Poll: Are Skyrim enemies overpowered?

[Belaam]

My friend I have one tactic against all of these enemies which works every time. Dual wielded firebolt with two fire upgrades.

This may be the source of my need for tactics. I keep trying to shoot sharpened pieces of metal on sticks through their eyes like a sucker instead of simply bbq-ing them. ;p

Ah well, next character.

 

[shrekfan246]

No, not at all. I think they are way too weak, at least the dragons and regular humans (except maybe mages). As for the trolls, there's a book named "Slaying trolls" or "Killing trolls" or something which describes how to kill one.

Really? You find any other interesting books? I renember one in oblivion being called "The Lusty Argonian Maid" It made me laugh

"The Lusty Argonian Maid" Chapter 2 or something was located in the Honningbrew Meadery for me, by a bed in the upstairs section of it.

OT: I've found a fair few annoying enemies but nothing that I haven't been able to kill at all yet. Though it still annoys me that my 254 armor rating and 34 sword damage + 15 fire damage enchant aren't as powerful as an enemy's 50 armor rating and 10 iron dagger damage.

 

[kotorfan04]

I loathe the zombie/drought things with a firey passion, they have a tendency to gang up on you and the overlords are total bastards. I am fine with dragons but when I have to enter a tomb filled with those jerks I switch the difficulty down a notch. Judge me as you wish.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

They're fine for me, turn down the difficulty or change your tactics if you're struggling.

 

[NinjaRock]

Yep though for me it's with bears

Same here. Snow bears are the worst. I got stuck for 2 Hours trying to get past this one bear to a quest for the College of Winterhold

 

[caviar1]

ive had similar issues with individual enemies, ive been playing on expert for the giggles and such and have found that bandit captains with two handed weapons can kill in one hit and that frost trolls can only be killed by shouting them off a ledge and murdering them before they can get up. and dragon priests are harder than dragons but mostly because their spells are deadly accurate and dragons shouts arent

 

[Frost27]

I loathe the zombie/drought things with a firey passion, they have a tendency to gang up on you and the overlords are total bastards. I am fine with dragons but when I have to enter a tomb filled with those jerks I switch the difficulty down a notch. Judge me as you wish.

Nothing like an enemy that shouts your weapon out of your hand onto the ground and then stands on it to make you regret your career path.

 

[DustyDrB]

I play a very specialized character (stealthy Redguard archer with a dagger on the side. I make heavy use of poisons as well), so I'm always aware that I'll be at a disadvantage in some encounters (and a great advantage in others).

I just always have an escape plan. If things get hairy, I can always work my way out of it. I don't have a single magic spell, but I have an apothecary at my disposal. I can make myself invisible, paralyze my pursuer, etc.

Fortunately, I don't need to do that often. Lydia does a good deal of damage for me and tends to draw all the aggro. In fact, enemies attacking her most often don't even see me (even if I'm just five feet in front of them). So I get lots of sneak attack crits.

The enemies that have given me trouble the most:
-Bears: Good god. They deal so much damage and are actually fast.
-Mammoths and Giants: I tried to kill a mammoth once. Yep. I then spent five minutes fleeing it and its buddies while consuming tons of potions before they took me down.
-Bandits in one particular fort: I can't remember which fort it was, but I took a trapdoor entrance into it and there were about six bandits who could quickly kill both Lydia and I. I guess they must have been high level enemies, so I'll come back later. I did take out all the bandits on the outside.

 

[mb16]

i do have a tendency to get insta killed, i play a mage/archer, so i have little health and pretty much no armour. i have lost count of the times i have been walking along or in combat and killed in one hit from a stray arrow/ice spike/bear/dragon landing on me.

i do have a partner who i use to tank (he has a weapon which has a chance to paralyse so he can hold them in place) however in the event of him lagging behind, or the few missions where i am on my own, i do just have to fire my fireballs and run.

I loathe the zombie/drought things with a firey passion, they have a tendency to gang up on you and the overlords are total bastards. I am fine with dragons but when I have to enter a tomb filled with those jerks I switch the difficulty down a notch. Judge me as you wish.

Nothing like an enemy that shouts your weapon out of your hand onto the ground and then stands on it to make you regret your career path.

this is one of the few advantages of being my class.
"oh you made me drop my bow... TWIN CHAIN LIGHTING TO YOUR FACE!"

 

[Nannernade]

I realise you're probably all sick of Skyrim threads by now but this is something which has been bugging me and my friends for a while now. I play Skyrim on the normal difficulty and it is a really fun game, but one problem i have with it is that some enemies just seem hideously overpowered. I'm not talking about giants or dragon priests etc, they're powerful because they should be, no. What bugs me is that recently I encountered a bandit leader who managed to kill me in three hits. I was wearing upgraded dragonplate armour at the time and so i was pretty pissed off especially considering i have slain over 10 dragons, none of which had given me much trouble. So just how come some enemies, who should be relatively weak, are more powerful than creatures such as blood dragons?
Just to be clear, I'm not saying all enemies in Skyrim are overpowered, just some are, especially those pain in the arse frost trolls. Encounter one of those at level 1 and you'll be pretty incensed.

So, over to you. has anyone else encountered annoyances like this in Skyrim?

Uhm... just wondering but would this bandit leader happen to reside in that mine filled to holy hell with iron and a dead mammoth for some reason? If it is I died to that fucker like 15 times I think it was his sword or something.

 

[scully745]

Just about everything needs a bit of strategy to take down. I don't charge in and try to melee Frost Trolls, just spam Incinerate and stagger them every time they try to move. It forces you to develop different strategies and have a bit of variety in weapons. Fireball spamming is just about the easiest way to get through the game, except for Dragon Priests, who will fuck your shit up no matter what you use.
So in conclusion, no they're not overpowered as long as you develop the right strategies for different enemies.... as long as those strategies all consist of spamming fireballs at everything.

EDIT: Apart from bears... Fix your loading screens, Bethesda cause "Bears don't attack unless provoked". Apparently walking within 10 meters of them counts as provoking them -_-

 

[Peteron]

The difficulties are fair. The only really overpowered things are mammoths and bears.

 

[Xannieros]

Only mages and dual wielding enemies. But I created my own plan against them.
I'm a sneaky ranger/Sword & Shield type.

Only real annoying moment for me is when a dual wielding enemy can kill me with a 4 hit frenzy.

 

[deckai]

I found most of the enemies quite balanced, in which I mean that there are enemies that are weak and there are enemies that are strong...

Or do anyone want that the 15 underling are as weak/strong as the boss or lieutenant. Also about the equipment complains (for the bandit-boss i.e.), equipment isn't everything, I could equip a longbow and a few leather armor parts and still one-shot a lot of bandits and defeat a dragon. And don't tell me, because I'm the hero.. the only thing that put me apart is are the shouts, which I don't necessarily need to defeat anyone.

As for my "overpowered" enemy, those friggin soul gem powered magic traps... somehow they are strong enough to one-shot me every time, regardless what gem they use and what resistance I have. Also a few of the stronger two-handed melee enemies used to give me a hard time, but that's a thing of the past, right now they count as lucky if they manage to find me before I perforate their faces with a dozen arrows.

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

The only ones I have problems with are those damn Electric Mages....they shoot you once and you go catapulting across the world dead.

 

[Lucifus]

What really annoys me is I can trololol hack all enemy's in my way through a dungeon, only to have my arse handed back to me by the final big guy in one hit.

 

[PuffinBox]

I think the difficulty is pretty balanced. Trolls, Cats, and Bears used to fuck me over but now they are only a minor annoyance. The only thing I feel was over powered was the

Spoiler

Final Boss in the Eye of Magnus Quest, he killed me in two hits and I barely did any damage

Also does anyone else hate using potions I feel like I'm not playing the game right

 

[Washboard]

i dont get all this troll hate

says the one who rolled a Pyromancer

 

[Sk1ver]

I guess the trolls are, but when I met the "golden claw" boss(I was level 3 or so), I got killed...three times
I then switched my shield for healing spell and kept a 'hit and run' strategy, and he eventually died. In conclusion, I believe that this game is beatable, as long as you're willing to adapt a little

I am starting to have a lot of fun with that heal-1-handed weapon combo as well. It's not something I've used in other games but it's working for me at the moment. I'm only around lvl 10 atm so we'll see how that goes.

For me the sabre cats have been a real pain. They always seem to jump me when I've just finished another fight, or when I have just left a hard dungeon and am low on potions.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

The relative power does get really weird sometimes.

It's strange when I'm fighting the toughest dragons in the game and they're relatively easy, but one or two bandits (who are adjusted by level) can absolutely destroy me if I'm not careful and don't have room to manoeuvre. And, playing as a pure mage, the difference in the different enemy mages can get ridiculous: they all have instantaneous shield reflexes, so combat with them invariably involves dodging everything the throw at you for thirty seconds until the shield comes down, and the electricity mages can drain your mana stupidly fast while shielding, leaving you completely useless AND hurt. Sure you can use your own shield to protect yourself, but that just drains your mana too.

I'm sure the difficulty fetishists disagree, but they'll probably never be satisfied anyway.