Both of those~

in oblivion there was a difficulty slider. Easier or harder at any time if you pleased

There is also difficulty option in Skyrim.

This post was edited by ROM on Sep 6 2012 11:38pm

which really doesnt do anything IMO, they only take like 2 hits more or so and deal slightly more damage

in oblivion it actually affected the game play. on harder difficulty they had like passive "reflect damage", in addition with overall stronger enemies

Its your damage is halfed and their damage is doubled (in master)

IMO its a quiet easy game... I only turned down de difficulty once and it was vs the final dragon (cant remember his name...) I was using a sneaker with DBH armor and a bow... lowered it to Expert and was NP for me ^^

This post was edited by IronSnake on Sep 8 2012 09:43pm

play morrowind if you want it harder
skyrim is just too easy even in expert

/e lol didnt see this is 1 month old, sori

This post was edited by Troll on Oct 14 2012 04:16am

in oblivion


slider--------dmg done------dmg taken
0% The Leftmost 6x 1/6
50% Center (default) 1x 1x
100% The Rightmost 1/6 6x

This post was edited by Aube on Oct 14 2012 11:21pm

From my experience, summons are op, follower tanking is op, illusion is op, sneaking attacks are op, paralyze chant/perk is op, dual wield is op, dual enchanting is op, smithing perks are op, combine that improve smithing gear + improve smithing potion.
Been there, done that and had to gimp my character's weapons/armors, because +567 AR (80% DR), 70 magic resist and beating everyone with ~700 dmg was way too much IMO for Master and that's not even much, there's a trick for improve potions.

Now, I've been playing with char (lvl 47 atm) that has only steel smithing and arcane smithing perks, rest are "combat"/unused perks, 100 hp (not raising it), 180 AR, because lack of +AR perks and shitty leather armor.
I do whooping ~130 dmg with my ebony bow, even tho I have like 80% archery dmg from enchants, but it's more challenging and enjoyable than my dual wield char.

all those you listed are indeed op apart from follower, for me she (Lydia) never did anything
i never used alchemy/enchanting glitch combined with smithing, however, i do know the glitch you are talking about that includes restoration (iirc). i did have upgraded items, but they werent upgraded with glitch and they still were op

gl with your new char. it's quite an annoying that if you want to make the game hard and interesting, you actually have to make stupid decisions, like not bumping hp or not to spend perks

Put difficulty on master from the start. If you are playing stealth download the stealth rebalance mod - it makes stealth far more realistic and balanced.

Oh and don't exploit things like encahnting and alc to become unstopably powerful...