The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim: Alduin's Bane

Like many, I've been playing Skyrim on the side for the past few days, and I have to say that it's just so easy to get lost doing... stuff, in the province of Skyrim. Still, I figured that I'd have to face the dragon in the living room sooner or later, so worked on some parts of the main quest again, just to assuage my guilt a bit. While it's likely that I'm not going to record my whole progress through the quest line, I'll just record some of the highlights.

In this case, it's Alduin's Bane. I think I'm not the only one who found the fight hilariously easy because of the Dragonrend Shout. Someone really has to put up a mod that makes Alduin (at least, since he's the major antagonist) scale with players, since as it is he caps at level 50.

For the curious, I was at level 64 at this point, though as a bit of a challenge I was wearing relatively sub-optimal gear, matching in fact the outfit that the Dovahkiin wore in the pre-release videos of the game: Iron Helm, Studded Cuirass, Iron Gloves, Iron Boots, Iron Shield, (Skyforge) Steel Sword. The only caveat to this of course is that the gear all had
double-enchantments (100 Enchantment), and were upgraded to as high as I could get with 100 Smithing (Legendary, due to Fortify Smithing gear).

I think my Defense topped up at around 430 or so, which is less than what I would have had if I wore Nightingale (700+) or Dragonscale (950+) since I focused on Light Armor. And yes, for the curious, I ALSO was carrying my dragonscale set; I just swapped it quickly out for the Dovahkiin guise just for Alduin. :P

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[vanillastien]

Um, two things.

First: The sound is horrible.

Second: play on the hardest difficulty.