Why do Orcish weapons seem to have lower damage than Dwarven?

[Wicked Clown Luv]

Orcish is higher tier is it not?

[Docsprock]

No, orcish is a lower tier.

[Stormsong]

Because they do, and it is. Developer oversight. Mods fix it but I seem to recall you're playing vanilla. Something you'll have to put up with :(

Edit:

Originally posted by Docsprock:

No, orcish is a lower tier.

It is?? TMYK

[Wicked Clown Luv]

Orcish smithing perk requires more blacksmithing, it has to be better quality than dwarven.

Also, HOW does something like this remain in the game 5 years after release. Some dev at Bethesda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up hard

[Docsprock]

Orcish is a lower tier as far as damage. I dont know why.

[Wicked Clown Luv]

lol what the actual ♥♥♥♥

[Player_1]

Apparently Dwarven Weapons deal more damage than orcish weapons, but the orcish armor protects more than dwarven... What?

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Orcish is a lower tier as far as damage. I dont know why.

Originally posted by Player_1:

Apparently Dwarven Weapons deal more damage than orcish weapons, but the orcish armor protects more than dwarven... What?

It's just like Stormsong said; a developer oversight/"bug". There are mods that fix the progression.

[Wicked Clown Luv]

An oversight they've had 5 years to fix and haven't. Sloppy as f*ck

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by Fresh:

An oversight they've had 5 years to fix and haven't. Sloppy as f*ck

They stopped supporting this game over 3 1/2 years ago. The sloppy part is all of the bugs they left behind.

[GrimCat]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Originally posted by Fresh:

An oversight they've had 5 years to fix and haven't. Sloppy as f*ck

They stopped supporting this game over 3 1/2 years ago. The sloppy part is all of the bugs they left behind.

Bethesda relies heavily on modders to do the hard work when it comes to bugs.

[Silvar]

I doubt it's an oversight - rather it's a game design decision. Have you looked at the way Orcish weapons look? It's obvious they're supposed to be lower quality than Dwarven ones. Whereas for armor it's not really the quality of the craftsmanship but the material that makes them better. At least this is how I see it.

[Wedor]

@Silvar
I think it should be the other way round if you ask me.
Both Orks and Dwarfs are particulary good at smithing. But whilst Dwarfs also consturcted some machines and robots to support them in Battle, Orks always relied on Heavy Close Combat Fighting. So it would be just concievable, that Orks took more effort into getting good at smithing Weapons. Whilst dwarfs already needed a very good insight in creating stable shells for their robots - just allone to support their heavy weight. Additionaly not having the very best weapons wouldn't have been that bad, as they dont nessesarily need to fight on their own. So better be protected as good as possible and command your robots to do the dirty work.

[DrSuperEvil]

Lets not forget the lexicon that gives a +25% bonus to smithing dwarven stuff.

[Rush Knight]

Personally, I like the discrepancy. It gives more flavor to the wold's arsenal than just "gooder metal make gooder killy-thing."