I think there should be Dwemer Canons to shoot down dragons. They can be easily blasted out of the sky with the powers of the Dwemers. Anyone else think Dwemer canons have a place in Skyrim?

I would rather they left this kind of thing out.

Dwemer used ballistas. Reguards had cannons though.

Though we battle dragons with our shouts, so...

Do the Dwemer even make canons?

No.

Thank you, no.

What fun is that? I want to take a sword and fight the dragon myself.

Not to mention that Dwemer technology is mostly a mystery, even if they did exist, I doubt anyone would be able to figure them out and be able to use them efficiently.

It's cannon! CanNon!

Nahhh, because at the point of Skyrim, Dwemer stuff will be old as hell, and should start to not work properly. Plus, as stated before, they used ballistae

Wouldn't mind a high tech projectile bow made by the dwemer or spike launcher that acts like a nail gun.

Or maybe some kind of magical wrist mana energy cannon.

However,
2handed sword > Guns
IMO

maybe not cannons, but balistae is as close as they could come in that situations. however, we still don't know if we will even by fighting them hand to hand, how would they balance that out. will fighting a dragon be no different from fighting a smaller enemy as we trade damage or will they use their wings and tails to stagger us. we'll know when it comes out but I have been very skeptical about the whole dragon thing from the begining.

Dwemer stuff does not deteriorate or rust or stop working. As seen in Morrowind, thousands of years after their disappearance, their machines and Centurions remain active and in working condition without any maintenance.

For realzies? When did the Redguards get cannons?

this.
And I meant balista, I just had the word canon stuck in my mind.

NO. PLEEEEEZ stop the gun/cannon threads. Now. Please.

True, but many facilities were in disarray and crumbling in Morrowind, and there were several centurions not working. It's possible that in the two hundred years things finally crumbled or were destroyed when Dwemer towers fell or something would make me happy. I love the Dwemer, but I grow weary of their stuff being infinitely usable and bountiful across the entire empire though they only settled in Morrowind and Hammerfell.

It's highly unlikely that thousand-year old machines would all of a sudden be destroyed withing a 200 years unless some outside force acted upon them.

well those sites are adventureror magnets. imagine 200 years of player looting whom tend to smash the machinery which usually is harmful to explorers.

Considering the state of the empire, who knows. Morrowind was fighting with the Nords for a while we don't know the full details of the war. I'm just saying it is possible. I agree that it is unlucky, but a boy can dream.

It would be kind of cool to have some kind of insanely powerful but slow and inaccurate Dwemer guns.

The Dwemer are already canon. It's also canon that they used ballistae, and didn't make cannons. So no, nonexistent Dwemer cannons have no place in Skyrim and should remain nonexistent.

This. I really have no idea why people always go "OMG DWEMER" when suggesting stuff like this. The only known province to have used cannons in TES (which are far inferior to and less practical than magic in the TES universe by the way) was Hammerfell, and that's only because the more traditionalist Redguards were prejudiced against the use of magic. Magic is an accepted part of everyday life in other the other provinces, so they have little use for gunpowder weapons of any kind.

In short: in the TES universe, magic halts the growth of any kind of technology. Guns/cannons will never happen in a TES game. Stop suggesting it.

It would halt the path technology took on earth, but it wouldn't halt technology in general. It would just take a different path. They'd still want to come up with ways to make using magic easier, or the tools they make to be better.

Hold a staff a different way and it turns into a gun. So guns have kind of always been with us, just under a different name. If I were a mage that wanted to hit something long range with a staff, I would look down it to make sure I was aiming correctly. The aiming with a staff now mainly uses the crosshairs, but the animation is rather odd in that it looks like you just thrust forward instead of really aiming at anything. That works fine for close range, but for long range it's not practicle.

Some mage out there could easily make a variation of a staff that would be held like a musket, for long range shooting. There would be a small advance in technology for you, even with magic. Turning the staff into a more long range weapon. Its not impossible, technological advancements just wouldn't follow the same path as the path earth's technologies took.

That's different from what's being suggested though. While your suggestion is rather... odd, and would just look awkward in my opinion, it MIGHT fit if implemented correctly. Gunpowder weapons as we know them, however, wouldn't fit TES at all.

Well, you said all technology before. I agree, I'd rather not see black powder technology in TES. But there still will be advances, just in other fields and dealing most likely with magic.