If you're level 4 and fighting Verrick that tells me that you haven't gone to the starter islands. Leave the quest in Daggerfall alone for now, and go off to follow the quest that sends you to a ship at the docks that takes you to Stros M'kai. If you don't have this quest in your journal, the quest giver for it is a Redguard woman immediately across the street from the house you woke up in after the tutorial (just past the bank I believe).

The quest will take you to the first of the 2 starter islands. You're intended to do the quests and explore on the starter islands (completing the questline on Stros M'kai will send you to the second starter island: Betnikh) before you start adventuring in Daggerfall and the rest of Glenumbra. By the time you're done with the starter islands you'll be level 6-8 (depending on how thorough you are about doing everything there is to do on the islands), you'll have more skill points, and you'll have a better handle on how to play the game and how to use your class.

Then you'll come back and kick Verrick's rear like a boss.

Elektrakosh wrote: »

Alrighty, I'll try that. Thank you.

For the record, I find it to be super non-intuitive that you wake up in Daggerfall but you're actually supposed to immediately leave and do the quests on the starter islands before doing the quests in Daggerfall and the rest of Glenumbra. When I first started playing at PC launch I did the same thing you did, and hit a wall at the same place you did (I also had similar difficulty with the werewolf, and I was also using primarily heavy armour - it's almost like you're me from the past - you're not are you?). It was after giving up on that fight in frustration and deciding to do something else for a while that I went to the starter islands and then realized that you're actually supposed to do that first.

UrQuan wrote: »

Elektrakosh wrote: »

Alrighty, I'll try that. Thank you.

For the record, I find it to be super non-intuitive that you wake up in Daggerfall but you're actually supposed to immediately leave and do the quests on the starter islands before doing the quests in Daggerfall and the rest of Glenumbra. When I first started playing at PC launch I did the same thing you did, and hit a wall at the same place you did (I also had similar difficulty with the werewolf, and I was also using primarily heavy armour - it's almost like you're me from the past - you're not are you?). It was after giving up on that fight in frustration and deciding to do something else for a while that I went to the starter islands and then realized that you're actually supposed to do that first.

Lol! I do feel rather daft for not spotting the gal waiting outside who tells you to go to the boatswain. Those black markers are easy to miss if you don't know what your looking for but I would have thought even at your level you would be able to have a close match in fighting rather than the total trouncing you get. Still finally did what you pointed out and glad for it.

Duiwel wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Elektrakosh wrote: »

Alrighty, I'll try that. Thank you.

For the record, I find it to be super non-intuitive that you wake up in Daggerfall but you're actually supposed to immediately leave and do the quests on the starter islands before doing the quests in Daggerfall and the rest of Glenumbra. When I first started playing at PC launch I did the same thing you did, and hit a wall at the same place you did (I also had similar difficulty with the werewolf, and I was also using primarily heavy armour - it's almost like you're me from the past - you're not are you?). It was after giving up on that fight in frustration and deciding to do something else for a while that I went to the starter islands and then realized that you're actually supposed to do that first.

True Elder scrolls fans would have talked to the first NPC they see ( the woman who gives you the quest to go to the island )

True Elder Scrolls fans did, but then decided that a quest that sends you away from the area you woke up in is clearly something that should be tackled after exploring the area where you woke up.

I tried the quest to save the king early after arriving at Daggerfall. I had already worked at my skills and levels at Betnich and Stros M'Kai. I was defeated.
I tried many times with different strategies, the room is rather small so it is difficult to get out of his effective field. I finally gave up.
I came back to it as a level 34 recently and was quickly defeated again. It is so wonderful that a programmer can design a character that kills the quest pursuer so easily.
The computer is much faster than I am and it adjusts to my motions better than I can adjust to it's motions. In fact when I make unpredictable changes in motion, it knows exactly where I am and changes it's death strokes instantly as I change my motion. The goblin witches on the plain above Stros M'kai are a pleasant change since their fire attacks go where I was not where I currently am.
For the record, I played for years in Local Area Network parties with real live friends and learned evasive techniques that worked for them. If you circle a player and move closer and further away, it is very difficult for them to hit you with an attack. It is not difficult for a computer NPC to hit you if the programmer wants it to.
Anger about this is understandable. I may never finish this quest. No matter how much better my armor and my weapon and my abilities, the NPC can always be better than me. It is the realm of the NPC and its programmer after all. It is not my realm and it is not the realm of real live people. It is an imaginary realm where the laws of physics and reaction time can be violated.
So I vote for an alternate thread where the King dies.
The computer programmer wins and we all bow in humble human ineffectiveness to his cleverness.
I am defeated and you're defeated too.
Why do I say you are defeated too.? It is because you will not sell as many copies of add-ons and future game installments. People will remember their frustration and anger.
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