Pickaxes. PICKAXES! when I think of a Pickaxe I imagine the large, powerful tools designed to break stone and carve tunnels, not the small, weak, nigh climbing picks that Skyrim is littered with. So I took it upon myself after over a decade of waiting for someone else to make it to create a "new class of weapons" to find for your next Two-handed build.

While oft disregarded as weapons due to being tools, Pickaxes are designed to penetrate rock and shatter stone, so thin plate armor and skulls are no match. Admittedly unwieldly, they are similarly slow as Warhammers, albeit weaker in damage, but effected by Battleaxe Perks and with higher Critical chance and damage as well as Armor Penetration akin to an enhanced Crossbow.

There are many variants scattered across the land, ranging from the simple Iron Greatpick to the fancy Nordic Greatpick. Unfortunately they are not craftable yet, as I am incredibly d̶e̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶  Lazy, so I instead scattered them around Skyrim and Solstheim within Mines and Ruins

Deep within the ruins of Bthardamz, an Afflicted miner from a village of High Rock has chosen to continue mining away at the fallen debris to distract himself from the pain of the plague, His trusty Pickaxe deeply infused with the Ichor of Peryite has attained the ability to shatter the ground with volatile cracks of barely trapped toxic fumes by bashing. He still wears the crude gas filtering mask from his old mine, and his Affliction and dedication has made him quite strong.

The rare Nordic Greatpick can be found lodged within the ice of the Castle Karstaag Ruins, thrust there by an ill fated Skaal, and there it remains because the Rieklings are too weak to move it

The Greatpicks used within Redbelly Mine have even taken on a strange infusion from the red fog that permeates the mine, stained with a strange effect similar to a poison, yet with vampiric properties. 

They (hopefully) can all be upgraded at a grindstone, and can act as a pickaxe for mining, however you still visually equip a normal pickaxe, as I couldn't easily figure out how to adjust the animations.

Also I utilize my other mod "Ascension Of The Afflicted" for the pictures of the "Plaguedigger" mini-boss, so the area may look different.
Also keep in mind that I used a two-handed build to take the pictures, so damage numbers may vary.
I also plan to (possibly) expand the mod/make the sizable poison mine dungeon this mod was initially envisioned as, so maybe someday. In the meanwhile enjoy the afflicted mini-boss