Dragons are the new cliff racers. First MOD I'm going to do when the CK will be made available is a way to stop random dragon encounters after the MQ is over.

I'm lvl 20, visited the Greybeards and so far I've only killed 4-5 of them and learned about 5-6 shouts/words but I'm pleased at this rate, even if there are still 1-2 dragon points showing on the map.

Edit: the last spawn was just when I exited the Abandoned Shack after I killed Astrid. The dragon took my Lydia skywards then dropped her, but luckily didn't die for good (is it even possible? or am I the only one who can finish her?)
[censored] Yeah!

They appear with distressing regularity. So much so that I used alchem/enchanting to create some roflstomp weapons specifically for dragons.

Dragons as they currently are, are a bit weak in some areas. In my opinion they need:

1. Spawn a lot less
2. Have greater overall defense, not just more health, but more damage reduction against everything.
3. Be much harder to stagger, and have their stagger animation speed sped up drastically.
4. Be given damage penetration on all attacks, to negate some of our defense/resists.
5. Give more weight behind their melee attacks, so that they can knock us away.
6. Greatly increase their outgoing damage to targets that are not the player.
7. Greatly increase movement speed, and speed and damage of melee attacks.
8. Increase aggressiveness overall, especially in the air, as they currently give too many opportunities for us to heal. Make the player a priority target unless something else does more damage.
9. At higher levels, increase the chance of running into more than 1 or 2 dragons simultaneously.
10. Give them more shouts to use. Make their current breath attacks have a longer range and higher spread to hit multiple targets more reliably.

i think if we keep complainin i think Bethesda will hear and patch it up..i mean..i understand the game is HUGE and is stilla masterpiece which is hard to create but the dragons SHOULD have been giving a more proper role in the game...the games story and lore treat dragons as so godly creatures...but eventhough ...i like that dey always appear wen ju least expect it..i jus wish they were Harder to kill...like super bosses..i mean dragons ARE wat this game is about

Lol. You sure you know what you are talking about?

Try it yourself, make a save, remember the time and date(in-game) and go from city A to city B manually. Look at the time and date and remember it.
Load the save, this time go from A to B using fast travel. Check the time and date again. I bet you "skipped" more days/time going there manually than fast traveling.

I like how [censored] react to the slightest complaint/flaw of the game people have/find these days.

My first character noticed a bunch of dragons, but the characters I've made after 1.2 see far fewer. Maybe that's just my imagination but I remember running into them about every 20 minutes, now it's much rarer.

Also for those who think dragons are too easy, do yourself a favour and get on master difficulty if you aren't already. And make yourself a build you find personally challenging. If you are lacking a challenge because you have the best gear/overpowered perks/crafting exploits then you have nobody to blame but yourself.

i have no idea what the OP means because i only meet a random dragon every 15 hours of game , and i never fasttravel, my last dragon was last night , not sure it as a random dragon , i was on my way from white run to solitude betwmanaged to kill it before it had a chance to react

Likewise, I don't fast travel, and I can only recall 3 random dragons so far. Thats not counting ones I've spotted in the distance and deliberately climbed mountain, or ran for 5 minutes to grab its attention.

Even so, I do agree that they should be a lot more "oh s***t". However, if they were to be more like that, it would probably mean the use of "cheap" tactics to defeat them, (i.e. hide behind a rock and whittle them down over a period of 30 minutes) which would make the fights less epic. Finding a nice halfway point would be so so difficult and I wouldn't like to try and design it myself.

I do think though that dragons should use more shouts! Don't make them epic by taking 30 minutes to take down, make them epic because they can give you more trouble.

People wanted dragons because dragons are suppose to be tough nasty powerhouses that eat people like popcorn... these dragons don't seem to be all that powerful and well far far to common for what they should be.

Ancient Dragons are kind of entertaining... you get the damn thing to half health and it promptly looks in your direction, grabs you in it's jaws, and you're staring at a loading screen.

I am guess it is the use of fast travel that causes this more than anything. I never fast travel and dragon fights for me are usually several REAL hours apart. I maybe see two dragon a day.... a real world day that is. The only other thing maybe is because my timescale is set to 10 so my game days pass by much slower.

You're playing a game in which dragon attacks, and their increasing frequency, have been known about since before release; and you're complaining about dragons? I know I'm not the only one that is seeing the funny side

That's why I only have one dragonborn character. The rest are regular people.

Heh, I still remember when I was collecting items for my dear Dragon armor... Took me hours before dragons would appear
But when I dont need them at all, they are all over the place. My mage has ~60 dragon souls.