Yup. I always started combat in 1st person and I never had an issue. On this guy 1st person works better anyways so that you can aim your critical charges accurately. 

I never had that problem in 3rd, but Great/Critical Charge is my favorite Combat perk/s in the game.

Yes, it is a very nice perk. I personally find it's stagger to be more valuable than the actual extra damage, it seems to stagger much more than a standard power attack. 

Exactly, and the fact that you come in from out of reach, so they can't counter.  You can hit them with another regular attack before they recover, so it pretty much starts the damage race with 2 free attacks before they even get started.  Then, you can start Bashing, or swinging normallly, or Power Attacking, but this more than makes up for the lower DPS of 2H weapons.  With 1H, the guaranteed Stagger of regular Critical Charge makes up for daggers', and swords' less than reliable knock-back on a regular Power Attack, and short reach.  I really just love the skippy animation, and added mobility of the Critical Charge animations.

Wait does great critical charge with daggers stagger the enemy? Normal power attacks don't. 

Great Critical Charge doesn't work with daggers.  Critical Charge does, and has a higher probablility of Stagger than a regular Standing Power Attack.

Ah that is what I mean't, because standard dagger attacks do not stagger.

Daggers stagger very little, so if you don't Power Attack with them very much, then you wouldn't notice, because it rarely procs.  However, they're fast, so I often use the left hand Power Attack to break Block, because the target is standing there for an easy hit, and the extra damage counters the extra defense.  When they're doing that straffe dance, it's better to just DPS swing, because it's easier to hit then, especially with the poor Reach of a Dagger.  Also, the Dual Power Attack is more likely to stun them, because of multle strikes in rapid succession.

Where it says Aetherial Crown for the Endgame equipment, it only states one guardian stone, whilst the crown allows two to be held at once, which is the other?