Reached expert.... Daedric claymore is now at 32, and with full Daedric strength-enchanted armor, it gets 32+ per hit, not including the enchantment on the weap - 10 pts absorb health (which is in effect 20 dmg per strike since it takes away from them and gives to you).

ive had oblivion for a few days now but i find the darkbrother hood wepons come in handy when fighting low levels

Weapons have speed too, so you can swing a dagger much faster than a Warhammer. So raw damage is not DPS.

That boils down to playstyle. I think a slow weapon like a Claymore or Warhammer, would be better if you like to Sneak with the 6X damage.

... that said, using a Daedric Dagger with Master of Sneak is quite effective!

This post has been edited by Vrill: Apr 7 2006, 07:22 PM

I have 100 Blade skill, and the Deadric Claymore is Uber, but i believe if you have 100 Blunt skill then the Deadric warhammer is probably better.

You can't get sneak bonus with two-handed weapons.
An enchanted daedric longsword is great for that sneak bonus. My char is ~180
strength, expert sneak, and expert armorer - so he does tons of damage when sneaking!

Golbrand and Umbra Sword

Umbra's two-handed, so no sneak bonus. Goldbrand is excellent.

I've heard speculation the most powerful is Goldbrand overall. i'm not to sure at this point though.

I'm playing with Umbra as a sword (0kg is great !!!!) and a "Soul Vampire Daedric bow" (drain 20hp + soul capture for 2 seconds).

I like staffs, although I guess they don't qualify as weapons. I have a staff with 80 shock damage and one with 60 shock and 10 drain health for 5 secs I think.

Or I used to have them. Have just started a fresh game...

I like skill 100 destruction, High Elf, Apprentice sign, touch spell that does 100 (fire frost or shock) for 2 seconds and 100% weakness to same for 2sec. Costs about 103 magicka, so with maxed int and the +200, you get about 3 shots on someone... If you know the enemies weakness and have one of each, you can get a short invisable spell and just go up them, whack them with it twice (should be at least 200-300 damage each hit, even if they resist some) then invisable, and repeat...

No sword, axe, mace or sneak attack bonus could top that. Magick beats melee... Even on like, Xivilai who absorbs magick, invis rules all... Just Goldbrand sneak attack her... or any weapon... you wont run out of magicka if your will is high or you have pots...

Cadaver

the most powerful weapon is the use of magic, trust me on that one

Magic isn't a weapon.
Not in the sense of this thread.
It's use can clearly be deadly though.
Ah, yes, I remember the ring in had in MW that did 100s of points of damage in like 150 feet or something crazy like that!

I think that Goldbrand is the best wepond in the game
I jused Umbrasword,but Goldbrand is better