Lord Harkon Legendary difficulty

[Gvr]

Anyone managed to kill him on Legendary? I played this game from the beginning on Legendary and i didn;t have much problem with any quest. As for Lord Harkon I tried everything i could but he seems impossible to kill. If u manage to take 10% of his hp he drains someone and gets full health in no time.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Everybody is so focused on legendary .... let me put of your dream legendary is nothing more then reduced damage dealt and more damage taken. I have mods that would run you for your life even on adept ... There are mods out there that makes vanilla skyrim on legendary like a walk in the park.

[gnewna]

Originally posted by SpeedFreak:

Everybody is so focused on legendary .... let me put of your dream legendary is nothing more then reduced damage dealt and more damage taken. I have mods that would run you for your life even on adept ... There are mods out there that makes vanilla skyrim on legendary like a walk in the park.

This. Legendary is just damage sponge enemies and falsely squishy PC. My Requiem mage character is a cloth-wearing Altmer (so just about anything magical kills her DEAD outright, as do most arrows) with 180 HP - and even that's more than I intended her to have, I'm not sure why I ended up giving her so much. She SHOULD be squishy, that's why I made her that way. (Or is she a glass cannon? I get confused between the two, maybe she's both. Anyway.) On the other hand, if I'd made her as a tanky warrior in a full suit of heavy armour, then she should be, while not invulnerable, able to take a good few hits from most (non-magic using, seriously, oh my god, I HATE other mages playing as an Altmer in Requiem, it's brilliant!) enemies, and able to kill *them* in a similar amount of hits. It's ridiculous to end up in the situation where a mid-level Dovahkiin with plenty of points invested in health can be killed in a couple of hits by bandits who mysteriously take sod all damage from her awesome weapons of doom. And it encourages cheesy over-reliance on grinding crafting skills so you can have hideous Daedric gear, smithed up to the nines, at low levels, just so you can survive against the bandits, none of which is fun to me.

(I'm not actually that into making my game super-hard, so Requiem is pretty much enough for me, I may eventually add in some additional 'tougher enemies' mods like DCO if they're compatible with Requiem/patchable - Elemental Dragons looks pretty awesome, but I'd rather have it be an interesting challenge than a nightmare where I spend an hour battling one bloody dragon. Once in a while I like a really long fight, so long as it's not just 'oh my god why won't you take any damage, bloody Hell, I've used all my potions', but most of the time I don't, I want both sides to be about equally dangerous/vulnerable, relative to the type of enemy they are, e.g. mortal playable race enemies should be equal or lesser than my character, vampires should be way tougher, dragons should be a real struggle, but I don't want that to be solely down to 'they take hardly any damage and I take lots').

[mcbarker69]

I didn't kill Harkon until I was at level 100 (on legendary difficulty). Don't use Auriel's Bow. Harkon moves around too much, and the bow isn't that powerful, even with Sunhallowed Arrows, and improved fully with topped out smithing skills.

Instead, create a dragon bone sword (with smithing improvements), and give it two enchantments (if your enchanting skills allow). I used Fiery Soul Trap, and Absorb Health. Follow Harkon around, swinging your sword at him every chance you get. He'll eventually end uo at his blood font to recover his health. You should be able to kill him there with a couple of sword swipes.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Auriel's bow isn't so bad however I have mods so you can smith it up ... at that point I have all the perks and can make Auriel's bow legendary .... skyre for the win.

[Gvr]

Well i dont know why u guys consider Legendary difficulty such a useless thing. I have Dragonbone bow and even with archery at 100 I still have problems with most npc-s. Making them tougher and deadlier it's the whole purpose of this difficulty. On Adept I wouldn't have tried to dodge spells and arrows. But now u must become really skillful with the bow (in my case) to get pass most objectives. Anyways, after 2 hours of failure, I lowered the damn difficulty and I managed to kill him. Thanks anyway!

[SpeedFreak1972]

Err on adept with skyre you can 1 shotted by a crossbow ... with locational damege

[Trigger]

when daughter talks to daddy, dragonborn walks by harkon and goes into sneak behind daddy and at the right time, dragonborn does a one shot kill on poor old daddy. i use the RAZOR