There's A LOT of unique weapons in Skyrim... so let's rank them. - D-Tier: (0:00) C-Tier: (4:40) B-Tier: (8:47) A-Tier: (12:29) S-Tier: (16:06) - #skyrim
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.
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.
@@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
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
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😢
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
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.
@@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.
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
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
@@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!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Pretty spot on across the board. Any chance of a tier list for Anniversary Edition weapons, i.e. the ones that got baked into the game from the older/discontinued Creation Club? Umbra is my personal favorite from that collection.
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.
6:02 Being a vampire isn't that bad. If you're only traveling at nighttime the sun won't be an issue and on top of that vampirism can even boost all of your your enchantments by at least twenty percent if you have the necromage perk.
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.
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
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 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.
Was the Nightingale bow mentioned? I didn’t catch it But honestly, it’s at minimum an A tier for me regardless. Between just loving the Thieve’s Guild storyline & the bow working well for me, my only problem is how much recharging it needs
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.
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.
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!
I would consider Valdr's Lucky Dagger one of the best weapons in the game for dual wielding. The critical hit staggers opponents and can be used with Elemental Fury when equipped in the left hand, leaving the right hand for your OP Enchanted weapon of choice. Especially early game, this weapon cuts the mustard.
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.
I got Ghostblade early one run, and it spoiled me on ultralightweight weapons so much that from then on I've beelined to the bound weapons. I might not use it much but it had a big impact on many hours of playtime since then.
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.
If you use the ritual stone to resurrect the follower you kill to upgrade the Ebony Blade, and then wait 24 hours to do it again, you dont have to kill 10 different people. You can just kill one follower the entire time.
I go Ebony Blade every playthrough, just hire a random mercenary, than get that Stone that let's you revive every dead body around you once per day and the revived don't disappear so you just kill the mercenary, revive, kill, wait 24h, revive, kill, wait, revive, kill.
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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
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 >:)
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
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
@@zilba4405 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
@@zilba4405
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)
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.
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 TH-cam won’t show me my previous comment so I can’t delete it.
Wrong
@@ethanchenoweth9720 because it is from the Creation Club and not the base game or official DLC
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
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.
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
Love that skyrim still has so much content coming out on TH-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.
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
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
If I remember correctly killing charmed enemies count as valid kills for the Ebony Blade.
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 😂.
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
Red Eagle was a REACHMAN, not a nord! Begone from here, sympathizer! The Reach belongs to the Forsworn!
Great video btw
S-nightingale bow & zephyr, B- Grimserver C- Bow of the hunt & Drain ghost weapons from labyrinthian, D- Horksbane, Poachers Axe
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.
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.
Alright, it’s again this time of the year, when I start getting Skyrim videos recommended for a week nonstop
It's been 11 hours and Skyrim videos are still getting 20k+ views
“It’s an aggressively boring weapon” 😂😂😂 this commentary is legendary.
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
If only Skyrim had as many weapons as StarField has loading screens
I like that at the end of every item description, he listed what tier that item was
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🧠
*points at fall damage*
That’s him officer, that’s the man that got me back into Skyrim.
Ghostblades also have very low weight which dramatically improves attack speed, so I'd say a littli bit higher than D.
"more ... than Starfield has loading screens" should be a common phrase everyone uses in everyday life
Man i love the Headsman Axe. Looks cool and is the closest thing we have to a halberd since TES3.
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.
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.
i never imagine that i gonna sub someone who make skyrim content in 2024. u change it.
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.
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
Valdurs lucky dagger dual weilded with Mehrunes Dagger is deadly.
"Olar's boathblade" lol, love the channel man, got me back into the game I've always loved
I laughed so hard
I was expecting you to skimp on the Longhammer but you didn't. It's just the thing for an orc playthrough.
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.
Excellent ranking guide, i enjoyed it very much
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
Poacher's Axe can be improved by blacksmithing, unlike most unique weapons.
S tier it is then
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!
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
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.
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
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 😂
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.
Stumbled upon your vid on accident stayed for the voice and humor subbed
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.
Bloodskal is such an amazing weapon. You can throw an enchantment on it and temper it. Solid weapon.
no further enchantment possible.
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.
This is perfect keep it up
You're the most underrated Skyrim channel on youtube
Casually dropping the only one of these I never heard of in 13 years (woodsman's friend) in d tier.
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.
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
Pretty spot on across the board. Any chance of a tier list for Anniversary Edition weapons, i.e. the ones that got baked into the game from the older/discontinued Creation Club? Umbra is my personal favorite from that collection.
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.
6:02 Being a vampire isn't that bad. If you're only traveling at nighttime the sun won't be an issue and on top of that vampirism can even boost all of your your enchantments by at least twenty percent if you have the necromage perk.
Unless you are playing survival where you inexplicably freeze despite being immune to cold
@@firenze6478Survival sucks anyway so this wont be a problem i will ever encounter.
the rueful axe is one of the best display weapons in all of vanilla skyrim surely that has to count for something
love the videos, would you do some about oblivion or morrowind as well?
Mace of Molag Baal and Auriels Bow were 2 of my favorite weapons
I’m happy and sad that the Axe of Whiterun wasn’t mentioned
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.
I’d like to see a ranking list on the anniversary edition weapons, there are some cool and unique daedric weapons
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
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
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.
Are you the one doing VO behind these videos? Excellet job!
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.
Was the Nightingale bow mentioned? I didn’t catch it
But honestly, it’s at minimum an A tier for me regardless. Between just loving the Thieve’s Guild storyline & the bow working well for me, my only problem is how much recharging it needs
Missed out on Zephyr, Wabbajack, Sanguine Rose, Dravin’s Bow, Skull of Corruption, Nightingale Bow, and Bow of the Hunt.
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 wish this list was varied as opposed to in order from worst to first. It'd be more surprising that way. Still, great video
It’s like I’m being sold on a car
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.
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!
So it's kinda cool that what I duel wield was listed off in order how I got them in Skyrim ... Dawnbreaker and Dragonbane
Auriels bow has fast atack rate (similar to zephyr) does great against undead, can change the sun and can make the sun burst your enemies
Glad you didn't forget the Longhammer. That thing is absolutely the greatest weapon in the game.
"Skyrim has more weapons than starfield has loading screens"
Are you sure?
I would consider Valdr's Lucky Dagger one of the best weapons in the game for dual wielding. The critical hit staggers opponents and can be used with Elemental Fury when equipped in the left hand, leaving the right hand for your OP Enchanted weapon of choice. Especially early game, this weapon cuts the mustard.
How would you rate the Dawnfang and Duskfang and Chysamere as well as Umbra and the two weapons from the Knights of the Nine Set gear?
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.
01:38 - 01:41 😂😂😂😂 Caught me off guard there! Almost choked on my sweat roll! 😂
Are you going to rank the staffs next?
I got Ghostblade early one run, and it spoiled me on ultralightweight weapons so much that from then on I've beelined to the bound weapons. I might not use it much but it had a big impact on many hours of playtime since then.
I actually had one playthrough where my character dual-wielded the nightingale blade and chillrend. The results are as you would expect.
I hanent played dragon age origins in years but I still hear "enchantment!" in my head any time the word is mentioned
I believe it was the Mace of Molag Bal that I got quite early in my first (and only) playthrough ... carried me till the end of the game.
I dont have to refill the windsher, the bar is just always full. Is that a glitch?
Need it about unique armor !🤩😍
Mehrune's razor then quicksave was my best combo ^^
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.
If you use the ritual stone to resurrect the follower you kill to upgrade the Ebony Blade, and then wait 24 hours to do it again, you dont have to kill 10 different people. You can just kill one follower the entire time.
I go Ebony Blade every playthrough, just hire a random mercenary, than get that Stone that let's you revive every dead body around you once per day and the revived don't disappear so you just kill the mercenary, revive, kill, wait 24h, revive, kill, wait, revive, kill.