Skyrim Dragons: Ok this is getting ridiculous......

[Jodah]

Seems like every other time I go to Windhelm or Winterhold a dragon decided to attack. Winterhold is particularly amusing because of all the spells that fly around. Almost as fun as having the "Hired Thugs" encounter spawn while I'm talking to the Greybeards...ahh good times that was.

 

[Yokai]

i want to take this moment to remember the cliff racer, and how much i fucking hated it... fuck cliff racers.

Fuck them so much. They don't even fly right, they get stuck on the air and follow you around squawking. At least Skyrim's dragons only appear once every half an hour at most, and have valuable items, as opposed to one hiding behind every tree carrying nothing except a crappy alchemy ingredient.

OP: Literally every time I get within sight of the Western Watchtower, where you fight the first dragon in the main quest, another one appears. All the guards there are dead, and there'd be a veritable mountain of dragon skeletons if they didn't tend to tweak out and slide all over the landscape.

 

[Jaeke]

First time I went to Winterhold around level 25-30 (level 50 now) we (the town) were attacked by an Elder Dragon (the first one I had ever seen) that was thoroughly upset about the new fancy daedric arrow thrusted in his side. After he was upset enough about his new limb, he was definitely angry about the thundering blue that just dragged him into the side of a mountain. Pissed off by now, he turned tail and came barreling into Winterhold, divebombing into an unfortunate group of guards and throwing them from the cliffs edge, after landing on the opening gates of the college, me, my follower, and a few guards promptly (and in retrospect, idioticaly) charged in and found ourselves in the middle of a bridge with no railings and a nasty winterfresh stream of frost draining all of my, and guards, stamina and around half my health. I realized there was no way of retaliating so I became ethereal and leaped off the doomed bridge.

Might not have been the most heroic battle but was the most unexpected one i had.
Just when i thought Frost Dragons were hard enough.....

 

[Smooth Operator]

They really didn't leave much magic to dragons, they just spawn all the time, I probably came across more dragons then bears and the real kicker is they are easier to kill.

It's bad design this, we should have threads about the awesome Dragon fights that took ages to figure out, and not "Ya I dropped 10 last night, no biggie"

 

[danirax]

just thank god, they weren't named dragons or ancient

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

So basically dragons in Skyrim are like the Oblivion gates in Oblivion and cliff racers in Morrowind?

Lol cliff racers

... Seriously though, yes I think Oblivion Gate with Wings is the best way to describe the dragons.

No, I'd say more cliff racers than Oblivion gates. Oblivion gates can be ignored if the player so chooses - the number of times I've been followed by a dragon screaming "pay attention to me!" until I finally turn around to give it a royal ass kicking only to have it then distracted by a fox and fly off and leave me alone are beyond counting.

It's such a shame that in a game all about dragon-slaying the dragons are nothing more than an irritation.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

So basically dragons in Skyrim are like the Oblivion gates in Oblivion and cliff racers in Morrowind?

Lol cliff racers

... Seriously though, yes I think Oblivion Gate with Wings is the best way to describe the dragons.

Except Oblivion gates never ganged up on me and tried to kill me with ice and fire and pointy, pointy teeth.

 

[Dr Jones]

I think it depends on how far in the main story as to how often dragons spawn.

It does. I've not at all progressed in the main storyline (Need to see Greybeards), and i've fought just one dragon after the Whiterun one.

 

[SamuelT]

So basically dragons in Skyrim are like the Oblivion gates in Oblivion and cliff racers in Morrowind?

Lol cliff racers

... Seriously though, yes I think Oblivion Gate with Wings is the best way to describe the dragons.

Except Oblivion gates never ganged up on me and tried to kill me with ice and fire and pointy, pointy teeth.

They didn't?

I can recall one instance where there were 3 or 4 oblivion gates placed near one another, and when I ran past them I had to deal with over 20 or 30 Daedra, most of which were of the Dremora higher level variant, but a lot were atronachs.

 

[Smooth Operator]

I think it depends on how far in the main story as to how often dragons spawn.

It does. I've not at all progressed in the main storyline (Need to see Greybeards), and i've fought just one dragon after the Whiterun one.

No it's very much random, I racked up 10 dragons before I got to Greybeards and a whole bunch more after that, at this point I doubt all those souls can be spent at all.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

So basically dragons in Skyrim are like the Oblivion gates in Oblivion and cliff racers in Morrowind?

Lol cliff racers

... Seriously though, yes I think Oblivion Gate with Wings is the best way to describe the dragons.

Except Oblivion gates never ganged up on me and tried to kill me with ice and fire and pointy, pointy teeth.

They didn't?

I can recall one instance where there were 3 or 4 oblivion gates placed near one another, and when I ran past them I had to deal with over 20 or 30 Daedra, most of which were of the Dremora higher level variant, but a lot were atronachs.

That's probably more your fault for going near 3 or 4 Oblivion gates in a row.

And still, the Oblivion gates themselves have never harmed a soul.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

No, I'd say more cliff racers than Oblivion gates.

Actually you're dead right. Actually I consider cliff racers to be more formidable foes because they scare the piss out of me. I'll be grinding my way through the ashlands trying to find some long lost tomb or something and then an almighty, unimaginably loud "SMAC-BAMM" and my screen lurches, and I turn around and five cliff racers are queued up like aircraft above a busy airport waiting to gang attack me, drain all of my newb'y low fatigue and kill me when I'm down! BASTARDO [plural]!

Except Oblivion gates never ganged up on me and tried to kill me with ice and fire and pointy, pointy teeth.

True, see my above text - I have revised my simile.

I have seen the end, and it looked like

Spoiler: this.

Zombie apocalypse ain't got nothin'...

 

[khiliani]

im only a bit of the way into the story, dont even have the grounding shout, and the dragons are starting to reach annoying density, where i cant walk anywhere with out one of the fuckers showing up.

best dragon battle: doing the bee farm job for the theives guild, and was trying to work out a way to get past all the guards and burn the beehives when a dragon rocks up and starts buring all the mercenaries. i go yay, sprink past all the preocupied guards and burn the beehives for the mercenaries to kill the dragon convinently next to me for me to harvest its soul. i promtly run off and finish the quest. most convinent dragon ever

 

[Darth_Dude]

Dude, you are just really unlucky

I've actually had a few of these experiences myself, they seem to spawn more and more frequently the higher you level.

 

[BoTTeNBReKeR]

The thing that annoys me the most about this random dragon spawning thing is that I thought the amount of dragons would decline again after you completed the main storyline. But apparently it doesn't and the dragons just keep spawning way too often. I hope Bethesda will either patch this to make random dragon encounters a bit more rare but a lot tougher once you get past level 30.

 

[Seydaman]

There's a console command to turn off random dragons. Just can't remember what it is...try google.