Say you're in a situation. You're at the end of the maze and you encounter the boss. A machine of some sort is launching fire at you, and a Draugr something Lord (not Death Lord) with enormous amounts of health is attacking you with a 2H weapon at the same time... How do you go into that??

My Flame Atronach was quite innefective. My full set of fine Elven armor, combined with Stoneflesh, a sustain health potion, bound sword, shield and Flame Atronach were innefective. Dual weilding fire or shock were innefective. This cave was supposed to be lvl 6 and I'm lvl 19...

Just curious.

Sounds like you spaced your skills across too many schools.... as a mage I would use hit and run tactics, as in hit him with dual wielded fire or whatever, spam atronachs, and make sure to have some staffs if you run out of magicka. With a warrior, im not sure, i use orcs all the time, and for bosses i tend to use berserker rage, which works wonders....

If the machine is a Centurion, they are level 24. Sometimes you just have to admit defeat and come back in a few levels.

I always dodge. Also, that one Destruction perk I think it is that staggers opponents. Then I just keep on spamming Destruction spells at the enemies, timing them so that the enemies can't get closer. Since then, my mage has been virtually unbeatable. One can get the perk at very early stage, too. :I

One thing is to be invisible to the boss. That can be done with too high a Sneak skill. My Argonian assassin has 100 Sneak, and that leveled there waaaaaaaaaaay too fast. ._.

True, I have spread my perks out way too much.

The machine is not a Centurian. It is a big statue like thing. And my 49 Sneak is no match for the all seeing machine...

My character is a Mage with some def 2/1H skills. But between the freak with the ax and the fireballs coming from the statue... I eventually beat it and I don't even remember how now - I tried so many combinations....

You sure this "statue" thing wasn't one of those Soul Gem traps that shoot whatever Destruction magic at you and do a lot of damage? Those can be disabled by either taking or moving the Soul Gem. Moving can be done with a ranged attack, say, hitting it with a Destruction spell so that it will change its position even a tiny bit, or fly off completely.

I once came across a named necromancer, with a load of raised draugr and two ghosts, butchered me mercilessly, reload after reload. I finally got them all to follow me for half a large dungeon level, and trapped her in a swinging axe trap. There is sometimes a way if you are tricksy enough. I also, however, have had bandit chiefs kill me with one hit, tried everything, tried mad stuff, used everything in my inventory, no joy. Had to give up, go away, come back later. Now if I had still had that summon storm atronach scroll I used on the last bandit chief...

I know this music.

I had a very similar hard battle. I tried several things:

Tactic 1: I tried to direct him into the line of fire of the machine- Didn`t work.

Tactic 2: I tried shouting him and directing him in the line of fire. Didn`t work. Killed myself most times.

Tactic 3: Archering him: Nope.

Tactic 4: Running away. Nope. he follows you.

The one that worked for me.

Tactic 5: I ran away until i found a slight ledge I could jump on and got my arrows. Of course when he saw he couldn`t reach me he kept running into cover. So I jumped down and Shouted him and arrowed him then quickly jumped back on the ledge so he retreated.

After a while of this (he still wouldn`t die) I noticed that when I jumped down he would attack but if I hit him again with an arrow he would back off. So all I did was stand my ground and keep cool and I just kept hitting him with arrows. he kept trying to attack and changing his mind half way whenever I hit him.

It took ages, but finally he collapsed to his knees. I Thoomed him and charged with my Two-hander and killed him.

I think it took me two hours to kill him!

Also, he killed my Follower in the process.

That's bad. I can get one-shotted by arrows now, as I've put hardly any level-up points to Health since I'm a mage. I just have to run zigzag like hell and look for cover whenever a Bandit Marauder or higher archer is aiming at me. Then I trap him/her to my Destruction-spell -> Destruction-perk-that-staggers-enemies-kicks-in -> rince-and-repeat-so-that-(s)he-can't-get-another-arrow-away combo.

A steady barrage of arrows didn't work either (no backing off at all). Also no ledge to speak of. I could have taken a run at the fire launcher.... didn't think of that. I inspected it later and found no soul gem mechanism.

After trying 15 different combinations of everything I could think of he was suddenly dead and I'm not sure what I did. Took me a good 45 minutes, though.

That sounds AMAZING!!!!! I mostly play a "tank" style,it's far and few in between that I get such a glorious battle.Even my archer is stealthy enough that I can wipe out and entire regiment before anyone knows what hit em.Perhaps I need to dabble in the magic schools.

I think, this is where the illusion-tree comes in handy, even if used just to calm the warrior and judge the situation more closely.

I know that lace I just sent in a couple of dreomora lords after him. He killes quite a few, but could not outlast my minions. As for you, maybe GTFO and call it a day?

Place, dammit

I quite like the rune spells in situations like this. Set a long line of rune spells back the way you came (or put them all in one place if you like) until you can't cast any more, then lure the tough enemy on to the runes.
If you placed enough, it should be quite the show!

My Nord is a tank and an alchemist.

I'd keep the draugr staggered with shield bashing, and try to kill them asap, while eating potions from the fire damage.

There have been a few situations where my Nord found himself fighting 2-3 draugr lords at once, and I was glad that he wasn't a squishy character. Mages give him trouble though, and boosting magic resistance is in the plans.

I want to know where this is. It doesn't sound familiar and it sounds....well like the sort of place you think you want to go and check out until you find yourself there getting owned.

I know that place too, and it's really meant for a significantly higher-leveled character with much better gear/spells. Unfortunately, the fire-spitter can't be turned off, save by the death of the boss, so you have to avoid it if possible. Chain-stunning of some sort is a godsend for this fight, especially if you can force the boss into a corner away from the fire-spitter's LOS.

Pretty simple answer, stay out of range of the magic user, and keep an eye on any spells coming your way, kite the draugr around and kill him first, make sure when he swings his 2h you are the one baiting the swings so you are properly prepared and not panicking trying to stay out of his way, let your atronachs do the damage if you must and you focus on staying alive.