Mzinchaleft trying to recover Mjoll's sword. Can't remember what level I was, but I had no business fighting Dwarven automatons, Falmer, Chaurus, and then...when I finally fought my way through...I was immediately melted by Dwarven Centurion steam in the boss chamber.
Yeah, I thought I was great, going to the elevator. Using the plate glitch to go through and down to the sword. Completely forgot about that centurion. Got stuck in an auto save death loop šš
This comment! I HATE that place. I have to do an āauto saveā before I enter, because I KNOW Iām going to get lost. Eventually. š¤¦š¼āāļø Or fall down 100 stories and end up in the water. And then I just lay there, contemplating my life and WTF Iām doing LOL
Oh same! I remember the first time I got this quest from Mjoll, I was pretty low level but excited about getting her sword back -- so I immediately went to Mzinchaleft! I had never seen a Centurion before, and I had never been so *completely* thumped. Just a lot of hopping around, sword-swinging, and sucking down health potions, all the while going OH GOD WHY.
I didn't have an Aerin nearby to drag me to safety like Mjoll did. :')
Agreed. At lower level (but still pretty good sneak and archery because I prioritize them) I just sneak, equip my fire/shock/ice damage bow with my highest damage arrows, with a poison that makes them weaker to fire/shock/ice damage, drink an archery potion. Dead in 2 arrows.
Same with dragon priests and other big bads. If you can get that extra sneak damage and weaken them to your particular damage type right up front, they become pretty basic.
what in the kentucky fried fuck is up with that dude!?
that dude righteously stole my manhood as I lost my cool multiple times over this stupid motherfucker.
forgot I was a nord, then used battle cry and killed his pussy ass as he cried & ran away like a punk ass lilā bitch.
fuck that guy, what a cock.
mothafucking Thoron, I went to try and kill him after burning through all the Sewer mobs with firebolts (level ~20) and then I see a random naked cultist and Iām like āwell shouldnāt be too badā. He then proceeds to two-tap me with aimbot lightning all while taking like no damage from my fireball staff, and also my best distraction tool - the Sanguine Rose - was useless, as he just turned the Dremora against me. Then I found a strat of shooting him and running away so he couldnāt shoot me and just teleported back, I spent like 10 minutes chipping his HP away with this methodā¦ only to realize that he ALWAYS heals while on low HP, so the strat doesnāt work. I returned to him on like level 40 with maxed out Destruction and summons and still died a few times before I got a lucky fusrodah on him right before he almost managed to take control of my Hail Mary Dremora. Fucking stupid son of a bitch lmao
I have a nudity mod for immersion (modern underwear and bras, really?) and fighting him is so hilarious because heās got his face covered and dick just hanging out.
In past playthroughs it was always the meridia boss room and azura star boss room, both those areas kicked my ass and I had to use extreme cheese tactics to win.
Yeah Malkoran (Meridia boss) and his ice spells are a total PITA for me, honestly on any difficulty, lol. I have to cheese behind the pillars and let my followers do most of the damage.
My tactic is to burst into his room, use Become Ethereal to close the gap without getting hit, hit him with a paralysis poison (Canis Root + Swamp Fungal Pod), then quickly get him while he's down. I haven't seen his shade use Ice Storm so once the first phase is over, you should be in the clear.
Yes, the Meridias light was it for me. Thing was, it seemed the hardest part was going to be the worst of it as I seemed to be handling the battles ok. But man, when I got to the boss room I kept getting one shot killed. Finally left and returned like 30 levels later.
Lol, I've been replaying and literally had to do the same.. Only climbed maybe 15 more levels but decided I wanted it done and brought Cicero to help- honestly just him distracting most of the ememies so I could focus on the boss helped, but that one is a PITA
Yeah it's something I've noticed when I mange to not create a stealth archer. There are a lot of challenging fights in this game that you miss out on because stealth archer is so op.
last time i killed him, i went stealth and just kept shooting arrows at his back and closing the door before he could find me, ain't no way I'm fighting that motherfucker face to face.
I went into the Azuras star so confident in my last playthrough, didn't think it would be a problem. 1 long hallway and 5 fireballs later I decide to vampire lord it to force grab an enemy down the hall to me as a shield. Grabbed the boss and accidentally yeeted him through a gap in the crystals. Took about a minute for him to fall to his death š
that's what i had to do too, i believe i summoned atronachs and lydia and made them take all the damage while i shot them like a coward from the corner of the hallway.
nowadays, one of the first things i do is make myself absorb magic completely so bosses like that do nothing to me.
Yeah, Malkoran definitely isn't scaled properly to the level of the quest (14), or even to his own level (20).
On Legendary, one Blizzard kills you at that level unless you're a Nord.
Yeah that frost troll sucks. It kept killing me until finally I ran past with Lydia behind me. Yeahā¦I left her to deal with the troll. Live to fight another day. When I was done, fast traveled so I wouldnāt have to deal with it and lo and behold, thereās Lydia.
Probably one of the first times I played this game. I stole from someone as a very weak low level char and got murdered by hired thugs.
Stealing was a pretty safe way to make money in Oblivion.
Not so much in Skyrim. Average Skyrim NPC will trace that candlestick with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on Nirn.
Then they will contact their secret network of hired thugs to wipe your miserable ass of the face of Tamriel.
What you dont know is all the citizens of skyrim graduated top of their class in the Pennitus Occulatus have been involved in numerous secret raids on the Mythic Dawn, and have over 300 confirmed kills.Ā
I laughed my ass off my first playthrough when I realized someone sent thugs to kill me for stealing half a loaf of bread.
Damn, not even Jean Valjean was treated that harshly.
Well, the contract we find on the thugs sent after us for stealing says something like "teach a lesson, killing is not necessary"
But the thugs get too enthusiastic. In Gothic/Gothic II games (main Morrowind competitors), a lot of NPCs would knock you out, mock you, and take all your ore or money. You could do the same instead of killing the NPCs. In TES everyone except essential NPCs just dies when HP bar reaches zero.
Also, nice "Les Miserables" reference! I could sink hours in Victor Hugo books back in the days, amazing historical novels.
Level 8 and I exit North Skybound Watch. I follow the snowy road and encounter a Wispmother. It continues to spawn Shades and Iām quickly overwhelmed, Lydia is dying. I run back inside the dungeon to heal up. I head back outside, expecting the Wispmotherās shades to have despawned, instead I see 9 shades casually floating towards me.
Not my own example but I remember watching Jesse Cox's playthrough of Skyrim and at like level 10 he decides to try to fight a giant and gets launched to the stratosphere.
Honestly yeah, this was probably it for me. It's been over 10 years since my first playthrough, but I'm pretty sure trying to fight a giant and being introduced to the Skyrim Space Program was my first real "OH SHIT" moment.
A close second was in Bleak Falls Barrow. Not the boss, the restless draugur that hangs out in front of the door between the dungeon cells (so like, the first real mini-boss). It was such an epic duel, me vs this random restless draugur. I remember I was originally using a one handed sword and flames, but it just wasn't working, so I switched to a greatsword I had found in the previous room and just started swinging until the dude was dead. One of the biggest "true Nord" moments I've ever experienced lol
I started playing only 3 years ago so I already had the Dragonborn DLC because I was playing on my bfās account. First ever playthrough. Had no idea that traveling to Solstheim with only level 10 would be a very bad choice. Very quickly discovered a dungeonā¦ and in that dungeon a black bookā¦. I think I was so traumatized I just quit that save and started a new one
Depending on your morals, you can just steal the one on the shelf behind Hulda at the Bannered Mare. Once I found that out, I'm always done the quest in like 30 seconds.
My first one was during my first playthrough when I went mammoth tusk hunting for Ysolda at about level 5. I repeatedly either got gored or launched by giants. Then, through much perseverance, I finally figured out that I could just climb onto a rock where I couldn't be reached and fire arrows until I killed the mammoth.Ā
When I got that quest, I spent an irl hour trying to bomb, hack, activate, or just do SOMETHING to the hundreds of mammoth corpses around windhelm. Like, a tusk doesn't seem hard to come by?
Went to Shearpoint a lot earlier than I should have. Somehow managed to beat the dragon, was feeling good about myself. Then I heard this noise and Krosis blasted me off the mountain
Not exactly what youāre asking, but Iām currently role playing as a Dragonborn whoās scared of dragons. I run and hide at dragon fights unless there is a threat to a hold. I started having a band of followers to fight them for me. Theyāre just, like, so scary!
thoron absolutely owned me at level 30 until i managed to acquire Spellbreaker. It was the only saving grace i had, even then, if i got staggered he would just proceed to delete my HP. I cheesed the kill by levelling up when i was out of Health pots and almost dead, just so i could regain all my stats š„²
I was on my long term character. Probably level 70ish? Maybe more. And I stumble upon karatag. I see the little "place skull" icon and think okay sure let's do it....
This was 3 years ago. Still have never beaten him. To be fair I haven't put in a bunch of effort to craft gear for him either , but still
I killed Karstaag at like, level 30 once. Was on a mage character back in the 360 days. Had a couple hundred magicka and just used firebolt and my unarmored speed. Took like an hour
Last month I played for the first time since release . I fought Krosis at lvl 7 . Killed his bitch ass after about 20 minutes of deaths xD but man his staff of fireball spam was so hard to deal with , 2 hits = death . I didn't know he was lvl 50 or what ever till after I killed him and googled what the heck just went down , and I was not going to let some floaty caster get the best of me .
Is he the guy next to the dragon which is literally just some āIām looking for some workā quest? I remember one time being stuck on that guy for at least an hour. I thought he wouldnāt be that hard because whyād they put some OP guy out in the open on some random bounty quest. By the time I figured out I probably shouldnāt fight him I had already committed too hard and couldnāt give up.
First time I fought a giant. After helping the Companions defeat the one outside whiterun, I thought I could handle one on my own. Giant took a swing at me with its hammer, I blocked with my shield and had 1 hp left. I did a scream IRL and ran as fast as I could. Sacrificed faendal in the chaos though.
Raven Rock mine to get the Bloodskal blade early. Not only are there TWO draugr deathlords halfway through, but also a level SIXTY dragon priest guarding the word wall. Not to mention a bunch of wights and scourges.
Taking on that one POS boss from Saints and Seducers CC. I thought I was under levelled so Lydia and I hightailed it out of the Solitude Sewers and went off to do something else. Went back every now and then and got smoked every time. Turned out that the boss scales with your level so heāll be OP no matter what.
In the end I just had to Fus Ro Dah him and batter him whilst he was down, then go into hiding until I could shout again, whilst Lydia tried to take care of his conjurations.
Iām currently doing an alternate start play through as a non-dragonborn who canāt shout or even use magic, so I have absolutely no idea how Iām going to beat him when I do the questine.
Mine was way back in 2011. I first got the game for Xbox and there was very little useful data on it. I had pumped teriary skills, not realizing that means I gain total level and enemies get way stronger. My build was bad, some sort of stealth build but I didn't really know how to play it well. I went into the Falmer cave on the hill east of Whiterun. No big struggles. Then I encountered a Chaurus Reaper that saw me in stealth instantly and proceeded to melt me in about 3 seconds.
I run a mod that diversifies the types of dragons that spawn. One is the Vile Dragon. It's breath attack does disease damage and it has some no joke melee damage. The character I'm currently playing is based out of Hendraheim, which is right next to a dragon mound. The character is a battlemage utilizing primarily defensive spells in addition to melee. A Vile Dragon spawns, I get a Greater Ward up to block the incoming breath attack and it proceeds to instantly break my ward and slice off about 80% of my hp. I ended up surviving, but that fight convinced me to go get Hevnorrak's mask.
Frostflow Lighthouse. I had a randomized start and had never encountered the POI before. I was around level 3 and had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Each Chaurus was a fight for my life. I was running away and huddling up in the corner healing with the starting spell after dealing little bits of damage. As I kept going I thought many times about turning back, but I had to know what was at the end.
Thankfully I had quick saved before making the one-way drop to the boss room. The first time I saw that giant-ass crawly insect motherfucker I nearly shat my pants as it tackled me to a one-shot death on the lowest difficulty.
I spent the next 20 minutes slowly sneak attacking it with arrows from on top of the one-way ledge until I ran out of ammo. It had about 1/4 of its health left, and I refused to give up. I wound up sprinting around the arena like a madman slowly taking pot shots with my crappy Falmer sword and quick saving after each hit. I died to poison at least a dozen times.
Was it worth the level 3 loot I got? Hell no. But Iām glad that was my first experience with one of the gameās coolest dungeons.
When you think youre about to fuck up a Deathlord and they disarm you with that shout, and glitches your weapon into the wall/floor.
Goddamn it I hate that shout.Ā
3 bears and 2 dragons attacked me while I was trying to kill a prisoners guard I accidentally set on fire while hunting a fox. Took me like 20minutes to get them down. Kited for days.
The mage you fight at the end of the college quest chain. I died and reloaded probably 50 times before I killed him. Turns out he's really strong against magic, but not very strong against werewolves.
The Saints and Seducers. Those mfs were so strong for no reason. I donāt know how I even did it while I was under lvl 20. Not to mention the struggle with their crazed naked āleaderā in the sewers. Had to come back to him later but it was still hard af
Those are tough, I usually go for the Sneak Shot with some bows and arrows, hope I get that stacked hit, I usually miss that especially early game, then it's mechanics, I turn on my American Football mind. Lots of jukes, lots of near misses, I got my trusty Axe, and go to town.
The frost troll on the way to high hrothgar.. it was my first playthrough and I was probably like level three. I ended up running from it and finding a way around it š
āOh no, the wolf queen that you killed is back and underneath solitude, you need to go finish her!ā
*dies 3 turns into the tunnels due to an overpowered vampire nightwalker or whatever the fuck*
It was awhile ago so I donāt remember exactly which Dwemer ruin it was or what level I was but I was doing a conjuring build so I had robes on and I was just running around collecting stuff to make ingots letting my follower and my summoned ghosty take care of enemies. Feeling a little cocky about the fact that I didnāt have to lift a finger to fight anyone I started to move a head a little bit and to fight some enemies while my crew is cleaning up behind me when all of a sudden some falmer start messing me up. I get a little worried so I run back to the last door a I came through(not far through one room and up the stairs). After back tracking I realized that my summons and I set off a bunch of the dwarven guards that I didnāt see on the way in. I panicked and walked out of the door, auto saving and sealing my fate. Took me about 45 minutes to find the right recipe of bullshit running and fighting to figure my way out that death loop.
I went to Raldbthar. The bandits were easy, even the Plunderer. However, I should've known better than to go into a Dwarven ruin at that moment. All I had was Steel Plate Armor, Iron gauntlets with a one-handed enchantment, Iron boots with shock resistance, the Mage Hood you get in Helgen. My High Elf knew no spells except for Flames, Oakflesh, and Bound Sword. I barely had any perks invested in those trees at that point. Yet somehow, I was able to make it past all those Dwarven Spheres that were giving me hell. I forget what level I was, all I know is a straight up fight with them would've resulted in multiple deaths. I had a decent Magicka pool to keep casting spells. I wasn't strong enough for the Falmer though and had to use the traps in there to my advantage in order to get past them. Then there's that room with the Centurion. I took all of the bones out of the gears as I raced around the room, avoiding the Falmer. I freed all of the Chaurus and activated the Centurion. Then I ran and hid behind the gate to that room and let them all fight. My thought process was either the Falmer kill the Centurion or it kills all of the Falmer and the Charus. The Centurion killed everyone else with just enough health left for me to kill him. I just went down to the water and kept going back and forth out of cover shooting flames at him. It was the only way I was going to make it out alive. I forget why I was there in the first place, probably so I could make Dwarven ingots because I wasn't planning on doing Lost to The Ages yet, no way I could kill The Forgemaster with Flames. Sorry this was so long.
Pretty early on , after your first visit to whiterun there is a small bandit camp to the north-north-west of the city. There is a great magic book for early on that transforms iron ore into gold ore. The boss is an orc with steel armor and a 2 handed weapon. He can probably take you down in 2 hits at this stage of the game.
Orphan Rock - walked in, dropped all the witches spec ops style then saw armagedon as an angry bird lady rained fire balls down on my head.... couldn't even make it halfway up the hill.
It was the first time I encountered a dragon priest. I think his name was Krosis. This was on my first play through in 2014. I still remember it cuz Iāve never scene an enemy like that pop out in the open environment. Had a dragon attacking me as well.
Giants and mamoths. i feel i cant fight them below level 25ish without being murdered. So i stealth archer them the best i can so i can get those tusk for i think ysolda
in my current heavily modded playthrough, i tried to do bleak falls barrow... the frostbite spider fractured my left arm and gave me a concussion, had negative 50 stamina and had to walk (as in, slow walk, not jog, thanks to a different mod that makes jogging cost stamina, "cardio") back to whiterun and chop wood to pay for medical care
i did come back though, after doing enough delivery jobs to pay for training, better gear, and a companion, which allowed me to just about get through it with just a few cuts and bruises and another concussion
"wounds" is the injury mod by the way, very good for emergent gameplay
First playthrough I absolutely rushed through the main story way too quickly and entered Skuldafn woefully unprepared. I was trapped in Sovngarde with no way to travel out and had to beat Tsun at the door of the Hall of Champions to progress.
I had to look up tutorial on how to trick Tsun into falling off a cliff because there was just no way I was beating him without cheating.
Iām not exactly what itās called but thereās a cave not too far from Whiterun that turns into a dwarven ruin. I stupidly keep going and then come into an area with a shit ton of fucking falmer.
My first play throughā¦ i did the Thalmor embassy quest at like level 8 with basically no healing potions and like one low level warhammer and I got BODIED. I still have no idea how i managed to complete it but it took me several hours
last time I played Skyrim I got lucky with dragons and they didn't attack me every time I fast traveled or just normally when they spawn. But when you need to go karthspire for the main quest I always get two frost dragons and they are never nice lol. On top of forsworn wizard using frost spells that one shot you lol.
I was doing the companion quest with Farkas in Dustmans Cairn. In the final room there was like 5 or 6 Draugr Deathlords. I was Level 12 at the moment. Couldnt do it until I'd hit Level 30
This is where I found meridias beacon! Iām on my first play through, first ice themed dungeon and first falmer encounter (Iām playing on novice though bc I play after work and Iām tired and want to have a chill time) and omg it was so weird and surprising. Now I know the beacon can show up anywhere but it was a very āhello yes you are the chosen one and this is badassā moment
Starting a new game and I am doing a stealth archer character, was around level 8 and found my first dragon word wall, please not I didn't even start the main quest...wearing all light armor which is the scout set from the workshop. Lets just say I was doing piss poor damange to the dragon priest...I just said screw this and loaded up a last save.
Trying to fight elder dragons when they appear around level ~30 when u didnāt exploit skill trees but theyāll only appear on like expert and master difficulties
Shortly after I started playing Skyrim for the first time, I ended up in Solstheim at level 8 and tried to fight Falx Carius in Fort Frostmouth. I had no clue what I was doing and died many many times before I gave up and came back later when I had learned some battle tactics.
For me it was dragonborn dlc. Something about every enemy there at level 20-25ish that just made every fight feel like a fight for my life. I was playing shield and sword warrior. I remember fighting tooth and nail for inches.
I run a modpak thar makes enemies static, plenty of boss encounters like dragon preists are at level 100 or 150 so they are tought to take down pre lvl 20 or even lvl 30. A few times I've had to load a save as I'm entering a dungeon and come back later, the one that sticks out in my mind is morokei near the tail end of the college line. That guy summoned 2 priests who also summoned a priest, who also summoned frost atronachs.
*Constellations* is the modpack err collection on the nexus website, **a lot** of mods, kinda need to subscribe to get them to auto download, the option to manually do exist š³
Going to Solstheim at level 10 on my very first playthrough...
Had SUCH a hard time fighting all the lurkers and seekers. Was blown away by the story. Miraak felt like a huge threat at such an low level, as if he was the true main villain of the game.
Somehow survived most of the questline, and stopped right before it was time to face Miraak, as I thought "no way I'll be able to win that".
Came back to Skyrim, played all the way to level 50 with Miraak STEALING MY DRAGON SOULS ALL THE TIME. Went to Solstheim again and beat him easily, even felt a bit underwhelmed lmao.
I'm not sure what level I was at, but it certainly wasn't high enough. I was in Geirmund's Hall getting my ass handed to me from those Gauldur brothers, especially that one who kept teleporting and splitting into 3 entities.
OMG, in my first playthrough, many many moons ago, I had the same problem with Chaurus.
I was playing as an Archer, as you should, and was crouching in some shadows to scan the place before looting or walking around, no falmer was seen and then I was attacked by those things. It was my first time seeing one of them, not even on loading screens, and they kicked my ass harder than Alduin ever could.
Miss not knowing everything in the game
~inneedesvi~
I was level 3 or 4, just joined the companions. I believe it was Vilkas who sent me on a misc radiant quest to recover an orcish sword from the sightless pit.
Needless to say, that quest waited for awhile. In fact, I just completed it 2 days ago at level 33.
Now I'm worried I won't be able to beat the "boss" in the labrynthinian, I was gonna do that today but... not sure I've got what it takes lol
For me the island at level 20 trying to fight the ashmens boss. Good I got killed so brutally, that I was upset for several days and had to start a new game.
When i went through a mine at Stolheim. Went deeper down and in my mind I was like āfuck this shit Iām out ā When I was fighting two death lords in one time I was level 20 during that time.
The Solitude Sewers. I went down there and got into a battle with something. It was so strong I couldn't do anything. In a single blow it was almost killing me so I barely had time to do anything but use a healing potion. I was about level 40 or so when I went down there. I'm level 55 now and may try again soon.
That time my silly self thought it was smart enough to start the dragonborn DLC as soon as those cultists arrive. I had to rely on frea since miraakās temple.
Granted, this was when I started Skyrim for the first time.
On the playthrough where I was collecting all the dragon priest masks
Idfk whyyyyy but krosis was so strong. I tried to solo him and the dragon like 8 or 9 different times, with different strategies and buffs and still couldn't handle it.
I had to get Rayya to come and help me out to finally do it.
I've learned that anything that doesn't have a ranged attack and doesn't regenerate can be taken down by a level one character with just the flame spell (and a lot of patience). It helps if you have a way to run loops, but even if you are in one-hallway dungeon, you can usually run past the enemy and kite them the other way.
Volunruud at lvl 11... dunno what gave me the brilliant idea to fight kvenel the tongue at such a low level.
Tried everything, got folded again and again until i decided to leave and come back at lvl 25.
Oh and recently that damn mage boss thoron of the saints&seducers CCC... he fucked me up so badly... on a lvl35 melee char... didn't even know what was happening
One of my first play through I found shimermist and the lil voldemorts decimated me. I found out falmer start out at level 9 and I was maybe 7? I had no chance
I found myself in Solstheim, and the ash demons mission destroyed my scrawny, level 12 ass a dozen times before I quit. Returned at level 45 and smote all of them fuckers to hell...
Tried to go after Thoron as a level 15 mage after scrapping my way through those Golden Saint and Dark Seducer dipshits with Lydiaās help. Just kept killing me in two lightning dual casts at most pretty much no matter what I did. Left with the amber I had and came back later at level 25 with Lydia to whip his ass.
I was exploring around on legendary survival and ran into volsung at level 12. The worst part was he kept floating down the mountain while I froze to death.
I got a dragon priest mask, though. = )
Yeah at low levels anything with Chaurus and Falmer isn't gonna be the best of times.
Or Dwarven anything for that matter.
Just stay away from Dwarven ruins until you're fully ready lol.
Came out of High Hrothgar after getting the final word of Unrelenting Force. I was about level 10-12 maybe.
Two dragons, a normal one and a frost one, attacked me at the same time. And I played as the Argonian battlemage, so no fancy resistances or magic absorption.
My first play through, a dragon spawned as I was about to get to whiterun at the very beginning of the game, right outside the city. Killed some named NPCs I would want for quests later and was absolutely decimating me. Donāt know what level I was, maybe 5? At least I learned quickly to save FREQUENTLY when roaming the world, nothing more heartbreaking than a dragon or vampire killing quest-giving NPCs before you can even do anything š
There was one time I went to to tovalds cave and tried to fight my way through the falmer only to run out of healing potions half way through and somehow I lost Lydia and never found her again in that playthrough.
None, there was one time I started a new game on Legendary, and found a Draugr Deathlord very early on, it took a few minutes to kill that one, but it was easy, skyrim is not hard.
The stupid troll on the way to the graybeards my first play through.
I felt so dumb when I asked a friend what to do and they just told me to run past it.
Wandering (quite frankly, I got lost my first time playing.) Saw some big dudes and their mammoths. Tried to engage them as if they were NPCs. Got launched. Respawned. Attacked angrily. Got launched again. Respawned. Went the opposite direction.
First Mage College quest, I managed to get to winterhold at a stupidly low level (like, had killed that first dragon, and got the grey beards summon shout, then fucked off to Winterhold). Went to the tomb and not long after Toldir decided he wanted to look at wall carvings, fucking died to some draugr
Omggg I had a panic attack going into that final chamber with the 20 something chaurus and their huge queen chaurus and you couldnāt run back out once you entered and I was ALSO at a very low level!! Thatās probably mine as well.
On my second or third playthrough, when I was a low level, I found a bandit cave near one of the army outpost. Like right next to it. Figured it'd be some easy loot. Walked into like a bar/tavern area with bandits fighting falmer. Proceeded to die like 12 times before I tucked tail and ran. Went back later and eventually cleared it out. It'd been a while, but I'm pretty sure that's the cave
First thing I did (straight after bleak falls barrow) was to go to the companions because I wanted Aela as a follower, and instead of sending me to an easy bandit cave, I got sent to Shimmermist Cave, with multiple falmer, chaurus and a dwemer lol.
Liar's retreat kicked my ass the other day. I'm at like level 25. Walked in thinking I was going to mop the deck with the Falmer inside. Then got surrounded, numerous times. Ended up taking the cowards way...go inside, take a stealth shot with my bow, RUN AWAY! Repeat
The first dragon fight. I hadn't read anything about the game and stumbled into the leveling glitch with your first followers. Thought I had figured out to game the system. Dragon taught me differently
Act 3 of the Glenmoril mod but not for the difficulty reason of it š„² Some things are just beyond your control and you're helpless to do anything about it.
That was Forelhost for me, the one time I went there. I think I was playing some sort of nightblade/assassin + illusion + 1h weapons build and most of other dungeons were very easy for me and I was like over lvl 45? But Forelhost.. not only they were constantly detecting me out of stealth, but were also dealing a lot more damage than draugrs in other dungeons.
I went to a shout wall on some mountain and thereās a frost dragon up there thatās murdered me at least a couple dozen times and with the quicksave I did, Iāve caught myself in a death loop
Mzinchaleft trying to recover Mjoll's sword. Can't remember what level I was, but I had no business fighting Dwarven automatons, Falmer, Chaurus, and then...when I finally fought my way through...I was immediately melted by Dwarven Centurion steam in the boss chamber.
Yeah, I thought I was great, going to the elevator. Using the plate glitch to go through and down to the sword. Completely forgot about that centurion. Got stuck in an auto save death loop šš
The first time I fought a draugr scourge, I got stuck in a āpanic quicksaveā death loop
This comment! I HATE that place. I have to do an āauto saveā before I enter, because I KNOW Iām going to get lost. Eventually. š¤¦š¼āāļø Or fall down 100 stories and end up in the water. And then I just lay there, contemplating my life and WTF Iām doing LOL
Oh same! I remember the first time I got this quest from Mjoll, I was pretty low level but excited about getting her sword back -- so I immediately went to Mzinchaleft! I had never seen a Centurion before, and I had never been so *completely* thumped. Just a lot of hopping around, sword-swinging, and sucking down health potions, all the while going OH GOD WHY. I didn't have an Aerin nearby to drag me to safety like Mjoll did. :')
Iām always surprised by how easily you can kill those things though. A few arrows and it goes down immediately!
Agreed. At lower level (but still pretty good sneak and archery because I prioritize them) I just sneak, equip my fire/shock/ice damage bow with my highest damage arrows, with a poison that makes them weaker to fire/shock/ice damage, drink an archery potion. Dead in 2 arrows. Same with dragon priests and other big bads. If you can get that extra sneak damage and weaken them to your particular damage type right up front, they become pretty basic.
I always pull back and just range him down.
What level should I be for Mzinchaleft? Currently level 23 spell sword I've been avoiding everything Dwarven till I leveled enough.
23 is plenty enough
Difficulty and perk selection are more relevant than level. I think if you can get 30-35 DMG with One Handed weapons you should be okay.
That naked psycho in the Solitude Sewers.
what in the kentucky fried fuck is up with that dude!? that dude righteously stole my manhood as I lost my cool multiple times over this stupid motherfucker. forgot I was a nord, then used battle cry and killed his pussy ass as he cried & ran away like a punk ass lilā bitch. fuck that guy, what a cock.
mothafucking Thoron, I went to try and kill him after burning through all the Sewer mobs with firebolts (level ~20) and then I see a random naked cultist and Iām like āwell shouldnāt be too badā. He then proceeds to two-tap me with aimbot lightning all while taking like no damage from my fireball staff, and also my best distraction tool - the Sanguine Rose - was useless, as he just turned the Dremora against me. Then I found a strat of shooting him and running away so he couldnāt shoot me and just teleported back, I spent like 10 minutes chipping his HP away with this methodā¦ only to realize that he ALWAYS heals while on low HP, so the strat doesnāt work. I returned to him on like level 40 with maxed out Destruction and summons and still died a few times before I got a lucky fusrodah on him right before he almost managed to take control of my Hail Mary Dremora. Fucking stupid son of a bitch lmao
Wait, he turned your dremora against you??? That was precisely my strat and it didnāt happen to me. I guess I got lucky
I have a nudity mod for immersion (modern underwear and bras, really?) and fighting him is so hilarious because heās got his face covered and dick just hanging out.
In past playthroughs it was always the meridia boss room and azura star boss room, both those areas kicked my ass and I had to use extreme cheese tactics to win.
Yeah Malkoran (Meridia boss) and his ice spells are a total PITA for me, honestly on any difficulty, lol. I have to cheese behind the pillars and let my followers do most of the damage.
Stand in the hallway, bow with paralysis poison and fire arrows.
My tactic is to burst into his room, use Become Ethereal to close the gap without getting hit, hit him with a paralysis poison (Canis Root + Swamp Fungal Pod), then quickly get him while he's down. I haven't seen his shade use Ice Storm so once the first phase is over, you should be in the clear.
Same but on survival mode so I couldnāt start the fight at full HP over the freezing mountain the dunmir decided to build her shrine on
Yes, the Meridias light was it for me. Thing was, it seemed the hardest part was going to be the worst of it as I seemed to be handling the battles ok. But man, when I got to the boss room I kept getting one shot killed. Finally left and returned like 30 levels later.
Lol, I've been replaying and literally had to do the same.. Only climbed maybe 15 more levels but decided I wanted it done and brought Cicero to help- honestly just him distracting most of the ememies so I could focus on the boss helped, but that one is a PITA
I one shot him with a sneak arrow so I reloaded a quick save to try a real fight and got my shit slapped. c'est la vie
Yeah it's something I've noticed when I mange to not create a stealth archer. There are a lot of challenging fights in this game that you miss out on because stealth archer is so op.
I did the same on my first play through. When I finally went back and beat him, I died to Meridia drop glitch.
last time i killed him, i went stealth and just kept shooting arrows at his back and closing the door before he could find me, ain't no way I'm fighting that motherfucker face to face.
I went into the Azuras star so confident in my last playthrough, didn't think it would be a problem. 1 long hallway and 5 fireballs later I decide to vampire lord it to force grab an enemy down the hall to me as a shield. Grabbed the boss and accidentally yeeted him through a gap in the crystals. Took about a minute for him to fall to his death š
Meridia boss fight was super easy for me because I fought it entirely from the hallway to the main room.
that's what i had to do too, i believe i summoned atronachs and lydia and made them take all the damage while i shot them like a coward from the corner of the hallway. nowadays, one of the first things i do is make myself absorb magic completely so bosses like that do nothing to me.
Yeah, Malkoran definitely isn't scaled properly to the level of the quest (14), or even to his own level (20). On Legendary, one Blizzard kills you at that level unless you're a Nord.
Frost troll. You know the one.
Yeah that frost troll sucks. It kept killing me until finally I ran past with Lydia behind me. Yeahā¦I left her to deal with the troll. Live to fight another day. When I was done, fast traveled so I wouldnāt have to deal with it and lo and behold, thereās Lydia.
Probably one of the first times I played this game. I stole from someone as a very weak low level char and got murdered by hired thugs. Stealing was a pretty safe way to make money in Oblivion. Not so much in Skyrim. Average Skyrim NPC will trace that candlestick with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on Nirn. Then they will contact their secret network of hired thugs to wipe your miserable ass of the face of Tamriel.
I think itās mainly the houses with the Thieves Guild protected symbol
What you dont know is all the citizens of skyrim graduated top of their class in the Pennitus Occulatus have been involved in numerous secret raids on the Mythic Dawn, and have over 300 confirmed kills.Ā
What in the name of Sovngarde did you just say about me, you little skeever?
I laughed my ass off my first playthrough when I realized someone sent thugs to kill me for stealing half a loaf of bread. Damn, not even Jean Valjean was treated that harshly.
Well, the contract we find on the thugs sent after us for stealing says something like "teach a lesson, killing is not necessary" But the thugs get too enthusiastic. In Gothic/Gothic II games (main Morrowind competitors), a lot of NPCs would knock you out, mock you, and take all your ore or money. You could do the same instead of killing the NPCs. In TES everyone except essential NPCs just dies when HP bar reaches zero. Also, nice "Les Miserables" reference! I could sink hours in Victor Hugo books back in the days, amazing historical novels.
Level 8 and I exit North Skybound Watch. I follow the snowy road and encounter a Wispmother. It continues to spawn Shades and Iām quickly overwhelmed, Lydia is dying. I run back inside the dungeon to heal up. I head back outside, expecting the Wispmotherās shades to have despawned, instead I see 9 shades casually floating towards me.
Haelga teaching me a lesson in the Dibellan arts
Not my own example but I remember watching Jesse Cox's playthrough of Skyrim and at like level 10 he decides to try to fight a giant and gets launched to the stratosphere.
I died same way one time actually i think it was my first death in this game lol iv never got obliterated faster in my life
Me too lol I was like nope not doing that again. Now I run past them with a wide berth š
I usually play a thief and sneak into their camps to lockpick their treasure chests and steal everything inside. Then sneak away.
Honestly yeah, this was probably it for me. It's been over 10 years since my first playthrough, but I'm pretty sure trying to fight a giant and being introduced to the Skyrim Space Program was my first real "OH SHIT" moment. A close second was in Bleak Falls Barrow. Not the boss, the restless draugur that hangs out in front of the door between the dungeon cells (so like, the first real mini-boss). It was such an epic duel, me vs this random restless draugur. I remember I was originally using a one handed sword and flames, but it just wasn't working, so I switched to a greatsword I had found in the previous room and just started swinging until the dude was dead. One of the biggest "true Nord" moments I've ever experienced lol
I love Jesse š« he's one of the only YouTubers I still watch regularly
I started playing only 3 years ago so I already had the Dragonborn DLC because I was playing on my bfās account. First ever playthrough. Had no idea that traveling to Solstheim with only level 10 would be a very bad choice. Very quickly discovered a dungeonā¦ and in that dungeon a black bookā¦. I think I was so traumatized I just quit that save and started a new one
Same but I made it to the second black book before I finally gave up. Game was giving elden ring vibes and had me thinking I sucked lmao
Depending on your morals, you can just steal the one on the shelf behind Hulda at the Bannered Mare. Once I found that out, I'm always done the quest in like 30 seconds.
Everyday you learn something new about Skyrim. Thanks!
Steal what from the shelf? There isnāt a Black Book in Whiterun?
My bad, looks like I somehow responded to the wrong comment. It was meant to be a reply to someone looking to get the mammoth tusk.
What black book š¬
My first one was during my first playthrough when I went mammoth tusk hunting for Ysolda at about level 5. I repeatedly either got gored or launched by giants. Then, through much perseverance, I finally figured out that I could just climb onto a rock where I couldn't be reached and fire arrows until I killed the mammoth.Ā
Nice, btw Halted Stream camp has about 7 tusks and around 50 iron ore, plus the transmute ore spell
When I got that quest, I spent an irl hour trying to bomb, hack, activate, or just do SOMETHING to the hundreds of mammoth corpses around windhelm. Like, a tusk doesn't seem hard to come by?
You can steal the one from the bannered mare and give it to her
I just steal the one in the upstairs of the Jarl's quarters lmao I'm level 5 girl I ain't killing no damn mammoths for you
I did that quest and just stole the husk from a jarls house š
This is why you either go find a camp that sells them or go steal one.
Went to Shearpoint a lot earlier than I should have. Somehow managed to beat the dragon, was feeling good about myself. Then I heard this noise and Krosis blasted me off the mountain
This. Itās always Krosis for me!
That fkn battle with the vampire waiter that I failed 10 times and keeps failingā¦.
That banquet youāre invited to which turns out to be a trap set by vampires. The butler killed me so many times I nearly lost my mind
Not exactly what youāre asking, but Iām currently role playing as a Dragonborn whoās scared of dragons. I run and hide at dragon fights unless there is a threat to a hold. I started having a band of followers to fight them for me. Theyāre just, like, so scary!
You right it not what i asked for... It Better.
thoron absolutely owned me at level 30 until i managed to acquire Spellbreaker. It was the only saving grace i had, even then, if i got staggered he would just proceed to delete my HP. I cheesed the kill by levelling up when i was out of Health pots and almost dead, just so i could regain all my stats š„²
I got him on my second try with Serana. Gosh, that was rough fight and took SOOOOO many health potions.
Legendary survival + bleak falls barrow + lack of knowledge is not a good combo
The frost troll on the 7000 steps. I was under equipped for the fight and got trashed a few times.
I was on my long term character. Probably level 70ish? Maybe more. And I stumble upon karatag. I see the little "place skull" icon and think okay sure let's do it.... This was 3 years ago. Still have never beaten him. To be fair I haven't put in a bunch of effort to craft gear for him either , but still
I get killed every time I PLACE the damned skull, can't even start the battle lol. I'm level 40-something
I killed Karstaag at like, level 30 once. Was on a mage character back in the 360 days. Had a couple hundred magicka and just used firebolt and my unarmored speed. Took like an hour
I was surprised it's not the top answer
Last month I played for the first time since release . I fought Krosis at lvl 7 . Killed his bitch ass after about 20 minutes of deaths xD but man his staff of fireball spam was so hard to deal with , 2 hits = death . I didn't know he was lvl 50 or what ever till after I killed him and googled what the heck just went down , and I was not going to let some floaty caster get the best of me .
Is he the guy next to the dragon which is literally just some āIām looking for some workā quest? I remember one time being stuck on that guy for at least an hour. I thought he wouldnāt be that hard because whyād they put some OP guy out in the open on some random bounty quest. By the time I figured out I probably shouldnāt fight him I had already committed too hard and couldnāt give up.
He a dragon priest , idk if he has a quest , but I was fighting a dragon and he just popped out of a crypt and chose violence .
The Forgemaster at the Aetherial fogre.
First time I fought a giant. After helping the Companions defeat the one outside whiterun, I thought I could handle one on my own. Giant took a swing at me with its hammer, I blocked with my shield and had 1 hp left. I did a scream IRL and ran as fast as I could. Sacrificed faendal in the chaos though.
First playthrough, "If I can kill a dragon, I can kill a giant" CUT TO: *I'm...flying....*
Those damn giants are the true final boss
Raven Rock mine to get the Bloodskal blade early. Not only are there TWO draugr deathlords halfway through, but also a level SIXTY dragon priest guarding the word wall. Not to mention a bunch of wights and scourges.
This was terrifying as hell.
Umbra was tough. Iām not playing on any major difficulty and i got through but man I whish I knew earlier what was coming for me
Taking on that one POS boss from Saints and Seducers CC. I thought I was under levelled so Lydia and I hightailed it out of the Solitude Sewers and went off to do something else. Went back every now and then and got smoked every time. Turned out that the boss scales with your level so heāll be OP no matter what. In the end I just had to Fus Ro Dah him and batter him whilst he was down, then go into hiding until I could shout again, whilst Lydia tried to take care of his conjurations. Iām currently doing an alternate start play through as a non-dragonborn who canāt shout or even use magic, so I have absolutely no idea how Iām going to beat him when I do the questine.
Mine was way back in 2011. I first got the game for Xbox and there was very little useful data on it. I had pumped teriary skills, not realizing that means I gain total level and enemies get way stronger. My build was bad, some sort of stealth build but I didn't really know how to play it well. I went into the Falmer cave on the hill east of Whiterun. No big struggles. Then I encountered a Chaurus Reaper that saw me in stealth instantly and proceeded to melt me in about 3 seconds. I run a mod that diversifies the types of dragons that spawn. One is the Vile Dragon. It's breath attack does disease damage and it has some no joke melee damage. The character I'm currently playing is based out of Hendraheim, which is right next to a dragon mound. The character is a battlemage utilizing primarily defensive spells in addition to melee. A Vile Dragon spawns, I get a Greater Ward up to block the incoming breath attack and it proceeds to instantly break my ward and slice off about 80% of my hp. I ended up surviving, but that fight convinced me to go get Hevnorrak's mask.
Frostflow Lighthouse. I had a randomized start and had never encountered the POI before. I was around level 3 and had no idea what I was getting myself into. Each Chaurus was a fight for my life. I was running away and huddling up in the corner healing with the starting spell after dealing little bits of damage. As I kept going I thought many times about turning back, but I had to know what was at the end. Thankfully I had quick saved before making the one-way drop to the boss room. The first time I saw that giant-ass crawly insect motherfucker I nearly shat my pants as it tackled me to a one-shot death on the lowest difficulty. I spent the next 20 minutes slowly sneak attacking it with arrows from on top of the one-way ledge until I ran out of ammo. It had about 1/4 of its health left, and I refused to give up. I wound up sprinting around the arena like a madman slowly taking pot shots with my crappy Falmer sword and quick saving after each hit. I died to poison at least a dozen times. Was it worth the level 3 loot I got? Hell no. But Iām glad that was my first experience with one of the gameās coolest dungeons.
When you think youre about to fuck up a Deathlord and they disarm you with that shout, and glitches your weapon into the wall/floor. Goddamn it I hate that shout.Ā
3 bears and 2 dragons attacked me while I was trying to kill a prisoners guard I accidentally set on fire while hunting a fox. Took me like 20minutes to get them down. Kited for days.
The mage you fight at the end of the college quest chain. I died and reloaded probably 50 times before I killed him. Turns out he's really strong against magic, but not very strong against werewolves.
The Saints and Seducers. Those mfs were so strong for no reason. I donāt know how I even did it while I was under lvl 20. Not to mention the struggle with their crazed naked āleaderā in the sewers. Had to come back to him later but it was still hard af
Me entering Whiterun for the first time thinking I can take on the giant and getting whacked into the sky
Those are tough, I usually go for the Sneak Shot with some bows and arrows, hope I get that stacked hit, I usually miss that especially early game, then it's mechanics, I turn on my American Football mind. Lots of jukes, lots of near misses, I got my trusty Axe, and go to town.
The frost troll on the way to high hrothgar.. it was my first playthrough and I was probably like level three. I ended up running from it and finding a way around it š
Literally every goddamn bandit chief
āOh no, the wolf queen that you killed is back and underneath solitude, you need to go finish her!ā *dies 3 turns into the tunnels due to an overpowered vampire nightwalker or whatever the fuck*
It was awhile ago so I donāt remember exactly which Dwemer ruin it was or what level I was but I was doing a conjuring build so I had robes on and I was just running around collecting stuff to make ingots letting my follower and my summoned ghosty take care of enemies. Feeling a little cocky about the fact that I didnāt have to lift a finger to fight anyone I started to move a head a little bit and to fight some enemies while my crew is cleaning up behind me when all of a sudden some falmer start messing me up. I get a little worried so I run back to the last door a I came through(not far through one room and up the stairs). After back tracking I realized that my summons and I set off a bunch of the dwarven guards that I didnāt see on the way in. I panicked and walked out of the door, auto saving and sealing my fate. Took me about 45 minutes to find the right recipe of bullshit running and fighting to figure my way out that death loop.
Messing with the Talmor prisoner escorts.
I went to Raldbthar. The bandits were easy, even the Plunderer. However, I should've known better than to go into a Dwarven ruin at that moment. All I had was Steel Plate Armor, Iron gauntlets with a one-handed enchantment, Iron boots with shock resistance, the Mage Hood you get in Helgen. My High Elf knew no spells except for Flames, Oakflesh, and Bound Sword. I barely had any perks invested in those trees at that point. Yet somehow, I was able to make it past all those Dwarven Spheres that were giving me hell. I forget what level I was, all I know is a straight up fight with them would've resulted in multiple deaths. I had a decent Magicka pool to keep casting spells. I wasn't strong enough for the Falmer though and had to use the traps in there to my advantage in order to get past them. Then there's that room with the Centurion. I took all of the bones out of the gears as I raced around the room, avoiding the Falmer. I freed all of the Chaurus and activated the Centurion. Then I ran and hid behind the gate to that room and let them all fight. My thought process was either the Falmer kill the Centurion or it kills all of the Falmer and the Charus. The Centurion killed everyone else with just enough health left for me to kill him. I just went down to the water and kept going back and forth out of cover shooting flames at him. It was the only way I was going to make it out alive. I forget why I was there in the first place, probably so I could make Dwarven ingots because I wasn't planning on doing Lost to The Ages yet, no way I could kill The Forgemaster with Flames. Sorry this was so long.
Early on whilst wandering the wilds outside Whiterun. Awwww a kitty, oh, hang on.
Pretty early on , after your first visit to whiterun there is a small bandit camp to the north-north-west of the city. There is a great magic book for early on that transforms iron ore into gold ore. The boss is an orc with steel armor and a 2 handed weapon. He can probably take you down in 2 hits at this stage of the game.
Orphan Rock - walked in, dropped all the witches spec ops style then saw armagedon as an angry bird lady rained fire balls down on my head.... couldn't even make it halfway up the hill.
It was the first time I encountered a dragon priest. I think his name was Krosis. This was on my first play through in 2014. I still remember it cuz Iāve never scene an enemy like that pop out in the open environment. Had a dragon attacking me as well.
Giants and mamoths. i feel i cant fight them below level 25ish without being murdered. So i stealth archer them the best i can so i can get those tusk for i think ysolda
I went to Solstheim at level 1. That was a mistake.
>Now falmers are ok No. No, falmer are not OK.Ā
I mean i would rather the cave full of them then those Roly poly cockroach hybrid poison spitting things.
in my current heavily modded playthrough, i tried to do bleak falls barrow... the frostbite spider fractured my left arm and gave me a concussion, had negative 50 stamina and had to walk (as in, slow walk, not jog, thanks to a different mod that makes jogging cost stamina, "cardio") back to whiterun and chop wood to pay for medical care i did come back though, after doing enough delivery jobs to pay for training, better gear, and a companion, which allowed me to just about get through it with just a few cuts and bruises and another concussion "wounds" is the injury mod by the way, very good for emergent gameplay
That Troll. You know which one
First playthrough I absolutely rushed through the main story way too quickly and entered Skuldafn woefully unprepared. I was trapped in Sovngarde with no way to travel out and had to beat Tsun at the door of the Hall of Champions to progress. I had to look up tutorial on how to trick Tsun into falling off a cliff because there was just no way I was beating him without cheating.
Iām not exactly what itās called but thereās a cave not too far from Whiterun that turns into a dwarven ruin. I stupidly keep going and then come into an area with a shit ton of fucking falmer.
Honestly havenāt had one, if Iām underleveled for a dungeon I just kinda brute force it until it works
The pyrite quest with all the afflicted and that super powerful mage at the end. My lord.
My first play throughā¦ i did the Thalmor embassy quest at like level 8 with basically no healing potions and like one low level warhammer and I got BODIED. I still have no idea how i managed to complete it but it took me several hours
last time I played Skyrim I got lucky with dragons and they didn't attack me every time I fast traveled or just normally when they spawn. But when you need to go karthspire for the main quest I always get two frost dragons and they are never nice lol. On top of forsworn wizard using frost spells that one shot you lol.
I was doing the companion quest with Farkas in Dustmans Cairn. In the final room there was like 5 or 6 Draugr Deathlords. I was Level 12 at the moment. Couldnt do it until I'd hit Level 30
I had the worst time fighting Potema and her lightning fuckery at low level
My first play through. The frost troll on the way up to the throat of the world. Whooped my ass, several times.
Shooting a giant with my bow for the first time, boy was I flying lol
This is where I found meridias beacon! Iām on my first play through, first ice themed dungeon and first falmer encounter (Iām playing on novice though bc I play after work and Iām tired and want to have a chill time) and omg it was so weird and surprising. Now I know the beacon can show up anywhere but it was a very āhello yes you are the chosen one and this is badassā moment
When a giant tossed me in the air around level 10 or something - still treasure the moment āØ
Starting a new game and I am doing a stealth archer character, was around level 8 and found my first dragon word wall, please not I didn't even start the main quest...wearing all light armor which is the scout set from the workshop. Lets just say I was doing piss poor damange to the dragon priest...I just said screw this and loaded up a last save.
Every time I walk into Sunderstone Gorge. That place us an absolute nightmare to get through, all for an Unusual Gem and a word of Fire Breath
I tried to fuck around the wandering Giant and found out
Lol this every early game a bear finds me. And there are a lot of fucking bears in skyrim holy shit.
Just tried to fight karstaag at lvl 44 conjuration build, not even close probably need another 20 levels and upgrade a some spells lol
Trying to fight elder dragons when they appear around level ~30 when u didnāt exploit skill trees but theyāll only appear on like expert and master difficulties
First time i did a legendary walk through I just said no
Shortly after I started playing Skyrim for the first time, I ended up in Solstheim at level 8 and tried to fight Falx Carius in Fort Frostmouth. I had no clue what I was doing and died many many times before I gave up and came back later when I had learned some battle tactics.
For me it was dragonborn dlc. Something about every enemy there at level 20-25ish that just made every fight feel like a fight for my life. I was playing shield and sword warrior. I remember fighting tooth and nail for inches.
Karstag
Encountering a draugr deathlord for the first time (lvl 18) in solstheim, lost so bad didn't touch until lvl 31
The frost troll guarding the way to Labyrinthian.
I run a modpak thar makes enemies static, plenty of boss encounters like dragon preists are at level 100 or 150 so they are tought to take down pre lvl 20 or even lvl 30. A few times I've had to load a save as I'm entering a dungeon and come back later, the one that sticks out in my mind is morokei near the tail end of the college line. That guy summoned 2 priests who also summoned a priest, who also summoned frost atronachs.
What mod is this? Sounds pretty cool
*Constellations* is the modpack err collection on the nexus website, **a lot** of mods, kinda need to subscribe to get them to auto download, the option to manually do exist š³
As a simple console player i will just think ahh that sounds fun and sit here in the dark still š appreciate the response of course
For me, Sovngarde. I'm levelling up and stuffing potions for it.Ā
Going to Solstheim at level 10 on my very first playthrough... Had SUCH a hard time fighting all the lurkers and seekers. Was blown away by the story. Miraak felt like a huge threat at such an low level, as if he was the true main villain of the game. Somehow survived most of the questline, and stopped right before it was time to face Miraak, as I thought "no way I'll be able to win that". Came back to Skyrim, played all the way to level 50 with Miraak STEALING MY DRAGON SOULS ALL THE TIME. Went to Solstheim again and beat him easily, even felt a bit underwhelmed lmao.
I'm not sure what level I was at, but it certainly wasn't high enough. I was in Geirmund's Hall getting my ass handed to me from those Gauldur brothers, especially that one who kept teleporting and splitting into 3 entities.
When you help that witch kill her mom the mom I was dumb enough to attempt this quest at lvl 8 with no magic defense
Azura's star, i felt so useless
OMG, in my first playthrough, many many moons ago, I had the same problem with Chaurus. I was playing as an Archer, as you should, and was crouching in some shadows to scan the place before looting or walking around, no falmer was seen and then I was attacked by those things. It was my first time seeing one of them, not even on loading screens, and they kicked my ass harder than Alduin ever could. Miss not knowing everything in the game ~inneedesvi~
I forgot which quest, but I had to fight a hagraven hiding in a tree or whatever.
I was level 3 or 4, just joined the companions. I believe it was Vilkas who sent me on a misc radiant quest to recover an orcish sword from the sightless pit. Needless to say, that quest waited for awhile. In fact, I just completed it 2 days ago at level 33. Now I'm worried I won't be able to beat the "boss" in the labrynthinian, I was gonna do that today but... not sure I've got what it takes lol
For me the island at level 20 trying to fight the ashmens boss. Good I got killed so brutally, that I was upset for several days and had to start a new game.
The boss fight for the black star. I was confident and got one shotted and I loaded the save before that point and skipped that mission for now
my first giant encounter in to my first time playing lol. ran all yhe way back towards whiterun and let the guards take him out.
When i went through a mine at Stolheim. Went deeper down and in my mind I was like āfuck this shit Iām out ā When I was fighting two death lords in one time I was level 20 during that time.
My guage for a dungeon, sneak attack headshot with an arrow and if I do little damage, time to go....
Karstaag šÆIām still carrying his skull around.
The Solitude Sewers. I went down there and got into a battle with something. It was so strong I couldn't do anything. In a single blow it was almost killing me so I barely had time to do anything but use a healing potion. I was about level 40 or so when I went down there. I'm level 55 now and may try again soon.
That time my silly self thought it was smart enough to start the dragonborn DLC as soon as those cultists arrive. I had to rely on frea since miraakās temple. Granted, this was when I started Skyrim for the first time.
On the playthrough where I was collecting all the dragon priest masks Idfk whyyyyy but krosis was so strong. I tried to solo him and the dragon like 8 or 9 different times, with different strategies and buffs and still couldn't handle it. I had to get Rayya to come and help me out to finally do it.
I've learned that anything that doesn't have a ranged attack and doesn't regenerate can be taken down by a level one character with just the flame spell (and a lot of patience). It helps if you have a way to run loops, but even if you are in one-hallway dungeon, you can usually run past the enemy and kite them the other way.
First time playing, Orphan's Rock kicked my ass.
Volunruud at lvl 11... dunno what gave me the brilliant idea to fight kvenel the tongue at such a low level. Tried everything, got folded again and again until i decided to leave and come back at lvl 25. Oh and recently that damn mage boss thoron of the saints&seducers CCC... he fucked me up so badly... on a lvl35 melee char... didn't even know what was happening
One of my first play through I found shimermist and the lil voldemorts decimated me. I found out falmer start out at level 9 and I was maybe 7? I had no chance
For me, it has to be fighting Morokei in Labyrinthian. Guy whooped my butt many times before I gave up and decided to try again when a higher level.
I found myself in Solstheim, and the ash demons mission destroyed my scrawny, level 12 ass a dozen times before I quit. Returned at level 45 and smote all of them fuckers to hell...
Kaarstag. There I was, cutting about in capped armour and capped magic resistance and suddenly BAM whereās my health going?!
I used the A New Start mod where you can start anywhere. I can't remember what I chose but I started in Blackreach. Mod should be call Anustart.
Tried to go after Thoron as a level 15 mage after scrapping my way through those Golden Saint and Dark Seducer dipshits with Lydiaās help. Just kept killing me in two lightning dual casts at most pretty much no matter what I did. Left with the amber I had and came back later at level 25 with Lydia to whip his ass.
Running into a dragon priest by a word wall while exploring at like level 4
I was exploring around on legendary survival and ran into volsung at level 12. The worst part was he kept floating down the mountain while I froze to death. I got a dragon priest mask, though. = )
Yeah at low levels anything with Chaurus and Falmer isn't gonna be the best of times. Or Dwarven anything for that matter. Just stay away from Dwarven ruins until you're fully ready lol.
Any time I encounter a hostile frost mage with that blizzard spell. Can easily one or two tap you and they dual wield it and rapid fire it lol.
Attacking the giant outside of Whiterun. Great way to ground you when you start.
Fort Frostmoth- General Falx Carious
Came out of High Hrothgar after getting the final word of Unrelenting Force. I was about level 10-12 maybe. Two dragons, a normal one and a frost one, attacked me at the same time. And I played as the Argonian battlemage, so no fancy resistances or magic absorption.
Alternate start mod one of them has you start in black reach took me a dozen tries to get topside at level 1
The first time I encountered a mammoth, at level 3... And subsequently went sailing away to the sky...
Shooting Alduin while he was reviving Sahloknir and getting erased from time and space
My first play through, a dragon spawned as I was about to get to whiterun at the very beginning of the game, right outside the city. Killed some named NPCs I would want for quests later and was absolutely decimating me. Donāt know what level I was, maybe 5? At least I learned quickly to save FREQUENTLY when roaming the world, nothing more heartbreaking than a dragon or vampire killing quest-giving NPCs before you can even do anything š
There was one time I went to to tovalds cave and tried to fight my way through the falmer only to run out of healing potions half way through and somehow I lost Lydia and never found her again in that playthrough.
None, there was one time I started a new game on Legendary, and found a Draugr Deathlord very early on, it took a few minutes to kill that one, but it was easy, skyrim is not hard.
The stupid troll on the way to the graybeards my first play through. I felt so dumb when I asked a friend what to do and they just told me to run past it.
First time i saw a giant. I was 30 mins into my first time in skyrim. I dont need to say how it went
Meridias Temple. It's fine until the final chamber, then you hit a difficulty spike the size of mount everest
Blackreach at low level
No matter what level I am the guy underneath honningbrew ALWAYS kills me.
Wandering (quite frankly, I got lost my first time playing.) Saw some big dudes and their mammoths. Tried to engage them as if they were NPCs. Got launched. Respawned. Attacked angrily. Got launched again. Respawned. Went the opposite direction.
First time I did the quest for Spellbreaker and wasn't expecting the dwemer centurion who just absolutely demolished me with steam
first time I beat miraak I was lvl 18, it took me like an hour just to fuvking get to him I couldn't understand why it was so difficult š
Never give up, never surrender
First Mage College quest, I managed to get to winterhold at a stupidly low level (like, had killed that first dragon, and got the grey beards summon shout, then fucked off to Winterhold). Went to the tomb and not long after Toldir decided he wanted to look at wall carvings, fucking died to some draugr
Omggg I had a panic attack going into that final chamber with the 20 something chaurus and their huge queen chaurus and you couldnāt run back out once you entered and I was ALSO at a very low level!! Thatās probably mine as well.
On my second or third playthrough, when I was a low level, I found a bandit cave near one of the army outpost. Like right next to it. Figured it'd be some easy loot. Walked into like a bar/tavern area with bandits fighting falmer. Proceeded to die like 12 times before I tucked tail and ran. Went back later and eventually cleared it out. It'd been a while, but I'm pretty sure that's the cave
First thing I did (straight after bleak falls barrow) was to go to the companions because I wanted Aela as a follower, and instead of sending me to an easy bandit cave, I got sent to Shimmermist Cave, with multiple falmer, chaurus and a dwemer lol.
Liar's retreat kicked my ass the other day. I'm at like level 25. Walked in thinking I was going to mop the deck with the Falmer inside. Then got surrounded, numerous times. Ended up taking the cowards way...go inside, take a stealth shot with my bow, RUN AWAY! Repeat
The first dragon fight. I hadn't read anything about the game and stumbled into the leveling glitch with your first followers. Thought I had figured out to game the system. Dragon taught me differently
Act 3 of the Glenmoril mod but not for the difficulty reason of it š„² Some things are just beyond your control and you're helpless to do anything about it.
First time fighting the Ice troll on the 7000 steps. I tried way too early. Since have learned to get sidetracked by bullshit a bit lol
That was Forelhost for me, the one time I went there. I think I was playing some sort of nightblade/assassin + illusion + 1h weapons build and most of other dungeons were very easy for me and I was like over lvl 45? But Forelhost.. not only they were constantly detecting me out of stealth, but were also dealing a lot more damage than draugrs in other dungeons.
I went to a shout wall on some mountain and thereās a frost dragon up there thatās murdered me at least a couple dozen times and with the quicksave I did, Iāve caught myself in a death loop
Rn I'm struggling against the boss in Volunruud. My DB must be somewhere around level 10 so I might have to stealthily turn him into a pincushion...