Just completed A Night To Remember, so I could get the prize. When I got into Morvunskar, the electromages promptly killed me. I reloaded, and tried to take out the boss first. I shot him, he blasted me, I died!

Reloaded, and decided to let Lydia take the abuse while I sniped him from hiding. It was working, until another one of the mages got around behind me, and nearly one shot me! I hit the hotkey where I keep my healing potions and, nothing! Boom, I'm dead, again!

Reloaded, and made SURE the healing potions were hot keyed correctly. Took some damage, went for a potion. NADA, zip, nothing! Open the favorites menu, hot key the 20 or so potions AGAIN, take one, then NOTHING!

After getting killed for the fifth time in short order, it dawned on me that either the mages, or a glitch were taking the potions off the assigned key! It was bad enough that I was severely outmatched by the group of mages, they had to cheat as well?!?!?

That room svcks! Sounds like a glitch to me.

Have you tried the "open inventory" method to get at your potions? What about other hotkeys, like weapon/spell swapping? I know that for me in the heat of battle, I "fat finger" and mis-hit keys regularly

I usually use an Illusion frenzy spell to soften up them first, but if you don't have an illusionist, this may not be a valid method.

Once I figured out what was going on, I hid in a corner and tried using a potion. Something in there was definitely taking it off the 8 key that I use for healing potions! I could get one, then I needed to either open the inventory, or the favorites and reassign it. I did it multiple times out of curiosity.

I'm wondering if the level of the mages was tweaked as well, because I don't think between Lydia and me, we ever managed to kill more than one of the 5 or 6 mages before I got nuked!

I debated about lowering the difficulty for the fight, but finally said the heck with it, one cheat deserves another and toggled God mode. I walked in, and when the big boss hit me and I just stood there, I swear he had a surprised look on his face! Well, right up until I buried my axe in it!

Whatever works!

That room is especially tough, no matter what level. The "Boss" is usually a very high level mage and there are 4 to 6 others that help him out. It can get real ugly, real fast...

Have a good time with Sanguine

That staff is one of my favorite pieces of gear, and I actually enjoy the quest to get it. Inevitably, waking up in the temple is my first trip to Markarth, so I always wind up doing the whole Cidnha mine/Forsworn thing as part of it.

This time around, It took me long enough that I was looking forward to finishing the whole thing up, when I ran across Mr. Sparky and company! I vaguely remembered how hard that fight was from my last play through, but didn't realize it was part of this quest. Last time, I think I was leveled up quite a bit more as well. If I could have kept chugging potions, I'd have slogged my way through the fight, but sometimes being a God is fun!

This play through has had a couple interesting challenges, like the Blood Dragon I encountered at level 9 or so! Most of the game has been pretty normal, have a bunch of fights, and getting killed by the occasional boss. Then all of a sudden I have what should be a run of the mill encounter, and it's like the game throws a difficulty spike at me!

Depending on my mood, I'll either keep trying different strategies until something works, or if it gets ridiculous, I'll "improvise"!

hehehe That sounds interesting