Fun fact, off handing the lucky dagger while you have Mehrune's razor in your main hand actually adds the crit chance modifier to the insta kill effect
Do you have any proof for this? I've read this a couple of times on Reddit and any proof was just safe scumming for lucky kills. Never worked for me. Odds seemed the same.
They are 100% in the second group for me. I get annoyed at constantly recharging enchanted items so I just oversmith something and use it unenchanted. The longhammer is nice though.
@@Justanotherconsumer you don't need to recharge. Just enchant your gear with -100% destruction and you are good to go. Also if you do the azura questline for the black star its easy to recharge any gear free of charge. You get so many grand soul gem in the late game anyways, i usually enchant my expensive jewelry and sell them for money.
@@joedarby4596 If only the Rueful Axe had a HIGH and I’m mean HIGH based damage, say two dragon bone war hammers combined. Guards do say “that blade looks sharp even to cut through a god.”
10:15 misconception about the blade, you don’t need to kill followers to increase its power, you just need to kill anyone that LIKES your character : this includes many smaller characters that you’ve done favors for: like beggars that you’ve given a gold piece, and farmers that you’ve given crops. With that knowledge in mind, finding the ten people that can fill the blades power isn’t too hard Edit: There’s a lot of characters that are also “destined to die” that make great sacrifices as long as you’ve done favors for them beforehand (like a few people that end up being targets for the dark brotherhood, Ja-ree and his sister Deja, Severus Pelagio, and a few more I haven’t mentioned)
And you can just give 1 gold to a beggar and use the necromancer standing stone to continuously raise them. Like Degaine in Markarth are always talking shit...
If youre an orc its also incredibly easy as all orcs in orc strongholds immediately count as "liking" you. Just go slaughter everyone in an orc stronghold and your ebony blade should be maxed out. When maxed out tho? It SHITS on 99% of the weapons in this game. Absord 40 health on hit with dagger attack speed on a two-handed weapon? Shits insane.
@@goblinganggaming680 i just commented about the orc village method to someone else lol. There's 1 prob with the weapon tho, it's considered a 1 handed sword. Yet it doesnt benefit from either 1/2h perks. I dont remember being able to upgrade it myself either, could be wrong tho
@@gabbonoo Daggers have the lowest range at 0,7 units, one handed weapons have a range unit of 1 and two handed weapon have a reach of 1,3 There are exceptions, some weapons have slightly more range or speed than others in the same class but that is the gist of it
Pro tip: Don't use Mehrune's Razor against the Ebony Warrior. He has the reflect blows perk from the heavy armor tree and the instant death effect can be reflected.
"reflect" copies the initial snapshot damage on epcalcuation. then after the swing damage is dealt, the "reflect" damage is dealt they really should have called it thorns. reflect makes me think of the attack bouncing off and hitting the aggressor, not dealing back what is already taken. i dont know if "reflect" works on the scriped kill from Mehrunes, not that it matters since Merunes razor is it has 1.98% chance and it doesnt scale well with smithing lower than 100. 2% kill chance is worse than any scalable damage over 1% even if it takes you 50 hits to kill something cos it's unreliable.
Minimize your guilt in leveling the Ebony Blade by taking one follower with you to the Ritual Stone (east of Whiterun). Activate the stone, kill follower with the blade, use stone power to ressurect body, kill, wait 24 hours, ressurect body again, rinse, repeat . Bodies ressurected with the Ritual Stone do not turn to ash when killed, so the process can be repeated over and over with just a single follower until the Ebony Blade is max leveled.
This is hard because if you have a decently levelled two handed tree, you almost always take the followers head off when you kill them, thus preventing the loop hole from working😢
Due to a developer oversight, Bloodskal Blade's special attack can be triggered while in the Ethereal state (from the Become Ethereal Shout). Which means you can blast through enemies while remaining 100% impervious to damage yourself.
On top of that when using the Become Ethereal Shout you don’t use any stamina. So as long as you don’t hit anyone with the Blade itself you can spam the sword beam until the shouts effects end.
Yeah i didnt know people were unaware of this. My first playthrough of Dawnguard i put 2 and 2 together and found this out. Also with the blood arrows you can shoot it at the sun to turn it dim if you are a vampire and dont wanna be weakened in the sunlight
Nettlebane should do extreme damage to all Spriggans, Wood Elves, Werebeasts, and animals imo. They should've literally made it the bane of all things tied to nature in general.
@namor3607 And? it's function of a weapon so steeped with a hatred for nature is only shown via scripted game events. If it just had something like a "deals extra damage to animals and spriggans" would show why the followers of kynareth hate it but also make it useful for a few more levels.
@@namor3607 Most Deadric artifacts are essentially quest items, but they still have use after the quest is complete. It wouldn't of hurt anything to have Nettlebane have a unique enchant on it. Plenty of lesser regarded items have unique effects.
Ysgramor's city, Saarthal, was massacred by Mer. He brought back people from his homeland to take back the City and establish humans on Tamriel. His axe's enchantment is more pragmatic than it is racist.
Also, the dumner in windhelm are incredibly racist themselves. Even the local altmer and a few non racist dumner call them out for never contributing to windhelm yet complaining that they are treated like royalty. Just read dunmer of skyrim to see what their general consensus is. Meanwhile there are like 3 racist nords in the entire city. Riften is better because the dunmer there actually integrated with society
@@lancekemal8989 neither do the dunmer. They’ve actually done worse than the high elves. But we are talking about individuals of a race, not races as a whole.
I think the snow elves somehow found out there's a magnus eye inside and i don't know for what reason (maybe they're attracted to it, just like arcano, goes on a rampage) starts a massacre to the nords. Ysgramor then bringa back thousands of his army from atmora and that's the end of the snow elves
@@valentinee500 Definitely, high base damage, higher upgrade potential, better enchantment imo, and i think the enchantment lasts longer before recharge too. Only downside is being a leveled weapon with a max of 46. I usually remove that with mods tho. Miraaks sword should be higher too, as without creation club, and at its highest leveled weapon status (which is 60 holy shit way too high), it is the highest dps one handed sword in the game with a base damage of 16. Chillrend being 15, and daedric sword and Nightingale being 14.
Bro talking mad shit about Ysgrammor but forgetting that the Snow Elves exterminated a village full of women and children to steal the Eye of Magnus, a relic capable of ending the world and forcing the survivors (Ysgrammor among them) back to Atmorra. At that point, I don't think you're allowed to play the racism card.
tbh it's not even the nords being racist at all it's the nords being right about who to defend themselves from. Elves literally believe they were going to be immortal until lorkhan (shor) decided to make men and nirn and "tricked" (he just asked him to) Auriel into helping to make men. This took away some power from Auriel and as a result the elves he created before lost their immortality, but nirn and men were created. What this means for the current year in the game is that 1) the elves are the ones racist against non-elves and they literally blame them for elves not being immortal, and ultimately the thalmor's goal is to end the world itself because they think if they can unmake nirn, they might get their immortality back. 2) the nords' hatred for elves ONLY extends to the point that they are being hated on first, and have been forced to defend themselves from elves ever since the dawn of their race
@@jansonshrock2859Hit the nail on the head. Elves in the Elder Scrolls series are the literal worst. While individuals would vary (as they always do), their culture and ideologies are wrong at best, evil at worst. Dark Elves are the only race that practices slavery. Wood Elves are literal cannibals (and before anyone brings up the Green Pact, they could limit their meat intake to animals. Instead, they choose to eat people. Read "A Dance in Fire", where they literally serve up visiting Imperials as the main course of their feast. Yeah, they don't wait until they die natural deaths, they just STRAIGHT UP kill them and eat them. For a feast. That means EVERYONE in the town/city was involved with this). Finally, the High Elves are exactly what you describe them as. Genocidal supremacists, with their heads so far up their own asses, they believe they were divine and blame Lorkhan for being mortal. The Orcs are the only race of Elves that are, at the very least, respectable, even if their culture is a bit primitive. At the very least, Orcs are willing to coexist and be civil with others if one can earn their trust.
You can get a second Dawn Breaker by using the Unrelenting Force shout when it's on its pedestal, before you pick it up. The copy will appear on the ground. It works about half of the time for me, so I don't know if there's any other trick to make it happen every time. Maybe a save or something? You killed my wife with the Long Hammer lol.
For the Ebony Blade, use a mod that allows you to recruit anyone as a follower, locate the ritual stone if you haven't already, get Nazeem to follow you, go to the ritual stone, dismiss Nazeem, kill him, resurrect him, kill him again, wait twenty four hours in-game, rinse and repeat until Mephala tells you it's finished
@@DSG-farts-connoisseurof course it is. The irregular cadence of speech and the copious amounts of mispronunciations give it away. It's a good AI voiceover but still an AI voiceover.
What about nerveshatter? I recently came across that spikey hammer and it’s super cool. Maybe not amazing but it looks awesome and it has some good enchants.
One thing I realised is that all these unique weapons are really good for early to mid game. In late game, using proper high level enchantments on even a wooden sword will outperform even the best of these uniques. Similarly I advise new players to lay off leveling up their enchantment until latter on if you want a diverse gameplay experience.
Enchantment is so critical in legendary mode though, else every fight is gonna take forever. You can easily increase your One handed or two handed by like 100% with a few grand soul for your necklace and armor pieces. They go hand to hand with smithing and can help you makes some quick cash too. Basically leveling 3 stats at once(speech, smithing and enchanting). Also do alchemy for enchanting potions and smithing potions too . Need to do potions for resist magic anyways so you don't have to use enchantment slot on them imo
I’m surprised by the C Tier Harkons sword, personally I’d say it’s one of the best swords in the game, plus who doesn’t wanna be a vampire, they’re really cool
If you plan on doing the Dark Brotherhood quest line but are generally reluctant to kill people not related to that quest line, wait until you get the Ebony Blade AND a reanimation staff and then go kill Narfi BEFORE getting his associated Contract quest. Make sure you do his quest searching for his sister or give him a Septim to befriend him before killing him. Then kill him with the Ebony Blade, revive him with the staff (if you use reanimation spells instead of the staff, his corpse will disintegrate), kill the reanimated corpse with the Ebony Blade, and just repeat the process over and over until the Ebony Blade is maxed. Besides Narfi, you could do this with any non-essential NPC you don't particularly like but can still befriend. Just make sure whatever reanimation staff you use is not too weak to reanimate that particular NPC.
Silent Moons enchantment has a weird bug. It slows things with higher attack speeds (Like Dual Flurry) to crazy levels. Smack a forsworn that is using two swords and it gets comical
Morrowind had the best uniques Hard to find and get as well I used to spend hours levitating around inside daedric ruins, checking around the ceiling for nooks that almost always had an interesting item That was such a great game. I'd love to see a proper remaster done, keeping all the same items, same old spell crafting+skill system but overhauling combat away from a dice-roll.
The Ebony Blade can actually reach max power by only killing one friendly NPC. You just need to use the Ritual Stone's daily power or the master raise dead spell (forgot it's name), and kill them again, then repeat the process. This works because those are the only two forms of the raise dead spell that don't turn the NPC affected to ash upon death. The Ebony Blade also has by far the fastest swing speed in the two-handed category, being on par with most one-handed swords and war axes. You can actually get two Blade of Woes. You can pickpocket one off of Astrid and then get the one that spawns on the floor next to her later on.
Whats even better is that windshear is a weapon that doesn't even need soul gems! I always get it around level 25 and keep it throughout the entire play through
Got a bone to pick about Volendrung. Should be at least A tier. The 50 Points of stamina every hit is no joke. Nearly endless power attacks? Sprintlock an enemy and spam the sprint power attack with a fully charged Volendrung and you'll melt nearly anything.
Dawnbreaker can also be duel wielded if you use a duplication glitch on it, giving you two very powerful undead slaying swords. And Auriel's Bow is always enjoyable to use. So many undead in Skyrim that any weapon that specializes in killing them make them much more valuable than most other weapons in the game.
HUGE tip for Ebony Blade: since nobody likes Cosnach (the follower), you can make him your follower, kill him, then keep using the Staff of Worms to bring him back so you can get all the kills to fully charge the blade. Also once charged, the blade never loses the charge
Volendrung has absolutely carried me through some difficult playthroughs, Being able to spam power attacks is really powerful, especially if you use the "Ordinator perk overhaul" and spec into warhammers. This was before I discovered the vegetable soup trick for infinite power attacks. Still my favourite weapon.
sadly stamina in this game is completely useless since you only need 1 stamina to power attack and the enemy seems to have infinite, though staggering them is quite nice. Only thing i find useful about leveling up stamina honestly for 5 more carry weight lol
@@Kier4n99 Yeah yeah yeah, I had the slight impression that something is familliar, and it seems to me this AI youtuber plagiarized the videos of TheEpicNate315 which I used to watch 3-5 years ago and very much enjoyed. Daaamn son!
no way you put bloodskaal blade in s tier solely because it creates energy blades from power attacks, that don't do much damage, but put soulrender and bloodscythe in a tier
bro i used to duel wield the Lucky Dagger and Merus Razor, having a weapon that has a chance to insta kill alongside a weapon that staggers enemies is extremely op!
There is a way to fully charge the Ebony Blade with a single life. Find a follower that you like the least (I recommend one of the mercs you can get from any of the inns) and lead them somewhere secluded. Kill them to gain a charge and the turn them into undead to kill them again which will give another charge. Normally corpses turn into ash when you make them undead except in one case, the Ritual Stone. Wait 24 hours > use ritual power > kill > repeat. Make sure to save before killing each time as doing the kill animation that decapitates the target makes them no longer resurrectable.
I remember my first ever playthrough with Skyrim I was obsessed with finding good weapons as early as possible, Mehrunes razor was one of the ones I used ASAP until the end of the game because it was just a good weapon. Now here’s the kicker, I only had its instant kill effect proc on a few humanoid enemies, that was until the endgame, where I hit and kill Alduin in one hit. I was kinda confused like “that’s it..?” Until I remembered it was the dagger
Fun fact: you don't have to kill any followers or befreinded NPCs to max level the Ebony blade, you can become a freind to the strongholds then slaughter like three or four, and seeing as some of the Orc strongholds are painfully generic I don't think most people will care about slaughtering a few
I’m happy to see the razor to being an S-tier weapon. While some may have had no luck with the instant kill effect. Using it on legendary difficulty has made it much more useful. Even made a few videos on its potential.
10:14 The ebony blade has a few variants that you can get randomly, and one of them makes enemies not count attacks from the ebony blade as an assault, meaning you won’t get fined for killing someone with it.
In one of my playthroughs i played an assassin build with Valdr's and Mehrunes in each hand with Nightingale and Shrouded set parts and it was amazing , one of the most fun playthroughts i've played, yes that wepon is a hiden gem in fact , should be in B tier IMO and in certain builds like i said even A tier, like you said this wepon performs best in the off-hand.
Ranged - Auriel's Bow (combat archer), Nightingale Bow (stealth archer) Two Handed - Ebony Blade, Champion's Cudgel One Handed - Nightingale Blade and Chillrend Dagger - Blade of Woe Since I play without enchanting smithing and alchemy, I usualy use unique weapons, and when ever I start a new playthrough, there is a high chance I will use one of these.
10:00 the crutch of this weapon can be circumvented by using the Dead Thrall spell on any one follower. If I'm not mistaken, you can do this with any fallen enemy to achieve the same effect as killing a follower.
Not sure if it was the special edition, or the unofficial patch, but my Windshear doesn't have the guaranteed stagger. I know it did in the original game, my assassin offhanded it with the razor in the main hand for the stagger
lunar weapons deserve to be higher. its really easy to just hit wait until nighttime, and it can do way more damage than a simple fire enchantment, as well as have more charges than a simple fire enchantment.
I think the Notched Pickaxe's placement is fair but I also feel it's important to mention that you have to get to the throat of the world to even get it which means that it could easily be ignored if you've smithed enough before that point in the story
I'd argue the enchant effect of fiery souls makes it s+++ it's the best enchantment in the game 100%. Also you can give it million of charge and jt won't affect its damage apparently. Just how long you have b4 q soul suck. But being a melee just set it to 1 and have it do max damage with 500+ charge.
@@M4x_P0w3r About frost. DPS goes only from 130 to 115 in enemies that resist frost. About elemental fury. Yes, the longhammer is the best two handed weapon because of elemental fury, but elemental fury is a addon. If addons can be used, a simple weapon in the off hand makes chillrend do x1.5 damage, x1.35 speed(dual fury) + the damage of the other weapons, making the DPS go to 263(232 with resistence to frost) + Second weapon DPS Two Handed suck end game, a perfect character (All skills and perk) can always have a higher DPS with a with a single one handed weapon than a two handed one, and almost double fps with two one handed weapons.
@@LuizFelipe-fk6it yeah i just dual fury in the late game and one shot basically everything if i bother to pop a one handed potion for 120% increased damage along with my already insane 45%*4 from gear. Even the Sword and Shield playstyle is way better than two handed in my experience cause the block of shields is like 10x better and you can have more enchantment on yourself which is always better than missing 2 from your build cause you 2 handed a weapon
Blasphemy! Chillrend is an S tier weapon. I will hear no other rating! Lol. Seriously any weapon that will a paralyze enchantment automatically needs to be in S tier. Lol. This was amazing. Thanks for posting. I’m really digging this channel so far. I’m glad I stumbled here.
I like to fast track learning both Smithing and Enchanting. Once I have both maxed out, I create a dragonbone dagger, sword, and bow. I enchant each with two of the following: Frostfeed, Fire, Shocking and Chaos. I use the Ebony Blade, improved at a grinding wheel for my two-hander. Pick a fight with my character and you'll die... very quickly.
you would want to powerup your alchemy too so you can fortify your smithing and enchantment, making it even more OP. Funny how the strongest build is one where you just make everything by yourself lol. No drops beat your weapons and armor anyways
I really like Zephyr, the bow you can get in Arkngthamz that belonged to the tragic ghost of Katria in the "Lost for the Ages" quest. It's speed is equal to Auriel's bow and doesn't require recharging. It's also a permanent weapon, so it won't disappear even if placed in a respawning container. I liked Katria and having a memento of her around is nice. The bow can be acquired before you even enter the Dawnguard DLC. Good to get early in the game and acquired early in a nice questline. It appears to be a Dwarven Bow and can be improved with that Smithing perk. While it looks Dwarven, it has damage equal to an Elven bow and its speed makes it a valuable weapon for any Archer based character. It's lighter than Auriel's Bow too.
My favorite: a simple dragonbone greatsword of legendary quality used with level 3 elemental fury, and you swing your greatsword faster than a dagger. great success!
Stormcloaks are resists but if your dragonborn girl marries alfric he won't do anything you don't like. Remember, your characters a gamegod. That be a spose fight we know who will win...lol talk back aye pimp slap. Note: real life spousal abuse will get you arrested.
Role playing it does. If you merry him there isn't anything he or the dominion can do. 1-your way stronger then him. 2-he don't like your ideas too bad. 3-it's a youtube comment...what is grammar at 2a.m @@MinnowTF
I’ll never forget first time I ever played through Skyrim and getting the mace of molag bal. It became my main weapon all the way to end game and beyond.
I don’t know if it’s patched but you can acquire 2 dawnbreakers if you hit the sword with an explosion like a fireball. It will fling one in the room which you can grab and then take the one from the pedestal.
Dawnbreak is actually kind of fun to use. I'm not in love with the design and its best qualities are primarily aimed towards undead, but if you know you're going int oa den of undead and want to use a one-handed weapon, it's the prime weapon of choice. It's both reasonably powerful and fun to use. I grabbed it before my vampirism fully set in and thankfully it has no negative effects towards me. Though it does make Serana glow and make a sort of crackling/burning noise for a bit if she's in range of whatever undead you randomly detonated with your killing blow (actually I've noticed you can hit undead and cause the burning effect on them and then finish them off with a spell or something else and they'll still detonate sometimes, so that's fun).
The Ebony Blade can be upgraded by killing any characters who have your trust, so you can kill some of the bad/miserable people throughout Skyrim and still get the sword fully upgraded
Extra tidbit on Windshear, it's charge only drains when you block bash with it. This means you can stagger enemies an infinite number of times if you aren't Block bashing with it. Pair it with the targe of the bloodied to keep enemies bleeding as they stagger and stumble
For the ebony blade just use it on the follower you sacrifice to Boethiah and use it when doing quests that require you to kill somebody you can get to like you or characters that will die off like Ondolemar.
Fun fact, off handing the lucky dagger while you have Mehrune's razor in your main hand actually adds the crit chance modifier to the insta kill effect
Big Brained
Kid theres no fun facts in 2024. Cmon clown
Until the ebony warrior reflects the blow on yourself
Do you have any proof for this? I've read this a couple of times on Reddit and any proof was just safe scumming for lucky kills. Never worked for me. Odds seemed the same.
that is very good to know
I see two types of weapons here.
1. Weapons that are absolutely worth going after and using.
2. Collectables and aesthetics for your home.
Where dose the poachers axe fall in this then
@@NoahVercetti If you are playing as a hunter style character, then 1, if not, then 2.
They are 100% in the second group for me. I get annoyed at constantly recharging enchanted items so I just oversmith something and use it unenchanted.
The longhammer is nice though.
@@Justanotherconsumer you don't need to recharge. Just enchant your gear with -100% destruction and you are good to go. Also if you do the azura questline for the black star its easy to recharge any gear free of charge. You get so many grand soul gem in the late game anyways, i usually enchant my expensive jewelry and sell them for money.
On top of murdering a dog and not obtaining the Oblivion Walker achievement, the Rueful Axe has the SLOWEST swing speed of any weapon in the game.
Noticed this the other day, never noticed somehow over the years, I would always ask my follower to pick it up and keep the dog a while longer.
That and meridias beacon rub me the wrong way
@@joedarby4596 If only the Rueful Axe had a HIGH and I’m mean HIGH based damage, say two dragon bone war hammers combined. Guards do say “that blade looks sharp even to cut through a god.”
@@greendude0420 Oh come on, you’re telling me you hate Meridia’s yapping?!
It really sucks when it looks so nice
10:15 misconception about the blade, you don’t need to kill followers to increase its power, you just need to kill anyone that LIKES your character : this includes many smaller characters that you’ve done favors for: like beggars that you’ve given a gold piece, and farmers that you’ve given crops. With that knowledge in mind, finding the ten people that can fill the blades power isn’t too hard
Edit: There’s a lot of characters that are also “destined to die” that make great sacrifices as long as you’ve done favors for them beforehand (like a few people that end up being targets for the dark brotherhood, Ja-ree and his sister Deja, Severus Pelagio, and a few more I haven’t mentioned)
And you can just give 1 gold to a beggar and use the necromancer standing stone to continuously raise them. Like Degaine in Markarth are always talking shit...
If youre an orc its also incredibly easy as all orcs in orc strongholds immediately count as "liking" you. Just go slaughter everyone in an orc stronghold and your ebony blade should be maxed out.
When maxed out tho? It SHITS on 99% of the weapons in this game. Absord 40 health on hit with dagger attack speed on a two-handed weapon? Shits insane.
@@goblinganggaming680 i just commented about the orc village method to someone else lol. There's 1 prob with the weapon tho, it's considered a 1 handed sword. Yet it doesnt benefit from either 1/2h perks. I dont remember being able to upgrade it myself either, could be wrong tho
not true anymore, was once upon a time but has been fixed@@mfspectacular
@@goblinganggaming680max level Ebony Blade = Easy Mode. Who needs friends when you can dominate everything?
For me the fact that the Ebony Blade never needs recharging makes it one of the best weapon in the game.
agree, but its require to dps as fuck to refill hp from damage taken
@@lesiorekwhich is made a lot easier to achieve by virtue of it having the speed and range of an average one handed sword
@@Boney_Paladin dont all melee weapons have the same range in vanilla?
@@gabbonoo Daggers have the lowest range at 0,7 units, one handed weapons have a range unit of 1 and two handed weapon have a reach of 1,3
There are exceptions, some weapons have slightly more range or speed than others in the same class but that is the gist of it
@@Boney_Paladin
thanks, i looked it up. turns out the reach is MUCH longer than the weapon mesh.
Vanilla Skyrim:
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Unarmed: 96 (ca. 1.39m) (ca. 4.56 Feet)
Dagger: 98 (ca. 1.41m) (ca. 4.62 Feet)
Shield bash: 141 (ca. 2.03m) (ca. 6.66 Feet) (damn! 2 meters shield bash!)
One handed Weapon: 141 (ca. 2.03m) (ca. 6.66 Feet)
Two-Handed Weapon:183 (ca. 2.64m) (ca. 8.66 Feet)
Pro tip: Don't use Mehrune's Razor against the Ebony Warrior. He has the reflect blows perk from the heavy armor tree and the instant death effect can be reflected.
pro tip just dual wield the razor and cyrus's sabre and melt him in a handful of hits even on master
"reflect" copies the initial snapshot damage on epcalcuation. then after the swing damage is dealt, the "reflect" damage is dealt
they really should have called it thorns. reflect makes me think of the attack bouncing off and hitting the aggressor, not dealing back what is already taken.
i dont know if "reflect" works on the scriped kill from Mehrunes, not that it matters since Merunes razor is it has 1.98% chance and it doesnt scale well with smithing lower than 100.
2% kill chance is worse than any scalable damage over 1% even if it takes you 50 hits to kill something cos it's unreliable.
another pro tip: ignore him, make him wait at his vigil for the rest of eternity because you're just that evil
@@gabbonooI was in a position where the win condition was proc the insta. It took ten minutes
I like those chances >:)
Minimize your guilt in leveling the Ebony Blade by taking one follower with you to the Ritual Stone (east of Whiterun). Activate the stone, kill follower with the blade, use stone power to ressurect body, kill, wait 24 hours, ressurect body again, rinse, repeat .
Bodies ressurected with the Ritual Stone do not turn to ash when killed, so the process can be repeated over and over with just a single follower until the Ebony Blade is max leveled.
Wow, I never knew this thats a great tip thanks
Especially with a follower you hate
This is hard because if you have a decently levelled two handed tree, you almost always take the followers head off when you kill them, thus preventing the loop hole from working😢
Note: Don't do a kill cam head chopping or The Ritual Stone won't work anymore.
@@levbiggs Bruv serious? This ain't rocket science- Sneak + Get behind + 2 handed strike = D U H
Due to a developer oversight, Bloodskal Blade's special attack can be triggered while in the Ethereal state (from the Become Ethereal Shout).
Which means you can blast through enemies while remaining 100% impervious to damage yourself.
On top of that when using the Become Ethereal Shout you don’t use any stamina.
So as long as you don’t hit anyone with the Blade itself you can spam the sword beam until the shouts effects end.
you forgot to mention that if you shoot the sun with Auriel's Bow and sunhallowed arrows, you get a sunlight artillery strike!
No way, fr?
Yeah i didnt know people were unaware of this. My first playthrough of Dawnguard i put 2 and 2 together and found this out. Also with the blood arrows you can shoot it at the sun to turn it dim if you are a vampire and dont wanna be weakened in the sunlight
@@Tylerc4xAFDoesn't it tell you on the description of the arrows anyway?
@@lancekemal8989 I think it's mentioned by one of the NPCs
@@lancekemal8989yes
Zephyr = S tier. Nightingale Bow = A tier. Bow of the Hunt = B tier.
Why is the nightingale bow not on here
Why does everyone forget about nerveshatter?
Nvm I realize this one was for bows but UA-cam won’t show me my previous comment so I can’t delete it.
Wrong
@@ethanchenoweth because it is from the Creation Club and not the base game or official DLC
Nettlebane should do extreme damage to all Spriggans, Wood Elves, Werebeasts, and animals imo. They should've literally made it the bane of all things tied to nature in general.
There are barely any Werewolf's and Werebears to fight anyway
It's clearly just a quest item meant to be used for a single quest and then discarded.
@namor3607 And? it's function of a weapon so steeped with a hatred for nature is only shown via scripted game events.
If it just had something like a "deals extra damage to animals and spriggans" would show why the followers of kynareth hate it but also make it useful for a few more levels.
@@namor3607 Most Deadric artifacts are essentially quest items, but they still have use after the quest is complete. It wouldn't of hurt anything to have Nettlebane have a unique enchant on it. Plenty of lesser regarded items have unique effects.
@@Lamesauce85 Sounds like a mod. You should make that.
Ysgramor's city, Saarthal, was massacred by Mer. He brought back people from his homeland to take back the City and establish humans on Tamriel. His axe's enchantment is more pragmatic than it is racist.
Also, the dumner in windhelm are incredibly racist themselves. Even the local altmer and a few non racist dumner call them out for never contributing to windhelm yet complaining that they are treated like royalty.
Just read dunmer of skyrim to see what their general consensus is.
Meanwhile there are like 3 racist nords in the entire city.
Riften is better because the dunmer there actually integrated with society
@@firenze6478I don't think the Altmer really have the moral highground to call anyone out lol
@@lancekemal8989 neither do the dunmer. They’ve actually done worse than the high elves. But we are talking about individuals of a race, not races as a whole.
@@firenze6478 Altmer litterally want to wipe out every other race in existence
I think the snow elves somehow found out there's a magnus eye inside and i don't know for what reason (maybe they're attracted to it, just like arcano, goes on a rampage) starts a massacre to the nords. Ysgramor then bringa back thousands of his army from atmora and that's the end of the snow elves
Love that skyrim still has so much content coming out on UA-cam
It's not like we have 50 versions of the same game .
Thanks todd
You can thank nearly every Bethesda game since then for being so bad that everyone sticks to Skyrim.
@@coltonwilkie241 Well, Fallout 4 was pretty good... but yeah, I agree.
@@dindjarin8816Well people keep buying it
I've always loved Chillrend. Who knows how many playthroughs I went through before discovering it.
I would have switched Chillrend and Nightingale blade places, such a great sword
I missread "chillrend" and was about to call the police
Chillrend was also one of my favorite weapons back in Oblivion!
@@valentinee500 Definitely, high base damage, higher upgrade potential, better enchantment imo, and i think the enchantment lasts longer before recharge too. Only downside is being a leveled weapon with a max of 46. I usually remove that with mods tho.
Miraaks sword should be higher too, as without creation club, and at its highest leveled weapon status (which is 60 holy shit way too high), it is the highest dps one handed sword in the game with a base damage of 16. Chillrend being 15, and daedric sword and Nightingale being 14.
it also has a unique color difference between it and a regular glass sword
Bolars Oathblade is literally op early game. Same damage as an elven sword and can be looted at level one, you just waltz into a cave and grab it.
It's powerful but needs to be constantly recharged.
I use to always use bolars oathblade with my Redguard character early on, but that recharge was always tearable. Had to steal 8-10 souls every hour.
I remember on my first playthrough I randomly stumbled across it I think before I even got to whiterun and it stuck with me for quite a while
just waltz in and try not to get mauled by sabre cats lol
@@procrastinatorextraordinaire There's no saber cats on 1 level, however, there are alot f-cking spriggans in the cave, which are worse.
Friendly reminder the notched pickaxe is a Minecraft reference! That’s probably why it buffs your crafting skill.
And that Notch is the creator
@@l0sts0ul89🧠
I would have put the Mace of Molag Bal in S-Tier, because even at higher levels, it still hits like a truck, especially since it can be upgraded
Red Eagle was a REACHMAN, not a nord! Begone from here, sympathizer! The Reach belongs to the Forsworn!
Great video btw
I hate terrorists and all my friends hate terrorists.
Bro talking mad shit about Ysgrammor but forgetting that the Snow Elves exterminated a village full of women and children to steal the Eye of Magnus, a relic capable of ending the world and forcing the survivors (Ysgrammor among them) back to Atmorra.
At that point, I don't think you're allowed to play the racism card.
tbh it's not even the nords being racist at all it's the nords being right about who to defend themselves from. Elves literally believe they were going to be immortal until lorkhan (shor) decided to make men and nirn and "tricked" (he just asked him to) Auriel into helping to make men. This took away some power from Auriel and as a result the elves he created before lost their immortality, but nirn and men were created. What this means for the current year in the game is that 1) the elves are the ones racist against non-elves and they literally blame them for elves not being immortal, and ultimately the thalmor's goal is to end the world itself because they think if they can unmake nirn, they might get their immortality back. 2) the nords' hatred for elves ONLY extends to the point that they are being hated on first, and have been forced to defend themselves from elves ever since the dawn of their race
@@jansonshrock2859Hit the nail on the head.
Elves in the Elder Scrolls series are the literal worst. While individuals would vary (as they always do), their culture and ideologies are wrong at best, evil at worst.
Dark Elves are the only race that practices slavery. Wood Elves are literal cannibals (and before anyone brings up the Green Pact, they could limit their meat intake to animals. Instead, they choose to eat people. Read "A Dance in Fire", where they literally serve up visiting Imperials as the main course of their feast. Yeah, they don't wait until they die natural deaths, they just STRAIGHT UP kill them and eat them. For a feast. That means EVERYONE in the town/city was involved with this).
Finally, the High Elves are exactly what you describe them as. Genocidal supremacists, with their heads so far up their own asses, they believe they were divine and blame Lorkhan for being mortal.
The Orcs are the only race of Elves that are, at the very least, respectable, even if their culture is a bit primitive. At the very least, Orcs are willing to coexist and be civil with others if one can earn their trust.
yeah but something something white guy bad
Allegedly.
Racism is justified against all elves.
If I remember correctly killing charmed enemies count as valid kills for the Ebony Blade.
You can get a second Dawn Breaker by using the Unrelenting Force shout when it's on its pedestal, before you pick it up. The copy will appear on the ground. It works about half of the time for me, so I don't know if there's any other trick to make it happen every time. Maybe a save or something? You killed my wife with the Long Hammer lol.
First time I’ve ever read this
I found if you use a scroll of blizzard near the stone, it also gives you a copy. Found this out complete accident lol.
Dog did this by accident a couple of weeks ago was confused af
For the Ebony Blade, use a mod that allows you to recruit anyone as a follower, locate the ritual stone if you haven't already, get Nazeem to follow you, go to the ritual stone, dismiss Nazeem, kill him, resurrect him, kill him again, wait twenty four hours in-game, rinse and repeat until Mephala tells you it's finished
isn't the Blade the one you get from the basement in Dragon's Reach? and the other ebony thing a piece of armour?
@@potat3746basement
nazeem aint your homie
@@potat3746Ebony blade and mail are different
@@Icouldntcomeupwithaname1212 I know, it's the mail you need to kill a folower for. The balde is in Dragon's reach basement
S-nightingale bow & zephyr, B- Grimserver C- Bow of the hunt & Drain ghost weapons from labyrinthian, D- Horksbane, Poachers Axe
It's always a good day when fall damage uploads.
Yup
a fine day with you around
@@Icouldntcomeupwithaname1212Is that an amulet of Mara or are u just happy to see me 😂.
0:29 " acquiring Olar's bothblade can be tricky"
I bet the voiceover is AI.
Lol I grab it at level one
@@Kandisz_nora it's not (obviously)
@@DSG-farts-connoisseurof course it is. The irregular cadence of speech and the copious amounts of mispronunciations give it away. It's a good AI voiceover but still an AI voiceover.
Paranoids like you are why AI is so feared by everyone
"more ... than Starfield has loading screens" should be a common phrase everyone uses in everyday life
Ghostblades also have very low weight which dramatically improves attack speed, so I'd say a littli bit higher than D.
Champion's cudgel enchantments gets fully multiplied on stahlrim weapons since it is a 'frost' enchantment. S-tier.
1:40 BRO I DID NOT EXPECT THAT 😭😭
Alright, it’s again this time of the year, when I start getting Skyrim videos recommended for a week nonstop
*points at fall damage*
That’s him officer, that’s the man that got me back into Skyrim.
What about nerveshatter? I recently came across that spikey hammer and it’s super cool. Maybe not amazing but it looks awesome and it has some good enchants.
One thing I realised is that all these unique weapons are really good for early to mid game. In late game, using proper high level enchantments on even a wooden sword will outperform even the best of these uniques.
Similarly I advise new players to lay off leveling up their enchantment until latter on if you want a diverse gameplay experience.
Enchantment is so critical in legendary mode though, else every fight is gonna take forever. You can easily increase your One handed or two handed by like 100% with a few grand soul for your necklace and armor pieces. They go hand to hand with smithing and can help you makes some quick cash too. Basically leveling 3 stats at once(speech, smithing and enchanting). Also do alchemy for enchanting potions and smithing potions too . Need to do potions for resist magic anyways so you don't have to use enchantment slot on them imo
It's been 11 hours and Skyrim videos are still getting 20k+ views
I’m surprised by the C Tier Harkons sword, personally I’d say it’s one of the best swords in the game, plus who doesn’t wanna be a vampire, they’re really cool
Nah, i like walking while taking a bath of sunlight. Not being almost burnt by it
If you plan on doing the Dark Brotherhood quest line but are generally reluctant to kill people not related to that quest line, wait until you get the Ebony Blade AND a reanimation staff and then go kill Narfi BEFORE getting his associated Contract quest. Make sure you do his quest searching for his sister or give him a Septim to befriend him before killing him. Then kill him with the Ebony Blade, revive him with the staff (if you use reanimation spells instead of the staff, his corpse will disintegrate), kill the reanimated corpse with the Ebony Blade, and just repeat the process over and over until the Ebony Blade is maxed.
Besides Narfi, you could do this with any non-essential NPC you don't particularly like but can still befriend. Just make sure whatever reanimation staff you use is not too weak to reanimate that particular NPC.
Silent Moons enchantment has a weird bug. It slows things with higher attack speeds (Like Dual Flurry) to crazy levels. Smack a forsworn that is using two swords and it gets comical
Morrowind had the best uniques
Hard to find and get as well
I used to spend hours levitating around inside daedric ruins, checking around the ceiling for nooks that almost always had an interesting item
That was such a great game. I'd love to see a proper remaster done, keeping all the same items, same old spell crafting+skill system but overhauling combat away from a dice-roll.
The Ebony Blade can actually reach max power by only killing one friendly NPC. You just need to use the Ritual Stone's daily power or the master raise dead spell (forgot it's name), and kill them again, then repeat the process. This works because those are the only two forms of the raise dead spell that don't turn the NPC affected to ash upon death. The Ebony Blade also has by far the fastest swing speed in the two-handed category, being on par with most one-handed swords and war axes.
You can actually get two Blade of Woes. You can pickpocket one off of Astrid and then get the one that spawns on the floor next to her later on.
Whats even better is that windshear is a weapon that doesn't even need soul gems! I always get it around level 25 and keep it throughout the entire play through
i never had any charging issues either
Got a bone to pick about Volendrung. Should be at least A tier. The 50 Points of stamina every hit is no joke. Nearly endless power attacks? Sprintlock an enemy and spam the sprint power attack with a fully charged Volendrung and you'll melt nearly anything.
Ikr, been using it for ages on my orc
I like that at the end of every item description, he listed what tier that item was
Bloodskal is such an amazing weapon. You can throw an enchantment on it and temper it. Solid weapon.
no further enchantment possible.
Man i love the Headsman Axe. Looks cool and is the closest thing we have to a halberd since TES3.
This would have been a lot easier to follow if you left the weapon effects on screen a bit longer. I kept trying to read them and being cut off.
“It’s an aggressively boring weapon” 😂😂😂 this commentary is legendary.
Poacher's Axe can be improved by blacksmithing, unlike most unique weapons.
S tier it is then
i never imagine that i gonna sub someone who make skyrim content in 2024. u change it.
"Olar's boathblade" lol, love the channel man, got me back into the game I've always loved
I laughed so hard
Valdurs lucky dagger dual weilded with Mehrunes Dagger is deadly.
Mehrunes dagger is deadly either way. Especially in the original game where it could one shot Alduin
I’m happy and sad that the Axe of Whiterun wasn’t mentioned
I was expecting you to skimp on the Longhammer but you didn't. It's just the thing for an orc playthrough.
Dawnbreaker can also be duel wielded if you use a duplication glitch on it, giving you two very powerful undead slaying swords.
And Auriel's Bow is always enjoyable to use. So many undead in Skyrim that any weapon that specializes in killing them make them much more valuable than most other weapons in the game.
Skyrim still getting content really shows how fun the game is
HUGE tip for Ebony Blade: since nobody likes Cosnach (the follower), you can make him your follower, kill him, then keep using the Staff of Worms to bring him back so you can get all the kills to fully charge the blade. Also once charged, the blade never loses the charge
The ebony blade is one of my favorite weapons and I hate how the unofficial patch completely rebalances the speed of it
Volendrung has absolutely carried me through some difficult playthroughs, Being able to spam power attacks is really powerful, especially if you use the "Ordinator perk overhaul" and spec into warhammers. This was before I discovered the vegetable soup trick for infinite power attacks. Still my favourite weapon.
Same here
sadly stamina in this game is completely useless since you only need 1 stamina to power attack and the enemy seems to have infinite, though staggering them is quite nice. Only thing i find useful about leveling up stamina honestly for 5 more carry weight lol
I discovered this channel yesterday and I;ve become addicted. This is probably my 30th video already
I have a feeling it's an AI youtuber though, the voice sounds so similar to other ones.
They steal a ton of footage and allegedly plagiarize quite often lol
@@Kier4n99 Yeah yeah yeah, I had the slight impression that something is familliar, and it seems to me this AI youtuber plagiarized the videos of TheEpicNate315 which I used to watch 3-5 years ago and very much enjoyed. Daaamn son!
18:41 bro killed my orc wife
Nightingale blade and Dawnbreaker is my fave dual wield combo, they look similar in shape so they fit so well together and they're great weapons
no way you put bloodskaal blade in s tier solely because it creates energy blades from power attacks, that don't do much damage, but put soulrender and bloodscythe in a tier
Ikr 😂
bro i used to duel wield the Lucky Dagger and Merus Razor, having a weapon that has a chance to insta kill alongside a weapon that staggers enemies is extremely op!
There is a way to fully charge the Ebony Blade with a single life. Find a follower that you like the least (I recommend one of the mercs you can get from any of the inns) and lead them somewhere secluded. Kill them to gain a charge and the turn them into undead to kill them again which will give another charge. Normally corpses turn into ash when you make them undead except in one case, the Ritual Stone. Wait 24 hours > use ritual power > kill > repeat. Make sure to save before killing each time as doing the kill animation that decapitates the target makes them no longer resurrectable.
I've always felt like a lot of these weapons were meant to be broken so you can learn to enchant better weapons.
If only Skyrim had as many weapons as StarField has loading screens
I remember my first ever playthrough with Skyrim I was obsessed with finding good weapons as early as possible, Mehrunes razor was one of the ones I used ASAP until the end of the game because it was just a good weapon. Now here’s the kicker, I only had its instant kill effect proc on a few humanoid enemies, that was until the endgame, where I hit and kill Alduin in one hit. I was kinda confused like “that’s it..?” Until I remembered it was the dagger
a normal build can 1 shot alduin too or atleast i killed him so fast i thought the game was on novice
Fun fact: you don't have to kill any followers or befreinded NPCs to max level the Ebony blade, you can become a freind to the strongholds then slaughter like three or four, and seeing as some of the Orc strongholds are painfully generic I don't think most people will care about slaughtering a few
Anakin would love ebony blade
I’m happy to see the razor to being an S-tier weapon. While some may have had no luck with the instant kill effect. Using it on legendary difficulty has made it much more useful. Even made a few videos on its potential.
In all my years playing Skyrim. I never knew that block bashing windsher pushes your foes back
10:14 The ebony blade has a few variants that you can get randomly, and one of them makes enemies not count attacks from the ebony blade as an assault, meaning you won’t get fined for killing someone with it.
Casually dropping the only one of these I never heard of in 13 years (woodsman's friend) in d tier.
In one of my playthroughs i played an assassin build with Valdr's and Mehrunes in each hand with Nightingale and Shrouded set parts and it was amazing , one of the most fun playthroughts i've played, yes that wepon is a hiden gem in fact , should be in B tier IMO and in certain builds like i said even A tier, like you said this wepon performs best in the off-hand.
Ranged - Auriel's Bow (combat archer), Nightingale Bow (stealth archer)
Two Handed - Ebony Blade, Champion's Cudgel
One Handed - Nightingale Blade and Chillrend
Dagger - Blade of Woe
Since I play without enchanting smithing and alchemy, I usualy use unique weapons, and when ever I start a new playthrough, there is a high chance I will use one of these.
10:00 the crutch of this weapon can be circumvented by using the Dead Thrall spell on any one follower. If I'm not mistaken, you can do this with any fallen enemy to achieve the same effect as killing a follower.
Not sure if it was the special edition, or the unofficial patch, but my Windshear doesn't have the guaranteed stagger.
I know it did in the original game, my assassin offhanded it with the razor in the main hand for the stagger
lunar weapons deserve to be higher. its really easy to just hit wait until nighttime, and it can do way more damage than a simple fire enchantment, as well as have more charges than a simple fire enchantment.
I swear it has a drain health effect during the day!?
@@JaigEyes1207 havent ever tested it during the day, its entirely possible!
I think the Notched Pickaxe's placement is fair but I also feel it's important to mention that you have to get to the throat of the world to even get it which means that it could easily be ignored if you've smithed enough before that point in the story
"Only a fraction of them are worth your time." reminded me of Borderlands lol
I'd argue the enchant effect of fiery souls makes it s+++ it's the best enchantment in the game 100%. Also you can give it million of charge and jt won't affect its damage apparently. Just how long you have b4 q soul suck. But being a melee just set it to 1 and have it do max damage with 500+ charge.
You're the most underrated Skyrim channel on youtube
4:28 Yeah? Thank Troll's Bane for that
Chillrend is the higgest DPS Unique Weapon
Base DPS: 15+30(Frost) = 45
Legendary Quality + 100 One handed + Armsman (5): 100+30(Frost) = 130
The Longhammer for comparation
Base DPS: 21*0.8(Speed) = 16.8
Legendary Quality + 100 Two handed + Barbarian (5): 107.2*0.8(Speed) = 85.76
But elemental fury doesnt work on Chillrend and many skyrim enemies resist frost
@@M4x_P0w3r About frost. DPS goes only from 130 to 115 in enemies that resist frost.
About elemental fury. Yes, the longhammer is the best two handed weapon because of elemental fury, but elemental fury is a addon. If addons can be used, a simple weapon in the off hand makes chillrend do x1.5 damage, x1.35 speed(dual fury) + the damage of the other weapons, making the DPS go to 263(232 with resistence to frost) + Second weapon DPS
Two Handed suck end game, a perfect character (All skills and perk) can always have a higher DPS with a with a single one handed weapon than a two handed one, and almost double fps with two one handed weapons.
@@LuizFelipe-fk6it yeah i just dual fury in the late game and one shot basically everything if i bother to pop a one handed potion for 120% increased damage along with my already insane 45%*4 from gear. Even the Sword and Shield playstyle is way better than two handed in my experience cause the block of shields is like 10x better and you can have more enchantment on yourself which is always better than missing 2 from your build cause you 2 handed a weapon
16:36 GETSUGA TENSHOO
real
I always thinked that when i see bloodskal blade @@Icouldntcomeupwithaname1212
@@Pitboof i thot it was cool but now its cooler
the rueful axe is one of the best display weapons in all of vanilla skyrim surely that has to count for something
The ebony blade being in b is criminal argueably one of the top three weapons in the game
Blasphemy! Chillrend is an S tier weapon. I will hear no other rating! Lol. Seriously any weapon that will a paralyze enchantment automatically needs to be in S tier. Lol. This was amazing. Thanks for posting. I’m really digging this channel so far. I’m glad I stumbled here.
I like to fast track learning both Smithing and Enchanting. Once I have both maxed out, I create a dragonbone dagger, sword, and bow. I enchant each with two of the following: Frostfeed, Fire, Shocking and Chaos. I use the Ebony Blade, improved at a grinding wheel for my two-hander. Pick a fight with my character and you'll die... very quickly.
you would want to powerup your alchemy too so you can fortify your smithing and enchantment, making it even more OP. Funny how the strongest build is one where you just make everything by yourself lol. No drops beat your weapons and armor anyways
I really like Zephyr, the bow you can get in Arkngthamz that belonged to the tragic ghost of Katria in the "Lost for the Ages" quest. It's speed is equal to Auriel's bow and doesn't require recharging. It's also a permanent weapon, so it won't disappear even if placed in a respawning container. I liked Katria and having a memento of her around is nice. The bow can be acquired before you even enter the Dawnguard DLC. Good to get early in the game and acquired early in a nice questline. It appears to be a Dwarven Bow and can be improved with that Smithing perk. While it looks Dwarven, it has damage equal to an Elven bow and its speed makes it a valuable weapon for any Archer based character. It's lighter than Auriel's Bow too.
My favorite: a simple dragonbone greatsword of legendary quality used with level 3 elemental fury, and you swing your greatsword faster than a dagger. great success!
Stormcloaks are resists but if your dragonborn girl marries alfric he won't do anything you don't like. Remember, your characters a gamegod. That be a spose fight we know who will win...lol talk back aye pimp slap. Note: real life spousal abuse will get you arrested.
What?
@@MinnowTF It's a joke for girl skyrim players.
@@whyhelp141 no your comment just doesn't make grammatical sense
Role playing it does. If you merry him there isn't anything he or the dominion can do.
1-your way stronger then him.
2-he don't like your ideas too bad.
3-it's a youtube comment...what is grammar at 2a.m
@@MinnowTF
I’ll never forget first time I ever played through Skyrim and getting the mace of molag bal. It became my main weapon all the way to end game and beyond.
I still use Wuuthrad in late game just because of how strong it’s damage output is, one of my favorite early to late game weapons in the game.
I don’t know if it’s patched but you can acquire 2 dawnbreakers if you hit the sword with an explosion like a fireball. It will fling one in the room which you can grab and then take the one from the pedestal.
Missed out on Zephyr, Wabbajack, Sanguine Rose, Dravin’s Bow, Skull of Corruption, Nightingale Bow, and Bow of the Hunt.
Mace of Molag Baal and Auriels Bow were 2 of my favorite weapons
Dawnbreak is actually kind of fun to use. I'm not in love with the design and its best qualities are primarily aimed towards undead, but if you know you're going int oa den of undead and want to use a one-handed weapon, it's the prime weapon of choice. It's both reasonably powerful and fun to use.
I grabbed it before my vampirism fully set in and thankfully it has no negative effects towards me. Though it does make Serana glow and make a sort of crackling/burning noise for a bit if she's in range of whatever undead you randomly detonated with your killing blow (actually I've noticed you can hit undead and cause the burning effect on them and then finish them off with a spell or something else and they'll still detonate sometimes, so that's fun).
The Ebony Blade can be upgraded by killing any characters who have your trust, so you can kill some of the bad/miserable people throughout Skyrim and still get the sword fully upgraded
Extra tidbit on Windshear, it's charge only drains when you block bash with it. This means you can stagger enemies an infinite number of times if you aren't Block bashing with it. Pair it with the targe of the bloodied to keep enemies bleeding as they stagger and stumble
For the ebony blade just use it on the follower you sacrifice to Boethiah and use it when doing quests that require you to kill somebody you can get to like you or characters that will die off like Ondolemar.
Glass bow of the Stag Prince got shafted, it does as much damage as an ebony bow on top of its effect. At least B tier