Originally posted by dunbaratu:

Originally posted by Midas:

I'm implying that getting a good stealth attack off does several attacks worth of damage in a single hit potentially, and when utilized properly can allow you to kill enemies in a single bar of stamina without needing any recovery at all. Also depending on the enemy, you can land several backstabs on several enemies before they actually engage you, like Draugr. You can also potentially kill enemies quickly enough to not alert nearby enemies so long as you can return to a sneaking state and get out of LoS before they get too close.

So, yeah, play-style.

Nice to know that works for you. But your description is like it's talking about a completely different game. None of what you describe ever works when I try it. One attack and I'm seen by the world (and NO, it does not knock high HP monsters down far enough to take them down with the remaining actions in the stamina bar - so you just sneak up on a troll, backstab it, and then take it down before you run out of stamina? That just doesn't match what happens when I play *at all*, which is why I stopped trying to do that.).

Troll and Draugr are 2 different enemies. I wouldn't say trolls are the best enemy to test out hypothetical melee situations with in the first place.

You really went and cherry picked the argument on this guy and thats not terribly fair. These are a lot of good points that can apply to 90% of the games' enemies.

David didn't try to tank his way through his battle with Goliath, he used range.