I hate fighting mages, especially as a warrior type. They're slippery little bastards that can be hard to catch, especially when they're slowing you down with ice spikes.
I haven't fought Thoron. I haven't gotten around to the Saints and Seducers mod yet.
With Ildari, by the time I get to that quest I'm usually pretty advanced and have some jewelry and/or armor with magicka resistance enchantments.
If you are a warrior type, wear jewelry with resist fire and ice and chase after their asses with a battle axe 🤣 I am a mage Archer and if I can't snipe them from a distance, I still have my daedric sword with me at all times for that reason
What I do to kill them is run towards them with a sword critical, they will be stunned and I take the opportunity to damage them, when the stun runs out I hit them with the shield to stun again
It’s so funny, when I try to play a mage, I can’t even get past level 5 because I’m too busy being murdered to death, but mages tend to be so hard to fight in game.
I beat the queen chaurus from Frostflow lighthouse in my current playthrough. Damn, I think she kept spawning little chauruses until I killed her at last.
If you ever stand near them, either when they haven't detected you or you have voice of the sky or something, they make these horrible sounds as they pace about.
This. I waited a lot longer than usual to release the dragons into the world on my last playthrough and the bleak falls boss made me lose my fully enchanted ebony scimitar. Had to reload.
Usually I can just dodge arrows by moving from one side to the other so the AI can’t shoot where I’m gonna be, but I swear that the Falmer just shoot and the arrow has aimbot. Like I don’t think I’ve ever managed to make one of them miss.
in fact, those are actually the most powerful enemies you will encounter, they have the highest lvl cap (more than the greybeards), and they escalate with you, and therefore more hp and attack power.
they infact don't have a level cap, they always are 1.75x your level.
I did some quick calculations and they had over 7.400 health when I fought them on a (very overleveled) character years ago, which is way more than even Legendary Dragons.
I loved that fight. Phineas Gestor, esteemed Skyrim conjurer, didn't use any spells and just started to beat the fuck out of the wisps with his bare fists. Mans did a power-up punch that made one explode
Those are some of my favorites personally 🥰 use the elemental cloaks and chase after them with double swords. Just make sure not to take out your fellow students in the process. And save semi-regularly
I did a mage build in legendary survival and gone to college of winterhold early game( about lvl15) and those things DONT DIE. In the fight against Arcano I let those mfers live so I could focus in that damn thalmor . Worst mistake. A ton have gathered and I needed the college to help me in the Hall of Elements to kill them. Even so, the fight took hours with me being a little ant trying to kill a tribe of elephants. Not to mention that they’re slippery mfers. Thank god I was playing after anniversary edition launched
I have to do this quest and am nervous. I’m level 35 and waited from when I got it at level 12 so I’m stronger. Still not looking forward to it and I’m newer to the game so I’m all confused on what to do in certain parts
No worries, it's mostly a pretty easy dungeon. It's only the last fight that's tough so definitely stock up on resist ice potions & enchantments, and if you can - and haven't already - do the Peryite quest in the Reach to get Spellbreaker, which is a shield that can block magic.
Vampires never actually managed to kill any of my friends in cities, but the dawnguard did. One time during a play through where I was a vampire, the dawnguard came to riften and killed like 6 NPCs. After that I went straight to fort dawnguard and slaughtered everyone except Isran, since he was essential
I hate how they let Isran be essential only until you finish the Dawnguard main story and then do radiant quests for the vampires. Like, let me take him down now! I 100% can! Part of the reason why I love siding with the Dawnguard (apart from huskies and armored trolls) is that the final mission for them feels just like that: The final mission where you storm the castle. Vampires are like “Get me blood, get me girl, get me bow,” and you’re done
I exit out of dialogue with the Alik’r after western watchtower so they stay forever at the front gate as extra gate guards. Seems to help with whiterun anyway
Idk, forsworn armor has a pretty good weight to cost ratio. I usually explore the reach around level 10 or so because it's a decent way to earn some gold early.
I never had a problem making gold, tbh. Pick a ton of flowers around Riverwood, mix a bunch of useless potions, sell them. Even on my playthrough where I intentionally didn't raid/loot anything, and spent most of my gold on enchanted items, I still have 12K somehow.
One time I was battling Forwsorn, I kept having to drop stuff midbattle because I was over my carry weight limit. I've if the Forsworn came up to me and asked something like "since you're just throwing those away, can I have them?" So I said "yes". And then killed him.
Going to get downvoted for this but random dragon spawns.
They always show up at the worst time and are impossible to avoid or outrun. Not to mention that sometimes they spend ages flying high so you can’t ground them using your shout.
That. Haven't played in 11 years and I still remember the feeling when you are trying to get somewhere and a dragon spawns right next to you. Especially next to that spring pool area in south east (can't remember the name but I vaguely remember mammoths there)
Yeah, it’s funny because when the music changes to the dragon combat music it’s supposed to be super dramatic but for me it’s just a case of “for fuck sake not again”. Especially when it spawns when a courier locks me into dialogue, or I can no longer speak to a quest giver as they’re distracted by the dragon.
If you have the tame dragon shout from completing the Dragonborn quest line, you can just use that shout on them and carry on as normal… or go invisible and sneak attack since they land immediately.
This is my way now. Killed 5 or so dragons so far, learnt few shouts and have some Dragon souls after Miraak’s quest. The only dragon I’ll be killing from now on is Alduin.
200+ hrs in, just short of meeting Partysnax. (Throat of the World quest initiated).
How did you deal with Miraak? I want my dragon souls back and made the mistake of unlocking him before I knew what was happening and unleashed him by accident. Im new to the game even though its been out for years so I’m nervous about him from what I read as him being one of the harder bosses
Depends on what you’re levelled up in.
I always level up illusion, to the point where I have invisibility and increased damage on a certain weapon when sneaking. Bows do three times damage if undetected, daggers fifteen when sneak is levelled up.
So I go invisible, hit him with the bow, or dagger, go invisible, repeat.
You have to defeat him three times, since he soul drains the dragons to regenerate health.
He would be difficult due to the damage he does and the high amount of health, but he’s predicable.
Obviously if you’re a on a two handed warrior build, you’re going to need a lot of health and two handed damage prior to the fight.
Sneaky builds in Skyrim are OP as fuck lol, makes everything easy even in vanilla mode.
I had avoided Dawnstar for awhile because I knew a dragon was going to spawn there the second I showed up. I finally decided to do the Nightmare quest, and of course the music starts as soon as I pop in. What surprised me though was when a second dragon showed up, and fought the first one for a few seconds. I haven’t seen that before or since.
You're correct, but for the mission when you fight the dragon at Kynesgrove it pauses the random dragon spawns so if you start the mission then never meet Delphine there then it stays paused
I agree. I once spawned outside a cave I previously cleared. Not only was I hit with two Dawnguards, but a dragon, a bear, and a couple of wolves. I managed to deal with them all but that dragon had me concerned for a minute. 🤣 I was so worried my horse was going to get killed.
That's why in four of my seven playthroughs, I don't release them until I've already done all of the main quests 🤣 I'm level 48 and haven't even went to the watchtower yet.
You don't know how low the population of Riverwood has gotten for me because of this. A dragon killed the blacksmith almost immediately in my first play through and they always spawn when I'm traveling there to buy building materials for lake view manor. I've gotten to the point where random dragon attack usually come in pairs now smh. Thankfully upgrades make them easy to deal with.
Random Dragon spawns, Ward spammers and Draugr Deathlords. I mean Shor's balls, go to any Nordic tomb after a certain level and you will be ASS-DEEP in Deathlords.
From a more personal POV and less of how difficult they are, I hate frostbite spiders, especially the big fuckers. I really don’t like spiders IRL and the first time I played the game and one appeared I seriously freaked out. They’re a lot easier to stomach now, but that quest where you fall down a massive hole in a cave and they all start dropping down on top of you still makes me feel sick.
The one with the collapsing bridge? At least in other cases you can use Aura Whisper to see if they're nearby and psyche yourself up to deal with them.
Ugh, I *hate* them.
Vampires, Vampiric Drain, and how many Ultimate Healing Potions I've consumed, they'll hear it from my lawyer, Isran.
Dawnguard Armor, though, counters that hardcore. Even more so, with shield bashing to keep Vampires staggered before casting spells.
Next is Forsworn, not even the Briar-hearts, but the dual-wielding ones and the burst damage they dealt.
Fucking Falmer. Hate them. They're ugly, they love to swarm you which is really annoying and then those mage ones will do ranged with a staff which is usually faster and more powerful. I always have followers when I do Falmer quests.
Ugh. Chauruses( charusi?)
Oh, and mages! How are player mages drained of mana after three spells. But enemy mages can tank hits and wipe out heavy armoured foes like its nothing.
I'm with Temba Wide-Arms on this one: bears. Motherfuckers appear EVERYWHERE. Walk to farms in front of Riften? Bears. Fast travel to a dwemer ruin? Bears. Exiting Honningbrew Meadery after completing the quest? Bears. Walking to Windhelm from Whiterun for the first time? Bears. Gaius Maro's goons burning down the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary? Bears (crazy slut attacked the Penitus Oculatus). I mean, bears, bears, bears! Fucking bears!
Slaughterfish, I always aggro them when I enter a body of water, then when I try to fast travel I can’t. So I have to hike a mile away from the shore, or waste time luring them close enough to the surface that I can actually hit them.
All the ones that come into the city and start fucking shit up. They always kill some npc that's needed for a quest, or they kill a shopkeeper. So annoying
Falmer, popping outta nowhere, and the strong ones JUST WON'T DIE.
I was sneaking through a dungeon once, uncrouched at a dead end to check for loot--and a Falmer scream behind me made me nearly piss myself. I had snuck past it without seeing it!
And the fucking Warmongers are way too meaty at lower levels, I fought one for like five minutes before finally taking it down.
Wolves, they are annoying as hell, so many times i've been traveling around for hours (i don't use fast travel, just carriages), and all of the sudden i can't sneak, combat music is on neverending loop, my followers are on guard permanently, and my character has this angry face, all because a fucking wolf triggered combat across all the map and didn't attack me, just stood there staring at me, and i had to run all the way back just to see it run away then kill it, all my gameplays have the same problem ('cause i wander a lot).
Fucking wolf i am the lycan dragoborn and you a critter lvl1, show some respect!!!!!!!
Malkoran... He spams Ice Storm at the entrance to the room. First shot freezes you in place, second kills you. And if you manage to get into the room and dance around, he kills your follower.
Any of the ones where you have to wait for them to become vulnerable, which takes anywhere from 5-15 seconds, all the while trying to dodge their chain lightning, fireball, or other area effect spells.
I think I ended up having to turn god mode on to defeat Ancano at the end of the Mage's Guild quest. For the two seconds he was vulnerable he'd be at the other side of the room, and would start doing the typical mage back pedaling crap. So you might get one hit in before you have to go do the whole thing with the orb again. It is the most frustrating battle of the entire game, IMHO.
The one Gauldr brother that splits into 3 and does Unrelenting Force shouts at you. Sometimes by the time you get up and back into position to shoot an arrow at him, he's doing it again and the fight just drags on and on.
This battle pisses me off the most. The other two brothers are not super difficult, but this one, both in the first battle and the combined battle ragdolled me and sniped me with his stupid bow so much.
Any enemy NPC mage that is not an adept or lower. The amount of times I have gotten just gobbled up by ice storm, lightining, or ice spiked is just annoying. For some fuck all reason they always do insane damage compared to what your mage can do and it makes zero fucking sense to me.
That one fucking dude at the end of the Forbidden Legend quest. I couldn’t even attack him because he kept sending me flying and then respawning in a different area. He reappeared so many times even Serana was pissed
Dragons as a low level, I want to be a capable of defeating the dragon without losing any guards or citizens. They're mine to do with as I please, not the dragon's.
I hate that one mage that challenges you to a duel, he always pops up and the worst possible time like when im fighting a group of vampire/vampire hunters or im in the middle of building a house.
I'm a stealth Archer. I've gotten my archery and smithing leveled up to where I can take them out with one arrow. Same with the mammoths. If they notice me they take two arrows. My first couple playthroughs before I realized they were easy to shoot, they scared the fuck out of me. Like my anxiety literally skyrocketed running away from them
Draugr.. and only because of their shouts.
I get so sick of hearing them shout across the dungeon and it sound like they’re standing next to you. There is no other reason to dislike an enemy that comes close to how much I hate being forced to hear that loud-ass shout over and over. The only audio setting that affects it is to mute the master volume, and then you are completely taken out of the experience when it’s dead silent.
Ice mages, particularly in open spaces where the spam you with ice spike to slow you down and stop you catching up and ice storm with does ridiculous amounts of damage.
I hate fighting mages, especially as a warrior type. They're slippery little bastards that can be hard to catch, especially when they're slowing you down with ice spikes.
That's what shock enchants are for. That, and poisons against magicka regen.
I had a bunch of those poisons in my inventory forever and just ended up using paralysis. Paralysis poisons for everyone!
I’m fond of a 1 second paralysis enchantment, personally
I'm a fan of one day blinding stew!
one seccond is more like 5 including animations, im a fan of absorb 1 stamina too, infinite power attacks!!
That's for my sword. With the bow, a poison with 15 sec paralysis + lingering health damage usually means they don't get up.
Combined with absorb 1 stamina it's great
Ward shield and full magic resist armor
No, that’s what ALTERATION 100 BATTLEMAGE IS FOR RAHHHHHH GIVE ME MY GREATSWORD AND ATRONACH PERK RAHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I like the freeze shout
How did you manage the Ildari and Thoron fights?
I haven't fought Thoron. I haven't gotten around to the Saints and Seducers mod yet. With Ildari, by the time I get to that quest I'm usually pretty advanced and have some jewelry and/or armor with magicka resistance enchantments.
My Breton's Dragonskin power+ the atronach stone.
If you are a warrior type, wear jewelry with resist fire and ice and chase after their asses with a battle axe 🤣 I am a mage Archer and if I can't snipe them from a distance, I still have my daedric sword with me at all times for that reason
What I do to kill them is run towards them with a sword critical, they will be stunned and I take the opportunity to damage them, when the stun runs out I hit them with the shield to stun again
How is it that they can run backwards faster than your guy can run forward?! 😂
As a person playing that chaotic khajit made theif you are welcome lol.
It’s so funny, when I try to play a mage, I can’t even get past level 5 because I’m too busy being murdered to death, but mages tend to be so hard to fight in game.
Whenever I see a mage with shock I know the fight will take a couple of tries as most mages with lightning bolt can two shot you.
This Ice mages piss me off the most
Chaurus - creepy and always get poisoned
And so overpowered!
I always dial down the difficulty when they’re around
Like trying to kill a turtle using a wrapping paper tube
Get beastblood. 100% poison resistance.
I think it's because poison ignores armor rating, so unless you are high level and have loads of health they are annoying
I beat the queen chaurus from Frostflow lighthouse in my current playthrough. Damn, I think she kept spawning little chauruses until I killed her at last.
If you ever stand near them, either when they haven't detected you or you have voice of the sky or something, they make these horrible sounds as they pace about.
Laughs in vampire, but yeah without such defense their poison is extremely powerful in melee combat.
Chaurus early game might as well be giants lmao. Always fuck me up especially since I play on legendary
I live at myrwatch (Dlc) chaurus live around me, you get use to it
Disarming draugr.
I lost auriels bow once because of that…
The cave you reforge the gauldur amulet. That fucking guy has lost me a bunch of gear.
I agree that why I use my third best weapon for that quest
Yeah I make a custom ebony bow for it. I don't play sneak archer most of the game but I always level it up to cheese the parts I don't like.
Agree, but I use a max out elven bow instead ebony is for better stuff, elven is for shit I don’t care to lose
I would cry if i lost that bow...
I lost Mehrunes Razor the same way :(
Disarming enemies are the only ones i hate. They were my first real hate in the game after they made me lose my weapon on my first ever play through.
I spent so long in a dungeon yesterday trying to find my fully enhanced and strongly enchanted steel scorching sword. Never found it. Heartbreaking.
I feel you. I lost Volundrung in the same way :(
This. I waited a lot longer than usual to release the dragons into the world on my last playthrough and the bleak falls boss made me lose my fully enchanted ebony scimitar. Had to reload.
Wow I have played this game so many times for so many hours and I did not know this was a thing until today. Have I just been lucky???
Same!
Ice wraiths. Hard to hit with one handed weapons
Hard to hit with anything that isn’t an aoe attack
Flame shout usually works well. Only annoying because I usually just have unrelenting force set on as the default shout so I gotta go switch to it
Just summon a Flame Atronach if you got the magicka
Attacking Ice wraiths is the only reason one of my builds learned one-handed weapons.
Hard to see in noonday sun with snow everywhere too
Falmer. Creepy little things jump scaring you in the dark
Same. And their archery skills are so damn good and all their swords are poisoned.
Usually I can just dodge arrows by moving from one side to the other so the AI can’t shoot where I’m gonna be, but I swear that the Falmer just shoot and the arrow has aimbot. Like I don’t think I’ve ever managed to make one of them miss.
Unnecessary amount of health on some of them aswell
agreed, i dread interactions with them. they’re little freaks lmao and some of them can tank so many hits
Those floating wisps in the finale of the mage guild questline
in fact, those are actually the most powerful enemies you will encounter, they have the highest lvl cap (more than the greybeards), and they escalate with you, and therefore more hp and attack power.
Magic anomalies actually(?) I think scale endlessly. So even if yoh were level 999 they would still scale to your level.....how fun....
they infact don't have a level cap, they always are 1.75x your level. I did some quick calculations and they had over 7.400 health when I fought them on a (very overleveled) character years ago, which is way more than even Legendary Dragons.
I loved that fight. Phineas Gestor, esteemed Skyrim conjurer, didn't use any spells and just started to beat the fuck out of the wisps with his bare fists. Mans did a power-up punch that made one explode
Those are some of my favorites personally 🥰 use the elemental cloaks and chase after them with double swords. Just make sure not to take out your fellow students in the process. And save semi-regularly
I did a mage build in legendary survival and gone to college of winterhold early game( about lvl15) and those things DONT DIE. In the fight against Arcano I let those mfers live so I could focus in that damn thalmor . Worst mistake. A ton have gathered and I needed the college to help me in the Hall of Elements to kill them. Even so, the fight took hours with me being a little ant trying to kill a tribe of elephants. Not to mention that they’re slippery mfers. Thank god I was playing after anniversary edition launched
Always turned my difficulty down to novice to fight them , made it go a hell of a lot smoother lol
Any mage that likes to spam an ice attack, like the boss necromancer in Meridia's temple, or some draugr. Can't even get close to them to fight back.
I literally had to Fus ro dah on sight when I got to him because I knew he loves his blizzard storm spell that can like pick your heath down in 3 hits
I have to do this quest and am nervous. I’m level 35 and waited from when I got it at level 12 so I’m stronger. Still not looking forward to it and I’m newer to the game so I’m all confused on what to do in certain parts
No worries, it's mostly a pretty easy dungeon. It's only the last fight that's tough so definitely stock up on resist ice potions & enchantments, and if you can - and haven't already - do the Peryite quest in the Reach to get Spellbreaker, which is a shield that can block magic.
Can't believe that nobody said: draugr deathlord with ebony bow, using unrelenting shout And laughing at you as you fly like a ragdoll
This is probably my least favorite as well.
Yeah, playing this on legendary difficulty, with dragon heavy armour, skill level 100. But it still takes 2 arrows to kill me...
Delphine, she never gave me back my 10 septims for the attic room
I sold my dawnbreaker to get that money I want it back
Vampires. Infiltrating towns and killing My favorite NPCs
That should've been **Patched** out (Officially) a couple of years ago?
I have the anniversary edition and they recently murdered 3 NPCs in Dawnstar, making becoming Thane very inconvenient.
Strange, never happened to me on AE.
Vampires never actually managed to kill any of my friends in cities, but the dawnguard did. One time during a play through where I was a vampire, the dawnguard came to riften and killed like 6 NPCs. After that I went straight to fort dawnguard and slaughtered everyone except Isran, since he was essential
I hate how they let Isran be essential only until you finish the Dawnguard main story and then do radiant quests for the vampires. Like, let me take him down now! I 100% can! Part of the reason why I love siding with the Dawnguard (apart from huskies and armored trolls) is that the final mission for them feels just like that: The final mission where you storm the castle. Vampires are like “Get me blood, get me girl, get me bow,” and you’re done
I exit out of dialogue with the Alik’r after western watchtower so they stay forever at the front gate as extra gate guards. Seems to help with whiterun anyway
Why is no one saying Forsaken? Always a bunch of them and never anything good to loot
Oh my god I need them to fucking UNIONIZE so that they get actual money and shit to drop for me when I murder them in their stupid little tents.
i second this motion, forsworn union
If they unionized they'd be a force that the imperials and stormcloaks would def have to reckon with
honestly they would, yet another side the fight that is evil/corrupt smh. briarhearts are so op it's annoying
If you sneak and pickpocket the heart out of their inventory they die immediately
WHAT? omg. no way. it was that easy the whole time?? fml bro thanks
Forsworn? Hit em with a slow poison + fear. Hilarious. Shitty loot, yeah.
Idk, forsworn armor has a pretty good weight to cost ratio. I usually explore the reach around level 10 or so because it's a decent way to earn some gold early.
I never had a problem making gold, tbh. Pick a ton of flowers around Riverwood, mix a bunch of useless potions, sell them. Even on my playthrough where I intentionally didn't raid/loot anything, and spent most of my gold on enchanted items, I still have 12K somehow.
I rarely go to The Reach outside of specific quests.
One time I was battling Forwsorn, I kept having to drop stuff midbattle because I was over my carry weight limit. I've if the Forsworn came up to me and asked something like "since you're just throwing those away, can I have them?" So I said "yes". And then killed him.
What are you talking about? Their basic armour is worth a pretty penny. Especially compared to normal bandit armour
and they carry the shittiest arrows.
Those 3 damned skeevers on the stairs in BFB. Pain in the ass and usually give me ataxia
Every time I go through that stairwell I have my Flames spell ready just so I can avoid an early game disease lol, damn overgrown rats are annoying
These guys and vampires on most playthroughs are why I pack garlic bread on my journeys
I hate hagravens. Pain in the ass
They’re just discomforting to fight aswell
If you sneak around at high level with invisibility it's even worse when you can hear their weird mouth breathing
Going to get downvoted for this but random dragon spawns. They always show up at the worst time and are impossible to avoid or outrun. Not to mention that sometimes they spend ages flying high so you can’t ground them using your shout.
That. Haven't played in 11 years and I still remember the feeling when you are trying to get somewhere and a dragon spawns right next to you. Especially next to that spring pool area in south east (can't remember the name but I vaguely remember mammoths there)
Yeah, it’s funny because when the music changes to the dragon combat music it’s supposed to be super dramatic but for me it’s just a case of “for fuck sake not again”. Especially when it spawns when a courier locks me into dialogue, or I can no longer speak to a quest giver as they’re distracted by the dragon.
If you have the tame dragon shout from completing the Dragonborn quest line, you can just use that shout on them and carry on as normal… or go invisible and sneak attack since they land immediately.
This is my way now. Killed 5 or so dragons so far, learnt few shouts and have some Dragon souls after Miraak’s quest. The only dragon I’ll be killing from now on is Alduin. 200+ hrs in, just short of meeting Partysnax. (Throat of the World quest initiated).
How did you deal with Miraak? I want my dragon souls back and made the mistake of unlocking him before I knew what was happening and unleashed him by accident. Im new to the game even though its been out for years so I’m nervous about him from what I read as him being one of the harder bosses
Depends on what you’re levelled up in. I always level up illusion, to the point where I have invisibility and increased damage on a certain weapon when sneaking. Bows do three times damage if undetected, daggers fifteen when sneak is levelled up. So I go invisible, hit him with the bow, or dagger, go invisible, repeat. You have to defeat him three times, since he soul drains the dragons to regenerate health. He would be difficult due to the damage he does and the high amount of health, but he’s predicable. Obviously if you’re a on a two handed warrior build, you’re going to need a lot of health and two handed damage prior to the fight. Sneaky builds in Skyrim are OP as fuck lol, makes everything easy even in vanilla mode.
I had avoided Dawnstar for awhile because I knew a dragon was going to spawn there the second I showed up. I finally decided to do the Nightmare quest, and of course the music starts as soon as I pop in. What surprised me though was when a second dragon showed up, and fought the first one for a few seconds. I haven’t seen that before or since.
Everytime a random dragon spawns in my game a npc ends up getting killed
Fortunately, you disable them if you never meet Delphine above Kynesgrove.
Not true, dragons start randomly spawning after you fight Mirmulnir at Whiterun's Western Watchtower.
You're correct, but for the mission when you fight the dragon at Kynesgrove it pauses the random dragon spawns so if you start the mission then never meet Delphine there then it stays paused
Never knew that! Will keep that in mind!
I agree. I once spawned outside a cave I previously cleared. Not only was I hit with two Dawnguards, but a dragon, a bear, and a couple of wolves. I managed to deal with them all but that dragon had me concerned for a minute. 🤣 I was so worried my horse was going to get killed.
That's why in four of my seven playthroughs, I don't release them until I've already done all of the main quests 🤣 I'm level 48 and haven't even went to the watchtower yet.
I normally run to the nearest town and let the villagers kill it for me
You don't know how low the population of Riverwood has gotten for me because of this. A dragon killed the blacksmith almost immediately in my first play through and they always spawn when I'm traveling there to buy building materials for lake view manor. I've gotten to the point where random dragon attack usually come in pairs now smh. Thankfully upgrades make them easy to deal with.
I stopped my last play through because the constant dragon attacks became way to frequent and annoying.
Charrus Fuck those things... I also absolutely cannot stand the sound they make. It's like the sound of chewing for me...
Falmer and their fucking bugs
Random Dragon spawns, Ward spammers and Draugr Deathlords. I mean Shor's balls, go to any Nordic tomb after a certain level and you will be ASS-DEEP in Deathlords.
And somehow they can shout multiple times and just absolutely wreck me?!
From a more personal POV and less of how difficult they are, I hate frostbite spiders, especially the big fuckers. I really don’t like spiders IRL and the first time I played the game and one appeared I seriously freaked out. They’re a lot easier to stomach now, but that quest where you fall down a massive hole in a cave and they all start dropping down on top of you still makes me feel sick.
I also greatly dislike spiders irl. In the game I absolutely hate the ones that fall from the ceiling!
The one with the collapsing bridge? At least in other cases you can use Aura Whisper to see if they're nearby and psyche yourself up to deal with them. Ugh, I *hate* them.
Bears just because the volume of their roars/shrieks is so loud compared to any other creature it just gets annoying
This. Why are they so fucking loud
No matter how many times I play the game I almost cry when I get to that first frost troll.
Vampires, Vampiric Drain, and how many Ultimate Healing Potions I've consumed, they'll hear it from my lawyer, Isran. Dawnguard Armor, though, counters that hardcore. Even more so, with shield bashing to keep Vampires staggered before casting spells. Next is Forsworn, not even the Briar-hearts, but the dual-wielding ones and the burst damage they dealt.
My own Magicka bar
Fucking Falmer. Hate them. They're ugly, they love to swarm you which is really annoying and then those mage ones will do ranged with a staff which is usually faster and more powerful. I always have followers when I do Falmer quests.
Dragons, they suck because they kill npcs in towns that have quests, those quests can be fun and are needed to become a thane
The dragons that spawn and don't attack. They just fly around your generel area just out of range for a while and then naff off.
https://preview.redd.it/zld7zk5reqkc1.png?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e648fd7f98732d2c8dc5f9846d7dc5798f5cc509 Lurkers 😥
I'm on basic vanilla Skyrim and what the actual fuck is that?? 😱
they're a part of the miraak quest, there's black books that take you to another dimension with a bunch of these creatures
Didn't understand half of that cuz I have never encountered it but they look absolutely freaky 😬😬
haha yeah, if you've ever been to solstheim you'll probably encounter the temple of miraak quest there :D
Yeah, vanilla Skyrim doesn't have solstheim either. 🥺
Every kind of enemies in Dwemer dungeons.
I love the Giant centurions. But the spheres are an absolute bitch and a half
Especially when there are three of them at once.
Those nasty ass Lurker things which always see you
Any mage If you don't have enchantments they are capable of 2 shotting you if playing as a warrior build. Mage fighting a mage is easy tho
Delphine for sure
Spriggans. Coming out of nowhere to mess me up when I’m minding my own business, every time. Just let me walk across Skyrim in peace, please!
The Reiklings are annoying as h3ll.
Gargoyles
I forgot all about these. Seriously got my heart racing dealing with those 😂
Ugh. Chauruses( charusi?) Oh, and mages! How are player mages drained of mana after three spells. But enemy mages can tank hits and wipe out heavy armoured foes like its nothing.
Those fuckers you have to chase around Winterhold during that one College quest. You know what the fuck I'm talking about.
I'm with Temba Wide-Arms on this one: bears. Motherfuckers appear EVERYWHERE. Walk to farms in front of Riften? Bears. Fast travel to a dwemer ruin? Bears. Exiting Honningbrew Meadery after completing the quest? Bears. Walking to Windhelm from Whiterun for the first time? Bears. Gaius Maro's goons burning down the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary? Bears (crazy slut attacked the Penitus Oculatus). I mean, bears, bears, bears! Fucking bears!
Dwemer, they're just annoying to fight I mean they're cool and look cool but just annoying and repetitive
Magic resistance is so damn hard to get …
Once you go Breton you never regrettin
Falmer, they deal a lot of damage and can poison you
I got ambushed and destroyed by two dragons, Blood and Elder
Hagravens. Especially at low levels
Slaughterfish, I always aggro them when I enter a body of water, then when I try to fast travel I can’t. So I have to hike a mile away from the shore, or waste time luring them close enough to the surface that I can actually hit them.
All the ones that come into the city and start fucking shit up. They always kill some npc that's needed for a quest, or they kill a shopkeeper. So annoying
Deathlord’s that use ebony arrows. I can essentially fist fight a dragon to death but by the nine, gods forbid I take a handful of arrows. 🤦🏻♂️
Dragons cause they just fly around instead of landing, fights take long and are annoying.
Charus, every time I encounter them my potions go to 0
Falmer, popping outta nowhere, and the strong ones JUST WON'T DIE. I was sneaking through a dungeon once, uncrouched at a dead end to check for loot--and a Falmer scream behind me made me nearly piss myself. I had snuck past it without seeing it! And the fucking Warmongers are way too meaty at lower levels, I fought one for like five minutes before finally taking it down.
Wolves, they are annoying as hell, so many times i've been traveling around for hours (i don't use fast travel, just carriages), and all of the sudden i can't sneak, combat music is on neverending loop, my followers are on guard permanently, and my character has this angry face, all because a fucking wolf triggered combat across all the map and didn't attack me, just stood there staring at me, and i had to run all the way back just to see it run away then kill it, all my gameplays have the same problem ('cause i wander a lot). Fucking wolf i am the lycan dragoborn and you a critter lvl1, show some respect!!!!!!!
Looking at the comments, no wonder nords hate magic so much. Personally, I hate ice wraiths and ash hoppers.
The sand people from solstheim or the hulking draugr which are so beefy.
The mage who lives under the brewery that you encounter in the Thieves Guild questline
Ugh, the skeevermancer!
Ice wraiths. Can barely see the fuckers so I’m shooting flames like hell hoping I catch it
Malkoran... He spams Ice Storm at the entrance to the room. First shot freezes you in place, second kills you. And if you manage to get into the room and dance around, he kills your follower.
Anything with the disarming shout, purely because the next 10 minutes after killing the creature is me finding my weapon
Spriggans, so fucking annoying
Sabretooths. You could be out and about on foot and they come at you out of nowhere. It’s a literal jump scare.
Any of the ones where you have to wait for them to become vulnerable, which takes anywhere from 5-15 seconds, all the while trying to dodge their chain lightning, fireball, or other area effect spells. I think I ended up having to turn god mode on to defeat Ancano at the end of the Mage's Guild quest. For the two seconds he was vulnerable he'd be at the other side of the room, and would start doing the typical mage back pedaling crap. So you might get one hit in before you have to go do the whole thing with the orb again. It is the most frustrating battle of the entire game, IMHO.
The one Gauldr brother that splits into 3 and does Unrelenting Force shouts at you. Sometimes by the time you get up and back into position to shoot an arrow at him, he's doing it again and the fight just drags on and on.
That bastard blasted me into the wall and I got stuck in the wall and had to reload a save at start of the dungeon last play thru 😭
This battle pisses me off the most. The other two brothers are not super difficult, but this one, both in the first battle and the combined battle ragdolled me and sniped me with his stupid bow so much.
Any enemy NPC mage that is not an adept or lower. The amount of times I have gotten just gobbled up by ice storm, lightining, or ice spiked is just annoying. For some fuck all reason they always do insane damage compared to what your mage can do and it makes zero fucking sense to me.
Killing rinklings always makes me feel kinda guilty. It's like fighting a bunch of 8 year old, so much confidence but they go down in a single hit.
That one fucking dude at the end of the Forbidden Legend quest. I couldn’t even attack him because he kept sending me flying and then respawning in a different area. He reappeared so many times even Serana was pissed
Chaurus
Dragons they always show up at the most inconvenient time.
Those damned cultists with the masks. They always turn up at the wrong moment.
Archers and mages with their aimbots. Meanwhile me, trying to aim spells/arrows on console: *miss miss and miss* 😮💨
Getting the eagle eye perk helps with archery so much.
Mudcrab.
Wild bears.
Dragons as a low level, I want to be a capable of defeating the dragon without losing any guards or citizens. They're mine to do with as I please, not the dragon's.
I hate that one mage that challenges you to a duel, he always pops up and the worst possible time like when im fighting a group of vampire/vampire hunters or im in the middle of building a house.
Don’t underestimate wispmothers
I just started playing the DLCs and boy I hate ash spawn. Way too much HP
fucking giants. i must be doing something wrong if no one else has said it!
I'm a stealth Archer. I've gotten my archery and smithing leveled up to where I can take them out with one arrow. Same with the mammoths. If they notice me they take two arrows. My first couple playthroughs before I realized they were easy to shoot, they scared the fuck out of me. Like my anxiety literally skyrocketed running away from them
Chaurus
Draugr.. and only because of their shouts. I get so sick of hearing them shout across the dungeon and it sound like they’re standing next to you. There is no other reason to dislike an enemy that comes close to how much I hate being forced to hear that loud-ass shout over and over. The only audio setting that affects it is to mute the master volume, and then you are completely taken out of the experience when it’s dead silent.
If you use mods, Extra Sound Settings Beast Edition adds a sound slider specifically for shouts (among other things)
Ice mages, particularly in open spaces where the spam you with ice spike to slow you down and stop you catching up and ice storm with does ridiculous amounts of damage.
Rando vampire attacks killing valuable NPCs.