I fought him on master. My dragonbone sword does 110 damage. I use absolutely no OP gear whatsoever. I had full health which means about 600. Full heavy armor set which isn't at the level cap but still quite high. 507 it is. So the fight started, I instantly staggered him with a shield bash and was going for a power attack. My health went down by a small bit after he hit me one time. But like I said, I was going for a power attack and nailed it without him hitting me. The second I did so I was lying on the ground. Dead. It happened in one way or another, multiple times. Today was about the 9th time.

I still haven't beat him on master without using things which I consider unfair like shouting him off the cliff. Shame on me.

I haven't found him yet, but he sounds a little bit like the Orc that carried Umbra in Morrowind. Maybe it is supposed to be a little throwback to those of us that have been playing the series for longer than we will admit at gatherings of non-nerds.

Did that kill him? I tried that multiple times, and it didn't even dent his health.

Let me give you some change. BS. There are no tough guys in video games.

- Tommy Truck

For me it did. But I have to say I kind of... enhanced his fall the first time by using the unlimited shout glitch. ._. Try slow time, then cyclone and then unrelenting force while the enemy is in the air from cyclone. I love doing this. From time to time. But a simple unrelenting force also did the trick for me.

Noobs! You use these tactics because you know you cant beat him normal way! Very Noobtube style! Unbeliavable.

Was that supposed to be funny?

If you meant tough guys as in enemies, play Dark Souls. Then come back and talk to me.

That glitch is very very fun to do from time to time.

it's simple, he says that because he only appears at lvl 81 and by then it should mean that you've done most everything in the game...the fight between 2 seasoned champs is the last thing left worth doing

ha I second the BS here...i remember you sayjng you used marked for death and were wearing uber armor and weapons so you can't talk smack

I play on expert because it's hard enough without the madness of master...especially since my total armor rating is about 90 and I don't use potions or magic

that was the first time before I knew marked for death was glitched. And it wasn't uber armor and weapons. Just normal improved dragonbone.

And the enchantments were normal enchantments, not augmented by potions or anything like that. Second and third time, I did not use marked for death, and the second time I was in Stalhrim light, third time nord carved. So I'm not being a hypocrite or anything like that.

He reminds me of Umbra from Morrowind...Long lived, with nothing more to complete but a warriors death.

Perhaps he is an allegory of player characters.

ha yea yea, fight him a loincloth or it doesn't count

Lol, I see your point.

Wish we got more info on him.

The ebony warrior says that there are no more challenges but I don't think he realized that there was a citizen of whiterun whose home had been invaded by a wolf and could use his help.

lol, good one.

Funny? No. I call BS on you "setting the bar of legitimacy," when it comes to the Ebony Warrior...not that it really matters. And no, games are not hard. If someone wants to break a game using the game's mechanics, that's something in and of itself. If someone wants to RP their character and legitimately get a jump on the guy who has run out of things to do, that's legitimate too. Afterall, if he's seen and done it all, he should be more than prepared for a sneek attack by someone he has had the gnads to challenge. Etc, etc, etc. So no, I wasn't joking. I wasn't trolling you either. Personally, I find it hard to believe that someone downed him that easily - but you never know. I don't care if you kill the Ebony Warrior buck-nekked with your fists, though. It just means you found a way to "exploit" the game's mechanics to allow you to do so. It is a single-player RPG with so many ways to break the game its rediculous. I would venture to say that there isn't a soul that has done anything worth bragging about in the game or done anything that needs to measure up, to be worthy of sharing with the class. That's just my observation, of course.

As an aside, I think I would heartily enjoy a world filled with NPC's more like the Ebony Warrior than not.

- Tommy Truck

I think you missed the point completely my little Tonka truck friend. I never said that the way they killed them wasn't legitimate, I just said it wasn't impressive enough to brag about. Isn't reading things correctly the first time better than making long winded posts? I think so. And like I said, play Dark Souls and tell me video games can't be hard.

235 damage?
That's A LOT lol...my fully smithed Auriel's Bow does something like 55 damage+enchant...and that's with 100 Smithing and +25% smithing enchants on ring and neck...

I found him challenging on adept, not nearly as hard as Karstaag though.

I do agree with those that are saying going the stealth/ranged approach and saying the fight isn't difficult is a little silly, cos you know... going invisible and then backstabbing him or whatever isn't exactly.. fighting him.

I wouldn't look too into it, he is just a hard fight for level 81 characters in the game of Skyrim, that is about where the lore stops with the Ebony Warrior. My opinion anyway

You'll need a bigger loincloth then.



Agreed. Chuck the first Ninja Gaiden in there too. Ooo Ooo! Max Payne 3 on hardcoe is a bit of a nightmare.

No, I am certain my reading comprehension was more than adequate. I agree, you said "it wasn't impressive enough to brag about." It reminds me of an episode of Bully Beat Down I once saw. One of the bullies kept refering to himself as "the line," in respect to the seperation of "the men" from "the boys." Throughout every conversation he had, he never did put together the glint in peoples' eyes and the smirks on their faces every time he would say, "I am the line." To each their own.

- Tommy Truck

People should kill him however they want... Also, you made a stealth character which is made for sneak attacks and then are told that beating a tough warrior with the way you built your character to do is cheap? So they want you to run up to the hardest enemy in the game with your little dagger...