Skyrim: Now THAT'S a boss fight!

[Zydrate]

Morokei at the end of the Mage quest line was epic. I was quite a low level at that point, probably as low as you can be after the Mage quest line. It was an epic battle indeed. By which I mean, I kept running from one end of the room to the other shooting him with arrows, and zapping him with magicka-drainers until I summoned up the nerve to just spam two staves of flame in his face.

There was a lot of saving, a lot of hiding, and one of those beer-hats with the straws attached except it was health potions instead of beer.

Eh, enemies have large mana pools and like the player, they have some decent regeneration so lightning spells have very limited use, I've found.

I can see how Morokei can be rough for a lowbie. Since he employed a Ward, I just rushed him with Dawnbreaker. Extra damage against undead and he didn't really have any "one hit kills". He spent most of the fight keeping up his ward for some reason.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Best fight I've had in Skyrim?

Fighting a dragon.

As a werewolf.

Transmission ends.

Werewolf was weird. RIGHT when you get it it feels AMAZING, then 2 levels later it is easier to live without it.

Never thought I'd be angry when I forget to take off werewolf from my Z key.

I actually use it as a challenge. You are right, werewolves become obsolete after level 15(ish, with a combat character) but when you hit level 30 or so and are chewing through dragons without raising a sweat, then turning into a werewolf lowering your combat capabilities as well as removing your ability to heal really bumps up the difficulty of those reptilian cliffracers.

Plus the fights just look so damn cool.

 

[Cyfu]

I had 2 dragons on my back and after dying to them several times i decided to leg it. the problem is dragons are pretty fast so i was running like crazy and healing spells in both hands constantly healing. it was really intense. BUT that's not all.... who do you think i run into while running away from 2 dragons? Alduin (at least i think it was Alduin). yeah, and he was resurrecting another dragon. at that point i just stopped and said "you got to be kidding me" and then i died.

that was the 15th time i died.

 

[I-Protest-I]

I forget what the boss was called, but it was one of the Dragon Priests. He's up on a mountain next to a dragon mound. I was playing on the hardest difficulty as a mage and i was level 11 at the start of the fight.

After over half an hour of battle (something like 10 hours in game time) i stood victorious above the smouldering remains of the Priest and the Dragon, finishing at about level 15 (i had gained something like 30 conjuration, 10 one handed, 15 destruction, 10 illusion and 10 restoration levels)

Possibly one of the toughest fights ive ever had in a game. (also i didn't use a single potion)

God dam he caused me pain, thank god for that 1 tree you could run behind for his spells to splash and waste on it. 20 Magic potions and 20 destruction levels later I got him, jumping ingame firing fire spells into the air in happiness.

 

[Zydrate]

that was the 15th time i died.

Darkness reference?
Hope so.

 

[Cyfu]

that was the 15th time i died.

Darkness reference?
Hope so.

i don't know ^^
it's just every time i hear the word "death" i instantly go to the Unskippable episode where Graham says "that was the 3rd time i died" or something like that. i don't remember which episode it is though.

 

[Arakasi]

Ah, my most difficult boss fight would have to be the Skedar Leader in Perfect Dark (64).

It's a ***** to defeat if you don't know how.

 

[bojackx]

My most recent epic boss fight experience was also with Skyrim.

I was galloping through the lands on Shadowmere, y'know taking in the scenery and whatnot, when I hear the good ol' roar of an oncoming dragon. This same old act again. So I stop, get off my horse and look in the sky for where the damn thing is. I eventually find the bastard but actually, there were two of them coming. This could be pretty intense. Since one of them was an Elder Dragon the fire breath did a number on my health, so I ran for cover... straight into a giant camp.

I spent the rest of that experience teaming up with shadowmere to fight off a giant, his mammoth and two dragons. We were all in different factions, meaning the dragons would go after the giant and his mammoth, and Shadowmere would just attack anything. It was very epic. It was that awesome that for the first time ever in Skyrim, I went to take a screenshot. My first shot was terrible, no dragons in the shot and just Shadowmere hoofing a giant. I thought it was a good shot so I didn't take another, until the battle had ended and I had two dragon corpses laying around, and even that screenshot was sinfully dull.

It's definitely the first time in a long time I've had a really awesome boss fight, as even Alduin was pretty dull and well, easy. I just wish that they had distinguished "challenging" from "just hope you get lucky" when it came to mages, but that's a different topic all together.

 

[Spacewolf]

I had three dragons appear. No console commands either. That was intense.

Ironically, Mass effect 1's ending boss, Saren, was definitly a hairy fight, I blame the fact that hearing my shield's siren go off can make things intense while reviving Wrex and Garrus over and over again.

Gears of war 3's horde mode bosses can be intense with the right set ups. Wave 50 against a god damned Brumak?

Thing that made that fight hard for me was that i had the bug that meant if you weapon overheated it didnt cool down, which actually made it alot more fun as i ran though my weapons with each one becomeing overheated

 

[redrefugee]

Skyrim's bossfight was kinda disappointing for me.

Shieldbash, slash a few times, shieldbash, slash, etc. with an occasional Dragon Rend thrown in.

Disappointing for me as well. I'm a two handed weapon specialist and most boss fights involve me using the ice shout and then wailing on them whilst they are in ice cube form. It takes me seconds to kill a giant

 

[Dansen]

Doesn't anyone encounter that teleport dude in skyrim? That guy is freaking hard if you are low level.

Do tell?
My random encounters are minimal. I fast travel too much, I think. Unless I'm on a character with specific plans to explore. But even then I don't do enough quests to activate various encounters.

I fought him, he was a battle mage for a jarl and became a dragur. When you enter the room their are three pillars and his coffin that rise above the ground. On these pillars are strange runes. When the guy shows up you can only get like three hits on him until he teleports to one of the runes in the room, and when he teleports he summons two weaker copies of himself on the other two runes. He won't appear on the rune closest to you. Then you have to figure out which one is the real one and attack him. It really hard because he uses powerful spells and he teleports and clones constantly. Its the only serious boss fight I have had in Skyrim

 

[Zydrate]

Doesn't anyone encounter that teleport dude in skyrim? That guy is freaking hard if you are low level.

Do tell?
My random encounters are minimal. I fast travel too much, I think. Unless I'm on a character with specific plans to explore. But even then I don't do enough quests to activate various encounters.

I fought him, he was a battle mage for a jarl and became a dragur. When you enter the room their are three pillars and his coffin that rise above the ground. On these pillars are strange runes. When the guy shows up you can only get like three hits on him until he teleports to one of the runes in the room, and when he teleports he summons two weaker copies of himself on the other two runes. He won't appear on the rune closest to you. Then you have to figure out which one is the real one and attack him. It really hard because he uses powerful spells and he teleports and clones constantly. Its the only serious boss fight I have had in Skyrim

Teleports? One of the bosses in Forbidden Legend does that. It glitched on one of my most recent games, he didn't reappear so I could get the amulet piece

 

[Jfswift]

I really had to work hard to finish off the hordes of undead toward the end of the second part of the wolf queen? quest. It was tough because all I had at the time was some okay ish gear and a few potions. I remember this undead using a powerful shout attack at one point and vaulting my only good 2h axe into the shadows leaving me with a crappy sword to finish him off. Epic battle though.

 

[Zydrate]

I really had to work hard to finish off the hordes of undead toward the end of the second part of the wolf queen? quest. It was tough because all I had at the time was some okay ish gear and a few potions. I remember this undead using a powerful shout attack at one point and vaulting my only good 2h axe into the shadows leaving me with a crappy sword to finish him off. Epic battle though.

Eh, that fight could have been so much more. I was 40+ when I found extra time to go and do it, and the lightning barely did a thing.
And I was on the caster mentioned in my OP, a playstyle I'm not nearly as skilled in.

 

[XzarTheMad]

My first and only run-in with that guy from OPs post had me as a stealth character. Employing all my guile, I popped a home-brewed invisibility potion, snuck up behind him and insta-killed him with my glass dagger.

Imagine my face when, instead of him dropping like a maggot, he turns into an undead. My clever trick had done nothing to reduce the amount of enemies, and although I could take out his minions fairly easily, I was just not prepared for that.

I probably saved myself a lot of effort by backstabbing him, but it nevertheless threw me for a loop. I love Skyrim.

 

[Zydrate]

My stealthers take him out pretty easily, too.
Though his popup Shade-form kind of surprised me.

In the story of my OP, I had actually forgotten he does that. Thankfully it wasn't too difficult, considering I died and reloaded several times.

 

[HyperPwner]

I have 2 hard boss fights.

Boss Fight 1: Vampire Lord Harkon ON NOVICE!
(Not including the bug where he just stares at you. Or the bug where he can't die)
I start to fight Harkon. Thinking this to be easy, I use vampire lord form and start spamming drain life. He one shot's me. I decide to use Dawnbreaker. He once again one shot's me. I then start to kick his ass. then he hides behind a forcefield and regenerates health. I die 4 more times. ONLY THEN does Serana decide to tell me to use Auriel's Bow to break the forcefield. As an off topic not, did anyone else think that castlevania boss music suited this battle?

Boss Fight 2: Miraak
God Fucking Damn was Miraak hard. Not only is there the acid pools, but he has unlimited dragon aspect and shouts. It took me 15 (!!) attempts before he FINALLY died.

 

[PlayerDos]

The best boss fights in Skyrim I've mostly had because of mods.

There are two, nobody will read them but yeah I thought they were cool.

1: Fight against Alduin. Something clearly malfunctioned with my deadly dragons mod, because in the final area there were, at all times, at least four or five dragons swooping me and fighting. So when I made it to the keep and got the other heroes, it was like we were actually fighting in a dragon war. When we were outside it took like 40 minutes to actually use our shouts together without getting swarmed by dragons.

During the Alduin fight there were still dragons everywhere that the npcs were doing shit against. I'm not even sure how it happened because nobody I've spoken with that has deadly dragons mod has had this happen to them. I was amazed after having that much fun, that it wasn't in the vanilla game.

2: This one is less of a boss fight and more of an embarrassment but I thought I'd share anyway. On a new playthrough I was just exploring the world, hadn't even unlocked dragons yet. To my surprise north of Solitude I saw what looked like a Dragon flying through the air so I went to investigate. It looked like a normal dragon, so I thought I'd just kill it. Big Mistake. As soon as I shot at it, there was a noise like thunder cracking, and meteors fell from the sky, and I saw that my arrow hadn't even budged its healthbar. I found it impossible to kill because whenever I'd ready an arrow I'd have to sheathe it to dodge a meteor, and the swooping knocked me off my feat a lot. Had to make a strategic retreat, but it was very fun.