Well, I don't think killing atronachs with their own element will be enjoyable forever... Tho the dragons are technically simplier to kill, user the same element as they use. The rest of NPCs are mostly unaffected, but PC is affected a lot

This. I was about to say.

I have been getting reports that the new patch has bugged resistance.

My Dark Elf who should be resistant to fire, recently was taking some major as damage by a blood dragon, which he normally wouldn't being resistant to fire. But my resistance didn't seem to be working at all. Even a Hagraven was messing me up.

Have you played Morrowind? Lol

By the divines...Mannimarco has returned. O_O

There are so many ways to help yourself out there's no excuse! Instead of raging use your head.

- be prepared with fire/frost/shock potions. make your own or buy some
- use unrelenting force to throw the mage back and hack him to bits
- With mages, you need to be quick to close in and beat them to pulp before they do much.
- go explore for a while and find some good armor or shields with the proper resists on them. It's not hard to find. Or amass some gold (which is really is easy) and buy the gear.
- use environment. use walls/pillars etc for cover.
- bring a companion along to help out

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You're just a baby. There have been a few times where I died quickly and guess what, I changed tactics, ran, or progressed my char further. I think you are broken.

Sidenote II: Just because you play "sword warrior" doesn't mean you can't use spells or archery... Or potions (Resistance potions anyone? Invisibility potions for retreating anyone? There aren't just "Minor healing" ones.). Or companions. Or the walls. You can hide behind them.

In world of warcraft, frost mages regularly anniliated my warrior but I never quit because there was so much else to do than pvp.

I was in a dungeon last night with mt lvl12 melee. I breezed the whole whole place without any problems whatsoever. At the end was a 'fire wizard' boss. Every fireball he threw was a one hit kill. For giggles I put god mode on and just stood in front of him. He just fired his one hit kill fireballs at me for a good five minutes before I got bored. Infinite magicka + one hit kill fireballs = seriously broken encounter.

I imagine it'll get fixed eventually though.

how much hp did you have in the first place ? you should not fight casters with 200 hp and zero magic resist at all dont even try boss casters.

you should not fight BOSS casters at lvl 12 they are not all scaled to your level. come back later with more power OR use the guide below and kill him with lvl 12. theres always a way in TES.

go do the mara temple quest in rifton and get yourself +15% magic resist for FREE without fighting a single enemey.
go and activate the lords stone (mountain above witherun). +25% again. level up more and put 5 perks in the alteration three (use telekineses to level super quick or use dedect life) another +30% then you have 70% magic resist. now go to some vendors and camp them until you get a ring or necklace with 10-20% magic resistence.

go back to the mage and LAUGH at his face for not doing any damage at all. dont use fire or frost resistance. thats a waste. magic resistance protects aganist ALL magic and is therefore > forst/fire/shock single resists.

dont blame the game. its already dumbed down enough at this stage. such comments come 90% from players who have no clue about the TES series. its super easy to reach magic resist cap in skyrim. it was even easier in oblivion. only morrowind took a bit of work on this.

when i read such comments i know i could rage about how dumb players can be at all. posts like THIS are the reason games get dumbed down to moron levels. wtf i cannot kill something? PLEASE NERF.
THINK before you act..... and dont turn your brain off when playing a game. gosh damnit.

Except magic resist and resistance's in general are broken.

To the another post who said "I think you are broken", nay I say, I took an arrow in the knee!

You do understand you can turn the difficulty down right?

Level 12 in Skyrim is about like level 4 in Oblivion. In other words your character is still NOTHING... run you milk drinker.

Not really. The devs have said that they aimed for the game to be completed by a level 25.


I have no problem with static, difficult dungeons (as long as there's appropriate reward, which there isn't) but having a dungeon filled with scaled enemies then a final unscaled boss seems faintly ridiculous imo.

This is an open world game. For once I'm glad there are certain enemies I have to flee and come back later better prepared. I take you've never played the first two Gothic games or even Risen?

The magic resistances are broken, that's why the game is unbalanced now. Casters can kill you very easily because you have no resistances to magic attacks.
My level 25 nord warrior one-hit kills most melee fighters but dies with just a couple of attacks from mages (even frost ones) or enchanted weapons. This wasn't happening before the 1.2 patch.
Wait for the new patch or avoid mages until they fix this.

I ran into this group and got facerolled also, not a big deal. After all, how do you think the first two bandits that you wasted felt? I'll give you a hint on this one, don't be greedy and ye shall succeed.

Oh, and I'll say it again. SKSE fixes the resistances. Does nothing harmfull. Only thing you need is legal copy of Skyrim 1.2.


Actually they said "If Oblivion was level 25 game, Skyrim is level 50"

If you are attempting to play a "Warrior" and not some kind of hybrid, it's kind of hard to cast any spells...
Anyway, thanks for the headsup with the SKSE. That fixed the resistance problem.

And before anyone asks, the 4GB launcher will automatically look for SKSE and launch it as well.

I know, but if you want to be "pure" warrior on higher diff, you have to gear up accordingly, elemental resistances are crucial, sine armor rating does nothing aginst spells. Also there are potions that give resistance to magic / elements.


You can't go "I, like, run in the room with 5 mages and they killed me, the game svcks", because this is problem at the players end. And for the billionth time, you don't have to play on Maste ror Expert if you freak out everytime you die. Not telling that directly to you Sanct.

I can honestly say I've never had this problem (on expert, 60 hours in). even rerolled afew times because of the damn quest bugs but yet, had no problem with npc mages (other than high ranking necromancers in the mid 40s...) My build tends to be

Race: Nord (since daggerfall and always will be other than for roleplay.)
skills: lightarmor/heavy armor (depends on the save, have two chars atm.) one handed swords, conjuration.

and I never really have any problems other than with dragons once I get to the 20s lol, but mages...tend to be easy to kill, only takes two or so hits.

So you are a pure sword and board, but you ran out of mana? Sounds more like a jack of all trades character, or at least a spell-casting warrior.

If you try to level up too many different skills you can end up with a weak character, especially if you aren't paying close attention to the armor and defense you are getting from items. This is a possibility here..... have you played any other characters beyond level 12? Were their skills points spread as thinly across as many different things as this character's?

This

Some folk just don't get it... doh!

Use shouts. A Draugr Deathlord kills me easy. I play on expert. I have 326HP + 300stamina + thousand of potions and a 1k+backstab.

I get one-shot-killed with their ebony bow and arrows.

What I do is:

Take my bow: Shot untill he come closer.
I do my most powerful power attack... and there's two options:

The draugr draws his melee:

I continue spamming my power attacks (they are absolutely powerful. Kills a Draugr Deathlord with 3 double sword power attack)

The Draugr pulls the string and ready the arrow to kill me:

Instantly shout ICE FORM and then I spam my power attacks until it is dead.

Well... if there is any other rangers nearby I get killed easy, otherways.. I kill everything.