peteed1985 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 A few hits from the enemies even in nice armor kills you so if you melee you need you heal spell so much its not funny. Its almost impossible to run away fast and far enough with sprint from a dragon to avoid its breath even as a mage, and if you just stand there and let it hit you the breath does more than half your HP per one. Couple all that with the fact that the dragon is in the air 90% of the time and even at the easiest difficulty settings which I had to swap to cause of the 20th time the same dragon killed me. If this is how hard it is to kill a dragon as a caster then I can't see melee being remotely viable at dragon killing. Hoping for some advice/strats for killing dragons as each archtype and also maybe some advice on what spells to use for each type of dragon. Unsure if to use: fire spells on ice dragons ice spells on fire dragons fire spells on fire dragons ice spells on ice dragons lightning on either or not or if element type means nothing. Also unsure how to avoid that breath from dragon that does like 150 dmg in one breath when I only have like 190 HP total cause sprinting full speed away I rarely get out of range. Currently i'm level 18 and have perks in 1h sword stuff as well as destruction magic and sneaking and restoration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason8289 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I've pretty much spent the majority of the battle with dragons healing myself. Sprinkle a couple perks in restoration so you can heal with less magica, and combine the healing spells in each hand. Not sure if elemental spells mean anything, but I've used a frost shout on a fire dragon to good effect. Its hard to avoid their breath when they're on the ground; but when they're strafing you, if you sprint out of they way u can avoid around half of the fire damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteed1985 Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 I've pretty much spent the majority of the battle with dragons healing myself. Sprinkle a couple perks in restoration so you can heal with less magica, and combine the healing spells in each hand. Not sure if elemental spells mean anything, but I've used a frost shout on a fire dragon to good effect. Its hard to avoid their breath when they're on the ground; but when they're strafing you, if you sprint out of they way u can avoid around half of the fire damage. I'm 18 and so far I have 3 shouts. First is that push back one, second is that 1/3 super speed thing and 3rd is the become immune to damage but you can't attack thing and only got 1/3 of that. I have like 6 dragon souls or more saved but no more words found to use the souls on xD as it is I keep forgetting I have dragonshouts so rarely use em lol. know where I can first a few more shouts/words? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryptonmac Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Fortunately i do not suffer from the same problem, actualy i think that the dragons are too easy to kill, i play on medium difficulty as battlemate, using axe, firebolt. i use about 3 minor healing potions in 1 battle. B But if your having a hard time, find a companion to bring with you, makes it a little easier, they can also carry some of your items :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason8289 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 if you look at the map i circled 3 areas where there are word walls in the exterior world; there's a dragon at each one though. hope this helps http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8498/screenshot5sy.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteed1985 Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 if you look at the map i circled 3 areas where there are word walls in the exterior world; there's a dragon at each one though. hope this helps http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8498/screenshot5sy.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us tyvm :) very helful. I found one of them about half an hour ago but the other 2 I had no idea of :) I had 8 dragon souls saved with no use by the time I found that wall. Dragons are just way too common lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luthienanarion Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I highly (HIGHLY) recommend using the Atronach standing stone to fight other mages or dragons. Keep a healing spell in one hand, and you can absorb so much of their spells/breath as magicka that you never run out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okayvin Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 use a warding spell to block dmg from the fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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