So i come across this lighthouse up north and it turns out to contain a dungeon with falmor and the centipede looking creatures (corus or something)...somwhere along the way i noticed that my sword attacks seemed weaker so I checked the skills and behold, my 1 handed skill is in the red from 40 to 15, which i thought is a huge difference. So i precede to take all my cure disease and cure poison potions to no affect. I then head back to whiterun and pray at both the kynareth and talos shrines, still no effect. I check active effects and there's nothing in there thats a negative effect, so i try emptying my entire inventory and still no effect on my 1 handed skill....what gives? Am I missing something or is this a huge glitch? If so I'm so F#!&kin pissed off with this as I saved already and my character is a one handed sword fighter....i even tried sleeping 24 hours and nothing.

Any help with this would be appreciated, this is such a great game but major glitches like this ruin the experience...i could start over but that would svck even more and this could happen again anyway, even worse at a higher level...wtf :flame:

Check your current Magical Effects to see exactly what's causing it.

It'll fix itself after a while, happened with my archery skill.

Just a visual glitch. Your not doing less dmg, the mobs probably just got a bit harder or have higher AC. I remember noticing this at around 75 2h skill and it dropped to 15 red. I just leveled it upagain and it went to 76, so not a big deal.

The sword I'm using had 20 damage before, now it's at 15 so there is less damage...i hope it does fix itself with a 1h level increase, I already increased my character level and leveled up during this glitch and it didn't correct it but I havent increased my 1h yet so I will give that a try.
Like I said there's nothing negative in my active effects list and I emptied my inventory so it's nothing I'm wearing/using, something just messed up when fighting those dam centipedes and falmors :banghead:

dunno whats up with your skill level there - but those bugs are TOUGH! I had to go back to that place 3 times before i could finally finish it

Ha yea I came across the lighthouse while trekking to another quest...I thought maybe there will be a room with some items, not realizing i was getting into a whole lot more then what I bargained for, mini boss and all but thats what makes these games amazing. Good thing I had lydia with me as backup/distraction


Good news everyone! The glitch did indeed fix itself when I leveled up my 1h, thanks for the help