The charts below show enemy weaknesses and resistances/immunities
When choosing what weapons or spells to equip consult the chart below and equip based on the "Weakness" column corresponding to the enemies you are fighting in that area.
Axes do cleaving damage, daggers and swords do slashing damage, hammers and maces do bashing damage.
Enemy | Weakness | Resistances | Immunities |
---|---|---|---|
Skeevers | Fire | Shock, Poison | None |
Spiders | Cleaving, Frost | Slashing, Shock, Poison | None |
Spriggans | Cleaving, Fire | Bashing, Frost, Shock | None |
Wights | Cleaving, Fire | Bashing, Shock, Poison | None |
Skeletons | Bashing, Shock | Slashing, Fire | Poison |
Wolves | Slashing, Shock | Bashing, Fire, Frost | None |
Bandits | Poison | Shock, Frost | None |
Mercenaries | Poison | Cleaving, Fire, Frost | None |
Outcasts | Cleaving, Shock | Bashing, Fire, Poison | None |
Warmasters | Cleaving, Poison | Frost, Shock | None |
Thalmor | Poison | Slashing, Frost, Shock | None |
Bears | Slashing, Shock | Bashing, Frost, Poison | None |
Goblin Warriors | Bashing | Poison | None |
Goblin Casters | Bashing, Frost | Fire, Shock | None |
Wispmothers | Fire | Bashing, Slashing, Cleaving, Poison | Frost |
Necromancers | Poison | Fire, Frost | None |
Nether Liches | Slashing, Fire | Bashing, Cleaving, Frost, Shock, Poison | None |
Dremora Warlocks | Slashing, Frost | Cleaving, Fire, Shock | None |
Dremora Raiders | Slashing, Frost | Cleaving, Fire, Poison | None |
Trolls | Bashing, Fire | Slashing, Frost, Shock | None |
Dragons | Slashing, Frost | Cleaving, Fire, Poison | None |
Ancient Dragons | Slashing, Shock | Cleaving, Fire, Frost, Poison | None |
Physical | Elemental | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Creature | Bashing | Cleaving | Slashing | Fire | Frost | Shock | Poison |
Ancient Dragons | Resist | Weak | Weak | Resist | |||
Bandits | Resist | Resist | Weak | ||||
Bears | Resist | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | ||
Dragons | Resist | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | ||
Dremora Raiders | Resist | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | ||
Dremora Warlocks | Resist | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | ||
Goblin Casters | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | |||
Goblin Warriors | Weak | Resist | |||||
Mercenaries | Resist | Resist | Resist | Weak | |||
Necromancers | Resist | Resist | Weak | ||||
Nether Liches | Resist | Resist | Weak | Weak | Resist | Resist | Resist |
Outcasts | Resist | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | ||
Skeevers | Weak | Resist | Resist | ||||
Skeletons | Weak | Resist | Resist | Weak | Immune | ||
Spiders | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | Resist | ||
Spriggans | Resist | Weak | Weak | Resist | Resist | ||
Thalmor Agents | Resist | Resist | Resist | Weak | |||
Trolls | Weak | Resist | Weak | Resist | Resist | ||
Warmasters | Weak | Resist | Resist | Weak | |||
Wisps | Resist | Resist | Resist | Weak | Immune | Resist | |
Wights | Resist | Weak | Weak | Resist | Resist | ||
Wolves | Resist | Weak | Resist | Resist | Weak |
Strategy Guide/Tips
- Equipping the correct weapon can make a HUGE difference in how easy or hard your quest will be. For example if you equip a sword (slashing) in a quest involving skeletons (slashing resistance) you might take a long time to defeat them and die a lot in the process, and once you equip a mace or hammer (bashing) against the skeletons (weakness to bashing) you will do a lot more damage and die less.
- Even if the weapon that the enemies are weak against has low DPS compared to the weapon which enemies resist, you still should equip the "worse" weapon since it will do more damage than the other weapon, if enemies are weak against it.
- If weapon has an enchantment that the enemy is resistant to (for example a bashing weapon with fire enchant against skeletons) they will still resist it.