I mean seriously! I know my Dragonborn, Hulgar, is a dude you don't [censored] with, and he is the sixiest guy in Skyrim, but why wont these dragons attack me!!!?
They just fly around and never attack.... I try arrowing the scaley jerks, but they never hit.
Does Hulgar smell or something? I wash him in a lake twice a day.

Who knows?
I lost out on a dragon soul last night.
I was on the verge of killing It.
And BOOM. Flew away...

Same issue here. Most attack me but there have been three encounters of them just running away.

one thing i hate the word pansies from COD
now to the topic i think its a random event... but im not soo sure

On to the topic, I have had this happen to me before, and it is very annoying. So far dragons have been very systematic and dare I say tedious in taking down, they always fly around and I have to shoot them with arrows when they do their hover attack, and then I run at them and pummel them with melee weapons when they land. Every. Single. Time.

Odd I have around 15 unused dragon souls, it's like I'm a dragon magnet, they are constantly appearing and attack immediately and when they fly away I just chase them with the speed shout. Maybe you should get some ranged spells and a bow.

I have only had 4 encounters with random dragons not attached to word walls and/or quests. Three of the times, they just flew around and never attacked. It irritates me.

What's wrong with saying f***? It's a banned word. So i * it.

Pesky things. They circle overhead, ignoring the barrage of arrows I send their way, ignoring the Shouting I do....... even reloading half a dozen times to try again, some of them persist in taunting and ignoring me. (And it's not even like I'm being stealthy. This is standing in the middle of the plains, by places like the Swindler's Den, standing up on a rock flinging arrow after arrow.)

Woah, a triple post! That's never happend

What level are you? And what part of the main quest are you doing? Maybe this is a game mechanic to not give you too hard fights at the beginning of the game just show off dragons?

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