Dawnbreaker
Skyrim Weapon
Dawnbreaker is a unique Daedric sword in Skyrim with a base damage of 12. Its damage scales with the One-handed skill, and it can be tempered at a grindstone.
It carries a built-in enchantment and cannot be enchanted further. It is boosted by 9 perks.
Dawnbreaker Builds
Jump into the character build planner with this weapon already equipped, tempered and skilled as you set it here, then build perks and the rest of your loadout around it.
Create a build with DawnbreakerStats
Tempering
One-handed Scaling
Boosted by
One-Handed weapons do 20% more damage.
Attacks with swords have a 10% chance of doing critical damage.
Can do a one-handed power attack while sprinting that does double critical damage.
Dual-wielding power attacks do 50% bonus damage.
Power attacks with one-handed weapons cost 25% less Stamina.
Backwards power attack has a 25% chance to paralyze the target.
Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies.
Can create Daedric armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much.
Do 25% more damage as a werewolf.
More Weapons
Absorb 30 points of Stamina.
Burns the target for 20 points. Targets on fire take extra damage.