Adept to Expert

[Crono373]

The jump from adept to expert seems off.
On adept vs basic bandit 3-4 hits to kill them, can take 10+ hits
On expert, about the opposite

[RadMan]

Agreed. I haven't played much but I feel invincible on adept and brittle boned on expert. Dungeon goblins take over a dozen hits on expert and I take as much damage while blocking with a shield as it does when I hit clean. Same with others I've seen stream it. Weird that the difference between normal and hard is "nigh invincible" vs "starting area goblins are practically mini bosses".

[RadMan]

Putting on heavy armor helped, but I can genuinely steamroll the starting dungeon with no armor, just spamming attack, whereas wearing light armor and blocking with the iron shield and actually playing somewhat tactically is relatively hard. I don't want to know what apprentice or master look like.

[SalmonLord]

It's because they changed the values. It's supposed to go up to 1.5x damage taken / 0.75x damage done on Expert for modern Bethesda games - the original had a slider, not steps - but the Remaster has it as 3.0x damage taken / 0.6x damage done. Granted, it does also add out-of-combat health regeneration, which the original didn't have. But it still feels really off to get two-shot by a mudcrab, for sure. There's a mod on the Nexus that changes it to the typical values, if that interests you.

[Getherer]

agreed, highest difficulty should set ourselves as brittle as enemies, attack sponges are just boring

[Sgt. Flaw]

Yea,

Oblivion had a slider that had a difficulty scale of 1-100...this one went with Skyrims system and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ something up.

Eitherway just keep playing..Oblivion gets WAY easier as you level up anyway...regardless of scaling

[(J)]

It was hard like this in the original game on a higher setting and in the original game there was NO passive health regen.

The advantage here is, you have to do more to kill stuff, so your skills will progress faster. Nut up boys.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Originally posted by (J):

It was like this in the original game and in the original game there was NO passive health regen.

The advantage here is, you have to do more to kill stuff, so your skills will progress faster. Nut up boys.

I mean OPs not wrong...Oblivion had a difficulty slider not a selection so it's impossible to say it was like this in the original.

But, it's time to buy up the difficulty anyway..it's been years and they give you the tools here

[EvilReFlex]

Yes, agree, Adept is very easy in comparison with Expert.
Its a big difference.

[Teazone]

It's always been like this. look up difficulty on the uesp wiki for information.
Any bethesda start on expert / master or newly legendary is gonna be difficult to say.
You may even struggle with a single enemy in the beginning but with just the slightest ability of creating a "build" you can usually offset that by level 20.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Getherer:

agreed, highest difficulty should set ourselves as brittle as enemies, attack sponges are just boring

It's an RPG, RPG are about progression, get better skills/better weapons and you'll be less brittle and do more damage overall/have more control.

[Teazone]

Difficulty in Bethesda games usually decreases your damage and increases enemy damage with every step up. So while on adept both values sit at 1.0 on expert you only deal 0.75 damage and take 1.5. That creates a diff of 75 %, so there is your reason for the feel of difficulty increase. It only gets worth with master. Its all bullet sponge