Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9601450-20131225183646/@comment-29458028-20140719003532

No, that's not exactly what I meant. If we were going to make a new game, I would propose tonnes more enchantments and spell creation to be brought back. Which would shift the balance.

You do realize that the league of an ordinary sword varies with the upgrades applied to it. The unsmithable daedric artifacts you propose will make them below the league of ordinary weapons very quickly. That's why I am so against it. They will never outclass a conventional weapon, especially when more enchantments will be introduced. You didn't need to upgrade excalibur IRL cause it was sharp enough to one hint KO, but if it wasn't, you'd want to make it better. That's common sense. Sentimentality has no place in a world of war. I'm very utilitarian, so a historical artifact is no different from a modern weapon in my eyes.

Taking even their magical effects, unless I did the final changes, the artifacts, the weapons will get epically outclassed, for example:

"Average min maxed dragonbone sword (used by many gamers)" : about 350-400 phys, 127 lifeleech, 300 chaos. (Strong enough to end most things without fancy extras)

"Worship's slightly improved dawnbreaker" : 45 phys damage, 15 sun damage, 25 damage explosion to undead, staggers undead. (Uh... Outclassing a normal sword? 60 damage is a little underwhelming)

"Data's original improved dawnbreaker" : 350-400 phys, 15 sun damage, 45 sun to undead, every kill explosion that staggers all, 100 damage to undead (still a bit weak, 415 is not more than approx 570 per hit)

"Meridia's rage itself dawnbreaker OP edition min maxed" : 350 - 400 phys, 100 sun damage, 75 extra sun damage to undead, heals you equal to sun damage dealt, every power attack cause a sun beam that deals 175 damage to all and 300 damage to undead in a line before you. Kills cause massive sun explosion that sends everything flying, doing 250 damage to all and 200 additional damage to undead. (Finally, more OP than the min maxed sword. I am not in favor of implementing this either, I just needed a contrast point.)

Which is why there needs to be a way to upgrade artifacts...