Beriallord Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) The boss below the Shrine of Meridia, I just fought, and I got literally 1hko'd by this guys Ice Storm cast. Very unusual, because I got 560 health, AND +40% frost resist. Currently level 62. I know for a fact that spells do not scale up in damage with level, at least on every other enemy I've fought, cast by anything else Ice Storm tickles for damage, so I though nothing of trying to avoid it and just rushed head on through it. Didn't even tick me, just one hit I was thrown to the ground, dead. My Dremora lords also got 1hko'd by Ice storm. This is on adept difficulty. I won by spamming dremora lords in the room hoping they got a swing off before 1hko'd, which worked. I suspect this is due to a bug. If it means anything the guy dropped a staff of Ice Storm. Perhaps the damage on staffs scaled up for this particular enemy, but I beat a dragon priest earlier and got hit with spells that only did 30 or 40 damage a pop and they also had staffs. Anyway, I'm very confused here, and is there any reason for this, like this location giving an innate -5000% magic resist? So far this is the only enemy in the game that has a SUPER Ice Storm. Edited November 19, 2011 by Beriallord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbleGnome Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Has to be a bug. I beat that quest at level 12. Very strange. I ran into an ice troll who wouldn't die...health wasn't touched. I had to quit the game (no save) go back in, make my way back to the troll, and killed it no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beriallord Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 Has to be a bug. I beat that quest at level 12. Very strange. I ran into an ice troll who wouldn't die...health wasn't touched. I had to quit the game (no save) go back in, make my way back to the troll, and killed it no problem. The buggy Ice troll on the mountain to the gray beards? He glitched on the above part, but eventually fell down and after that he was invincible. I just ran past him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 At higher levels certain NPC types are very deadly, especially the vampires. Probably something to do with scaling magic effects or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saldu Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Just because player spells don't scale must not necessarely mean that mob spells also don't scale. The jump in power you described sounds strange, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteed1985 Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Maybe the mob has taken a perk that allows his spells to 1hko even if the spell wouldn't of done enough :P some player skills perks in some trees do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts