Defensive Stance will stack with Shield Wall from the Blocking Tree. Blocking enchants, on necklaces and such, don't work for two-handed weapons, so this Perk will provide you with a better defensive option, to compensate for the lower damage compared to dual wield. The new 'Defensive Stance' Perk (at 40 2H skill) allows you to block 30% more damage while holding a two-handed sword.

Your attack speed with a Greatsword will be at about 0.9, so it'll be a little bit slower than a one handed sword. Overall damage will still be lower than that of dual wield, as it should, but higher than sword and board. This will increase the average damage output, allow two-handed weapons to benefit from smithing/enchanting much better and also help with defending yourself, because you can go back to blocking, bashing or evading much earlier, and won't be stuck in an attack animation, which can be quite frustrating.

Two-handed rebalance or Two-handed rebalance - conservative dpsĪdds a perk that gives the player +30% attack speed with two handed weapons (split up into two ranks with 15% increase each).

If playing on the PC, I recommend these mods to somehow make Two-handed builds comparable to One-handed builds: They slow the user down while he's attacking, practically negating their range advantage, they use a lot of stamina to execute power attacks because of their weight, and nevertheless they WILL be outdamaged by a single one-handed weapon eventually. In the end, two-handed weapons are unwieldy because of their low attack speed. (Keep in mind, I'm only talking about a single one-handed weapon here, not dual wield!) That is not even taking damage enchantments into account, which would widen the gap even more in favor of one-handed weapons. With 100 Smithing, 100 Weapon Skill, as well as Armsman/Barbarian Perks, a one-handed Daedric sword will slightly outdamage a two-handed Daedric Greatsword. This means that a faster weapon will benefit much more from said skills, because it can apply the damage bonus more often. Two-handed weapons scale very badly with Enchanting and Smithing bonuses.Įnchants and weapon tempering apply the same fixed bonuses to any weapon, regardless of their attack speed. Also, some strong unique weapons like the Dawnbreaker and Dragonbane are one-handed only.Īlso, from Two-handed rebalance mod description: A major advantage of the One-handed build to the Two-handed build is that the Block skill tree has perks that only affects you if you are using a one-handed build (Elemental Protection, Deflect Arrows, Shield Charge).

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