I mean I literally walk around one-hitting everyone on master and it makes the game seem so boring.
I'm level 40 and I would really like to have some more challenges in the higher levels. Some tougher, meaner monsters.
I guess the only way to get a challenge is to play a pure mage or something like that...
What do you guys do to keep the game fun and to get some challenge?

Dont smith.

Just avoid overpowered combinations of skills.

You'd like to have challenge.... yet went out of your way to remove it?

Start a new character.

Unequip your overpowered gear?

Yeah, this is the first thread of this kind in this forum.

Welcome to level scaling. Its not going to get better.

Yep.. if you want a challenge in this game you have to play a certain way, forget how YOU want to play cause that will just make it easy.

Lack of any sort of balance FTL.

Well you don't know what i'm levelling in do you. I don't smith, but why would smithing give you an edge when it's a noncombat skill. If you just level up smithing you won't have an advantage in combat.

Yes you do. The gear and weapons you can forge and add in Enchanting/Alchemy you will be able to one-shot EVERYTHING. If you want a challenge, don't pursuit a way that will allow you to do so. Wear lower level gear perhaps instead that Daedric Legendary set you forged?

Smithy wont affect anything unless you actually upgrade your equipment.

Didn't know you could forge and add anything in alchemy haha . And the argument about removing your overpowered gear isn't valid. Why are you forced to NOT play with the gear you like the most, and obviously also what looks the coolest. No one in lvl 40 would run around with an iron sword when other other swords are available. What I'm saying is that I PERSONALLY think there's not enough challenging moments in late game, and especially not if you have to PURPOSELY use crappy gear to still be able to have fun in late game. You see that we have a problem here ?

Skyrim clearly has balance issues with certain skills making you either overpowered or too weak. You won't get a solution here apart from silly ones like "don't smith" so, if you're playing on PC you'll have to be patient until mods come out.

I'm lvl 15 currently playing master from start and I've been dying alot. It's been hard but fun. I have feeling that once my archery skill goes to 100 it will be too simple because I know that some of those perks are bit overpowered.

Have you played master from start or just later changed? It should be hard if you start from start. I think also warrior leveling is harder than mage/hunter. My next will be warrior.

Also try level skills you won't need or use, you will level up faster and meet even harder mobs.


Also I don't use pickpocket, blacksmith because I think those skills are bit op.

I can tell you DID do smithing, and alchemy and enchanting, because without the tradeskill synergy at level 40 you CANNOT 1 shot everything. Not on adept, and certainly NOT on Master.

If you didn't overpower your gear by pushing Smith/Enchant/Alchemy, how are you walking around in Master one-shotting everything?

I'm lv39 on Adept, and about the only thing I can "one-shot" is the unscaled basic mooks (you know, just the basic "Bandit", "Forsworn", "Wolf", stuff like that.)
Mid-level guys take at least a few swings (they're not much of a threat to me, of course), and the higher level dudes, and boss-types require plenty of attacking and use of potions/buffs/etc.


Of course, I haven't "maxed out" anything. Highest skill is 1-handed, at 80. And I've only got perks partway up the tree - other ones seemed more important, and the upper level ones seem kind of boring and minor in that tree.

Oh, I'm playing a sword&board, light armor, scout/ranger. (Some stealth & archery, un-perked, for scouting and that opening shot; Bit of Smithing & Alchemy for support; Lockpicking, Restoration; One-hand, light armor, block)

I've not been making any deliberate attempt to "gimp" myself for more difficulty - just playing as seems natural to me. But then, I've always been a fan of wide/shallow skill bases for characters - the archetypical "Jack of All Trades, Master of None".

Turn the difficulty up...

If it's already all the way up, use Weaker weapons/Armor.

or simply start a new character.

The sort of balance Bethesda should shoot for is one that a normal player not a powergamer can play the game without trying to deliberately exploit and not break the game by becoming godlike too early. There will be mods to fix this but I wish Bethesda just did a few little tweaks to make it so you cant accidently break your game.

i'm level forty and the best challenge i've gotten is fighting a room full of mages, there spells eat away at health

Pure mages aren't underpowered in this game. Mine is level 39 and nothing ever has the time to hit me, only creature i can call hard is ancient dragons, but the hard part is that i run oom when stun locking it with dual cast fire spells...

I don't think svitching items is fun thing to do.

You can make harder mobs by leveling more skills which you never going to use. If you don't like powerlvl them you can do console commands to example lvl destruction from 20-100. you will get more lvls while only monsters will upgrade.

You're not forced to do anything. Make a choice. Either walk around in OP gear and one-shot everything, or walk around in crappier gear on higher difficulty and get your challenge back.

Repeat: Nobody's forcing you to do anything.

You are telling me that you play on master and one shoot everything at lvl 40 YET have no clue how smithing can improve your combat in game. Sorry but that, for me, disqualifies about the whole topic you try to make. Either that or you are really a true master in this game, please do enlighten me

Smithing, Enchanting and Sneaking is overpowered like hell sadly. Illusion aswell until 30ish+

Too many balance issues in this game...