords in your hands? I know giving up the ability to block to dual wield can be scary, but don't overreact, it'l be ok.

6.If all you're fighting is dragons, why are you still running?

7.NONE OF WHAT I SAID WAS MEANT FOR MAXED OUT CRAFTING OR MAXED OUT LEVELS, IT WAS TO THE ORIGINAL OP'S STATE AT THE TIME HE/SHE POSTED. I can't make that point any brighter for you, I hope this time you see it FINALLY. I thought throwing in phrases like "a semi-junk crafting", "30ish alts", "Dwarven" and of course " 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.". If the OP had the ability to do what you suggest, he wouldn't have asked about the EB at all. He WOULD be far better off with a 2h (or even sword and board) at that lvl simply to save himself some damage by blocking. Anything that WAS said about maxed out crafting on my side of this came as a guess and a side bar, simply because I don't have a need to try, I haven't taken the time to do it at all yet, and it doesn't matter to my point anyway. Apparently I'll have to to shut you up about it to get back to the main idea though, so give me till tomorrow evening.

8. Arrow supplys aren't infinite, and ebony arrows suck, step up to daedric sometime... if you can hit well enough to keep your supply good.

9. If Chaos isn't your "star", then reduce your average for it and focus on the 127 leech. Do your tests with two constants or just one and you'll have a far better idea of what you're doing.

PLEASE don't respond with anything other than what the OP could do to better his spot. You must be able to see roughly where he is...I hope. If I wanted to argue what absolute maximum non exploit damage is in skyrim, I'd STILL be right that a Warhammer hits harder than your sword. To put it up against a full dual wield wouldn't come out that way, but I wouldn't dw on Legendary either. That's making things unnecessarily hard on yourself and bottle-necking your fighting.