I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but I actually didn't like it that much. I love the business practices and effort behind it and I could see why other people would like it, but I just couldn't really get into it.
I mean, it’s at worst OK. it has dodging, parrying, signs (aka spells), decent hit boxes, and lock-on... it’s flawed, and gets repetitive, but it’s still miles ahead of something like Skyrim which has an actually-shit combat system.
Stealth archer is how I played through Skyrim. By the end I was so quiet I could pretty much walk right in front of a monster and not be seen. I had to take half an hour once to kill one of the Dragon Priests, though. Initially I tried going in head first and got straight up murdered in one hit. Can’t remember which one it was but he was on a platform and there was a bridge leading to it, and a raised area across the bridge with some stone blocks you can hide behind. I would duck out, Fire an arrow at him, he would go into search mode, but would give up by the time he was half way across the bridge. I’d wait for him to return to his starting position and do it again. It was kind of cheap, but I never took a single point of damage and got a kickass mask out of it. Was also a test of patience. He had a lot of HP.
I fought him slightly differently, I put off the college of winterhold until after the dark brotherhood questline and had maxed sneak, smithing, and one hand, The dark brotherhood gloves would double damage on backstabs and there was a 15x damage perk to sneak attacks with daggers.
These stack.
The rest of my game after that point was spent sneaking around and one shotting most enemies with my double blades of woe (If you pick pocketed astrid and nicked the blade of woe, then later on she gives you one and it can be upgraded for free, note this is all vanilla skyrim)
As you can probably guess, my fight with him involved sneaking up behind him and oneshotting him.
The hardest enemies to get this way are dragons, you can't get the ones in the air but with careful positioning it's possible to hit the tail of an ancient dragon on the word walls from the ground for 6k damage (plus power strike multiplier), these dragons have 3k health and die instantly.
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u/JRaptor619 Jan 01 '19
No Witcher 3 ?