Dwemer Weakness

[SrCarrilho]

Does anyone know what the robots' weaknesses are? Like fire, ice or lightning, in swords?

[alexander_dougherty]

They don't have one, just keep hitting them until they die.

[Synopse]

They are immune to frost and poison and have a portion of magic resistance. Just avoid these.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Imho hitting hard or fire/lightning is the best way

[steventirey]

For the most part, enemies don't have an armor rating. They just have more hit points. Even some of the stuff that appears to have armor doesn't actually have an armor rating. (An exception being the playable races.) The automatons are like this, so weapon damage is the only thing they don't have a resistance or immunity to.

As an additional note this also means that the weapon perks that let blunt weapons ignore some armor are mostly worthless, except when fighting something like a high level bandit. Dragons and draugr don't have an armor rating to ignore, just a lot of hit points.

[alexander_dougherty]

Oprindeligt skrevet af steventirey:

For the most part, enemies don't have an armor rating. They just have more hit points. Even some of the stuff that appears to have armor doesn't actually have an armor rating. (An exception being the playable races.)

Even most of the playable races don't have an armour rating, some have a defense value (does the same job but isn't vulnerable to certain perks) and some just have extra hit points.... they spawn armour as loot but don't use it because Bethesda couldn't get it to work right.

[Gralzeim]

Logically, they should be weak to frost damage (because they're steam powered), but they are not. Ah well.

[alexander_dougherty]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Gralzeim:

Logically, they should be weak to frost damage (because they're steam powered), but they are not. Ah well.

Logically they should be vulnerable to fire damage, because they are already hot, so heating them up more should melt seals and delicate bits...

[Valden21]

Just looked at their entry on UESP, and here's a brief rundown.
-normal damage from Shock damage.
-Immunity to paralysis.
-Immune to Frost damage.
-Dwemer spiders CAN be ragdolled but the other kinds can't.
-25% magic resistance.
-CAN be Soul Siphoned, but not Soul Trapped.
-Lower-leveled versions take less damage from physical attacks. while higher-level versions will deal more physical damage to you.
-Higher-level Dwarven Spiders will shoot lighting at you, and ALL Dwarven Centurions have a breath weapon.

[Roxxsmom]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SrCarrilho:

Does anyone know what the robots' weaknesses are? Like fire, ice or lightning, in swords?

As others have said they don't really have an Achilles heel, aside from the player being able to dish out physical damage pretty quickly. I don't bother hitting them with spells, though summons and followers can certainly use spells to distract some of them.

Having a good block with a shield helps mitigate the physical damage, as does a large reserve of healing potions for the centurions, which do hit like sledgehammers. Potions and gear that help you resist electrical damage is helpful for the spiders that shoot lightning.

[R4ndomG4mer]

They are immune or resistant to everything except shock/lightning. They aren't weak to it, they simply lack a resistance to it, so it won't deal any extra damage, but it's probably still the best option if you're going the magical route.

[Graywarden]

I have found that shock damage is more effective for me. So I usually take an enchanted (shock) two handed weapon, and lightning arrows when I go Dwemer Diving

[worm_master]

unbound storms, do's the job for me, 2-3 sec's, there all fried! or demia lords, they seem to be surprisingly effective, most likely coz they use a 2 handed weapon.

It's not a issue really now, i jus sneak up on em, an stab em.

[Perplex]

They are weak to stuns. Just like everything else except for the Ebony Warrior and Kaarstag who are both immune. Everything else can be stunlocked.

[Elf On A Hook]

what ive always done and its worked exremey well is use the snek x2 double bow damage + this using (atm ebony bow and arrows im doing i think 258 dmg when seak shot i almost always 1 shot them or 2 ) once i get dragon bow and arrows its game over for them. (and yes im level 98?archery atm working on 100) i run destro/conjure/bow/ with side or restro and petro rune (yes ik petro rune doesnt work on them but does other things that dont die and catch my sneak off guard or that dont get one or 3 shot )