Im doing a dual wielding nord, and he's currently fitted in full exquisite elven (+gilded) armor and an exquisite elven sword and mace at lv 7, and its still tough to go through bleak falls barrow, heck i wouldn't have survived the wounded frostbite spider if not for the fact that he couldn't fit through the walkway. I will probably go the whole way with smithing but is enchanting for smithing and absorb stamina for constant power attacks OP even on legendary? Still in the barrow , the Draugr are tough

You can use anything at your disposal on Legendary. You aren't better or worse than any other plauers for not using it.

I prefer Absorb 1 Stamina. I don't think its OP. It can be useful.

I'm sorry but the OP really confused me on how he worded that.

@OP, could you please explain a little more about what your asking?