So i went completly out of my way to find the reaper gem fragments and I killed the SOB. To put it simply he dropped basically nothing. When i went back to take the reaper gems back there's this battleaxe called Reaper..........which has no enchantment once so ever. and when I take it, I'm struck by lightning which does a very small amount of damage, I thought that the lightning may have enchanted the POS standard iron battleaxe but nothing happened. there has to be something i'm missing.

Hmmm?

I think I read somewhere that it was supposed to be a Dragonbone Battleaxe, but I guess the leveling thing is messed up or something.

When I killed him the thing didn't have a name. Just Iron Battleaxe

I got a dragon battle axe... Must be a leveling glitch as said above.

Use the http://www.gamesas.com/forum/196-dawnguard-cheats-hints-and-spoilers/ for this kind of topic.