SpellAndShield Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 (edited) An improved ebony or daedric warhammer is better than a daedric artefact warhammer, what's up with that? Edited November 29, 2011 by Stardusk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrynor Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 improve the artifact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindekarr Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 You're missing the point. Mundane "better" doesn't equal better than artefact unless it does elemental damage, elemental effects go through armour much better, it's hit and miss, but you tend to do more damage from trading ten points of "mechanical"(unenchanted) damage for ten of <elemental> enchant damage. Personaly though I've got a certain Daedric Artefact sword and I love it, it's not as powerful all-out as my paired Daedric Longswords(legendary) but it hits damn hard, and seems to do very very well against the undead, perhaps due to an undisclosed effect. Obviously being a fiery daedric blade of doom given by a God it would be effective against the dead-fire alone hurts them bad, but I have a D-Long(legey) with with a comparable fire enchant and I swear the Artey hits them harder. And it just looks beautiful, this one's a new addition for Skyrim, but it really feels like it belongs with the catalogue of other Artefact weapons, it looks the part, and it's fittingly good in combat, especialy against the undead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpellAndShield Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 improve the artifact? Still weaker and to make an artefact legendary you need Smithing at 191+...very hard to achive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natelovesyou Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Do you mean when both the artifact and normal weapon are improved then compared, or a daedric/ebony warhammer improved is better than an untouched artifact? Because obviously improved normal weapons would rock an artifact...but if said artifact is still weaker post-improvement...that would be sad indeed. I think I'll have to test this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrynor Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Yeah, that's why I posted "improve the artifact". Of course, I did not know what amount of smithing skill is required ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpellAndShield Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 You're missing the point. Mundane "better" doesn't equal better than artefact unless it does elemental damage, elemental effects go through armour much better, it's hit and miss, but you tend to do more damage from trading ten points of "mechanical"(unenchanted) damage for ten of <elemental> enchant damage. Personaly though I've got a certain Daedric Artefact sword and I love it, it's not as powerful all-out as my paired Daedric Longswords(legendary) but it hits damn hard, and seems to do very very well against the undead, perhaps due to an undisclosed effect. Obviously being a fiery daedric blade of doom given by a God it would be effective against the dead-fire alone hurts them bad, but I have a D-Long(legey) with with a comparable fire enchant and I swear the Artey hits them harder. And it just looks beautiful, this one's a new addition for Skyrim, but it really feels like it belongs with the catalogue of other Artefact weapons, it looks the part, and it's fittingly good in combat, especialy against the undead. That's Dawnbreaker I guess...the artefacts do look cooler...I am playing a Nord babarian female and I am wearing the Savior's Hide because she looks hot and badass in it even though its protection is s***... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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