Base damage and enchanted together.

Also including daggers.

So far, Mehrune's dagger is what I have come up with.

The one you make yourself. Dragonbone plus whatever enchantments you want. Besides that, I think Chillrend is the strongest.

Miraaks Sword. More powerful than a Dragonbone Sword. Comes with an Absorb Stamina enchantment which means a lot of Power Attacks. Has a low charge though.

Can it be improved though? If so, that's hilarious considering its a tentacle, but cool.

Yep. Only needs an Ebony Ingot and a Daedra Heart. Doubles improved with the Dwarven Smithing perk.

A self crafted Dragonbone with a dual enchantment of Paralysis / Absorb Health.

The weapons you make yourself will always be better.

I should have clarified: I wasn't referring to created weapons.

In that case, its still Miraak's Sword.

I meant unique, one of a kind weapons, such as artifacts or unique weapons. Is Miraak's sword in the vanilla game or is that DLC related?

DLC and the most unique sword you'll find.

Mehrunes Razor isn't that special. It's the same as a Daedric dagger and the chance of the instant kill is less than 2%. It's a 2 in 101 chance of insta kill.

There are a lot better options than that. No matter if they are found or not.

DLC is part of the game as far as I'm concerned.

but mehrunes razor looks awesome, I concur with the op

The Razor + Assassin's Blade is pretty deadly.

http://i.imgur.com/1dC33yx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QI9QZTD.jpg

Miraak's sword has easily become my single most favorite weapon in TES, period. And i genuinely feel sad, upset, and pissed off that I will likely never see it again in another TES game.

I cannot re-call another weapon that even comes close to the uniqueness of the sword. I would love to see it in the next game as Mora's artifact. Or maybe wielded by his high priest or something. I just... want it.

I hate how fast the charge goes. Good thing it can be fully charged with a simple Petty Soul Gem.

I feel this way about all of Nordic Carved.

They should definitely make it a reward (or one of the rewards) for future Daedric quest given by Hermaeus Mora.

I specifically said vanilla game.

I have the legendary edition, so I agree with you, however I don't have certain parts installed such as dawnguard on account of the vampire attacks.

Hence, my question.

The sword is a part of the Dragonborn DLC.

You specifically asked if Miraks Sword was in the vanilla.

However you want to look at it, I guess.

...nvmd.

Looks to me like I said Vanilla Game.

As in, the game without downloadable content.

I never own an TES game without having all the DLC. Game of the year edition or otherwise.

HOWEVER I don't have all parts of the DLC installed for the reason I gave (not repeating myself).

As far as "however to look at it", I am looking at it just fine.

Mehrunes' Razor would be my next pick, seeing as how I have a soft spot for Daedric related things, and the razor is a great back-up weapon for a conjurer such as myself.

And it looks awesome.

Eh. I consider than vanilla game without mods. DLC is a part of Skyrim.

I guess no crafting aside, and with no DLC/Mods, Chillrend would be the strongest.

Except for when it's not installed.

If you're into a blasphemous sword of a zealous Daedra, then Dawnbreaker is also very brutal... to the undead that is. It can cause AOE fire damage on them. Explosions are always fun aren't they?