Also know, that each new weapon has a higher stamina cost than the previous tier and while damage scales, the food clearly doesn't. 1 tier higher food of 2 food and 1 stamina is what, 14 extra stamina?, compared to the previous that means after 7 swings it feels off and this keeps going up and up. This is the reason i still use Frostner, i barely notice a difference compared to that mistwalker sword while it uses far less stamina.

The constant stamina cost increase needs to go away, it limits the combat so much. Just imagine 2 biomes later, 1h weapons will cost 20 stamina while we have a fraction of the stamina more, so we can hit a few times and we need to wait again. I tried that 2h sword which already is 20, i hit a few times and i need to walk around, can barely kill two freakin' draugr's before i need to regen again.

Seriously, why would an iron sword cost more stamina than a bronze sword. Last time i checked bronze was heavier than iron. Just have weapons types cost the same amount of stamina, make enemies more challenging so you need to dodge more so you need to use more stamina for that. Combat just becomes more and more tedious the further you get while no actual difference in combat happens