I've been watching my buddy play Skyrim since it was released. He's found quite a few glitches (both good and bad), and literally explored almost the entire map (there may be a handful of minor areas that haven't been explored). He's fully leveled to 81 and maxed all skills.

Today while playing and experimenting with potions, he's been able to upgrade / craft / smith his weapons and armor (and finding a pretty novel way around using a potion glitch) to ridiculous levels.

His Daedric Bow is 57,913 Damage (worth 1,852,957), Daedric Swords at 46,580 Damage or 93,160 when dual wielding (worth 926,915), and Armor rating of 165,205 (worth 780,178).

I'll post some pics tomorrow to show the numbers. I've looked online and only seen Damage in the low thousands (1300 or thereabouts), so thought this was pretty noteworthy and wanted to share it. Has anyone else figured out this trick?

As said, I took some pics and will upload them tomorrow when I can get to my computer (on my iPhone now). I'll get him to explain how he accomplished it if people are interested (it was very complicated, and I wasn't even there for the first portion of his smithing and crafting session, but it involved pausing and removing armor and weapons while crafting and applying certain potions).

I also took a short video of it (not the process, but the results) so people can see both pics and video. I don't have a YouTube account but will sign up for one and try to upload the video from my iPhone (along with the pictures) tomorrow from my computer.

Just a note, photobucket and YouTube both use Flash, hence me not immediately posting them as I'm on my iPhone. Will upload them and post here no later than tomorrow afternoon.

The trick is well known. The reason no one is really -showing that off- is because armor caps at 567 (any number higher than this is pointless) and no creature has more than 6k hp, so you can actually just one shot anything with a steel dagger anyways. Most people here also don't use those glitches purposefully so they can enjoy more of a challenge

Sorry if that is wind out of your sails. No need to post the glitch here unless you really want to, your friend probably read about it here to begin with.

Yeah. With an ebony bow smithed up to 200 damage with no hacks by a half-arsed nub smith like myself, there is little challenge left in most fights. What is the point of exploits like that? Just turn on god mode if that rocks your boat.

Ah ok then, I didn't realize. He definitely discovered it on his own (he doesn't have Internet), same with the Ogrem Infinium (might be misremembering that) thing. As said, he'd already played through and covered virtually 95% of the map and quests, so the challenge wasn't absent for him (well, it was once he got the Daedric armor and weapons and started killing everything in one or two shots). He'd put well over 450 hours in before figuring it out.

After posting that originally, he messed around with smithing and got his Daedric swords up to over 100,000,000 each. It's just fun to see how high it can go.

Use the iPhone app

Love this comment, but then again, I'm old

Someone on youtube did a bow that dealt 1.5 million damage.

Armor is capped at something like 580 or as such, so anything about that cap add's no more protection to you. Alot of Armor is capable of reaching this level of protection including light armors such as Glass. Because of this bug the best armor in the game does infact become the light armors.

Best is you read the wikis. They are full of it.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim