Your toughest Skyrim battle

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

Interesting Thread.

I'm playing as a dualcasting Orc-Mage with maximized Magicka up to level 42.
Which meant that beginning from level 30 I have to hit the enemy first or die within one or two blows. With an Armorclass of 0 my main problem are those filthy rich brigands who start firing Ebony Arrows with their enchanted Glass Bows at me. Instantkill for me if I haven't my Ironskin spell ready or get caught of guard.
On the upside, once I start unleashing hell on them they don't have a chance.


Back on topic:

Toughest fight was Ochendor

from one of the Daedric Quests.

Extreme high resistance to ALL Elemental Destruction spells. Thus no staggering damage from my Magic while he kept spamming Lightning bolts out his a** draining both Magicka and Health rather quickly.
So I had to remember my Orcish Roots, got into Power Bloodrage and Dualwielded both Summoned Blades to cut him to pieces. Was tricky, lacked finess but hell was it satisfying...

Conclusion: "Never mess with an Orc Mage, even though you have Elemental resistances..."

 

[Anjel]

I love how you can have battles that include several 'factions'.

For a quest I had agreed to meet two NPC's at a location, as I was running toward that location I could see a dragon flying overhead blasting the ground with ice. It wasn't until I arrived that I saw it was a huge Forsworn camp who were being attacked by the dragon and in-turn defending against it, my NPC's had wandered into the camp (at first I didn't realise it was them, I thought there was another group of enemies in there) and were dishing out damage to the Forsworn and dragon and then I wandered in and just before had pulled a Sabertooth which decided Forsworn meat is tastier and started chomping some of them.

Dragonborn vs Dragon vs Sabertooth vs Forsworn camp vs NPC's.

It wasn't hard, it was just epic.

I haven't really encountered anything I would call hard yet.

 

[Nachos911]

I was wandering through the wilderness at night, and I came across this cottage. Turns out inside there was an absurdly powerful mage, and he was pissed that I broke into his house. So I ran outside, and the game AUTOSAVES. Suddenly, BOOM, dragon shows up. 10 seconds later, BOOM, sabercat shows up. So basically I'm running for my life chugging invisibility potions while I hear this epic battle going on behind me, and I'm literally screaming and running for my life. It wasn't so much a battle as fleeing in terror, but too bad I keep dying a horrible death. Also too bad, that the autosave means I have to replay this over, and over, and over again until I can run away properly. Even after I ran to the other side of the mountain, I could still hear the battlecries...

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

While I was doing a quest at winterhold

Spoiler

To kill all of these little magic anomilies that seemed really hard

An ancient dragon landed on my head. I still don't know how I survived but thank god for stone pillars... and my pony (Friendship IS magic). I'm playing on master so it was pretty horrible.

snip

I laughed a lot.

 

[CommanderL]

That stupid fucking alchemist near Whiterun.

"Yeah, this is just me, level 5 dragonborn, taking a stroll around this low level area - oh look, a hut! Goody! Looks nice! Maybe some friendly old lady will give me a quest or something! Blimey, whoever lives here sure does grow some exotic plants in their front garden, better take a peak inside this friendly looking hut.

Ah, its not an old lady after all, but an argonian! Lets see if I can help him out, god knows my race put his ancestors through a lot of shit back in Morrowind, seems to be busy mixi - ah, he seems to have noticed m -

OH SHIT FUCK FUCK ICE SHARDS HOLY ***** FUCK **** SHIT RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN WTF WHERE DID ALL MY HEALTH GO TIME TO GTFO OH SHIT NO THERES A DRAGON DAMN IT WHY FUCK ICE SHARDS AND FIRE OH SHIT"

It wasnt so much a battle as it was me pegging it over a wide open field, with an angry argonian on my back and a dragon swooping above me, occasionally swooping down to bite away large chunks of my health. I somehow managed to kill the alchemist, the dragon would have surely been my death but he somehow decided that those giants over there were much more tasty then me.

Well, the dragon must have started flirting with one of the mammoths or something because that giant was pissed and proceeded to club him to death in no less than 3 hits. For some reason it wouldnt let me absorb the soul though, which pissed me off a little.

Hahahahaha, nice. And I think you have to hurt the dragon at least to claim the soul?

Thats what I thought, but later, I made my way to Rifton and a dragon attacked the city. My contribution to the battle was shouting half encouraging lines to the guards men while I surveyed the battle from a save distance, not even bothering to equip a spell, bow, or sword, and it still gave me the dragon soul.

(Note: by shout, I dont mean I used a dragon shout on the dragon. I didnt. The only thing I did that could have hurt the dragon is run away to hard. I was doing pretty badly in terms of health and mana potions and those are pretty crucial for a low level mage.)

Ah, I was about to be all "Arglebarglebut but but...!" til I read the note at the end. lol

Hmmm. weird. Just an odd bug I guess. But not one that's bother me personally. I've got more dragon souls than I know what to do with. I see a dragon, I run that fucker down. I do not stop until it is dead or flies beyond my sight, like a giant scaly wussy. Hence, I'm sitting on about 9 souls right now, waiting to be used.

i am at the point using my best spell i go kill a standard dragon in 3 shots hardest fight would be krios and a draon at the same time at lvl 17 or something i ended up hight tailing it out of there when a another dragon apeared just after i barely killed the first and krois was still throwing his fireballs off death at me and my horse died taking fireball to save me but one i grew stronger i went there and avenged my horse


i also have over twenty unused souls

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Either the one where I fought Red Eagle, I was at level 40 mostly with melee, but a few mage skills here and there for back up plans and some archery to even the score before cave brawls start. This guy kicked my ass, three of his ice spears would kill me, plus the bastard turned my atronach against me.

I had to stand beind a pillar and rely on his magicka based attack pattern to keep him at a safe distance while I healed.

Or, the fight where I took on Solitude as a werewolf for an and of the day Skyrim slaughter session. Got up to the Blue palace and just outside the Jarl's quarters before they took me down with combined sword strikes and magicka.

 

[devotedsniper]

My toughest battle? well that has to be a captain of some rogues/pirates whoe double crossed me on master difficulty , i haven't played too much on master right now but thats the hardest so far. Big hammers hurt even while blocking almost 1 shots me.

 

[Innegativeion]

(like how some people thought the frost troll on the way up the 7000 steps was OP).

Oh that guy? Nah, he just took a little bit of creativity in the execution. For instance, I just climbed up the rocky formation to his left, laughing at the inagile bastard the whole way.

On more than one occasion, I took care of baddies I had originally thought "OP" by FUS RO DAH-ing them off a cliff, followed by uncontrollable laughter. In retrospect, I probably could do that to the troll now, if I'm not already strong enough to cave his skull in with my scimitar.

My hardest fight was probably this Draugr boss character I forgot the name of. I think he was a step above a wight. He only attacked in melee, and the room was separated into two sections, a balcony and a lower area, each linked by two sets of parallel staircases. Beating took a lot of kiting with icespike, 'run and stab' tactics, and shouting off the balcony a couple of times to create distance.

edit: It was a deathlord. That fight was only 2nd in intensity to the time I fought two dragons o.0

 

[Denamic]

The bounty which I got in Solitude from

Spoiler

The dark brotherhood quest

snowballed somehow into 7680 gold. Fine! I thought, never liked that city anyway, imperial scum.

Turns out the Imperial leader also want to have some of that bounty cash, as he was also hostile towards me during the peace treaty quest =(.

Had to pay the dept and give up my stolen goods, which I didn't think of putting in a box until after I had payed.

Totally count as a tough battle, or at least decision.

Invisibility potions let you do the brotherhood quests without even being detected, avoiding any bounties.
And you can steal back the stuff they take from you from the evidence box that's located in the prison.

 

[RedDeadFred]

My first dragon priest took sooo long to kill. I was a melee fighter and this was the dragon priest you fight during the main quest. I did almost no damage to it and it killed me with two blasts from its staff.
I ended up hiding in a corner where he couldn't hit me and used the storm call shout over and over for about 15 minutes straight.
On my other playthrough I am an archer assassin and I needed to get to this one dungeon that I hadn't discovered yet. The closest to it that I could fast travel to was called Shear Point. I must have just walked along the outside of the area before because I had no memory of ever going there. I saw what looked like a statue of a dragon perched on top of a word wall and thought: awesome new power. As I approached the wall, it turned out that this was not a statue but a real dragon. No big deal right? WRONG! I ran for the cover of the word wall and as I was absorbing its power, I heard the familiar sound of a coffin being flung open. I turned around and out popped Krosis the dragon priest.
I was brutally murdered almost instantly.
I came back with a certain nearly invincible horse and had him tank all of the damage for me.
The Krosis mask is awesome for stealthy assassins.

 

[Xaio30]

Mine was probably the time I fought a Dragon Priest. I was still low level, around 14, when I stumbled upon my first (and currently only) Dragonpriest.

I excluded the rest of your post to save space. It's incredible how alike two stories can be. Exchange your arrows for fireballs and mudcrabs for deers and we'd have an exact match.

 

[Foxblade618]

not super far yet, but I was on the first proper contract mission for the dark brotherhood. I finished the mission easily enough, I mean, bandits aint no thing. But then I started to go deeper into the ruin, which was a huge miscalculation. all of a sudden I hear mechanical clicking, which I thought was odd in a old ruin. I turn around and there are 10 or so of those damn robot sphere things. That was hellish

 

[ediblemitten]

Tried to plough through a Draugr infested ruin at lvl 33, thought it would be a cakewalk. First run through, make it to the final boss chamber. I pull out my 109 damage two-handed Ebony fire warhammer, and stride in confidently. Suddenly, I realize that not only am I fighting this yet unidentified boss-draugr, a Deathlord has also been thrown into the mix. I go for the deathlord first, hoping for a quick kill before I take on the boss Draugr, but my hopes are dashed as this ************ takes me for a RIDE. I get about two hits on him (I've taken out multiple Deathlords before, and was expecting a tough, if not overly difficult fight) before he smites me once with his mace, and then proceeds to use a fully-powered frost shout to kill me instantly. Keep in mind I'm a Nord, which grants 50% frost resistance, so needless to say I was shocked. I also forgot to save. I try the dungeon again, this time getting to a room with a single Scourge. I take out her frost atronoch, but she whittles my health down about 90% as we fight (mostly due to my own stupidity) I manage to kill her, expecting a respite. Next thing I know, as my health slowly recharges, a Draugr deathlord in the next room has heard the commotion and decides to make an appearance. As his red-circle appears on my HUD, I have just enough time to look up at the catwalk he has entered onto and utter "Oh, shit." before he pegs me with a single arrow between the eyes and ends my life.

 

[chaos order]

My friend came across an ancient dragon (note that he has full daedric armor that has been upgraded to legendary) He was level 45 and he was shot down in one burst of fire. he kept trying new tactics like different shouts and approaches, and every time it ended up the same way. although one time he was bitten and thrown. it was quite humorous

afterwards he just ran to the wall stole the word, became ethereal and jumped off the mountain. although it wore off on his decent and he died, so he went fuck it!

 

[bossfight1]

Well i went into this cave to disrupt a skooma operation, I killed one bandit with a stealthy throat slit, and killed three more, but the last one had a lot of health and a big ass two handed sword. He killed me once so I went in more cautiously, but he cared not for my caution as he cornered me and showed me that enemies can do cinematic kills as well, decapitating my character in a way that left me staring at my TV screen in shock and awe. In the end I killed him and screamed "DOVAHKIIN!!!"

 

[kasperbbs]

I was doing the companions quests at lvl 1x and i got my first 'animal extermination' job, i thought i will stomp some wolves and be done with it, so i went to check out that cave and found a frost troll who takes half of my hp in one hit, i used all my potions and almost killed it, but then 2 more came and i was screwed, 15 more tries with 3 different companions and i still got my ass handed to me, once i got that time stopping shout and a new mage companion i went there to get my revenge.

 

[Eggsnham]

I was going through one of the old ancient Nord burial grounds and having a decent challenge getting through it on account of the fact that every other enemy was a Draugr Deathlord.

So finally, I got to this one chamber and was subsequently ambushed by three Draugr deathlords, a couple Draugr Scourge, and a couple more regular flavored Draugr.

I had only one health potion left, and my restoration spell just wasn't cutting it, what with seven Draugr slashing at me.

Finally, after I died about ten or so times I just said "fuck it" and turned the difficulty down to novice.

It was fucking annoying.

 

[Pearwood]

Some guy called Krosis. He just appeared out of nowhere at a dragon wall and proceeded to beat the shit out of me. I only won because he fell off the mountain and gave me a safe spot. Even then if I wasn't using Bound Bow I'd have probably ran out of arrows. Dropped a really nice mask though.

The bounty which I got in Solitude from

Spoiler

The dark brotherhood quest

snowballed somehow into 7680 gold. Fine! I thought, never liked that city anyway, imperial scum.

You could just go to jail, it doesn't reduce skill levels anymore just deletes any growth towards the next level they have. Plus you get a trophy for escaping.

 

[Jordi]

Apparently I suck at this game pretty badly, so almost every battle seems tough on the default (medium) difficulty. I intended to play my character as a kind of badass spellblade, but I kind of screwed that up. Lockpicking, pickpocketing and training was just so easy that I did it a lot, so I leveled up quickly without actually getting good equipment and combat skills. The funny thing is that these choices early on to "also" use some thieving skills, are now actually forcing me more and more down the thieving path, because most enemies are too strong to face head on, so I have to use stealth and archery.

Anyway, pretty much any bandit that uses a two-handed weapon is a problem for me. Especially if they have backup. My toughest battles were against groups like these. I must have reloaded at least twenty times against a group of 4 Silver Hands. Normally I can lose groups like these with stealth, but this time I had a companion forced on me who prevented that, and to make matters worse he was absolutely no help at all in the fight (which is odd, because I've seen him be much more effective on YouTube).

Sometimes it's quite funny though. One time I was fighting a dude that could two-shot me in a room with a table. I spent a lot of time with him chasing me around that table while I healed. Reminded me a lot of fights with my brother when we were children.

Another fight that was quite awesome was when I was in a room that spawned a lot of Draugr. It started off with a bunch of Restless Draugr that even I can beat. But then more and more kept coming and in the end I was fighting four Wights and a Scourge. When I heard the dragon shout I was pretty much shitting my pants. I was running around frantically getting in shots left and right, while dodging blows and dragons shouts, and slowly exhausting all my potions. When I had none left, I finished off[footnote]accidentally killed[/footnote] the last Wight and it was just me and the Scourge left. While I was still looking at the last Wight, he staggered me with his shout. Having virtually no health left, I was sure I was done for when I remembered that I hadn't used my shout yet. I managed to shout back at him before he got the killing blow in and was just able to impale him on my sword. I thought that was pretty epic[footnote]Or actually, more like "epic fail" given the quality of my play, but at least it was a large, exciting and very close battle.[/footnote].

 

[SweetLiquidSnake]

Mine was probably Malkoran in Meridia's quest. You've finally made your way through this huge dungeon and you see this necromancer standing at the other end of the room, but once you engage him you notice he has a 6-Dragur posse and they all attack at once. I had to barricade the doorway with myself and Lydia and just spammed the spark spell til all his guards died. Unfortunately Malkoran has an incredibly powerful Frost Spell that goes through walls, can knock half your health out and freeze you in place. What's worse is that once you finally defeat him in human form, his spectral form comes out and you gotta face that, no breaks.

I think I died at least 6 times, and had to load up on potions (bows do more damage) and use Lydia as a distraction for most of the fight. Fun quest though.