Battle axes in Skyrim got pretty neglected

[Clavicus Vile]

They’d be my favorite but they have the worst stats of the three two-handed weapon types.

Axes have the worst stagger, one power attack gets you about one extra hit afterwards, if you’re lucky a second hit before the enemy gets back on their feet.

A war hammer’s stagger guarantees two hits after the first power swing. And the great sword’s speed and lower stamina cost compensates for the less impactful stagger because you can keep making the enemy stagger over and over and it costs less stamina overall than the other two weapons.

The limb splitter perk also sucks the worst out of all the specialized two-handed trees, which is really unfortunate because I really like bleed damage. But the damage from that is so lack luster, even on 3/3 of the perks.

The battle axe gets mogged so hard that I don’t even bother switching to it till later on in the game where I’m too overpowered for it to matter what weapon I use.

 

[Animecel2D]

Battle axes should have guaranteed decapitation animation for every killing blow

 

[UglyBaldingManlet]

They dumbed down every class of weapons in Skyrim, for that matter. Oblivion was already simplified, but Skyrim's weapons were braindead.

 

[deleted dude]

They’d be my favorite but they have the worst stats of the three two-handed weapon types.

Axes have the worst stagger, one power attack gets you about one extra hit afterwards, if you’re lucky a second hit before the enemy gets back on their feet.

A war hammer’s stagger guarantees two hits after the first power swing. And the great sword’s speed and lower stamina cost compensates for the less impactful stagger because you can keep making the enemy stagger over and over and it costs less stamina overall than the other two weapons.

The limb splitter perk also sucks the worst out of all the specialized two-handed trees, which is really unfortunate because I really like bleed damage. But the damage from that is so lack luster, even on 3/3 of the perks.

The battle axe gets mogged so hard that I don’t even bother switching to it till later on in the game where I’m too overpowered for it to matter what weapon I use.

I am playing skyrim right now. Oblivion is way better when it comes to quest creativity, unique interesting dialogue, locations, levelling, combat, picking a class and so on. Skyrims gameplay is also kinda ass and numbed down to make it more accessible for normscum. The quests are super repetitive as well as the fighting/combat. Still a good game but oblivion mogs skyrim to the shadowrealm.

 

[deleted dude]

Skyrim only lets you go to caves, camps, or dungeons and lets you do the same thing over and over again. Too repetitive for my liking. The shivering isles DLC in oblivion was the best DLC I have played my entire life. I will never forget it

 

[deleted dude]

They dumbed down every class of weapons in Skyrim, for that matter. Oblivion was already simplified, but Skyrim's weapons were braindead.

yep but oblivion still had superior gameplay by far and even spell crafting. They dumb the games down too much for normscum. Has been a problem in gaming for a long time. Profits, so games that look and feel the same over taking risk is the motto nowadays

 

[ImperialArk]

i only stealth archer

 

[UglyBaldingManlet]

yep but oblivion still had superior gameplay by far and even spell crafting. They dumb the games down too much for normscum. Has been a problem in gaming for a long time. Profits, so games that look and feel the same over taking risk is the motto nowadays

Absolutely

 

[BeanChud88]

They dumbed down every class of weapons in Skyrim, for that matter. Oblivion was already simplified, but Skyrim's weapons were braindead.

Seriously who tf even uses two handed not to mention most magic is completely unusable without game breaking exploits to make enchanted armor and overpowered potions the only magic you can reliably use with exploits is the unrelenting force shout there’s no point in using anything other than dual wield one handed or stealth archer