Skyrim : Don't know which difficulty i should choose

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#1 liukang1378
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I am playing this game for the first time I have been playing for 10 hours (not 10 hrs straight of course) and i have no idea which difficulty setting i want. I started playing on Adept but felt it was too easy at first and went to Expert but now that i am level 12 it is waaay to difficult so put it on Adept again but it was still too difficult (btw the only other Elder Scrolls game i played was Oblivion but never completed it but i know most basic stuff and i have learned more now in Skyrim) so put it on Apprentice but now i feel it is a bit too easy. I like a challenge but i don't want to spend 20 minutes trying to kill 2 Ice wolves that keep killing me over and over. Also do enemies level up with you because certain areas i thought I will leave for now and come back when i am higher level but then i become afraid that for example the monsters i met at level 12 will be replaced by higher level versions of them.

So which difficulty do you guys think I should have?

Do enemies level up with you and do enemies in caves get replaced by higher level enemy monsters once you are a higher level?

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I am playing this game for the first time I have been playing for 10 hours (not 10 hrs straight of course) and i have no idea which difficulty setting i want. I started playing on Adept but felt it was too easy at first and went to Expert but now that i am level 12 it is waaay to difficult so put it on Adept again but it was still too difficult (btw the only other Elder Scrolls game i played was Oblivion but never completed it but i know most basic stuff and i have learned more now in Skyrim) so put it on Apprentice but now i feel it is a bit too easy. I like a challenge but i don't want to spend 20 minutes trying to kill 2 Ice wolves that keep killing me over and over. Also do enemies level up with you because certain areas i thought I will leave for now and come back when i am higher level but then i become afraid that for example the monsters i met at level 12 will be replaced by higher level versions of them.

So which difficulty do you guys think I should have?

Do enemies level up with you and do enemies in caves get replaced by higher level enemy monsters once you are a higher level?

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If you cant kill two wolves on adept, your doing something wrong.

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I wouldn't be afraid to play with the difficulty as you see fit, as there's no reason to frustrate yourself if you don't want to have a crazy difficult experience. That's part of the benefit of having a difficulty slider you can adjust any time. The difficulty can be a bit wonky depending on how you spec your character, what equipment you have, and when you first visited/unlocked areas, as enemies do scale. So if you discover a dungeon very late game when you're a high level, there will be a lot more upper level monsters in it. And the scaling is not always fair, depending on your class. Or you might not have the appropriate magic resistance potions, if you're up against a couple of mages, or whatever. I've generally found the entire overworld to remain fairly easy in terms of difficulty, though (other than the odd Elder Dragon).