This would make smithing reludant, perks improve base damage 100% skill 50%, two +25% damage increase enchants and you are done.
Enchanting would be critical as an daeric sword do 14 in base damage, +200%= 42, have fun playing with an ancient dragon, you only has to hit it 75 times.
However this would make enchanting critical as you can get 2*25 in elemental damage, this is more than the weapon damage, and porions you would have to drink a cople of resist fire/ frost while fighting it and a lot of healing potions.

Next time do your math. Weapons get powerfull if you have lots of perks in them, lots of +damage gear and smithed with an expert to master potion wearing expert or better gear.

Why the [censored] not? The ability to make any piece of gear viable for a character is one of the best parts of Skyrim - I can choose to continue wearing my Steel armor without needing to upgrade to Daedric.

As far as the Daedric Artifacts are concerned... All of them are irreplicable and unique. If someone says otherwise, then they have no clue what they're talking about. Self-enchanted and self-crafted gear tends to be boring.

Also, most Daedric artifacts are just as upgradable as any other item. Think Legendary Daedric Armor's awesome? Try a legendary Ebony Mail, or Legendary Savior's Hide.

Agreed and I prefer the armourer feature in Oblivion where you can repair you own weapons, as they ware over time. There are other things, like heavy armour doesn't feel heavy at all in Skyrim.

Guess what: It wasn't heavy in Real Life either.

No. Just no. It takes serious effort to max smithing and enchanting both, and if you do that, then you know what you're doing. Don't complain about being overpowered when you set out to powermax.

So you want them to make dungeons you have to run the entire length back through in order to exit? That's what's called wasting time. If you can't be bothered to clear the whole dungeon, why are you even playing a video game.

What's that got to do with anything?

I used to be a game designer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee....

That does not reflect a +200% direct increase. In fact, it is a LOT less.

.........................Without Perk ............. With Perk ....................Armor ..............Weapon,Helm,Gaunts,Boots
Fine -------------14 ---------------- 14 -------------- +2 -------------- +1
Superior --------- 31 ---------------- 22 -------------- +6 -------------- +3
Exquisite -------- 65 ---------------- 40 ------------- +10 ------------- +5
Flawless --------100 ---------------- 57 ------------- +13 ------------- +7
Epic ------------134 ----------------74 -------------- +17 ------------- +8
Legendary ------168 ---------------- 91 ------------- +20 ------------- +10

Each additional quality level beyond Legendary improves Armor by 3.6 and other items (weapons, helms, boots, etc) by 1.8. This is the standard increase, no matter the armor or weapon type. It's the same across the board.

Using your example....With a base damage of 14, that 200% actually translates into an increased base damage of 25.8 or just 25. Remaining at Legendary (ie, 168%) would just be 24.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I posted this about Oblivion, when Oblivion was new:

Skyrim isn't Oblivion part two

Um, in the context of what he posted, it has EVERYthing to do with what he was commenting on! the armor actually doesn't weight very much

What is completly idiotic is that daedric artifacts,without smithing couldnt even compete with steel swords? Those artifacts should be "legendary" by default.

And something like wuuthrad is completly worthless because it couldnt be improved by smiting. Absurd.
Only the dragon masks are actually(some of them) worthy artifacts to loot,because the player couldnt make anything like that(three enchantments on one item).

it took me around 2-3 hours to go from 15-100 enchanting by buying petty and lesser soul gems, making iron dadders, then put absorb health on them and rinsed and repeated that by waiting for 2 days. On the other hand the daedric artifacts to me about 15 hours to find and complete( didn't want to use a guide to fing them all) so 2-3 hours to insta kill ancient dragons or 15 hours to eat people, summon a dremora (which i can summon on my own), absorb f****ing stamina,....the list of pointless crap goes on and on.
Except the shield with a ward on it that is the only one i can find remotely usefull at any time.

No just no it doesn't it took me around 6 hours to max out smithing and enchanting . Buy iron ingots and leather straps, buy petty and lesser soul gems, get absorb health enchantment. And tada grind for a few hours and realize you just broke your game and become very sad at the balancing choices.

I've found rare items in early dungeon containers.

Even a pair of Dragonscale gauntlets.

Thats funny I have 100 Smithing and I still can't make my legendary ebony mace make undead explode in a blaze of light like my Dawnbreaker. Sure my mace hits a bit harder but I sitll break out Dawnbreaker when I fight undead simply because it is fun and looks cool. Combine it with Spellbreaker and the combo is to fun...

I don't understand this mentality at all.
Skyrim is a huge, open world, obviously designed for exploration and organic character advancement.
You choose to spend six hours in a boring repetetive task in order to maximize specific skills, and never during that six hours stopped to think that it might unbalance the game?
There shouldn't have been a "tada" moment.
Pull up the console, click the Ancient Dragon and type "kill." Just as rewarding, I'm sure, and it will save you that six hours to go do something fun.

THIS! My level 34 spellsword uses Mace of Molag Bol (improved) and Sanguine Rose in the few instances where his magic doesn't finish them off at range.

do you actually mean that? that is one of the dumbest things iv heard aganst skyrim. grinding for 6 hours is, for one, the most boring thing you could possibly do and you should have your pc/360/ps3 taken away for doing it (go do taxes or something, it would net less complaints here and more fun for you) and is supposed to make you op, that is the only reason anyone would waste time on such a boring activity

That isn't necessarily true, you can have many items with the best stats but simply different enchantments that lend themselves to certain builds more-so than others. The problem is that Daedric is the best quality weapon hands down. All Daedric quality items have identical base values. Unless the artifact is a Daedric quality weapon, other weapons will far outscale the damage to where the enchantments they have cannot even come close to making up the gap. When I have a weapon that one shots something versus one that takes 2 or 3 hits but sets them on fire or something, why do I care they are on fire when I could have killed them in a hit from the get go? Damage is king in Skyrim and Enchants are very boring and not unique enough. They could have handled the itemization a heck of a lot better than how they did.

I'm going to have to say: You don't know how to formulate your arguments.
14*3=42, the exact definition of a 200% increase (Equaling 300% of the base value).
Arguing about the smithing quality levels is entirely irrelevant to the math.

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