so just got to iron stuff, and made the 2h battle axe because as a rule in any game ever i like big "f*ck-off" axes so i had to try it.

to say i am disappointed would be an understatement. it cannot deal with enemies. the initial wind up hit is so slow you could hit something twice with a 1h axe and have a shield ready to block/parry in the same time frame. the first hit barely does more damage than a 1h axe, and not hard enough to stagger, generally guaranteeing you get hit by things like draugr (and you literally can't attack archers without eating arrows with how slow it is, nor can you parry the shots either because its block stat is so low.) on the occasional light enemy the 1st hit's pushback can be enough it pushes them out of the range of the 2nd and 3rd hits. one swing also takes almost 3 1h axe swings worth of stamina, almost 3 whole bars of stamina for the combo. oh and 20% movement speed reduction just carrying it.

so to sum:
-insanely slow swing speed
-takes tons of stamina per swing
-doesn't hit anywhere near as hard as what you could do with any 1 hand weapon in the same timeframe for the same stamina (and also doesn't stagger as well either because of the sluggishness and low damage.
-can't parry for crap and lose all the benefit you could otherwise get from using a shield and a 1h weapon
-20% movement speed debuff just to hold it

the idea of a 2h weapon is supposed to be you sacrifice some defense for offence, but in practice this thing sacrifices both defense AND offense for no upside. someone tell me i'm missing something here.