Dragons should never be mentioned in the same breath with cliff racers. Dragons are cool , cliff racers were just a PITA.

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Cliff racers were my melee characters bane.....That is until I fortified my acrobatics to 200.

Yeah, you're a ... somethinsomethin.

I fight the crap out of dragons. I'm not having much fun with ancient dragons (I'm a weak level 48), but I enjoy dragon fights. ...Alduin was basically on level with elder dragons for me. And yes, spoiler, but dragons don't go away when you complete the main plot (unless you use console commands).

Fast travel is a dragon generator. I fast travel a lot. If you're not a fast traveler and want to fight dragons, you could try scouting the areas or just... fast traveling with the express reason of dragon killing. If you're hankering for a dragon-slaying, the most common places for dragons (for me) are at the College of Winterhold's courtyard and Winterhold(eight times), Dawnstar (three times), and outside Kolskeggr Mine near Markarth (twice).


Cliff racers may be extinct. Maybe.


Also, pro tip: try drawing the dragon away from civilians and kill them quickly so you don't risk having a game full of ghost towns.

I always trigger them when I'm playing a blasty or a sliceydiceysmackywhacky character, but if I'm just playing a sneakerizating character I try to avoid it so I can just be a sneaky, controlling [censored]. I love Sneak + Illusion.

I have only one character that I've bothered to finish the main quest with, and out of the 20 or so levels she's gotten since completing it, she's had to fight maybe one or two dragons, and I fast travel constantly with her. She's seen more than that, but they tend to make a couple circles overhead and then fly off, for some reason. The other character I started the MQ with, I never finished it, and I have pretty much retired that character anyway (was my launch-day character... didn't know what I was doing, and stats/perks are all screwy).

I don't really mind dragons, except that they show up at the most inconvenient times, which is one reason I haven't bothered to do the main quest again. I swear they coded the stupid things to always show up when you're at your carry limit and just fast-traveled to wherever you have a house. Or when you're escorting an unarmed NPC (another issue would be why do the unarmed and unarmored NPCs always run up to everything they see and try to punch it? )

I knew I was done with dragons for good when I came back from Labyrinthian with the Staff of Magnus, and a dragon was circling the College. Because of the barrier that is up until you talk to the NPC to continue the quest, I couldn't get close enough to hit the dragon, and the NPC wouldn't talk to me because there was a dragon nearby. Reloading the game didn't help, fast traveling somewhere else and back again didn't help, going indoors didn't help, the dragon was always there and I couldn't continue the quest... After a good 30 minutes of trying to figure this out, I finally gave up and started walking out of Winterhold down the road. Then the dragon finally came over to the town and I was able to kill it. After that incident, I was done with dragons.

I don't mind dealing with a dragon, as long as they don't mulitply like Cliffracers. GOD I hated those things....

Your character is in denial about their destiny. They are the Ultimate Dragonslayer. LOL

i don't know if it is posible to continue to do this because fights get much harder.

there are bosses using shouts against your character that will literally disarm you or toss you 60ft into a wall.

Good Luck and let us know how it works out.

nt whining is he

just relishing the game without

You really don't need to shout yourself to defeat enemies that are shouting at you, and whether you can shout back at them or not, there is no way to prevent their shouts from affecting you. I've only ever used a couple of shouts anyway (Whirlwind Sprint, Become Ethereal, and Ice Form) and those are pretty easy to do without (Aura Whisper is another useful one, but the Detect Life spell does the same thing, with no cooldown). On my characters that haven't done the MQ, the only shout I really miss is Whirlwind Sprint. On my character that has done it, the shouts of enemies affect her just as much as they affect the characters that didn't. There's really little advantage to the MQ unless you want to wear dragon armor.

Haven't met one yet.... it might just be that if I don't start the MQ or learn dragon shouts, I might not get any directed at me.

And if so, well, there are ways to deal with people like that...

I can confirm that draugr will still Fus Ro Dah at you even if you don't know any shouts yourself. Does it make any difference? Not really, no.

What did you expect from dragons? How many dragons did you think would be in the game, one? They would be pretty pointless if they couldn't kill anything but you. All dragons wanted to do since they were first in Skyrim was to enslave and/or kill all mortal beings.

You people are crazy. Dragons are one of the main things I was looking forward to in Skyrim. I love fighting dragons. Better than closing Oblivion Gates.

Hearing their roar from afar while I'm out exploring or traveling gives me a feeling of fright and intensity that no other game has been able to deliver. I quickly stop what I'm doing and look toward the skies hoping to spot the beast before he spots me. Then I crouch behind cover and try to figure out whether the dragon is just passing over and doing a fly by or if he's going to be looking for an epic battle between the two of us where only one of us comes out alive. I begin to ready all my best weapons. Make sure I have the correct enchanted sword for whether it's a fire or ice breathing beast. Make sure my best armor is strapped up and my helmet is on. I ready my bow and pull an arrow from it's quiver, drawing it back as I point it at the hovering goliath. Swiftly drawing and letting one arrow go right after another trying to inflict as much damage as possible before he realizes where it's coming from. The dragon spots me as I let my last arrow fly. He opens his mouth and unleashes a fiery hell as I jump behind a rock for cover. I peak up to see where he's at and the angry brute shouts another blast of fire at me, trying to soften me up before he touches ground. The earth shivers and the ground beneath my feet quakes. The monstrosity landed. Dirt moves and gravel flies on every step he takes. He's inching closer on what he hopes will be his next meal while I hold close to the rock, the only thing standing between me and him while I try to quickly devise my next move and plan how to take this fire-breathing demon down. I'm all out of arrows so I ditch my bow. Nothing but my sword now. Nothing but a sharp blade with a mediocre frost enchantment to send this beast back to the grave. Now's my chance, the dragon is grounded waiting for me to reveal myself. Behind this rock stands glory or death. I unsheathe my blade, lunge over the once protective rock, and shout as loud as I can hoping all the Gods can hear me as I charge towards the dragon.

Nothing like taking down a dragon...

But what if you meet draugr before the MQ? hmmm..........

Thank you for your service and God Speed.

The leveled ones still shout. I have a couple of characters who only visited Riverwood for the shop, in Dragonsreach just made a beeline for the enchanting table in Farengar's room and never talked to Jarl Balgruuf, etc. and the same types of draugrs who shout at you if you do the MQ, still shout at you if you haven't seen any dragons since leaving Helgen.

I did with my Dark Elf. But I actually went to Riverwood so I could do the Golden Claw quest for $$$.

That's the only thing I did... then went on my own. LOVE not fighting Dragons constantly.. even though as a Dark Elf I kinda cheat with my 50% Flame Res.

Don't get me wrong, Nords are great at fighting dragons. But most I've come across have Fire > Frost attacks.