User blog comment:BrooklynGuido42/TES IV SUCKS/@comment-3186821-20120326165204/@comment-4511886-20120328141544

I guess you're using silver weapons, they are the ONLY weapon that degrades faster than it's previous counterpart (in this case steel). Silver and iron has VERY low endurance and breaks ridiculously fast. Most other weapons hold for a quite a while. It might also be that you use normal attacks instead of power attacks because weapons degrade with each hit rather than by the damage they do.