If you could only have one weapon artifact and one armor/jewelry artifact what would it be? I don't mean only the "true" artifacts, but any piece of equipment; 1 weapon and 1 armor or jewelry, what would you choose? Feel free to answer for multiple characters

My Nord, Frosty, would probably choose Dawn/Duskfang and the escutcheon of chorrol

Dawn/Duskfang and Azura's Star are the two I consistently use. Although later in the game once I have Dawn/Duskfang, which recharges itself twice a day, I find less use for Azura's Star.

Let's say Dawn/Duskfang and the Skeleton Key are my most useful items.

Skeleton Key for sure

Umbra because it looks cool and owns peeps.

Chillrend because it looks epical.

Duskfang. I want a permanent Duskfang, Dawnfang looks lame >_<

Armor? Masque of Clavicus Vile, or Saviors hide.
Weapon, Probably Umbra, only Weapon Artifact I've used for more than a few minutes, Dawn/Duskfang was cool,but getting the superior version is useless, it goes back when the blade changes.

Same with Clawhammer, my one and only main. My others... M'Aiq would take Hatred's Soul and Azura's Star. Silas would want the Mundane Ring and his staff of paralysis.

Give me Umbra and the skeleton key and I am ready to go. :bolt:

wow I completely forgot about the skeleton key... I take back what I said, I would go with the skeleton key and shadowrend

Azura's Star, which I'm surprised is not listed in everyone's responses. As for weapon, Hatred's Soul is pretty cool, although I don't use it anymore, as it feels like cheating. So I will put down a vote for either Shadowrend (claymore version) or a self-enchanted Perfect Madness Bow.

Buffy carries the following enchanted items:

Slayer (her enchanted bow that includes drain speed 100x1sec, soul trap x1sec, and shock damage to taste - it's the only weapon she will touch)

Azura's Star (to feed Slayer)

A pair of detect life rings totalling 360 feet (she hates surprises - the super range is really handy when traveling by horse).

That's all she really needs. In fact the only other enchanted items she carries are several custom 'utility' rings (night eye, light, water walk/breathe) that she uses as required. None of her apparel (except rings) is enchanted because she changes outfits and amulets too often to be bothered.

Chillrend/spellbreaker

I have no use for the artifact weapons, but I love Azura's Star and the Skeleton Key. Soon as I grab the Star I run home and duplicate it, because once I dropped it coming out of an Oblivion Gate and it disappeared forever.

The Skeleton Key is actually the only one I couldn't live without.

Azura's Star is obvious even if my current pure mage don't use it so much. Skeleton key is nice, but with access to lockpicks from thief guild fences and a fortify security spell it's not essential. The grey cowl is better. Non of the artefacts weapons interest me, however umbra is nice if you can't cast soultrap. I uses some of the rings from the daeric quests.

Azura's star and Spell Breaker were invaluable for my last Xbox character. (Altmer Battlemage)

The Skeleton key takes away the need for any skill at the lockpicking mini-game, so all my characters use it. The "Open Lock" spells lag behind the locks in availability, so they're not quite a viable alternative.

Azura's star is essential if you have weapons that need recharging, but not all my characters do. There are a couple of pure mages that never use any weapons, and one or two using non-enchanted bows or swords as backups to magic.

The only artifact weapon I ever use is Umbra, as I find a weapon without soul trap is a liability, running out of charge when you need it most. Umbra's not that great, as it doesn't do anything but soul trap, but its high base damage gets it some love as a switch-to weapon to feed the primary (which would be another enchanted sword for any character using Umbra as well). Once I've made a final self-enchanted weapon, Umbra would be retired.

Artifact armor also retires, if used at all. Rings get used some of the time, but any can be replaced with a self-made or non-artifact one.

For me it would have to be my custom "Ebony Leech."
Ebony long sword (I think daedric weapons and armor are fugly) - drain health 100pts for 1 sec, absorb health 10pts for 1 sec, soul trap for 1 sec, weakness to magicka 100% for 2 secs.

So true... atleast the shield and helmet.

The Skeleton Key.

skeleton key its the only artifact i can find a use for :/ and i dont really like the enchantment making thing of this game morrowinds was better gave me more choices and better quality

Masque of clavicus vile and... lets say... Wabbajack.

Horomir's Icestaff is pretty cool; a shame you only see it in one quest and it's not a very good weapon.

And I quite like that fruity SI bow that does a different spell with each hit; it's great fun to watch someone burst into flames and then drop down paralysed.

The best one, though, is Azura's Star. It's the most useful artifact in the entire game. I've always thought it odd that the two most useful Daedric artifacts - AS and the Skeleton Key - are rather plain things rather than godly weapons.

Probably the skeleton key. Oh, and azura's star is nice.

Though I'd like the entire Crusader armour set.

Mace of the Crusader, and the Shield of the Crusader. Give me those, and I'm good.

My Fine Steel Longsword enchanted with 13 pts. of Fire, Shock, Frost for 1 sec each, and the Acrobat's Amulet. Those are my current fav.