The creatures are strangely balanced.

[Vindekarr]

If trolls are... trolling you, use fire, ANY fire hits them hard, and if you have a fire weapon, like a certain Daedric artifact, use that, ANY fire damage is better than normal damage against a Troll. But you just wai,t there's a whole dungeon full of them... somewhere out there.

[ShadowscaleB1980]

This is how I rank my opponents:

 

Dragons: 6~9 - for my character they do vary considerably - blood dragons being the easiest and ancient being more of a challenge

 

Giants: - I can't say, I never picked a fight with one.

 

Dremora/Atronachs 5~8 ~summoned or otherwise these guys are a real pain to deal with...especially the ones that come at you in the he-who-shall-not-be-named quest.

 

Vampires - 6~8 - difficulty depends on the variety but generally their enhanced abilities makes them a challenge - they are almost impossible to sneak up on.

 

Trolls: 2 - nothing a Deadric greatsword cannot fix.

 

Mammoths: - like the giants, never picked a fight with one

 

Sabertooth: 3/5 - I find the frost sabertooth to be more of a challenge than their fair weather counterparts.

 

Bears: 5 - like the sabertooth the Snowbears are more difficult

 

Chaurus: 4~5 - the chaurus reapers being the most difficult , best taken out with ranged attacks.

 

Spiders: 3 - even the giant variety aren't all that hard to deal with...all you have top do is get above them. Enchanted spiders can be a bit tricky.

 

Draugr: -10 - The Draugr deathlords/Overlords are really hard - and they nearly never face you on their own. I recall fighting six deathlords at once...that was so much fun, I like that little *woof* they use when they are alerting the others to your presence.

 

Stormcloaks/Imperials: 1

 

Forsworn - 7~10 -Briarhearts are a real challenge, especially with several of them coming at you at once.

 

Necromancers/spellcasters 5~7 they can be a real pain in the soft parts especially the more powerful transcendent spellcasters at a distance - Hagravens are a real pain. I really should get a recipe for a strong mana poison.

 

Rest of the world: ~3.5~ including the Thalmor and the occasional thief that tries to "gut my character like a fish"

 

Bandits: 1~4 - the chief bandits put up a good fight but their underlings are rather disappointing.

Edited November 30, 2011 by shadow_scale9180

[Segra]

How can this be..5 for sabertooth..!!!.I kill a saberthoot in one swing..and btw..the music starts playing when one is about to pop-up from behind..just turn..:D

[nitevision92]

I HATE spellcasters and high-level vampires. Those are like an 11 on a scale of 1-10.

[bloodshade]

I only started playing 2 days ago, but strangely balanced is a good thing in my opinion. It keeps things more interesting that way.

[SlizenDize]

On my 46 mage I consider Dragons the hardest kills, mostly because of their one hit kill attacks and the fact that they keep killing of my brokers! >( Soon I have no place to trade. They also have a bit too much HP on Master but the breathe damage is perfect.

Giants and Mammoths pose quite a challenge, at least they used too. Haven't found any for a while but I noticed that Mammoths vary a lot from creature to creature. Once I faced two mammoths at once and smacked them good with Ice Storm to see one fall while the other took around 5% damage and raped me :(

 

Now Trolls... People have issues with trolls? I always thought they were low level creatures, you face them pretty early in the game and they almost always die before they reach you. They are on par with the Draugs for me but then again I've never tried to melee one (But I probably could not melee a Draug either :P).

[PsYchotic666Joker]

at OP, all those are easy for me, just 1 hit everything

umad?

[AtmaDarkwolf]

First experience with a troll was around lv 10ish, wandered into a cave, with almost no gear.

 

3 frost trolls and me hiding in little hole getting sneak attacks and going back to hide.(Had to reload my save 3-4 times cuz they one shot me :D)

 

Later, no real issues with them since I one-shot anything ingame with sneaks, and with magic or ranged, nothing gets close enough to hurt me(but dragons), and in melee I hit too hard and move away too fast for a troll to be much of a threat.

 

But next play-though I will be avoiding them :P Those trolls DO hurt early on.

[Tardivex]

In my opinion Skyrim is way too easy, even on master, for me it is:

Dragon-3

Giant-2

Mammoth-2

Sabertooth-1

Troll-1

Bandit-1

Everything else in existence-1

The only thing that WAS actually annoying and I'd give a 10 are fire casters, pretty much all of them, not the ones labeled as "Fire Mage" they should be stronger but they are weak as hell, seriously, 2 fire spells and Im dead, and I think Ice ones would be the same thing If I wasn't a Nord, but I've put some enchantments in my armor and it's all fine now :biggrin:

[Hitchmeister]

Keep in mind that trolls seem very tough if you fight them with anything but fire because they regenerate. But, as many people have pointed out, any fire damage makes them die like any other enemy.