Skyrim Too Easy?

[SwagLordYoloson]

On Normal, level 17 Orc Beserker, Can beat anything with my 60 damage axe, and 300 armour level. If that fails, I turn into a werewolf, and if that fails I call in a dragon. The game is challenging not hard.

 

[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.

trololololol.

Primarily because the feats you claim to have accomplished aren't possible.

But then again, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I'll ASSUME that you're right and you have done this on master difficulty (which I know's not possible at such a low level because a pack of Ice Wolves have killed me in just a couple hits and I have a similar character). You're doing nothing here but bragging. To the average gamer, what you've accomplished is incredible. So yes, let's say you have - you are still the definition of a troll based on you condescending tone nad you're obvious appeal at an emotional response.

I personally am very pleased with the game... and almost think it might be unbalanced, favoring the NPCs.

But that's a welcome challenge for me.

Though I don't know why I've been feeding so many trolls lately... I think this will be the last one. My troll treats are running low.

EDIT: becareful how you respond. you will either illicit laughter by confirming I'm right and that you're nothing more than a troll, or a solemn nod that you are a masterful gamer, but who's point is not applicable to the average person.

I have recorded all my Skyrim adventures for my let's play, and I will be uploading them to YouTube. I really don't understand why you think I'm a troll...do you think it's not possible to do this stuff - yes Ice Wolves can tear me apart...but only if there's more than one. By the way, I put points into different skill trees such as smithing, destruction, restoration, archery and heavy armour...but the most effective thing I use is Wuuthrad because it does 58 base damage.

Also, I heard the game tailors the difficulty depending on how good you are(what Todd Howard said) so I guess because I one shot most enemies, it made the difficulty master.

 

[Dark Sup3rn0va]

I'm seventeen hours through and I still have to visit the Greybeards. I'm currently going through Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood and I have finished the College of Winterhold.

My character is a level 15 Dark Elf which specilises in Sneak, Archery, Destruction and Illusion. I've been playing on the second hardest difficulty.

 

[Dark Sup3rn0va]

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.

How did you not know you're playing on Master? You start as "Adept" and you have to manually change it (well, at least on PS3 so I'm assuming here). Did you change it and then forgot that you have done so?

I've level up now a little and the game is fine. It's not too easy nor too difficult. I'm not foolish enough to try playing it on Master though. I favour bows and sneaking, but I'll leave the giants be for now

My difficulty was automatically set on Master. I think that it might check for previous achievements or saves or something. I have full gamerscore in Oblivion and Fallout 3+NV so maybe it checks them or something.

 

[Kikosemmek]

I would say it's fairly balanced in difficulty. I originally rolled a wood elf archer build that didn't feel like it was paying off. Most enemies weren't really dying to sneak attacks from range, unless I happen to hit them in the head, and if I ever had two 2-handers on me at once, I was pretty much dead. I felt like the game was harder than it should be, so I rolled an orc fighter.

Everything eased the hell up and I'm breezing through most of the game, as I think I should be- there are difficult parts that make me have to replay over and over, but most of the game should be straightforward. You shouldn't be dying regularly to anything other than bosses/special scripted events. Currently, at level 10, my guy can cleave through most anything with one unblocked power attack or 2-3 regular swings.

 

[Knusper]

I'm playing on medium difficulty, and with my sneaky bow attacks, I guess it is a bit easy... I'll go and turn it up a bit.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Really? Jesus. I wandered into a few higher level areas and got completely PWND...

Yesterday I stumbled into a cave full of Gollum like creatures and clicking insects and barely came out alive after using every health potion in my inventory.

And I loved it.

 

[Baby Tea]

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.

I'm a dual-wielding character with a sword/axe in my offhand, and a dagger in my main. Zero magic. I recently got the 15x back-stab perk, and it...is...DEVASTATING. Right now I've just got a Dwarven dagger, but man...I'm one-shotting everything with it. I ran into two bandits that lit me up. Loaded my game, snuck behind them: Stab. Stab. Over. Was worth the wait and work to get it, hands down.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Not for me. I must not be that awesome-tastic at Skyrim...but I love it so. *eye sparkles*

 

[Jonluw]

Um, what the hell?

I'm playing on expert, and was positively obliterated by the falmer. The Silver hands weren't easy either.
When you use two-handed weapons you're supposed to be able to one-hit kill regular people though. That's their schtick.

 

[Weslebear]

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.

Thanks to the lack of level scaling all standard enemies are easily outclassed and most quests don't make you fight too hard enemies so you can progress without trouble but the rare boss enemies that are just hidden waiting to be found are where it's at.

If you ignore quests and go hunting for the more hidden isolated places you will find enemies that can tear you into pieces instantly.

Have you fought a lich called Krosis yet? Fuck me that was a ridiculous fight and there are I think 2 more special lich creatures like him I have yet to find.

 

[Jack Rascal]

How did you not know you're playing on Master? You start as "Adept" and you have to manually change it (well, at least on PS3 so I'm assuming here). Did you change it and then forgot that you have done so?

I've level up now a little and the game is fine. It's not too easy nor too difficult. I'm not foolish enough to try playing it on Master though. I favour bows and sneaking, but I'll leave the giants be for now

My difficulty was automatically set on Master. I think that it might check for previous achievements or saves or something. I have full gamerscore in Oblivion and Fallout 3+NV so maybe it checks them or something.

Cool, thanks! Clears things up a bit

 

[Neverhoodian]

I'm playing as a pseudo-stealth Argonian (archery, sneak, light armor, single dagger, restoration), and I find the difficulty varies wildly. While I could easily dispatch wolves and bandits even at level 1, I got my ass handed to me multiple times when I tackled Bleak Falls Barrow. I finally got through by the skin of my teeth using the "hit once, run like hell and heal" strategy. My first dragon battle was pretty intense as well. I blew through most of my healing potions in order to recover from its flames.

In short, I find the difficulty to be much like Morrowind, which is fine by me.

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

too easy? way to hard

 

[Kopikatsu]

Really? Jesus. I wandered into a few higher level areas and got completely PWND...

Yesterday I stumbled into a cave full of Gollum like creatures and clicking insects and barely came out alive after using every health potion in my inventory.

And I loved it.

Falmer and Chauruses?

If so...then don't poke around Dwarven ruins! D'<

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.

Thanks to the lack of level scaling all standard enemies are easily outclassed and most quests don't make you fight too hard enemies so you can progress without trouble but the rare boss enemies that are just hidden waiting to be found are where it's at.

If you ignore quests and go hunting for the more hidden isolated places you will find enemies that can tear you into pieces instantly.

Have you fought a lich called Krosis yet? Fuck me that was a ridiculous fight and there are I think 2 more special lich creatures like him I have yet to find.

This game as level scaling. It's more like Fallout 3's level scaling in that 'boss' versions of enemies become normal enemies after you level up some (Going into any Nord Crypt at my level causes me to get mobbed by a bunch of Restless and Wright class zombies with the occasional Scourge thrown in there. Had a Dreadlord once...was not pretty.

Krosis...did he drop a mask that looks like the masks shown on the statue that shows up with the tooltip about Labyrinthian? (Hard to explain) If so, then I've killed one of those. His name was Morokei...I needed 92% resistance to the damage he dealt just to survive.

 

[Darkmantle]

fight a dragon single handed, no problem. Kill a frost Troll NO WAY! i got killed by the frost troll going up the 7000 steps to the Grey beards more then any dragon in the game so far.

I know the feeling, the best way I have found is have about 15 healing potions a bow and you sword of choice. Shoot him as soon he appears when he gets close use your dragon shout, switch to melee, win the war of attrition.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I can't really relate too much, but so far, I'm a level 10 and 1/2 spellwarrior(a spell in one hand, a sord in the other) and I've been playing for approx. 8 hours, and the game is a little bit unbalanced, for eg:
-Giants always insta-kill you
-Mammoths and dragons always, always kill you just as you've removed half of their health bar.
-Flame, Frostbite and shock are all s***, unless you invest in the augmented perks.
-Rockjoint is very hard to cure, as I can't find any temples near the wizard's college.
-Armor doesn't count for S***.
(On Adept difficulty, on very rare occassions, I had to turn on God Mode because I was sick of dying all the time)

 

[Kopikatsu]

I can't really relate too much, but so far, I'm a level 10 and 1/2 spellwarrior(a spell in one hand, a sord in the other) and I've been playing for approx. 8 hours, and the game is a little bit unbalanced, for eg:
-Giants always insta-kill you
-Mammoths and dragons always, always kill you just as you've removed half of their health bar.
-Flame, Frostbite and shock are all s***, unless you invest in the augmented perks.
-Rockjoint is very hard to cure, as I can't find any temples near the wizard's college.
-Armor doesn't count for S***.
(On Adept difficulty, on very rare occassions, I had to turn on God Mode because I was sick of dying all the time)

I have both 25% damage upgrades. Flame, Frostbite, and Shock are still shit after like...level 5. I'm up to Adept level spells right now (Which I can toss around like candy), but those aren't doing the job anymore either. Still need like 13 more Destruction levels to advance to Expert level spells, though...

Why must Destruction level so slowly? I literally gain a level in Illusion every time I cast Muffle...

Edit: I do one shot everything that isn't in a quest dungeon/boss, though. Actually, I managed to kill one boss before the boss area finished with it's 'setting up' animation.

Edit 2: Town Guards have the second highest stats of ANYTHING I've fought so far. That includes DRAGONS. The highest stat award goes to Morokei.

 

[Baldr]

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.

He is by far the hardest thing I've had to fight(Level 7), but the mask is pretty sweet once you beat him(for mages)

 

[Raddra]

The 15x dagger damage is insanely good.

I was doing a quest for the alchemist in the white vial, I entered a chamber.. epic music starts playing and coffins open around me.. I am in stealth and I sneak around and jab my dagger into each undead aroun the chamber without being seen, one hitting them. Then I sneak up to the main coffin in the center, the named much more powerful undead begins rising.. power attack daggers in stealth unseen and he just lies back down re-dead.

That perk is death incarnate.