What a challenge.

Invisiility spell, crouch, cut, dead.

Though I hardly need to, at level 100 enchant and smith a single dual-weapon power attack kills pretty much anything.

My stealth character got way too easy to play despite master difficulty at some point...

Potent lingering poisons that damage health and stamina...

I have a quest reward that gives me 2min of on demand invis for any real hard fight.... makes some fights hilarious as I sneak attack 15ppl in the same room lmfao

I'm level 87 or so sneak (no grinding, all from actual gameplay) and at 100 I'll have a slightly less version of the above power on permanently... (and then swap out teh above power for a diff one a day)

I'll just run and play hide and seek if a tough armored enemy that I can't burn down in a few quick power attacks... I die QUICK to heavy hitters, so I just avoid them. After 15 seconds of hiding, they forget I was ever there and I can sneak back up on them.

I actually don't use brotherhood gloves MOST of the time... 15x dmg is enough to 1-shot MOST enemies, and the +20% 1hand & lockpicking is often more useful.


BTW: daggers don't benefit from +1hand damage..... kinda seems like BS to me but I tested swapping out my gloves with a dagger equipped. My Nightinggale blade (and Chillblain) both went up in damage but my dagger did not. However, if it comes to face2face combat... I'm pulling out my health&stamina draining sword... or my Ice¶lyze sword.

As others have said: Stealth. The damage multipliers for bows and 1H wepons are enough to overcome much of the advantage of Heavy Armour. Once you can sneak-attack then most things are easy kills. At least as long as you run the right perks - but that's true of every skill.

True, but daggers do benefit from the Armsman perk. And as you point out, the 15x sneak attack by itself is enough in most situations anyway. If you need more, you can always apply a little poison to your blade . . .

How do I fight the heavies as a lightweight? I just hit them first.

Usually just Ninja them with my Ebony Bow and Ebony arrows beforehand. If they do see me, which happens more on interior places, I get an arrow ready to shoot... zoom in for a shot- which I have the perk for 'Slows Time 50%' which allows for the shot to take place and then a quick change to a dagger or sword combo I have. Dagger set up is 1 dagger with paralysis enchant on it, the other with Absorb Health. Swords I have are the Nightengale Sword and a sword named Chillrend- which I got on a quest (has sword damage and +Frost damage and +% chance to paralyze target). Add a poison if I want just to make a more effective... uh... first impression on them.

Hack and slash with my dagger mostly..

Stop failing at an easy game?

Hahahhaa. Queue the "Skyrim is not about difficulty and challenge" Larptards!!!

Not exactly true. The enemy will quickly re-detect you if you use it close, but it works everywhere. In fact, you can run up to an enemy out of stealth, quickly press into stealth while attacking and get the kill cam sneak up behind them neck slit animation.

If stealth ever glitches out and I am seen, I usually do the above. I've had 5 guys trying to attack me while I spam in and out of stealth. The moment I enter I attack, it will work about 25% of the time.

make them fight each other with Fury then pick them off while HP is low. with 100hp its over if im spotted and hit.

or i lay a frost rune and watch the all get paralysied then use Unrelenting shout to knock them off the edge (non improved shout)

This, kind of. I wouldn't say you are invisible for a couple of seconds... you actually are not invisible at all. It just clears your name off the enemy target list. This means they have to re-see you or be attacked by you to put you back on the enemy list. Kind of glitchy because they still stay in combat mode (who was that? I'll find you and kill you!) but they don't know it was you who attacked anymore.

Marked for Death shout softens them up quite nicely.

Creating a challenge is the responsibility of the game designers. Very few if any game designers are left. (RIP WoW)

Sneakattack on elder dragon with steel daggers, untill it was dead. Dang hard to get back into sneak on dragons. Took ages too.

power shot, deadly aim perks, and ebony arrows

Well, I don't pretend to understand the game mechanics behind the scenes, but when I do use Shadow Warrior in third person mode it appears like I vanish for a second or two into a puff of black smoke.