Does anyone else find Skyrim challenging?

[Korodic]

morrowind was challenging. You'd have to be skilled to fight a guard and live.

[RedRavyn]

Depends upon your second dragon, chaospearl. Were you following the MQ where you're led to Kynesgrove to confront Sahloknir? If so, you should have plenty of cover as long as you stay mobile and alert, and your Blades companion during this quest is essential and can't die. When you have such companions, use them to distract your enemies so you can attack from a distance and in relative safety. Scout around that area before you meet your contact at the rock. Approaching that spot is what triggers Alduin to resurrect Sahloknir, so until you do so he'll just circle around and act dragonish. Just remember that a tree does not offer much protection from a dragon's breath attack unless its a very wide tree.

 

On one occasion I discovered that a giant and mammoth had spawned nearby, and I was able to lead them to the burial mound, then I dashed over to the rock and attacked Sahloknir with a bow the instant he spawned, even before he fleshed out. I then had giant-and-company as unwilling allies in the battle, and a giant or mammoth can take out a dragon once the dragon has been "grounded". They'll keep the attention of Sahloknir most of the time, and they can absorb a lot of damage, so that gives you and your Blades ally plenty of opportunities to get in bow shots. Reduce his health enough and Sahloknir comes crashing out of the sky and makes an easy target on the ground.

 

Now, if you're out in the open? Have a healing spell or healing potions handy. Get the dragon's attention and concentrate upon surviving his first strafe. Be running, full-tilt in any direction that offers cover. You might have to stop and take a few bow shots to get his attention if he seems to forget you. Dragons have a bad case of attention deficit disorder. Basically, lead him somewhere you can fight him from cover, even if this means abandoning your position and finding another. You have to remain mobile at low levels. If you see other potential enemies, lead the dragon toward them. He's as likely to attack them as you, which gives you some more "free shots" while he's occupied.

 

At higher levels you need to boost your fire and frost resistances as much as you can. It's possible to easily get nearly 100% resistance to both through self-enchanted items, and potions can make up for the rest. This makes you virtually immune to a dragon's breath weapon, and if you can avoid his bite attack you'll find dragons to be push-overs.

 

Frankly, with the mod "SkyTEST - Realistic Animals and Predators" installed, I have more trouble surviving wolf attacks than I do dragon attacks, although another mod I have installed ("Destruction Reworked") increases the damage of destruction magic. I get the distinct impression that dragons have become much more dangerous with this mod installed, possibly because it affects the direct damage caused by the game's fire and frost magical effects (at least I think that's how it works). Those are probably used for dragon breath attacks by the game system. Even at high level, with no protection against fire or frost, an ordinary dragon can take me down in one prolonged breath attack. Could be you have mods installed which are indirectly affecting dragons, as well. You might want to look into that.

[sunkship203]

>Skyrim

>Challenge

>lol'd

[MrBuio]

It's easy to abuse the system in Skyrim to become powerful. As such, it is badly balanced. You have to self-balance it by restricting things in the game, which will make it relatively harder.