Capitano Segnaposto said:
Some of them are supposed to be hard. I moved up to Expert difficulty because the game was too easy. I have yet to fight a troll and I did fight a few dragons and a Hargreave on Expert difficulty and had quite a bit of fun. The Dragon fight was fun as hell when it is just you and it, flying around on Ancients Ascent trying to bring the fucker down and seeing it crash right in front of the Dragon Born thing. However, I will say that Dragons are a wee bit easy compared to trolls and giants. In all honesty a Dragon should be the hardest thing to kill, you know seeing that they are DRAGONS.
Otherwise, no. The enemies seem to be perfect for me, if not a tad bit easy.
I think the dragons suffer mostly from pathfinding A.I issues. I was near something like Dathias' House and a Dragon showed up. Was able to stand next to the walls of the house and slowly plick it down with arrows and easily dodging its flame attacks using the house.
The set dragons like at Ancient's Ascent are far tougher due to the area being designed for the encounter. In honesty, few enemies scare me with my archery setup. Steal the Eleven Bow in the Companion's living quarter in Whitehold, level Archery perks and go through sneak up to the Bow sneak damage multiplier. I can one shot most low level bandits and remain undetected.
What does give me trouble are spellcasters. There's a lunatic in a tunnel for a Theif guild mission who could almost always oneshot me whenever i aggroed him. After dying 20-odd times trying to figure out a plan, I finally used my only Paralysis poison which knocked him down long enough to plant 5 sneak attack arrows in him.
Sword and Board is not the way to go. Bow's are the business, specially if you nick that Elven Bow at the start and keep your Smithing skilled up so you can upgrade it. Two handers are rather good on big enemies that are trying to kill your awesome immortal follower as there wide open for slashing.
Mozza444 said:
It really does depend.
From what i have heard and experienced, enemies aren't exactly overpowered. The game is just unbalanced.
If you go for a 2h sword guy and focus on fighting. You win the game.
First i went for a sneaky dude, leveling sneak, illusion and pickpocket very fast which is a stupid mistake.
In my case i can deal the damage but take none... this i don't mind it does add to the fun of the whole stealth idea.
However when you in a room with 5+ enemies... it does feel a little cheap and it annoys me that if i run in with a sword i will die.. and die fast.
I think enemies have too high damage output.. but like i said it can depend.
Sneak damage + Good Enchanted Bows = Stuff dies before it can see you. Bring a follower of some sort along, preferably a warrior type, to take all the hits. Sneaking to melee range without getting detected is too tricky in my experience, and a bow allows you to fire, back off and hide, then let loose another shot. Done right, you can clear a room of 5 guys without ever being spotted.