Whats is the highest enemy physical damage ?

[Skeleton Mage]

Planning an unarmored (clothing only, no armor from any source) character and was wondering what the highest enemy physical damage is.

Damage done using an unenchanted weapon or a creatures damage done with its natural weapons in a singe hit but not from magical sources (Fireball for example) or multi hit power attacks (high level forsworn).

I looked around the wiki's but did not see anyting - I suspect the highest level dragons & dragur would have the highest physical damage per hit.

edit: spelling

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

karstaag or the ebony warrior I'd bet, or something that continues to scale with your level. draugr are lame at higher level since they stop scaling

[GrimCat]

Originally posted by Vrakos Anthrakir:

karstaag or the ebony warrior I'd bet, or something that continues to scale with your level. draugr are lame at higher level since they stop scaling

Unless you add mods like Higher level enemies and Revenge of the Enemies then the draugr become a serious threat at high levels.

[Skeleton Mage]

Originally posted by Vrakos Anthrakir:

karstaag or the ebony warrior I'd bet, or something that continues to scale with your level. draugr are lame at higher level since they stop scaling

Originally posted by jimanity:

Originally posted by Vrakos Anthrakir:

karstaag or the ebony warrior I'd bet, or something that continues to scale with your level. draugr are lame at higher level since they stop scaling

Unless you add mods like Higher level enemies and Revenge of the Enemies then the draugr become a serious threat at high levels.

kind of what I thought but do you have numbers by any chance ?

[stcaFylnO]

No numbers, but I do cloth without mage armor for fun. It works fine if careful.

People tend to forget there are some high level enemies. For instance, if you steal Frost, then the quest giver initiates a random encounter. I've seen that enemy as high as level 134. He killed me with my cloth only setup in 3 hits on Legendary mode. I assumed he'd be low level, got lazy, got whacked. Reloaded, checked his level, got serious and paralyzed him. My character was ~119 at that time, hp was ~500(?).

Legendary Dragons will probably be what you want to look up, check wiki, or check one with console. Don't forget about NPC buffs and difficulty scaling. Base bite, wing, tail is listed as 200-300.


ref
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dragon#Legendary_DragonDG

[stcaFylnO]

Originally posted by Vrakos Anthrakir:

karstaag or the ebony warrior I'd bet, or something that continues to scale with your level. draugr are lame at higher level since they stop scaling

agree'd. Only the bow and 2 hander draugr hit hard, but they all have capped levels.

[Snow]

These little ♥♥♥♥♥.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Anomaly
They level forever, so eventually, they (or another enemy without a level cap), will be the strongest thing you can find, more likely itll be Kaarstag, or the Ebony Warrior. Legendary Dragons max out at 75, Ebony warrior maxes out at, well 80, he stays at 80, all his difficulty is from the fact that the enchantments on his gear is insane,
Armor

Ebony Armor of Regeneration 43 38 2657 Health regenerates 40% faster.
Ebony Boots of Frost Suppression 16 7 977 Increases Frost Resistance by 50%.
Ebony Gauntlets of Extreme Wielding 16 7 1347 One-handed attacks do 35% more damage.
Ebony Helmet of Waterbreathing 21 10 850 Can swim underwater without drowning.
Ebony Shield of Fire Suppression 32 14 1415 Increases Fire Resistance by 50%.
Weapons

Ebony Arrows 20 0 7 -
Ebony Bow of Winter 17 16 1234 Target takes 30 points of frost damage to Health and Stamina.
Ebony Sword of the Vampire 13 15 1956 Absorb 25 points of health.
Jewelry

Ring of Peerless Wielding 0.3 1373 One-handed attacks do 40% more damage.
Necklace of Shock Suppression 0.5 989 Increases Shock Resistance by 50%.

Also, him disarming you and your stuff goes soaring off the mountain, makes stuff quite a bit harder.

Karstaag actually caps out at 90, with Arngneir (Who holds the highest level in the vanilla game (with no DLC)) and Miraak both stopping at 150. The Forgemaster stops at 50, and Harkon at 60.
So yep, if were counting levels then either Miraak or Arngneir are the strongest (probably Miraak, since you DO have to fight him 3 times.), followed by Karstaag and then the Ebony Warrior, (and we cant forget about the lvl 75 dragon in the back).

But for physical damage/stats, Note: All lvls below are that NPC's max.
Miraak: Lvl: 150 / Magicka: 580 / Stamina: 470 / HP: 1220
Arngneir: Lvl: 150 / Magicka: 50 / Stamina: 1043 / HP: 1292
Ebony Warrior: lvl: 80 / Magicka: 250 / Stamina: 364 / HP: 2071
Legendary Dragon: lvl: 75 / same as below / HP: 4163
Serpentine Dragon: lvl: 58 / 50%,25% element resist, depends on type / HP: 3565
Alduin (since he can go to lvl 100): lvl: 100 / resists 50% all damage / HP: 2355
Karstaag: lvl: 90 / Magicka: 0 / Stamina: 1000 / HP: 4000

Difficulty's impact.
Difficulty NPC Damage Taken Player Damage Taken
Novice x2 x0.5
Apprentice x1.5 x0.75
Adept x1 x1
Expert x0.75 x1.5
Master x0.5 x2
Legendary x0.25 x3

[Skeleton Mage]

Good stuff, thank you for the detailed reply.

For anyone reading this and having a TL;DR moment:

Completely unarmored at adept difficulty you want to have at least 300 base health to survive an attack but it would be a good idea to bump that up to 500 to have a safety net for unexpected damage spikes.

If you decide to play on legendary difficulty triple those numbers (900 to 1500).

Edit: Spelling

[Sly-Scale]

While bows, Dwarven Centurions, elite Draugr, Giants, Chauruses and similar ilk pose serious threats, plain physical damage isn't quite as dangerous as the killmoves delivered by playable-race humanoids and the bite of a Dragon.

Killmoves made against you will bypass your blocks, ignore the presense of your companions, require no wind-up, and may be triggered by their own power attacks.

A two-handed warrior could play a deadly game of Tag with you, and execute you at full health just like that - instead of taking 3-4 normal strikes to kill you.

Dragon bites in particular come with obscene amounts of single-hit damage, and stronger Dragons are very much capable of executing you at any unarmored health level on Legendary difficulty.

Against Dragons, your best chance in melee range is to either sprint to their side or to their tail, as Dragons do not have killmoves there and rarely bother to turn.

Even then, beware of quick shoves from their wings, powerful strikes from their tails, and be prepared to elude their bite with more sprinting.

Simply sprinting away might just have them give chase, unless you add considerable distance.

[Skeleton Mage]

No accounting for whne the CPU decides to be cheap and insta kill you - had that happen to me a fair number of times.

I concidered the question already answered but thanks for the input ShMo.

[stcaFylnO]

Learn something new every day, thx for that ShMo