Skyrim - an expansive world full of quests, trials, and possibilities. You could live a whole life in this world; join a guild or the army, get a house and settle down, steal, enchant and harm to your heart's content. Setting off into the wilds to face giant spiders, dragons, and (ugh) wolves can be as much of an advent💦ure as following the main storyline. I mean, if you could harness th🍰e power of dragons and change the world's fate, wouldn't you use it?
The world of Skyrim was once the pinnacle of open-world RPGs, but as time went on Bethesda relied more and more on the modding community and nostalgia from fans to keep it alive. Now it has been kicked off the top by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild, but do not throw out your copy of Skyrim just yet. Skyrim has an excellent progression system that is arguably one of the best in its genre - it allows you to specialize easily and power up your existing perks. At the time of its release, Skyrim was beautiful and had state of the art graphics. It was stunning visually and had a massive world - it had beauty and a booty. Of course, even the remastered version now shows its age ⛎but 🎉that does not mean that you cannot appreciate what it once was.
In a world where you can be anything, do anything, and mod anything, what base items are worth it? What is worth bringing with you on your adventure and what should be left behind? Here is a list of the best and worst items in Skyrim.
30 Best: Windshear Takes E♑ffect 🅰
This unique item may not look like much with its 11 damage, 10 weight, and inability to be enchanted. However, it proves its worth in effects. The Windshear staggers your opponent, which is very helpful in combat and has 39% chance of paralyzing your opp♔onent when you use block-bash. These features can save your life in battle by giving you aﷺn opening to attack or a chance to escape certain demise. Suddenly it looks more appealing, huh?
29 Wor🐟st: Food - Tasty But 𒁃Worthless
To be fair, the food in Skyrim looks and sounds delicious (partic♔ularly those sweet rolls, am I right?), but it is useless in practice. Sure, it may giv🐻e you a tiny bit of health but you can just as easily acquire a healing potion from a body, pot or merchant. Food items just seem to take up weight and inventory space that could be better used for items that you will actually use.
28 ꦗ Best: Wuuth💃rad Cuts Down Your Enemies
Two-handed weapons in Skyrim have a bad reputation for being slow and you cannot use your shield, meaning that you are defenseless. However, if two-handed weapons like battleaxes are your thing, then the Wuuthrad is for you. The Wuuthrad has a good balance of damage and weight with the added perk of doing extra damage to Orcs, multiple kinds of Elves and Falmer. It is also enchantable, meaning that this is only the beginning 𒀰for this battleaxe.
27 ꧃ Worst: Wabbajack For The Loss
Ah, the Wabbajack - you have given us endless hours of hilarity and entertainment. From turning dragons into sweet rolls to upgrading our friends, you will be forever remembered by the Skyrim community.
Until the next time I get bored...
Objectively speaking, however, you are pretty useless. Randomizers, in general, are only good for the time you find them fun before you put 🦩them away and never use them again; this ru👍le applies to the Wabbajack, too.
26 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ ♊ Best: Mace Of Molag Bal
If maces are your thing, loo꧟k no further than the Mace of Molag Bal. This mace deals top damage for an okay weight and even comes with special features. Not only does this mace up your Magicka and stamina damage, but it also allows you to cast Soul Trap so you can enchant other items in your inventory. Unfortunately, you cannot enchant the Mace of Molag Bal, but it can be a vital piece of kit nonetheless.
25 Worst: Weaponised Cutlery 🏅
Before the comments are set on fire, I know that you can enchant the heck out of the cutlery in Skyrim and basically do a run with 📖just a fork, but I'm talking base items here. As a base item, forks and knives are not particularly useful before you enhance them to within an inch of their existence. There are plenty of other weapons that do better damage and have better range ev🍰en without enchantments. But hey, if you want to be the fork-thief of Riften, go ahead.
24 Best: Razor Ligh🃏t Of My Life 🦂
Mehrune's Razor is an excellent dagger. It does almost max damage for minimum inventory𒈔 space and has some pretty rad effects; it has a 1.98% chance of🃏 an insta-end, which is better than it sounds, and it has infinite charges which are incredibly useful.
And the end of others' lives.
The only downside of Mehrune's Razor is that it is not enchantable so it cannot improve to the pinnacl♑e we know would be perfect.
23 Worst: Tankard Cannot Drink Its Probꦐlems Away
Now the local drunk would disagree with me, but tankards are a waste of inventory sp💃ace. You cannot even fill it up - it is literally meant to be drunk out of!
You can not hurt enemies with it, so what is even the point?
Sure, you could pick it for the aesthetic, but you will qu🌳ickly forget about it and waste space until you become over-encumbered, in which case you will drop ꦕit immediately.
22 Best: Dragonborn 🌠Into 🔜My Heart
Bows are pretty awesome, but not all bows are created equal. The Dragonborn Bow does not have any special effects, is the second heaviest bow, and is not enchantable but do not write it off just yet. It has the second-best total damage of the bows and does 15 damage per second - the 🐻highest of al𓄧l the bows. Sure, there are fancier and more upgradeable bows, but this one is more than worthy to be by your side.
21 ൩ Worst: Baskets For Days
What do you even use these for? You can store something in a basket, but players usually try to store🦄 their items in the same place and use wardrobes or drawers. They are not pretty,✅ you cannot use them as weapons and they just sit there. Why would you use a basket in a house with superior forms of storage? Even better, you could just sell the worthless stuff and keep everything else in your inventory.