jshadowking867
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how do you determine the strength of dragons?
the strength of dragons
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Pestilence
Uneducated guesses since 1983
jshadowking867
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ok thanks
Skyrim Player
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It doesn't matter what they are. All dragons are easy in this game. I do not fear the dragons. Giants on the other hand are the hardest to beat.
xSuoiveDx
Dave, The Quiet One.
Giants easy, I one shot them with my Daedric Bow & Daedric Arrows.
The lower level Dragons I usually one hit them too but some of the higher level ones I've had to hit them twice, except for Alduin who I just went head to head with using an Ebony Sword. Both the Bow & Sword are legendary with Soul Trap.
ItsBenniBlack
Mehti Oba
easy? u must be level 80 or something i encountered a dragon that took me almost an hour or so to beat when i was only level 14 but it worked out because its attention was mainly on the giants, but jeeeeeeeez it took a while, and im saving the souls of dragons to use them as needed some of the shouts i feel arent important
Dragon Bourne
Long Live Paarthurnax!
I seem to be missing out on Dragon Slaying opps of late. They used to spawn all the time but it has been days (literally) since I have ahd a randowm dragon encounter. Anyone else having this problem?
xSuoiveDx
Dave, The Quiet One.
I was one hitting giants from level 24 & one hitting dragons a level or 2 later.
You could go looking around their spawns or where the dragon shouts are or just explore the map by foot. I've found that the dragons seem to appear at the most inappropriate times sometimes...lol
ItsBenniBlack
Mehti Oba
Evelyn
New Member
You'll eventually get so stacked on souls from random encounters I wouldn't worry about it. That is unless you spend all your time dwelling in caves collecting shouts.
but really, I had 16 dragon souls available and 12 different shouts at my disposal, and never had to wait to unlock one.
ItsBenniBlack
Mehti Oba
i am seeing that now i just ran into 3 freaking dragons and elder dragon, frost dragon and then a plain dragon wtf!!! lol
.:The_Steel_Arrow:.
Ultimate Archer
I don't think they're that tough. I mean, when I was level 13, I took down a Blood Dragon with only my Elven Bow, Steel Arrows, and a GIANT STEEL BATTLE-AXE TO THE FACE! And full Steel Armor.
ItsBenniBlack
Mehti Oba
Dagmar
Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
Not true. Look at the link to the thread in Pestilence's post. Levels are hard set by the type of Dragon. While encountering a much higher level dragon than you is very rare, it can happen and the reason why most of the people in this thread are saying it's so easy to kill dragons is because it never happened to them.
At level 30 on Master difficulty setting it's very hard, if not impossible to kill an Ancient Dragon. It's going to hit you with 200 points of damage per second with its breath attack so even if you have the 85% cap on your Resist enchantments, if it lands a breath attack on you it can deliver close to a hundred points of damage through your Resist enchantments. With its over 3,000 health points and your damage halved on Master difficulty setting, exchanges of ranged damage are going to be fairly lopsided. Melee exchanges aren't going to be easy either with 120 points of damage chewing through the maximum damage reduction you can get from armor.
Obscure.Ref.Girl
Carpe' Jugular
That explains why I got wasted by an ancient, after taking on a frost dragon and a dragon priest
SaveVsBedWet
Well-Known Member
Oh jeez. Where were you on the thread I started about this? This explains everything.
As I said on that thread, dragons seem to have all become Godzilla starting immediately after the free dental I gave Alduin. I had to look and finally notice that the last one was Ancient. And actually in hindsight, so were the others I'd faced. They straight up took me behind the woodshed, as though I had no armor and when I hit them I heard the same sound you hear when you swing on a wall. I went from throwing two dual wield spin moves and putting a dragon down to not even being able to pop a zit on their faces. Literally overnight. And this is with Mehrune's Razor in one hand and a mace doing 120 base plus another 25 fire damage and half magicka damage, WHILE ignoring 50% armor in the other hand.
37th level is where I started getting the rented mule treatment. I never seriously looked for a hit point rating for the monsters or NPCs in the game, so I figured 300-500 at max. Had I known it could range up to 3000 I'd have just run my ass off and lied about it at the tavern that evening.
And 200 points per second? Now that I recall my health meter, that is about right. I just could not accept that it was actually possible. Had to be a bug. I used to let dragons hit me with the breath weapon twice just so I could get right up to them and Fus Roh their open mouths. Cause it's funnier that way.
