Hey all, I've been trying to make a little content mod type quest. I had this idea about putting in a giant crab. So I duplicated the giant crab, it wasn't quite big enough so I wanted to make a custom version. So on my duplicated copy I start messing with the stats, made it a bit bigger which was easy enough. Next I wanted to make it a bit tougher so I go to the stats tab.

I can't post the link but if you go to the creationkit.com wiki and search Stats Tab you should be able to find the page.

So I set the crab's level to 50 with autostat on and play test it with a level 1 guy, yeah he's pretty tough. Play test it with my level 55 guy and it's pretty tough, can't hurt me at all but takes a few whacks to go down. Well the thing is I don't want a 'static' level for the giant crab, I don't know what level the player is going to be so I want to use PC Level Mult option. I tried it at 1.5 because I want it to be tough, playtest it and it's tough enough with the level 1 but the level 50 it's way too easy, goes down with 2 whacks. Hmm, 50*1.5 should be 75 right? OK well I bump the level mult upto 3, set the calc maximum level to 280 just in case! Playtest, it's still really easy for the level 50, 2 whacks, basically the same as the 1.5 level mult.

TLDR; if I set the level manually it works, if I use the PC level mult it's too easy for a higher level character.

Any ideas? Maybe this is one of the reasons the vanilla game is too easy, if the PC level mult ins't working properly?

Give it a Health Offset in the stats tab, that might help it be less easy to kill

Thanks for the reply. From the wiki:

"Health Offset: An amount to add or subtract from the calculated health value."

So wont that make the crab harder for the low level character not just the high one? Again, not very scalable. I will play test it but I was really hoping to figure out if the PC level mult is actually working.