Are swords faster in Skyrim?

The fastest physical weapon is a dagger with a swing speed of 0.7 seconds. Daggers are followed by Swords with a swing speed of one second, and all other weapons with swings that take longer than one second to complete. If you count spells as weapons, the novice level elemental spells can be cast instantaneously.
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Are swords faster than maces in Skyrim?

No real difference. Swords swing fastest but deal least damage, maces swing slowest but deal the most damage, and Axes are in the middle. Use whatever you get your hands on, the DPS is more or less the same. It pretty much boils down to whatever you think looks the best on your character.
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Is a sword or AXE better in Skyrim?

Axe can deal extra bleeding damage which ignore the armor ranking if you have the perk. Sword is the fastest but deals least damage. A certain perk grants you the ability to deal critical damage with a sword.
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Do lighter weapons swing faster in Skyrim?

No. Swing speed is based entirely on weapon class. Bows, on the other hand, take weight into account for draw speed. It also affects the distance the arrow will fly, the heavier the farther.
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What is the fastest attack speed weapon in Skyrim?

Daggers. The dagger is a light One-Handed short blade weapon that can be found of crafted in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In general it deals the lowest amount of damage though its wielding speed is the fastest of any other One-Handed weapon category like the Sword, Mace, or War Axe.
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What shout makes you attack faster in Skyrim?

The Thu'um imbues your arms with the speed of wind, allowing for faster weapon strikes.
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What weapons swing the fastest in Skyrim?

The fastest physical weapon is a dagger with a swing speed of 0.7 seconds. Daggers are followed by Swords with a swing speed of one second, and all other weapons with swings that take longer than one second to complete. If you count spells as weapons, the novice level elemental spells can be cast instantaneously.
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Is it better to use Light or heavy armor in Skyrim?

Vanilla light armor is superior to heavy armor. Light armor is slower to level up, weight less so you carry more sprint for longer durations early on, is more stealth friendly (but you can always muffle enchantment so it doesn't really matter), increase stamina regen and negate 10% of incoming damage.
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Does light armor make you faster in Skyrim?

You move much faster in light armor/no armor as opposed to heavy armor, and sprinting costs much less stamina.
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Are swords worth it in Skyrim?

Swords are ok. The crit can happen a lot. But maces are the best to dump perk points into IMO. The critical hit damage for swords only affects BASE damage of a weapon, not smithing or enchanting perks.
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What is the strongest sword you can make in Skyrim?

The Strongest Unique Swords In Skyrim, Ranked
  • 8 Lunar Iron Sword.
  • 7 Miraak's Sword.
  • 6 Nightingale Blade.
  • 5 The Pale Blade.
  • 4 Red Eagle's Bane.
  • 3 Windshear.
  • 2 Harkon's Sword.
  • 1 Dragonbane.
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Is it better to be one-handed or two handed in Skyrim?

If you're trained in two-handed, then two handed weapons are better. Pretty straight-forward. If you're equally trained in both, then one-handed is faster, two handed hits harder.
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What is the most op weapon in Skyrim?

Skyrim: Most Powerful Weapons, Ranked
  1. 1 Miraak's Sword. The Best One-Handed Sword In The Game.
  2. 2 Auriel's Bow. Drops Undead With Ease. ...
  3. 3 Nightingale Bow. Adds Ice Damage To Arrows. ...
  4. 4 Dwarven Black Bow Of Fate. ...
  5. 5 Zephyr. ...
  6. 6 Bloodscythe & Soulrender. ...
  7. 7 Drainblood Battleaxe. ...
  8. 8 Harkon's Sword. ...
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What is the hardest thing to fight in Skyrim?

2 Karstaag

These attacks also slow the player to prevent players from kiting the boss. He even spawns wraiths during the fight that draw a player's attention away from Karstaag. In terms of non-leveled encounters, Karstaag is by far the toughest encounter in the entire game.
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What happens if you wear all Heavy Armor in Skyrim?

Half damage from falling if wearing all Heavy Armor: head, chest, hands, feet. Heavy Armor weighs nothing and doesn't slow you down when worn. 25% Armor bonus if wearing all Heavy Armor: head, chest, hands, feet. 50% less stagger when wearing only Heavy Armor.
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What is the point of Light Armor in Skyrim?

Light armor allows you to sneak and regenerate stamina at a faster rate than heavy armor, and at the highest level can act as an auto-dodge from melee weapons. This synergizes well with the power attacks of two-handed weapons.
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Is there any reason to use Heavy Armor in Skyrim?

Light Armor favors mobility and stealth, but Heavy Armor is all about defense and tanking. In the mid-late game, and with enough perks, both armor types can reach the same threshold. The advantages of wearing Heavy Armor are most tangible in the early game.
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What skill levels the fastest in Skyrim?

Speech is one of the easiest skills to level in Skyrim and is one of the most beneficial skills to have at a high level. Simply selling items looted from exploration and quests will level Speech surprisingly quickly at low levels, and the extra gold certainly won't hurt.
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What weapon in Skyrim does the most damage?

So, only Daedric has the highest amount. Sadly, even that's incredibly low so axes, apart for the look, don't really measure up either way in vanilla. So in short, Daedric weapons deal the most damage and among them, a warhammer has the highest damage and a sword has the highest dps.
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What is the fastest smithing method in Skyrim?

While the easiest way to do this used to be by smithing iron daggers, a patch removed this glitch and changed Smithing leveling to scale with item worth rather than item quantity. This means that the fastest way to level up your Smithing attribute is by crafting gold rings.
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What are the most useless shouts in Skyrim?

Regular rain, thunder, or blizzard has no real harmful effects on players or NPCs, so there's no need to really clear Skyrim's skies. Clear Skies is, truly, the most useless Shout in all of Skyrim.
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What is the fastest one handed sword in Skyrim?

The Dragonbone Dagger is tied with the Blade of Woe in terms of damage output. However, the Dragonbone Dagger bests the Blade of Woe in terms of speed.
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Can you beat Skyrim without shouting?

Can you beat Skyrim without using shouts? - Quora. No, not really. There's a minimum amount of Shouting you need to do: After battling the dragon in Whiterun, you need to Shout to prove to the guards you're Dragonborn.
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