Errrm, one of the 3 brothers, near high Hrothgar ... he summons 2 decoys and fires arrows and sort of.. teliports... sooo hard.. hardest yet for me

I found Sabre Cats, Frost Trolls, Cave Bears and ice wraiths to be very tough with previous characters i made. For some reason now they all go down very easy with my Two-Handed character and sometimes using Slow-Time. I find that its best to have a very strong offense rather than balanced defense and offense in Skyrim. With a Sword and Board, it takes longer for me to drop some of the tougher creatures. In this time theyre also hitting me for tremendous damage.

In Skyrim? Eh... Fight Alduin at level 81 without Magic Resistance on Master Difficulty... Not too hard but still quite fun.

The hardest boss I've ever defeated was Nomad from RS.. He killed me 29 times in a row >.>

Even 1 vs 1 for me it is an epic battle. It's not a long fight, but it usually comes down to who has the best accuracy/aim. If they are high above and I'm on the ground, they can hit me easily, where as I have trouble hitting them from below. If there is more than one, I have to retreat, or use paralyze - and I tend to stay away from using it because it feels like a cheap tactic.

I take a lot of damage from archers being that I don't wear armor or clothing with an armor rating, even if I do, I don't last long against them. There was a fort that had ONLY archers patrolling the outside. They literally "held the fort" from me as I couldn't even get to the front gate before my health almost gone.

It got so bad that I had to make an anti-bow script that unequips them(though it doesn't keep them from re-equipping it..this I gotta do some more testing with) as 95% of the enemies in my game now use bows. I can't really complain though, as it keeps the game challenging. Disarm shout does not always work on them either.

I'm also pure mage. I don't use *any* weapon. All spells here. My pick off method is from a cliff or some easily and far enough away vantage point, and rain down fireball hell upon the place. It does not always clear out the outside of a fort, or a group of people.

The spike-trap in the pit-fall in the very end of halted stream camp.

Or pretty much any two-handed boss leveled enemy at a low level.

You're right, I should have read that a little more closely.

Bunny rabbits can be most challenging.

I did a speed run for the Mages collage story line. Went up against the Dragon Priest around level 7 or 8. That was probably the most difficult, I wish more bosses were actually a challenge. More anything really.

I'm guessing you don't use any amount of sneak. if you did, and came in at night using calm or fury/frenzy (on the non-undead anyway), archers would be ripe fruit to be plucked.

I was standing near the Karth River watching a Dragon circle in the distance. There was a mudcrab nearby, but I ignored him, cause he was a mudcrab. The next thing I know, I'm dead. I wasn't very high level, but thought I could ignore a mudcrab. Overconfidence is the most dangerous boss you can face!

Somewhere, above a rather mucky mantlepiece out in crab-land, i visualize your head mounted proudly on a muddy wall-

"You should have seen it... he was HUGE! But I snuck up on 'im real careful-like, and ran my claw right up 'is [censored]! It was epic..."

My sneak rating is 74.

And have you put any points into the Sneak perks that make you harder to spot and quieter, etc? Not the +damage Sneak perks, since a mage obviously doesn't need those. But unless you perk up Sneak, it doesn't really do much good, and you'll get spotted very easily anyway. If you're going cloth mage, a glass cannon, sneak + illusion really helps a lot in many, many situations. If you have to go into every fight being spotted instantly from long range and not having any effective crowd control capabilities in place at the start, that really will hurt.

My mage is a cloth mage too- I sneak in at night without a follower (most of them will get spotted and screw it all up), get close in to a lone patrolling archer on the fort wall, cast calm on them (always have illusion perk for silent casting, so nobody else hears or 'sees' your spells), then blast them with something wicked from an advantageous spot. Be prepared to cast frenzy/fury on any adds if they see the attack and come to join in. Use cover to your benefit- duck out from shadwoy cover to make your attacks and cast your fury/frenzy spells quick, and then quickly duck back aways around a wall and into shadow again. This makes it more likely that the fury'ed enemies will go after each other, instead of you. If things are looking bad, hike up yer skirts and run a couple hundred yards away and hide in the shadows till they give up. Rinse, repeat. I've played a rogue/thief/sneak type in many games, and the playstyle adapts easily to mages in Skyrim, with the right skills and perks. I couldn't imagine my mage having to stand up and run headfirst into every fight in broad daylight, with no advantages.

Oh I see. I guess it was really bad thinking to assume the sneak system is no different from oblivions'(where high rating vs enemy low rating). No I didn't put perks into sneak at all. I'm going go try it out right now(heh there is plenty places for me to choose from..). As a matter of fact, I sorta regret putting points into conjuration(this took the most of my perk points as I was initially pro-necromancy) and I dont conjure things anymore.

I've become a huge fan of Illusion, both on my mage and on a sneak/dagger char. When you have good stealth going on, it is so easy to manipulate situations with 2+ enemies to deal with, and cut the odds down to 1 vs 1 before you move in for the final kill. Only drawback is it doesn't affect undead/vampires/robots until you get the Illusion perk at 90 that allows Illusion spells to affect them too. But for everything else, it's a hoot. And if you're using it all the time and working it up and buying skillups from trainers, you can get it to 90 at the same time as your primary attack skill, and then you're pretty much set.

The Boss fight at the end of Ironbind Barrow. What's his face Warlord Gathrik and then Beem-Ja right afterwards. Has given me alot trouble both times I went there on two different characters. In fact my assassin didn't even bother fighting him, I just snuck in, got the shout and the axe, and then snuck out; I couldn't win the fight, and Eola kept getting killed.

A Draugr Death Overlord I encountered on level 25... I was so happy I could spam-cast Flame Atronachs...

Morakai was my worst one so far.

I think this may be the toughest "boss" (though not the toughest fight) I've yet had.

He is like seven and a half feet tall, fast as hell, and probably does more melee dmg than any enemy in the game. I assume he is just a Death Overlord who is scaled up in size.

Rahgot.