Oceane Schmidt
Feb 07, 2025
Skyrim – Hamelyn and other magic type encounters!?
I recently encountered Hamelyn while playing Skyrim. I'm currently at level 41, equipped with full legendary Daedric heavy armor and a shield, and I've enhanced my smithing skill by over 50%. However, this mage came up and hit me with Chain Lightning, and I lasted only about 0.2 seconds! In my first two attempts, I didn’t even get a chance to see what was attacking me.
Eventually, I decided to remove all my armor and sneak up right behind him for a sneak attack, which allowed me to finish him off. Still, I’ve noticed that this happens with nearly every mage I encounter lately; they seem way too overpowered. I’m playing on Adept difficulty and don’t want to lower it at all.
When it comes to melee enemies, they can’t touch me—I barely lose any health, and I can take them down in one hit. So, am I missing something? What can I do to avoid being overwhelmed by mages? I can now solo two giants and their mammoths, but one mage leaves me face down in the dirt, wondering if anyone caught the license plate number!
I’m concerned about what will happen when I face three mages like him. Should I sneak attack the first one and then get blitzed by the other two? If anyone has had a similar experience and can offer some useful advice, I would greatly appreciate it!
4 Answers
Spells avoid all normal armour rating, so that legendary Daedric is just slowing you down. only way to avoid damage from spells is use defending spells, or enchanted armour. Also drain their magicka, it is limited just like yours
My tactic – sneak attack one from a distance, then move back into the shadows. Once they have calmed down, sneak attack and hide again. It takes a while, but I’ve taken down Dragon Priests and whole castles of necromancers this way.
You need to upgrade your armor with magic resistance or elemental resistance. There should be perks in your skill trees that have elemental resistances.
Or you can do wat i do, sneaky archer sniping.
Lure the mages out 1 by 1 by causing noise like dropping a bucket or get barely into sight in stealth and lead them away from their group and doing stealth kills
use lighting elemental weapons because it does direct damage to magic as well.
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