Skull enemies

[Blarglord]

Howdy all i hit the national guard post in game and found it full of ill tempered ghouls with reavers and glowing one with skulls next to name, is this common or high level area, my guy is level 12, im playing on hard and i had to use alot of grenades and mines. should i drop down to normal.

[Vagrant0]

These denote enemies well above your level which will likely be a serious threat unless you have gotten lucky with equipment. Generally, you should stay around Sanctuary and Diamond City until around level 20 or so.

[2much4l1]

Having enemies deplete your supply of grenades and mines is a good place to be in terms of difficulty. Eventually survival difficulty will lose the sense of dread when running low on explosives and you'll have to mod the game.

[Warmaker01]

Having enemies deplete your supply of grenades and mines is a good place to be in terms of difficulty. Eventually survival difficulty will lose the sense of dread when running low on explosives and you'll have to mod the game.

Very true. Early game, those Legendary enemies can be a handful when you don't have great weapon/armor mods or good equipment and ammo is scarcer. Late game, it's not much of a problem.

 

Legendary enemies though are what you want, OP. More XPs of course but more importantly, they're guaranteed to have 1 piece of Legendary equipment.