It's unlimited 30 health per swing, stop complaining just because you can't disintegrate something by looking at it.

i think its intended to be that way if you dont like play with other sword!

its the best! in my warrior characher my first one i was unbeateble because of that and well i had every perk in Heavy-armor,Block and onehanded so it helped alot to i didnt had anything else but that!only smithing of course it was complete too!
Aragorn be in peace he stayed at sovngard he didnt want to return !

The Ebony Blade is terrifically poor. I don't understand what they were thinking (if they were). It's a two-handed ebony weapon that does the damage of a one-handed elven sword. The Longhammer does almost twice as much, can be smithed, can be enchanted with Absorb Health if so desired, and isn't saddled with the bizarre perk and skill spread.

I don't make a habit of going nuts smithing up weapons; my two-hander character is using epic quality skyforge steel. A little shy of a hundred damage. But that's still far, far better.

Maybe it's really good when you strengthen it. I highly doubt it. I've never bothered because why? Nobody has the right perks to use the thing to its full potential. It's incredibly weak even in the best case. It's a lot of work to actually strengthen it.

It is a mess, and it really frustrates me. I can't imagine it's intentional, but they certainly haven't made any overtures towards fixing it.

i just want to be able to sharpen my weapons. like silver swords or skyforged daggers or the nightingale blade.

skyforge daggers cant be upgraded? I just upgraded a sword and greatsword of the skyforge variety... odd

The beauty of the ebony blade is not only are you draining that 30 pts from your enemy, you're healing yourself 30 pts of health with every swing. The problem is that its glitched to use a mix of 1hand and 2hand perks, which is stupid.

Dragon scale armour, shadowmere and Ebony blade.
Whenever a dragon is flying in the air you hit shadowmere no stop to heal yourself when the dragon lands...
you destroy it

Double post

A whole lot of the problem would be fixed of they would let us sharpen It with an ebony ingot. Raising the damage from 33 to even 96 (which is still literally 3 times less than my Daedric Warhammer) would help.

Congratulations, you fell for Mephala's tricks. I hope you enjoyed killing all those people who trusted you because, otherwise, you did a lot of evil things for nothing in return. Poetic justice at best.

That's actually... a really valid way to put it.

Regardless, we need to be able to upgrade weapons with the forge. Wuuthrad, Ebony Blade, etc.

This mod lets you use the ebony blade just as a normal weapon, you can even upgrade and enchant it. Also the skills are fixed to work with only the two handed skills.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17773/

Thanks, but mods don't mean a thing to the majority of the TES fan base considering the majority are console users! Myself included.

And yes, we are the majority. Mods don't fix problems. Official patches do.

^^^

Even Volendrung can be smithed up to 321 so far. Ebony Blade chillin at 33.