What is special about the Ebony Blade Skyrim?

The Ebony Blade's unique effect is to increase the power of its Absorb Health enchantment based on the number of friendly NPCs that the player kills. For every two friendlies slain with the Ebony Blade directly, its effect is increased by 4.
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What is special about the Ebony Blade?

The Ebony Blade was enchanted to cut through any object, to prevent the death of its wielder, and to deflect any magic, but it also carried a curse that would slowly corrupt any user and cause a lust for violence, bloodshed, and death.
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Is the Ebony Blade good in Skyrim?

Usefulness. The Ebony Blade is, in some ways, an upgraded version of the Blade of Woe; it is two-handed and has unlimited charges. Its attack speed is faster than any other two-handed weapon (about as fast as a one-handed sword), though it has the lowest damage per hit.
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What does upgrading the Ebony Blade do?

Actually it can't be improved. Every 2 friendlies (Spouses, Followers, Guildmates) that you kill with the Ebony Blade, upgrades the Absorb Health effect up to 30 points of health per hit.
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Is it worth charging the Ebony Blade?

It's vampiric effect is also unique, as no item in game have anything like it. Not only it doesn't take charges, but the way it works is also different. While you are weilding this blade fully charged with 10 kills - no one will be able to kill you.
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Skyrim SE - Ebony Blade - Unique Weapon Guide

What am I supposed to do with the Ebony Blade?

The Ebony Blade's unique effect is to increase the power of its Absorb Health enchantment based on the number of friendly NPCs that the player kills. For every two friendlies slain with the Ebony Blade directly, its effect is increased by 4.
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What is the max damage in Ebony Blade?

For every two characters slain, the perk increases by 2 points up to a maximum damage rating of 30.
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How to make the Ebony Blade more powerful?

There is a scale in the game called "Disposition" that measures how friendly people are from -4 to 4 at anything marked 2 and higher when killed by the ebony blade will increase the power of the blade you can kill followers because they are marked at 3 anyone who you finished a quest for that says "it's a good day ...
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Can the Ebony Blade be smithed?

No, it can't be improved. But you can increase the Drain Health effect to 30 points, by killing 10 friend NPCs (NPCs you've helped, followers, etc.). Mephala will comment after every 2nd kill. Problem is, the Ebony Blade, unlike all the other Daedric Artifacts, can't be upgraded through smithing.
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Is Blades armor better than Ebony?

Are they roughly similar in defense? The Blades armour is slightly better but the ebony gauntlets, boots, helmet and shield are better a quite a bit. The Blades gauntlets, boots, helmet and shield are equal to dwarven.
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What is better ebony or daedric?

The weapon damages seem close too. And war axe is exactly the same. Daedric is the strongest. Legendary Ebony won't be stronger than Legendary Daedric, although in such an easy game, you're free to use either.
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What level should I get the Ebony Blade?

The Ebony Blade is a long, two-handed katana weapon that can be obtained during the “Whispering Door” quest after reaching level 20 in Skyrim.
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Is the Ebony Blade the same as the necrosword?

The Necrosword was made by Knull's experimentation in the living abyss. It's different from other symbiotes like Venom, Carnage, and others. The All-black Necrosword naturally appears as a blade quite similar to the Ebony Blade. It possesses the powers of All-Black bestows on its wielder.
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Is the Ebony Blade excalibur?

No. The Ebony Blade was originally referred to as the Black Blade. Merlin created the weapon to be a worthy magical counterpart to King Arthur's Excalibur.
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Who wielded the Ebony Blade?

Sir Percy of Scandia

As the Black Knight, Percy wields the Ebony Blade, which Merlin forged from a meteorite.
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Can the Ebony Blade cut vibranium?

The Only Thing It Cannot Cut Is Vibranium

despite its magical enhancements, the Ebony Blade is not infallible. There is one object the weapon can never cut through.
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Can you sharpen the Ebony Blade?

This weapon cannot be upgraded at a grindstone. The only ways to improve the damage you deal with it is to improve your Two-Handed skill, invest in Two-Handed perks, and to kill friendly NPCs.
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Who should I use the Ebony Blade on?

Four of the five are valid targets for charging the Blade. Namely, they are Bujold the Unworthy, Elmus, Halbarn Iron-Fur, and Hilund. Kuvar and the Riekling Chief are not valid.
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Is The Ebony Blade A Katana?

The Ebony Blade, also known as the Black Edge, the Leech, the Vampire, and the killing word, is a Daedric artifact of Mephala. It resembles an ebony katana, and grows more powerful with each life it takes. It seems to become especially powerful after taking the lives of close friends and using deceit to murder.
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Why isn t the Ebony Blade getting stronger?

Relax, it's just a game. It's weapon damage doesn't increase. Just the absorb health effect. It doesn't show the magnitude of the absorb health on the weapon but it is increasing.
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Can you enchant the Ebony Blade?

As for enchantments, you can either not use any and use Elemental Fury which at least doubles your sword swinging speed for around 20 seconds, or you can add absorb health/fire/frost/shock damage to your sword to increase the damage output and effectiveness of it.
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How do you know when the Ebony Blade is maxed out?

After the last two kills, enchantment = 30 pts, and this is the dialogue you will be hearing and looking out for when the blade is fully charged: "At last, my blade is returned to its full glory.
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Does Ebony Blade scale with level?

Nope it's not levelled. The enchantment levels up by the unique effect as you probably know, but it doesn't matter what level you are when you get it. It's actually a much better weapon early on as it can't be upgraded with smithing.
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Does the Ebony Blade count as a great sword?

The Ebony Blade is wielded in two hands, but is considered a one-handed sword rather than a greatsword. This means that it gets the benefits of a generic two-handed weapon, such as using and training the Two-handed general skill level, but also benefits from all the One-handed perks that apply to one-handed swords.
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Does elemental fury work with an Ebony Blade?

So far I found out that this Shout can be used with Dawnguard war axe and Valdr's lucky dagger (and enhanced crossbow, though looks like it has no effect), and doesn't work with Bloodskal Blade, Ebony Blade (and maybe all other weapons u get from those Princes too), Poacher's axe, and Zephyr.
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