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Pete

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Well, I've tried ratcheting up the difficulty to see how I would do. I've been playing for years on and off. Here's what I found:

Legendary difficulty - surviving HELGEN is a feat in its own. Holy cow, you really need an NPC between you an an opponent. Followers are a must (but they bring problems too) Funny thing, If you can conjure up something, they do very well. So it looks like you are weak, but others aren't. Fun value: zero.

Master difficulty - If you know how to avoid trouble and have plenty of game play under your belt. You'll do well for awhile. If you like to work alone, trouble lies ahead when you hit level 15+ and your working them nasty characters that you can't sneak around. You hit a wall and its over.

Expert level - perfect. When you do stupid things you die. If your smart, think a little bit ahead, at least in my case, you come out fine. None of that try it 10 times before you get thru a problem situation. Play style shines once you figure it out for your character type.
 
Exactly my feeling. I play expert for the first 20 levels, then usually switch to Master
 

ColleenG

When in doubt, follow the fox.
I found Expert to be more difficult than Master. I dunno, there's something about Master that doesn't make sense. The enemies just stand there waiting to get whaled on, like they do on Novice. Also, for most of my skyrim life, I kept hearing about glitches but I never experienced them myself. Until Master. Now I've seen them all. And my poor husband, Marcurio, has early onset Alzheimers, which may or may not have to do with playing on Master, but that's never happened before, so I'm suspicious.

I believe next, I shall play on Legendary, just for the experience. I kind of like not getting any breaks offensively or defensively. It's made me a better player.
 

Daelon DuLac

How do you backstab a Dragon?
I'll stick with Novice. I'm a weenie. :)


lol, you should at LEAST be on Adept.
I am. I actually usually play on Adept but occassionally switch down to Apprentice or up to Expert depending on the situation. Actually Novice is a lot of fun when you're trying out something new (I used it not too long ago when I was getting the hang of two-handed for a few levels), but it does get tedious.
 

raido KASAI

Ansei Master Badass
I hear playing on master can give you hairy palms.
 
Only if your character name is Bates.
 

Cherry

Farfetch'd is judging you!
I always start playing a character on Adept, then move up to Expert and then Master when I feel like it.
 
Usually at adept, but I'd dropped it to novice to get through a particularly difficult encounter (Goldenglow, I think) and forgot to switch it back afterwards. Only realised after a few hours of one-shotting everything with my bow that it wasn't down to skill :sadface:
 

Chadonraz

Well-Known Member
I'm nearly always on Adept (which in my game equals vanilla Master), but switched to Expert on a high-level character. It got too difficult, though... so back to Adept I went.

I always up the difficulty to Legendary when approaching Whiterun for the first time (;)) and often forget to change it back. Last time I wondered why it took four battleaxe (power) attacks to kill a wolf... then I remembered. :rolleyes:
 

Dovahkiir

Member
I'll stick with Novice. I'm a weenie. :)


lol, you should at LEAST be on Adept.

I switched to Adept after I questioned why the game was so easy.

I switched to Master for the same reason. I don't find it a problem playing at that level get your skills sorted out and its straightforward.

I started out on Adept because thats the default and I didn't know any different. it would have been better if I'd started on something lower though as I'd never played a TES game before so was utterly clueless and died so often it was laughable.

Play at whatever feels comfortable, don't feel you "have" to play at a certain level because you feel pressured to do so.
 

elias

Member
Expert is the best. Why? Because its the most realistic.


The "difficulty level system is controlled by damage ratios- this is probably the worst level system I've ever come across. Yes, it sucks.

Expert difficulty is the only level that allows both you and enemies to both take and deal the same amount of damage. Thqt being said, it is the most "real" of all the difficulty levels, as well as being -in my opinion- the most immersive difficulty level.
 

Cherry

Farfetch'd is judging you!
Expert is the best. Why? Because its the most realistic.


The "difficulty level system is controlled by damage ratios- this is probably the worst level system I've ever come across. Yes, it sucks.

Expert difficulty is the only level that allows both you and enemies to both take and deal the same amount of damage. Thqt being said, it is the most "real" of all the difficulty levels, as well as being -in my opinion- the most immersive difficulty level.


Isn't Adept the difficulty where the player and the enemies are on an "equal footing", i.e. neither has any intrinsic advantage? I might be mistaken.
 

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