Crafting Devastating Weapons in Skyrim: An Expert‘s Guide

As a devoted Skyrim player with over 3000 hours of playtime, I‘ve honed advanced strategies for creating overwhelmingly powerful weapons capable of taking down even the toughest bosses with ease. In this guide, I‘ll share specialized tips to take your damage potential to the next level.

Unlocking Enchanting‘s Full Potential

The key to exceedingly strong weapons lies in Enchanting. By stacking certain effects, you can add enormous bonus damage:

Enchantment Damage Comparison

As you can see above, Absorb Health far outweighs other damage effects.

To maximize enchanting capability:

• Use Grand Soul Gems to increase enchant strengths
• Enchant gear to boost Enchanting skill by 25% or more
• Create +130% Fortify Enchant potions using Salt Pile+Taproot+Garlic+Blue Butterfly Wing
• Equip gear & drink potion then enchant weaponry for exponentially higher gains

By repeatedly self-enhancing with potions and equipment, Enchanting gains compound massively. Thus, with enough iterations you can create devastating weapons exceeding over 1000 points of absorb health alone.

Raising Smithing Mastery to Legendary

With a powerful Enchanting engine fueling your capabilities, you can achieve extraordinary Smithing levels:

• At Smithing 100, unlock arcane blacksmith for boosting enchanted weapons
• Use skilling methods like Dwarven Bow spamming to swiftly gain XP
• Plant Creep Cluster+Mora Tapinella+Scaly Pholiota for +130% Fortify Smithing potions

Your maximized Enchanting will allow boosting Smithing potency far beyond the base +130% cap.

Obtain Daedric/Dragonbone weaponry, then apply fortifications from enchanted apparel and potions exceeding +500%. Upgrade them to Legendary rank for over 100 base damage.

Alchemy: Amplifying Enhancements Tenfold

As an herbalist-alchemist, you can concoct enhancement potions so potent that your capabilities skyrocket nearly without limit:

• Combine boosts like Restore Health+Fortify Destruction for added magnitude
• Target effects related to Enchanting, Smithing
• Utilize Planter pots with Creep Cluster+Mora+Scaly scaling combinations inflated 100x through garden reharvesting

With Poisoner and Benefactor perks acquired, your crafted potions both deal incredible damage over time AND heighten skills to unprecedented levels.

By planting rare ingredient combinations based on profitability data below, you can also amass fortunes to purchase soulgems, trainer levels, materials, and anything else required for gear progression:

Most Profitable Potions

Ancient Relics & Quest Rewards

While crafted equipment offers nigh-unlimited scaling damage, certain artifacts contain power unmatched by forged armaments:

Legendary Overpowered Weapon Ranking

I recommend pursuing Champions Cudgel from bosses around level 40. Windshear is my personal favorite paralysis weapon. Finally, while difficult, acquiring Molag Bal‘s artifact can greatly empower your mage builds with both melee and mana boosting enchantments.

With the guidance above, you now possess the expertise to push weapons and gear beyond anything enemies can withstand. Now get out there dragonborn, forge your armaments, and enjoy unleashing your unmatched power across the realm!

Any requests for additional tips? Let me know and keep on gaming!