Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.197.17.180-20140717102252/@comment-24700384-20140728210008

You again? lets just throw bombs this time and end this......

You're just an idiot to think the OP was doing anything other than starting out fresh in the world of skyrim if he can't look at the EB's stats and tell whats good or bad about it, and that your "arguement" stands numericially but lets fight for your side for a moment.....

The base damage on the EB IS low, but if, as you say, he could be just starting out in 2h's on legendary as a completionist, he SHOULD have a low damage wep that adds a safety net to the learning curve, and costs nothing at all to practice with. Why not get the hang of the timing of blocks and attacks with a free 2h leech gs that forces you to learn playstyle over "just smash everything" before you commit to any other 2h wep, which will operate in the same manner save for your personal preferences on enchants? It's also a great wep to test your followers 2h skills, with the same safety net. It's a huge change from 1h's to 2h's, and it takes some getting used.... to for the player him/herself, or even on how much attention your follower needs using them.

All that aside, if he wants to level 2h the fastest, or even run the only 2h class thats worth running, he SHOULD be running a Warhammer. Highest base damage (and, as such, the fastest leveling), usually AT LEAST a +3 over great swords, and only a loss of .1 in speed (.7 aps on GS, .6 on WH). The Longhammer, as I suggested you try, would level the skill as fast as possible against your "legendary level hardened enemies" or any other that didn't fall in one swing, with a dragonbone great sword coming in with 25 base versus the longhammer's 21, but slower speed. Yes, it loses to daedrics and such on base, but on dps it wins, just like your sword arguement. Nevermind EF, EF is OP on it, it takes the speed past 1h swords. Without EF, you can smith it out, AND dual chant it, and not lose the speed bonus...so bye bye to your dps/damage arguement. It's still  faster than a 1h mace, still gets the games best melee perks due to it's class, nearly or THE highest dps/ttk you can achieve without shouts, and outpaces nearly any other wep on damage per swing. Why wouldn't "mister legendary completionist" or even "just starting adventurer" just want leveling the fastest he could get it? Oh right, because he's a casual or something, but it still doesn't make sense in terms of this discussion.

...Oh right, I suggested all this WAY back when I threw out the warhammer stats, then you jumped in and decided to cause a circular arguement where I have to spell it all out, and you prove yourself wrong. Nice work.