Skyrim Too Easy?

[Kyle1527]

So I've played the game for about ten hours now, finished the Companions questline and most of the main quests. I've been playing on Master difficulty since the start and I can pretty much one shot all common enemies. The only enemies that are challenging are Chauruses because of the poison and dragons since you have to shoot them down.. So anyway, anyone else think Skyrim is too easy even on the hardest difficulty?

If anyone wants to know, I play a level 14 two handed nord, who uses Wuuthrad/Skyforged Greatswords.

 

[Rednog]

It honestly really depends on how you play, if you make a b-line for an all out combat character then yea you'll roll right through people. I unfortunately saw 15x backstab bonus from daggers in the stealth tree and I was like hell yea!....and then I realized daggers are pretty much the worst weapon in the game and now I'm actually debating whether or not I should restart the game with a proper combat character.

 

[Rednog]

I never understood there's always at least one person who plays on the hardest difficulty of any game and always says it's easy. I've had quite a bit of hell on a few Skyrim quests, so I don't see how you're "One shotting everyone"

The big 2handed weapons have a natural chance to do a finishing move on people when swung and all the 2h skill tree pretty much gives chance for auto decapitations and higher chances to do finishing moves. So you end up like rolling two different chances to instant kill people with 2 handed weapons and even then their base attack damage is so high you start to pretty much drop people fairly easily with a single power swing.

 

[Hunter65416]

Ive actually died a lot compared to oblivion, maybe its just because i suck or i was ill-prepared but it took me 3 times to kill the first dragon

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

You obvious have a class that exploits one or several imba skills/perks in the game if you really find it easy on hard. Not much else to say either than wait for mods if you play PC and or make a more shit character next time.

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

I made a wood-elf archer, concentrating on archery, sneak, light armour (as much as you can concentrate on getting hit, anyway) and lockpicks.
With 2x sneak bonus, I can pretty much kill most common enemies with 1 arrow. Only the tougher dudes, like Restless Draugirs, take some more, but I can take 'em out with a 2handed sword I keep just in case easily.

This is on normal btw.
I actually like how much damage archery does now. I remember in Oblivion I could shoot 10 arrows in the face of a generic bandit, and still doing no damage.

 

[Ickorus]

So I've played the game for about ten hours now, finished the Companions questline and most of the main quests. I've been playing on Master difficulty since the start and I can pretty much one shot all common enemies. The only enemies that are challenging are Chauruses because of the poison and dragons since you have to shoot them down.. So anyway, anyone else think Skyrim is too easy even on the hardest difficulty?

If anyone wants to know, I play a level 14 two handed nord, who uses Wuuthrad/Skyforged Greatswords.

You could say the same thing about Oblivion, if you blow through the main questline that fast and at that level it will be easy.

EDIT: Im unsure why I quoted you.

 

[Kyle1527]

There are certain enemies that take like three hits, such as Ice Wolves, fully armoured bandits etc, but combined with a shout, they're quite easy. And on the first dragon, I had to try twice since the bow kinda sucks. And yeah your right, bows do much more damage than Oblivion. I have more trouble in higher level zones, where an orc bandit two hit me, so I kited him with lightning spells.

 

[babinro]

I feel the game is an appropriate difficulty on default setting. I've died a few times when I try and charge in guns a blazin' and so the game does force some strategy on the player. I'm playing with a sword and board restoration heavy armor build and I certainly can't kill things as quickly as people have posted.

I have a feeling that ranged focus builds might play a little to easily, but melee difficulty is about right. I'd imagine the OP is simply naturally good at games like this to be having such an easy time with the highest difficulty. I certainly wouldn't consider this game too easy. Unless you were expecting Dark Souls challenge out of it.

 

[SirDeadly]

10 hours and you're almost finished? I've played for 15 and I'm barely a third of the way through the main quest line. Try archery or one-handed weapons to make it more difficult.

EDIT: I have lost about an hour from forgetting to quick save and dieing...

 

[Kyle1527]

I didn't even know I was playing on Master until I checked - I heard the difficulty was dynamic so I didn't bother, but when I did I found out I was on Master. The thing is, if you can one shot an enemy with a great sword; you can pretty much kill everything in less than 10 swings - just depends how well your armour protects you. I use full superior wolf plate, which is pretty decent - I have no upgrades in the heavy armour tree. I pretty much kill everything that has poison with a bow or spells.

 

[Kopikatsu]

So I've played the game for about ten hours now, finished the Companions questline and most of the main quests. I've been playing on Master difficulty since the start and I can pretty much one shot all common enemies. The only enemies that are challenging are Chauruses because of the poison and dragons since you have to shoot them down.. So anyway, anyone else think Skyrim is too easy even on the hardest difficulty?

If anyone wants to know, I play a level 14 two handed nord, who uses Wuuthrad/Skyforged Greatswords.

Have you gone into Labyrinthian and fought Morokei yet? If not, go do so. Morokei will mess you up.

 

[Tiger Sora]

I've been playing on normal difficulty and rollin as a rogue/archer. Everything is pretty easy when shooting it at range. And getting on top of something where an enemy can't get to you. Sneaking around though, if you get spotted and 4 enemies start running at you with claymores and warhammers. It's a ***** to fight them with duel daggers, no blocking.... or atleast I don't think you can block. I never read the manuel. I wind up dying or having to run. This is nothing like Oblivion, you really need to be careful with what you do.

Mages and their fire/frost "breaths". Just eats at your health.

Dragons are a right pain to. Took me 5 tries to kill my 1st one in the wild, though this was guarding a "word" so I think it was way to tough when I 1st tried. (Not the quest near Whiterun). Though once I went back around level 9 I didn't get 2 shotted from the breath and burning.

So it's not like what I hear Dark Souls is like, but this isn't Hello Kitty Island Adventure like Oblivion was. Gives your average guy a challenge, and it works great.

 

[ZenoX969]

It's been pretty varied for me so far, sometimes I used to come across some really annoying enemies who manage to kill me sometimes. Now though... I got the ability in the Destruction tree that has a chance of staggering opponents shortly if you hit them with a dual-spell attack. So that pretty much stun-locks every enemy now. Bears, Sabre Cats, Giants. You just have to keep blasting them until their HP is gone. Dragons are a bit harder to 'stun' because they fly around. Much easier once you've got them down on the ground though. You can pretty much stop them from ever shouting at you if you time your attacks right and have enough magicka.

 

[Kyle1527]

I think I might have fought that same dragon, I killed it on my second try...then got killed from falling to the word wall -_-. Then it took me 3 tries to kill him again - just avoid the dragons breath.

 

[scorptatious]

The game is kinda tough to me. I've died quite a few times so far. And I'm using a one handed weapon user mixed with destruction, blocking, and heavy armor. With a dash of other skills.

Currently I can't get past the 7000 steps area (whatever it's called) as there's a troll that kills me in three hits. So now I'm going to do some of the Companions quest line

 

[EHKOS]

No, I'm playing on normal and it takes forever to zap people with my dual shock spells.

 

[EHKOS]

The game is kinda tough to me. I've died quite a few times so far. And I'm using a one handed weapon user mixed with destruction, blocking, and heavy armor. With a dash of other skills.

Currently I can't get past the 7000 steps area (whatever it's called) as there's a troll that kills me in three hits. So now I'm going to do some of the Companions quest line

The trolls hate fire. Just backpedal and use a fire spell.

 

[scorptatious]

The game is kinda tough to me. I've died quite a few times so far. And I'm using a one handed weapon user mixed with destruction, blocking, and heavy armor. With a dash of other skills.

Currently I can't get past the 7000 steps area (whatever it's called) as there's a troll that kills me in three hits. So now I'm going to do some of the Companions quest line

The trolls hate fire. Just backpedal and use a fire spell.

Tried that. Barely does anything to him.

Although I was using a novice level fire spell. So maybe I need to find stronger spells? Do you know where I might find any?