I don't know about any of the percentages. But when it comes to Briarhearts, I just know I need to be prepared to use everything at my disposal in order to survive. Even on high levels it'll often take a follower + atronauch/Dremora Lord + Paralyze in order to kill them. They're tough enemies.

How does blocking come into play? If you've got a shield up and are near full health, can the Briarheart still decimate you? Is this result affected by how much %block your shield has? Sorry none of my characters are currently in a position to test this.

You never get the chance to block, because the determination that a kill-move occurs happens before your defenses are taken into account. As a result, all it compares against is your total HP, so if the attack's damage exceeds that number, you're toast. Since it has already determined that you got one-shotted, it locks out your controls and plays the appropriate animation sequence, so you are unable to react in any way.

Never had that problem, 100 heavy armor with al perks unlocked ^^

(oh yeah and full daedric legendary)

..... Cool story bro...

thanks

Maybe at that level the Braveheart had his perks up and did a critical hit on you.

I recall taking on a bandit boss and after two hits my head goes flying across the room. I was shocked for two reasons, first being I didn't know they could do decap death animations to the PC, second was that I was nearly full health when it happened.

blocking the attack with a shield smack interupts their attack

and that gives you a chance against them.

but yeah briarhearts, bandit bosses and deathlords

can beat the snot out of you in the blink of an eye.


i just took out the briarheart at hags end with this blocking technique

everytime that his arm went back he got a shield in the face. LOL