hardcore my a**. like a previous statement ancient dragons fire breath is very very powerful on master. even with my 750 life and 70% res to all. its not enough to kill me but its enough to hurt. frost trolls..... where should i start? hm like when i use them to train my armor skills to 100 on master? theyre weak. if you are having problems with them then you should reconsider your build.

the difference is you can encounter frost trolls at lvl 1 and ancient dragons at lvl 45+

Yeah definitely use mods. Go to the elder scrolls nexus and look for some. There was one I can't remember the name of it but it added so many different mobs and random occurences and there's a retarded difficulty version that you'll want to check out. It'll be easy to find on the nexus, I'm just lazy.

as you get higher level ofc they are easy... everything is really, once dragons are as strong as ur saying, you're so strong its sickening..


anyways, u want a harder skyrim? go level way up to say 40 or so without putting any points in any melee or magic, just raise crap like smithy and enchanting etc...


then dont make the insane weapons and try to play on master, it will get challenging that way

hey, i have even better idea!

run backwards everywhere, play on master and only use hand to hand. then while on combat, only use sneak and light spell

really, skyrim was so imbalanced. half of the skills were too OP even without exploits or anything. you cant even do a build you like and still keep the game challenged.

would you like to play with a character you described? i doubt it.

i have played with the character i described, and it is fun to me... i like a challenge, in fact the game is so easy you have to do something to make it a bit of a challenge - the worst part was smithing 1400ish daggers, grinding isnt too fun to me, but the effect was right, the mobs were challenging afterward sorry if you dont want to try to make something that easy challenging, its a great looking game, the story is halfass decent, but still pretty much the cool thing is how open the world is as always in the elder scrolls series so whatever if you want an easy game, just play it as is, if not, try what i said its fun to me anyways

This post was edited by drakwen on Jan 11 2013 04:27pm

it's good if you had fun, not going to take that away from you, but when i play RPG game, i want to make a character that isn't OP and is fun to play. in skyrim, i didn't success in it. i tried many kinds of characters, but they all were OP, even though all i tried to do, was build a fun character
i don't think i would have fun with character you described. i don't like the idea to make the game intentionally harder by doing something i know shouldn't work (as in this case) smithing/enchanting character. anyhow, thanks for your input

yeh my latest has maxd smithy alchemy and enchanting, and is like level 66 atm, he has some 1handed skills and all the sneak skills a lot of pickpocket skills i use a dragonbone dagger, upgraded to legendary and enchanted without using falmer helmet circlet bug and without using the insane 127%smith potions and etc...

have heavy armor all the way up using dragonbone armor well stuff can kill me still and doesen't die immediately its pretty fun if you ask me

oh i understood you very wrong at first. i thought you didnt up any armor class or sneak. well you get damn high armor rating if you have maxed heavy + legendary set. also 15x sneak crits are pretty OP (and sneak in general)

to me it actually doesnt sound that hard.

on my current character i have daedric set upgraded to legendary, no weapon, using hand-to-hand + shield. even when i didnt have my armors enchanted (apart from gloves) it was fairly easy.

yeh i didn't try to make it undoable i just wanted a moderate difficulty and this was how i achieved it, since the dagger does low damage compared with the fully powered monsters at this level it takes a few to kill stuff, and the armor is nice, magic still beats on the char pretty good because i refuse to use resists because again, just too damned easy... but i have been having a blast with this char, yeah the 15x dmg is op as hell... and it isnt "that hard" its just like putting a moderate difficulty on it rather than waaaay ez u know