Weapon skills explained

endboss · Post by **endboss** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:42 pm

The Escapist : News : Skyrim Features "Perk" Trees Instead of Weapons Skills

Makes sense. I wonder how it will end up working out.

MageRage · Post by **MageRage** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:51 pm

Sounds cool

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:39 pm

The big question for me is have they done anything about the fact that you're better off using a blunt butter knife than a vorpal sword. The system of rewarding quantity of hits rather than quality really needs to be fixed.

Dagoth_shel · Post by **Dagoth_shel** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:40 pm

Not sure about my stance on this, it does make more sense. I mean, if you're skilled in lighter swords, you're skilled in most light swords, right? Meh.

I'm still a little miffed at ESIV tossing out spear, and long and short blade.

Moot · Post by **Moot** » Tue May 24, 2011 1:33 am

Dagoth_shel wrote: I'm still a little miffed at ESIV tossing out spear, and long and short blade.

You're telling me. No spears in Skyrim, either, which is a shame. It was my favorite weapon in Morrowind!

galraen wrote:<snip> you're better off using a blunt butter knife than a vorpal sword <snip>

Let's say we have a claymore. Which is really, really long. Let's set it on fire. We'll use our armory skill to increase it past its peak. Oh look, someone with a rusty iron dagger.
<a moment passes>
Now we're dead, because we were stabbed fifty-three times in the chest. Sure we got off a hit, but all it did was make them slide backwards a little. What a shame.

Yeah, I hope they fix this, too.