Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[Drasca]

The disarm, knockback, and paralyze effects happen only sparingly, and a power attack leaves me open for a counterattack,[right][snapback]110137[/snapback][/right]

For melee users, I agree. You've got to try master marksman. The knockback and paralyze happen pretty frequently. Its fun watching hordes of ogres be smacked around your arrows.

While I can swing two or three times and have my shield up in time with normal attacks.  And guess what?  Three normal attacks do more damage and eat less Fatigue than one power attack.

I personally use the lunge to cover distance.

Dodging requires Journeyman Acrobatics; I'm only Apprentice.

You could always up acrobatics via a console command to try it, or jump around until you're a journeyman.

backing into a corner to prevent flanking when fighting more than one target is more efficient than trying to hop around.

I use defensive positions too, but they're not always available. Open fields don't have too many corners, and not everyone can outrun everything at all times (especially when certain mods apply).

However, I'm glad I'm a better swimmer than my necromancer consorts :whistling:

Static positions also aren't a good idea when there's enemy arrows and spells flying at me, or the enemy's rate of damage is vs my health is just too much.

given that they still don't do any damage worth noting (and even if they do, I can simply Wait for an hour after the fight to get all my stats back), but have even more HP, making fights even longer.

Eh? Typically, the enemies I face can knock down 1k health within 10s if I'm not careful. This can be additionally problematic if I'm snared or rooted via burden spells, and find no place for healing respite. Just what range of difficulty slider do you actually use?

Have you ever turned the difficulty setting up to where enemies are an actual threat? Not everyone else here has the HP, armor, or the lowered difficulty to stand go toe-to-toe with enemies at alls times and survive.

If you don't think they're threatening enough, you can do something about it. For one, try turning up the slider enough that they're a threat (your damage received does multiply). I do recommend trying the combat behviour mod (doesn't actually rebalance any stats, just makes them behave differently). Enemies like to be a lot more aggressive in general.


Also if you're willing, go to your Oblivion.ini file in your my documents/mygames/oblivion folder and scroll down to:

fDifficulty=0.2400

and reply here with your adjusted difficult number. The number above is typical of what I use. I'm comfortable with that most of the time. What adjusted difficulty are you using?