One Handed VS Two Handed

[Octoknight]

Personally I prefer two handed for staight out combat. One handed always just felt weak to me...unless I got something other than a shield on the other hand...then it's very useful. I only really like one handed for stealth..but even then a two handed weapon can do more damage with stealth o_O...
Discuss :D

[Gobestar]

i really like one handed just because of the sheild and with skyre if you upgrade the blocking perk tree you can almost negate all damage being taken in if you time everything right. Also i never really like two handed weapons just because they seem to slow to me. I like comvbat to be fast paced and two handed just swings too slow for me. Plus you can only use that one weapon where with one handed you can keep your sword in your main hand while switching your off hand with spells for enemies that are ranged and switch to a sheild once they get close to you

[Urgh]

One handed = dual wielding <3
Never used a shield or a two handed weapon.

Daggers for stealth. Even if you miss, the enemies wont hear the dagger. A sword or other will get you noticed. Also daggers get bonus damage from a sneak perk.

Dual wield axes, swords and daggers, or one of those and a spell.

[BelphegorATS]

Wielding one or two-handed weapons depends on the build you're playing as. For example, I have two different ideas of how battlemages handle close range melee combat in Oblivion and Skyrim. A battlemage in Oblivion would use war axes and shields in addition to his magic, whereas Skyrim's battlemage is more of a two-hander with a greatsword plus magic in my opinion. In other words, it's all about the class you create and how you feel it should function.

[BelphegorATS]

BloodFireIce님이 먼저 게시:

One handed = dual wielding <3
Never used a shield or a two handed weapon.

Daggers for stealth. Even if you miss, the enemies wont hear the dagger. A sword or other will get you noticed. Also daggers get bonus damage from a sneak perk.

Dual wield axes, swords and daggers, or one of those and a spell.

Dual wielding is also useful depending on the character you're playing as, but a flaw in the Hot Key system forces you to only use one weapon of the same name. For instance, I enchanted two Daedric daggers on an Assassin build and gave both of them the same name because the idea behind them was to use twin daggers. However, the Hot Key system prevented me from selecting both daggers for both hands because it would register them for one hand only. Plus the second dagger would disappear from the Hot Key menu if I didn't assign it to one of the number keys. This meant I'd have to go back into my inventory just to switch between spells and my second dagger, which is tedious since assigning them to Hot Keys is faster and doesn't go through the entire process of inventory work just to wield two weapons in addition to spells.

[Octoknight]

BelphegorATS님이 먼저 게시:

BloodFireIce님이 먼저 게시:

One handed = dual wielding <3
Never used a shield or a two handed weapon.

Daggers for stealth. Even if you miss, the enemies wont hear the dagger. A sword or other will get you noticed. Also daggers get bonus damage from a sneak perk.

Dual wield axes, swords and daggers, or one of those and a spell.

Dual wielding is also useful depending on the character you're playing as, but a flaw in the Hot Key system forces you to only use one weapon of the same name. For instance, I enchanted two Daedric daggers on an Assassin build and gave both of them the same name because the idea behind them was to use twin daggers. However, the Hot Key system prevented me from selecting both daggers for both hands because it would register them for one hand only. Plus the second dagger would disappear from the Hot Key menu if I didn't assign it to one of the number keys. This meant I'd have to go back into my inventory just to switch between spells and my second dagger, which is tedious since assigning them to Hot Keys is faster and doesn't go through the entire process of inventory work just to wield two weapons in addition to spells.

o_O

[BelphegorATS]

=PB=Octoknightx님이 먼저 게시:

BelphegorATS님이 먼저 게시:

Dual wielding is also useful depending on the character you're playing as, but a flaw in the Hot Key system forces you to only use one weapon of the same name. For instance, I enchanted two Daedric daggers on an Assassin build and gave both of them the same name because the idea behind them was to use twin daggers. However, the Hot Key system prevented me from selecting both daggers for both hands because it would register them for one hand only. Plus the second dagger would disappear from the Hot Key menu if I didn't assign it to one of the number keys. This meant I'd have to go back into my inventory just to switch between spells and my second dagger, which is tedious since assigning them to Hot Keys is faster and doesn't go through the entire process of inventory work just to wield two weapons in addition to spells.

o_O

I assume what I said blew your mind, didn't it? No offense intended, but it's not really surprising unless you're new to the game and haven't tried out duel wielding with spells and Hot Keys for the same build. Skyrim was released on 11-11-11, so it's been a little over two years since then. This problem wouldn't really be that new since some people might have already discovered it and spoke about the issue in threads like this one so others would know about it.

[ProX_Roccat]

I prefer twohanded because I don´t block with shields...and two onehanded weapons.... no comment...

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

Vampire-Hime Mina Tepes님이 먼저 게시:

mages can go at it too (short time), except i havent found a conjure tome for a two handed weapon....or specific ones like a dagger...:/

Bound Battleaxe.

[76561198106664613]

I prefer one-handed. Dual weilding and sword and shield look cool in the kill scene.

Also, I never got the hang of 2-handed, because its slower, by the time the attack completes, the bad guys and follower have moved and a lot of the time I strike the follower. You think that would make them angry.

[gnewna]

Two Bears님이 먼저 게시:

Vampire-Hime Mina Tepes님이 먼저 게시:

mages can go at it too (short time), except i havent found a conjure tome for a two handed weapon....or specific ones like a dagger...:/

Bound Battleaxe.

Plus Bound Dagger is available if you have Dragonborn installed (though I can't remember if you can buy it from court mages/CoW or if you have to go to Solstheim, I've only ever had it in SkyRe which alters stuff like that somewhat.)

[Octoknight]

Vampire-Hime Mina Tepes님이 먼저 게시:

gnewna님이 먼저 게시:

Plus Bound Dagger is available if you have Dragonborn installed (though I can't remember if you can buy it from court mages/CoW or if you have to go to Solstheim, I've only ever had it in SkyRe which alters stuff like that somewhat.)

any idea what might carry it?

Uh...well I got mine from the court wizard in Whiterun(forgot his name :c)

[Roanark]

More damage? Backstab perk x15 with daggers. Plus gloves with x2
x30 damage. One hit almost everything.
Shadow warrior with that means you're able to do so mid combat. With great difficulty.

[BelphegorATS]

Thway the AetherKnight님이 먼저 게시:

Hi. Great discussion here, I often wonder about it myself "which is better?". Personally, I like using two daggers or one dagger and one illusion spell. If you are willing to level up stealth enough, you can sneak past anyone in the game and kill them in one hit. I took my time and always crouched unless i had to talk to people so that my sneak leveled like crazy. Did you know it levels up even if there are no enemies in sight? Your sneak can increase by fooling guards, townsfolk, even wild animals. My avatar has Sneak level 100 as well as Pickpocket level 100 so i simply steal the armor off my foes and slit their throats :0. I also took every one-handed perk that was related to daggers and aqquired the Nightengale Gauntlets which double one-handed damage. I almost feel bored with the game because i can one hit kill giants and dragons if i want to. Dont even get me started on normal bandits and thalmor grunts. i kill my enemies in one, maybe two hits. if i come across low level enemies, i like to mess with them. since i know i can already kill them the old fashoined way, i either charm them and walk past without a fight or make them kill each other. Seriously, i lasted almost a whole wave of the entire guardforce of solitude before i was seen because i crouched and shot over three hundred arrows. One-handed is where it's at.
On the topic of two-handed and shields, two handed does deal more damage and there are perks for an increase in swing speed, but your character moves so slow... again, I am level 100 Sneak with every perk and two handed still gets me caught red handed! i dont really use shields because it just wears down stamina and prolongs fights. As fun as skyrim is, its combat is really just a wimpy AI hitting you in the face until one of you dies. If you use one-handed weapons, it wont be you. That said, if you do get caught and youve only leveled up offense skills, youre screwed without adequate light armor perks. so its not simply how many hands you hold a weapon with. its how you plan to play the game.

No offense intended, but most of that information is already common knowledge in the series; plus the playstyle is also well-known among the community because it falls within a set of skills that apply to Rouge classes like Thieves and Assassins.

[ballpoint202]

I'm latley using one-handed with a healing spell in the off hand. Less weight than a shield or a two-handed weapon, and once you get the respite perk you never run out of stamina, so it's constant power attacks.

[Bansheebutt]

I like one-handed because of how fast you can cancel a normal attack into a power attack; especially if you play as a lefty/dual-weilder.

With a Mace and Bone-Breaker, you can do a lot of damage real quick that way.