Poll: Are Skyrim enemies overpowered?

[DanyoSouth]

I play a Heavy Armor Sword and shield Imperial and I haven't had much difficulty, except with sabre cats, for some reason Dragons, Mages, and Bandits are fine, but Giant Feline, maul me to death. Anyways my suggestion would be to make a character that wear heavy armor, levels up health every time, and then get the Lord Stone east of Morthal. Beware that the path to the Lord stone is guarded by frost trolls using the warrior stone and power leveling through a few caves is recommended or just use sprint shout to run past them.

 

[Zakarath]

Yep, I'm going to add my voice to the number of people who have waltzed though the game with firebolt, stun-locking EVERYTHING. Cave Bears, Frost Trololols, Giants, Dragons, Dragon Priests, even the feared Bandit Leaders... All are helpless before the fury of apprentice-level destruction spells.

 

[I.N.producer]

I've rarely thought any enemies were really overpowered. The only time I ever had to lower the difficulty level was for the final part of Azura's quest. I was just constantly being incinerated by three dremora, even with potions for 50% resistance and wards.

I do think all the finishing moves unbalance the game. Having a dragon do an unavoidable insta-kill chomp on you whenever it gets nearly dead gets old quick. The same with random bandits with claymores killing you at full health while you have Legendary Daedric armor and all the heavy armor perks up to level 70.

 

[the saint83]

Well... I'm playing as a sort of jack of all trades, I wield everything from bows, and daggers to two handed swords to spells to swords and shields. The biggest challenge I've encountered was a bandit chief in a dungeon wielding an elven knife. She killed me like 18 times and when I finally got her, I ran into the next room and got cut down by an orc wielding a two handed sword. And kids, that's when I learned the importance of saving.

Other than that spell casters are my primary concern, and where I feel a bit under powered

 

[faefrost]

Not so much overpowered but certainly inconsistent and confusing, I mean how can going toe to toe with a bandit in fur armor with an axe be harder than going toe to toe with a dragon

I know its an rpg and a lot of it is based around numbers and invisible calculations going on in the background but it breaks the illusion somewhat for me

Thank you. That seems to describe what I was thinking better than I could. I like the difficulty levels. I would just like a little bit more of a predictor as to how they sort of ramp up. Dragons should be the hard fights that require a strategy. Dungeon boss fights should be a real challenge. Random Bandit Leader or some stray Troll on the road should not be the hardest uberest and most frustrating things in game. It's that whole risk vs reward and escalating ramp of difficulty in game design. The player needs to sort of see the escalation in order to be drawn into it. This is why auto scaling trash mobs never works quite right. It breaks the visable curve and tosses out the players immersion.

 

[aksel]

I was having a real problem (on master difficulty) with some bandits hiding out in an old fort (the one with the moon forge).

I am a vampire, the sun was up, there were two fire mages, and I couldn't get them all in one sneak attack.

After trying for about five times, a few mudcrabs crawled out of a small pond, and murdered them all.

I felt weak.

 

[Count Igor]

Wait till you meet an Electromancer....

...mmmmmmmMMMMMNNNNNNNNYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGH.
I just don't see how they're so powerful compared to Frost/Fire mages. >.<
And that's from a Breton with an Atronach stone and the extra 50% resistance activated.
Gods I hate mages. And I am one!
..I hate me. :c

 

[ResonanceSD]

They most certainly are not. The most difficult enemy i've faced was at the end of the wizard's college storyline, and he didn't stand up to some arrows from a bow of draining and a sword to the chops.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Bandit leaders are particularly annoying. They come at me with some two handed weapon and if you don't unload a dragon shout, duel magic and quickly equip your own two handed just as he's about to swing he'll have you in a death cutscene in ridiculously quick time.

So far my two most overpowered enemies have been: A dragon guarding a word wall near the shrine of Azura. No cover plus under level 20 at the time, I was dead before an arrow had been fired.

Second, a target enemy in a quest to recover three Mehrunes Dagon artifact pieces. He was in a cave with Orc hunters/bandits, had steel plate armor, a warhammer with 50 shock damage and 60 extra magicka. The guy took my health down to critical in one hit. I had to run outside, turn werewolf and charge back in, where a rather graphic cutscene death of me pinning him down and ripping into his face occured.

 

[Bvenged]

I some circumstances yes, it's solid. A battlemage in this game is almost impossible to play as due to the fact you can't block, and you're not stealthy to sneak in. So you have to charge head on but are not as strong as a 2H or Sword & Shield. I had to re-roll that character; I would get massacred by even a group of Draugr or Mercs.

I hate games that are too easy, there's no challenge and you get less time-is-money out of it. I completed Fallout 3 in Expert (Xbox) and Oblivion on hard (PC). I had CoD MW3 done on hardened first time in 4.5 hours - but while I am fairly shit at Skyrim on Xbox, I had to turn the difficulty down or I would need an endless supply of health potions. Problem is "Apprentice", being the next one down from "Adept", is too easy; where I don't stop dying on Adept.

 

[Arina Love]

nope, i'm playing on easy and never faced challenging battle.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I took a lot of notes while playing Dark Souls and applied them to Skyrim. I always approach an enemy like they're the fuckin boss. I keep my shield up and try to parry / counter as often as possible. I use ranged-combat to gain some upper hand before charging into a melee.

So far it hasn't failed me.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I thought this way at first. Now that I'm level 30 with max stealth and perks, all I have to do is crouch and attack. That generally gives me a sneak attack. 30x damage. Instant kill on almost everything.

Yep. Maxing out the stealth tree and equipping gloves that double sneak attack damage really takes away the difficulty. Of course, specializing in any one playstyle should produce the same effect.

 

[Mitchell Leger]

Giants WTF! That is all.

 

[Poltergheist]

the dragons are way to easy... i can solo them no issue with my level 23 magic/duel axe bosmer... so i put the difficulty up... still easy... bears are harder

 

[JochemDude]

Yeah, sometimes the difficulty randomly jumps. Like some Draugh Deathlords and I watched a mammoth and a frost troll being capable of taking down a dragon twice.

 

[Voodoomancer]

Yep though for me it's with bears

*Spot Dragon*
"Now you Die!"
*Kill it*
"Fuck yes, I'm awesome!"
*Bear appears*
"O shi.. run away!"

True story. How can a bear do more damage than a damn dragon?

 

[StormShaun]

I frankly found the enemies in Oblivion too weak, but I found that Skyrim was at least challenging.

 

[MrLuske]

Frost Trolls... they are god damn overpowered

 

[svenjl]

Since everyone and their grandma is responding, I will too. Killed 5 dragons and only the last one got me - 4 times. Only met one frost troll and after I died twice I decided to run away from it on horseback. On the way back though, I leveled up and chose the first destruction perk, consuming less magicka. I put fire in both hands and barbecued the SOB. I agree that sabre cats are insane at first. I think overall Skyrim is really well balanced, and actually requires a level of tactical thinking not present, or possible, in Oblivion. The best RPG ever. I sometimes don't want to keep playing it because I'm worried it will lose it's magic.