Hi All,

As the title says, I am new to the game / Elder Scroll series.
I got in the bandwagon hype of Skyrim and bought it.

So far, I do not regret it. Amazing game.

I do not know if it's because I didn't play this kind of game before (only played FPS / RTS) but :
- So far, the game is so easy, it's ridiculous. I started as nord and followed the guy to join Stormcloak rebellion. I am level 34 and 55 misc quest done, 5 storyline quest done and I went shield / 1h / heavy armor. So far, I used my perks in 1h, heavy armor, restoration, smithing. I have a full set of dragon armor. I did not use any enchant so far (hell, I dont even know how) nor did I ever crafted potions. Does the game gets any harder? Should I start doing alchemy / enchanting? I did not even use any shouts yet, beside the one you have to use when meeting with the oldies for the quest "Dragonbeard" (spelling...)

- Is there any logic in the order you are doing quests? Seems like I could be doing whatever and it doesn't matter? I havent even done the "Join the Stormcloak" quest that I got after escaping Keep at the beginning of the game.

Also, does the game have better armor/weapon than that? My mace is doing 63dmg and the best I found so far had 34... And yet, I am 3 shotting anything.

I pretty much cleared the right side of the map. I have yet to do top middle and left side of it. But it looks like pointless to do it anyway...

Am I completly lost or missing something? Or am I just not use to this kind of game?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Up the difficulty?

Edit: Also, hi, how rude of me

PLAY ON MASTER

Seriously 3 shotting with 63 damage? Yeah Right because a draugr deathlord has like 2600 hp on master... 650 on novice

First off, may I extend to a hearty welcome to the ES community? If so, welcome indeed!

Secondly, the Elder Scrolls series offers a player (for the most part) an unlimited gaming experience. I can't think of another game off the top of my head that offers a player with so much freedom in the game world.

If you're looking for a true challenge, try bumping your difficulty level up to your personal satisfaction and use "lower tiered" items such as iron, steel, fur, or leather armor. Try to avoid some of the crafting features such as smithing, enchanting and alchemy so that you can present yourself a greater degree of difficulty. Secondly, there's no particular order in how to take on and complete the game's content. You can start and finish quests at your leisure... that, in my honest to God's opinion, is the Elder Scrolls way.

Once again, welcome. And don't let the doom and gloom threads in this forum fool ya.

Welcome to the addiction series, as suggested try and play on expert or master difficulty. Keep in mind, that you can unbalance the game for yourself. Show restraint and have fun!

Probably too many questions to answer, and I would guess that many people on here won't be bothered to answer.

Have you been to USEP (Elder Scrolls Wiki) It has your answers for pretty much anything, lore, quest, item related on there.

I've played them all but even I struggle sometimes and I go to USEP to check lore background etc. The Link is below.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim

Too easy? Try http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1309609-the-naked-nord-challenge/page__hl__nord+challenge

Level 34 + full set of Dragon Armour = why the game is too easy.

You're given total freedom over what you do and when. You can leave the first quest you get in the game until you've done every single other quest, and then go back and do it with no repercussions.

The higher your level, the better gear you'll get. Obviously, smithing it (bearing in mind you've got 100 Smithing, plus whatever perks you've got in one handed) will mean you'll be doing a massive amount more damage than you 'should' be doing. Ideally, one should leave smithing until around level 50, because at that point the enemies stop increasing in difficulty per level.

Clearing the map is not pointless. There is a massive amount of content in Skyrim that you won't touch without exploring for the fun of it. From your description of what you've done, you haven't looked at guilds, done the Daedric quests, or met any Dragon Priests. Those are the more notable things, but there is a huge amount of stuff to do that, whilst not being as significant, is just as fun.

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If this is the first time you've played an Elder Scrolls game, you won't be used to it. I remember exiting the sewers in Oblivion, and thinking "...woah... I can go anywhere?" The same thing happened in Fallout. I know the great swathes of unexplored map are pretty daunting - especially to a FPS/RTS player, where the map is essentially either a tunnel or an oblong - but you've just got to pick a direction, walk in it, and see what happens. The greatest rewards from this game come to those who just throw themselves at it.

EDIT: Crap, a lot of people posted between me starting this and finishing it.

Not sure if I read correctly but I think you said going and exploring the whole map is pointless. If I did then your wrong. There is so much more to explore.

The game is fairly east but then again you haven't really explored the harder part of the map. I would up the difficulty to a higher setting though.

As far as enchanting goes you need to bring different weapons to the enchanter as destroy them to learn the effect. Then you can put the effect on different items. Example: bring a ring that say regenerate 50% health. Destroy it now you have that effect you can use on armor, other rings etc. If you enchanting skill is low with no perks you won't get any high numbers. You'll see health regenerates at 10% instead of true original 50. Puts perk points in enchanting and it will go up. It's really awesome. I have the perk that allows 2 enchants on one item. So now my helmet does 60 extra bow damage and 60 extra health. You can choose whatever you'd like as long as you know the enchantment from a destroyed item. Also make sure you have black or grand soul gens it makes te percentages higher also.

Have you joined any guilds. Joining guilds can be great for your character. Get exclusive armor and weapons. Tons of stuff to do.

Become a vampire or werewolf.

You say you don't use shouts. You should. Go find the words and learn them. Some of them are amazing. Cal a dragon or a storm. Make people or animals fly through the air. Breathe fire or ice. Jump of the highest mountain and still live.

These are just a few things off the top of my head. There is so much. I'll keep going.

Find rare weapons. One actually changes any enemy into a rooster or rabbit and so on. Buy a house. Get married. Read books. Get drunk and black out and have random people come up to you giving you things that you must have asked for when you were drunk. Go to the sea of ghosts and look for treasure on sunken ships. Find shrines and be floated above Skyrim and watch a god and dragon fight. ask around at inns about rumors. Eventually learn about the dark brotherhood and become a cold blooded killer.

There is so so much to do. Just explore and you'll find it. You may never find some of the things I have, you may find your own cool things and tell me about them. The list can go in forever.

Hope you get the idea.

I can keep going but

Dynamic difficulty, you can change difficulty at any time..

It's always kinda been my way to flick the difficulty up a notch when approaching level 40 as it is possible to outpace the game.

A lot of stuff like that is the players responsibility in these games.

For example, from the sounds of it you must have gone hardcoe into grinding smithing which is why you are wearing dragon gear at your level (I got smithing to 60, haven't touched it since, lvl 48 atm).
That said, you're obviously a warrior type no?
So you should be as beast as possible in combat.
But I bet you're lacking in other areas, try them out... you're still far enough away from the level cap that you can afford to diversify your skills and become a warrior who also... steals? Is an amazing merchant? An expert alchemist? A spell-sword? an assassin?
Or you could make another character (which is common practice) and try out one of those styles.

As for stuff to do in the game world... lol, bro you ain't even scratched the surface.
There is an insane amount of content for you to do still, I bet you 1000 septims you haven't even experienced half of what there is to discover.

You have yet to find Lost Valley Redoubt? Keep exploring

You're probably just not used to this kind of game yet. No, there's no order to the quests: This is your story, not the story the game developers want you to follow.

I'm also new to this game and series. Unfortunately I play on PS3 so I'm not entirely enjoying the experience as much as I should be.

Nevertheless when the game is running smooth I absolutely love it. I've recently taken to wandering around the south east part of skyrim as there is a crap load of caves, dwarven cities etc.

If you want to squeeze the sweetest juice out from this game; explore, explore and explore some more!

Welcome to your first TES game. Here have a http://images.uesp.net/c/c4/Fishystick.jpg.

As other have said, turn up the difficulty level. While alot of people here say that they shouldn't have to gimp themselves when they play a game, the question I ask, is do you need your bum wiped? Can you do this yourself or do you need others to do it for you? One great thing that is awsome about TES games is you Control, you get to CHOOSE what you want to do, when you want to do it. There is no order in things you do quests. So if you want to overpower yourself, go ahead. Just don't complain how easy the game is. Just imagine how hard the game would be if you didn't overpower yourself? Or imagine how hard the game would be for people who make the game easy on themselves? I already find the game hard as it is.

What I am trying to say, is you have the options and choices yourself to make the game easy or hard. I don't know how you can find the game easy, I find it hard, I keep dying alot. So how people find it easy, I do not know. All I know, is the game can be hard. Why you are asking if there is better weapons or armour confuses me. You already find the game easy, you want to make it easier?

Try this. Play a Dead is Dead game. Once you die, you have to restart again. Now tell me if this game is easy or not. So if you can play the game without getting killed then yes, I guess you can say the game is easy. Now since the game is easy you shouldn't have a problem starting over each time you die.

I've got 300 attack with my two weapons and it still takes me more than 3 hits to kill draugr deathlord if I remember right

Hi All,

Woah, I was not expecting so many replies

I will try as said, increase the in-game difficulty. I did not know once the game is started it could be increase.

As said, I am 100 in smithing with the left side of the branch up to Dragon (iirc).
What are you guys redefing to as "join guild" ? Im not sure to know what that is.

I only spent perks in Shield (i just figured out how to bash ... never did before lol), 1h sword, Heavy armor and 2-3 in restoration. I went this way randomly ... i had a shield/sword when I got my 1st perk and went that way lol. What should I level then?
I level (without spending points into it): archery, sneak, speech, picklock.
How many perks do we have? Not sure if I can spend them in other tree.

I did alot of quests at Whiterun: I am a wereworlf, I am "The Compagnon" new leader (after killing that spirit thing from Kodlak), I think I am a vampire or w/e ( I can feed my eating corps). I am a "the Thane from Whiterun".

Talking about Whiterun, after posting, I went and did the quest I got at the beginning, about joining Storkcloak. So I killed that monster on the island, went back to Jarl in Windhelm, brang the axe to Jarl in Whiterun (he refused it) and now I have to fight Whiterun??? What will happen with my house and my stuff in my chest?

Thank you alot!


@Davor: I was gonna reply to your post then decided not too. Fighting over opinions is pointless.

The game is not about challenging players with actions. The actions are there to fill the atmosphere of a war torn world. The point of this game, is to play it the way you want it. You can be an explorer to open up every spot in the map, or objective oriented and finish the storyline at highest speed possible, or be a craftmaster and kill everything you don't like with your trinkets.

I can't call it a full RPG but at least it allows me to play it that way so I created multiple characters following different course of actions and see how things turn out.

I am sorry, but I do not mean to fight. Sorry if it came out so. I did not accuse you of anything. I was saying about other people complaining and not choosing to do anything about it. You want to do something about it. All I was saying was reinforcing anyone can make this game harder or easier and people were saying they shouldn't have to do anything to make the game harder. I know you are not like that.

Again sorry if you thing I want to fight over this, that was not my intention. I even was nice and gave a fishy stick. Was just trying to help by saying you have the choice since you thought you couldn't do so. I was just trying to say you can do what you want whenever you want.

It's a result of them catering to the casuals.

If the game is easy, than you need to up the difficulty. On master you can easily be 1-2 shotted, while on Novice, you will 1-2 shot everything. Find a balance you like.

Far as quests go, do any in your journal in any order you want, ignore which ever ones you want, or never do a single one. That is all up to you.

Far as weapons and armor goes, Daedric is top tier armor and weapons, with Dragon being the top light armor. You can improve them with your smithing skills to make them higher also.

Biggest appeal of TES games for me has been just plain exploring. Running down the road and seeing what you find. There are a ton of little things that you will miss if you just fast travel from point A to B to do quest X.

The easiness of the game lies in you achieving Dragon Armor at such a low level, relative to it's appearance. It's level 50 armor, and your level 34.

I really haven't found it too easy, and I've played TES since Morrowind. The sheer size of the world, and everything you can do, is just something to get used to.

OP, Roll a new character- pure mage, destruction-oriented. Way more difficult.