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those buggers are hard to kill sometimes, so i was wondering if any of you got some good strategies.

sneak up on em.or when you see one just rush them with your most powerful spell or weapon before they can get into attack mode

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Done! Seriously, the above is something I use a) when im screwing around or b) only on guards in castles when I need to get to a sleeping count

aight, well, i got the 360 version, so, thusly, the console commands wont work, but ill be getting the PC version pretty soon!

Agreed - use strongest what you have. Hit fast and hit strong. They use absorb health so for every 1hp you lose they gain 1hp. Also try drain health 100 for 1s, works well on wounded and is cheap.

ill keep that in mind, thanks vook

is it just me or when you kill one it says you murdered a member of the guilds

i think thats only if you attack a horse, i got that once too

use a powerful ranged wepon on them be4 they can attack u like an enchanted bow, a speel or a staff

The WOTW adsorb effect only works on touch range, so you can keep running away and attack with spells / arrows.

If you wanna go melee, run up, hit it once and retreat before it can attempt to adsorb from you (it'll make some sorta gurgling noise when it tries that). Rinse and repeat.

One second paralyze. Works great on everything except immunes (vampires and skeletons mostly). I call it "Suckerpunch." Several free swipes for minimal cost. And of course there's the ten second version once that becomes affordable but 1 sec works great. Paralyze, take a few swipes, recast, rinse/repeat. You actually get more than 1 second since it takes them while to fall down and get back up.

somehow I don't quite see myself running from WOTWs. They are slightly too fast for me