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• Jesse

  

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  May 9, 2012 5:20 PM EDT

  Personally, I hate the Elven sword and don't especially like the greatsword either. They just don't look right to me. I imagine Elven blades as slender and slightly curving, not the fat leaf-shaped things with a huge crossbar and tiny hilt. The Elven battleaxe's blade looks very Elven to me, but the swords look terrible.

  Am I alone in this? Do other people like the way they look?

• Mason

  

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  May 9, 2012 5:26 PM EDT

  I think the elven greatsword is a very nice piece of kit, its got gorgeous detailing and looks so sharp! The thing i like about it the most is that it doesn't 'dwarf' female characters. (in the previous games if you made a female toon and then gave her a greatsword it would tower above her head final fantasy style)

  But the elven war axe is my favourite, that is one cool looking weapon! And taking into account that elven weaponry is more damaging than dwarven or orcish makes it taste even sweeter!

• Ponty

  

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  May 9, 2012 6:07 PM EDT

  I actually really like the elven swords, particularly the greatsword like Mason said. Great damage, great look - TES elves definitely aren't Tolkien's/D&D's elves.

• ricardo maia

  

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  May 9, 2012 6:24 PM EDT

  We've been playing this game for so long that each one of us ends up with strange likes and dislikes. I pretty much don't like almost every set of vanilla weapons, except steel, ebony, falmer and draugh. Orcish weapons seem to frail; elven are too large and clumsy, dwarven are too unnecessarily shiny, and daedric have a baroque design that seems more amusing than frightful. Worst of all, I have to fight hard to look for a weapon that fits the apearence of my builds, since the vanilla sets are too different from my preconceptions about how they should be. Orc weaponry should be crude but effective; elven should be delicate and subtle; dwarven should be heavy and overpowering; daedric should be gothic and not baroque, and steel should have a lot of racial varieties. Most of the times, I just go for the maximun damage and forget about the way I had thought my character should appear.

• Joel

  

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  May 10, 2012 4:03 AM EDT

  i generallly dont care for anything other than daedric, or rares, since they do most damage,,

• Nyan Khajiit

  

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  May 10, 2012 8:49 AM EDT

  Personally I don't like elven but, theDwarven weaponry is my favorite because it's simple but effective, especially the dwarven mace, it looks like a club. The swords have kind of an Excalibur feel to them.

• Eva V

  

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  May 10, 2012 11:12 AM EDT

  I like the elven wepons but Sephiroths description of how an elven sword should look like sounds really nice. I remember a picture of an Altmer who was wearing a robe and had a katana-like wepon, also he's hairstyle was quite japanese-like. Found it!

• Jesse

  

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  May 10, 2012 2:33 PM EDT

  Yeah, greatsword isn't too bad. I still think I could design one I'd like better, but it isn't too fat. The regular sword is the one that really gets me. The proportions seem totally off to me.

• lanep25

  

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  May 10, 2012 6:49 PM EDT

  You tell 'em, Alvor!!!