I was a bit worried taking on master difficulty after what i had read, but I cant honestly tell the difference between master & expert.

People were saying i would need an NPC with me early on etc.

I was thinking i would need a sneak, archer to get through but i've just ended up dual wielding my way through, in light armour?

I dont enchant or buy potions. I havent used any NPC's.

I have 150 stamina which means i can do 3 back to back dual wield power attacks which finishes off most things upto a snow bear.

I havent had to approach any battle with a tactical approach.

I am now level 25 and have read it gets easier from now on?

Bit disappointed really?

Throw your armour away then.

Yes it's easy, because the AI isnt any more difficult, all they did is give the enemies more health and make you dish out less damage, this is something everyone on here is fully aware of.

What I try and do is to just keep my character in standard non smithed armor and also don't use healing spells, that way I do die when I get careless as enemies can wipe my health down quickly. I mean running round with an armor rating of 67 is a damn cheap way of trying to balance the game when you can so easily make your armor stronger but I don't know what else to do really.

Am I supposed to stay away from impact, smithing, echanting, alchemy, dremora lords, bound bows, archery, dagger sneak attacks, because how much of the game is left to actually play if you stop using the overpowered stuff?.

Grab a shovel instead of a sword ......

Use your fists, like a real man!

Play a mage.

use light armor or plain clothes, aka play a mage or a thief

Well done. You're a winner. Embrace it.

Seriously? I think i may be a [censored], i died a lot when i tried a dual-wield character in master difficulty.

@ OP

What platform you play on?

Could always try some difficulty increasing mods if you're on PC. Having fun with Wars in Skyrim atm. Considering getting Deadly Dragons on top of that.

Mage, thief or archer are more easy to play of warrior , more easy evade attack and more easy attack without enemy can reach or see you


I doing a two handed warrior with light armor and with only alchemy on master , this give a good challenge for now (i'm lvl 28), you don't have a good parry, your damage is good but slow and your armor don't provide a good damage reduction.

Try playing pure mage with no armor and melee weapons and tell me if you still think it's too easy...i'm level 60 now and almost every enemy 1 hit kills me

not in the early levels...

Well, my character is pure mage without any weapons or armor and I think this game is still wayyyy too easy on master difficulty. And yes, almost every enemy kills me with one hit.

Anyway, it would be a lot of harder to play of you remove enchanting (and smithing with melee characters) and don't select the impact perk from destruction tree.

In my opinion, the issue is that the enemies vary widely in power.

Eventually around 25 or 35 or so, depending on the type of character, you get to a point where you can easily destroy most enemies on Master. However, at those levels or higher there are still "boss" characters that can one hit kill a character.

So you might be going through a dungeon on Master, slaughtering everything in sight. But then you run into a higher level enemy or "boss" then wham you're killed.

I'm building a "combat conjurer" right now-- by end game I'm going to be in full heavy armor wielding 2h weapons (perked) with 2 Dremora Lords fighting by my side. Don't worry, I doubt you'll feel more OP that I will

I had this same "problem". I had to delete the character I made and it was quite a relief though I put a lot of work into it.

What I did basically was start a character that doesn't focus the skills directly in combat related perks UNLESS I NEEDED THEM. My character is a theif so, i usually found myself putting perks in pickpocket/lockpicking/speechcraft some alchemy. I have barely touched one-handed/archery. I havent upped my defense in light armor either but will need to soon. I am level 23 and I see I need to put a perk in a combat skill. I play on Adept.

I think the OP is lying, or is just fighting 'bandits', not 'Bandit Marauders', 'Silver Hand 2handers' or Ancient Dragons. Who WILL kill you in 1 hit.
Oh, and mages.

On my thief I would go up to a Draugr Lord totally sure that my daggers 15x would obliterate it (as they did with everything else) and then proceed to scratch his paintwork and get 1 shotted.

If you want to play a warrior and keep the difficulty fun then don't use smithing at all, ever. Just normal smithing (without exploits, powerleveling, enchanting or alchemy fruitiness) turns master dificulty into novice dificulty, in terms of your damage taken vs damage dealt.

I also find vanilla master too easy on most of my characters.

It isn’t hard enough for me either, I want Dragons to be able to kill you on sight, or even telepathically, before they even see you.

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ok maybe replace the word "easy" with "frustrating"..i don't know about you but when a regular bandit or wolf kills me thats just annoying but the strong enemies make me think about my fights instead of jumping in swinging swords and i enjoy that. As for impact perk, it does give an advantage but not much when your outnumbered and you're fighting warriors and archers (arrg archers!). Also dual cast ends up being 2 single casts about half of the time and causes most of my deaths but thats another story

you don't enchant?

dude, talk again after getting to fight higher lvl mages. mages spit on your dual weilding, because they one shot you.

if you say something else, you either lie, or use a nord + lord stone, since mages mostly use frost attacks vs. melees.

but what you probably do in the moment is just fulltime-staggering enemies to death with powerattacks

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