When you have previously cleared a dungeon, it will say so on the map when you hover the cursor over the location's legend. And once you start visiting the other places, you will usually have leveled beyond level 10 and the game world will scale fairly well with you.Īn exception to that is the case of 'cleared' dungeons and possibly areas. For example, the first dungeon with a higher difficulty which can be reached with ease is, for example, a dwemer (practically the 'tinkering dwarfen' race of the Elder Scrolls games) ruin that is accessed via two levels of caves just to the north-east of Whiterun, embedded into a small mountain. A lot of the dungeons and areas that you encounter around the part where you start (southwest near the mountains) and north towards and around Whiterun are in this level 1-10 area, only slowly progressing more upwards around the edges of that area.

This is also the reason why the game still feels very leveled despite having a different scaling system.

All of the various dungeons in the World have a static, pre-determined difficulty which is described in terms of a range of the players level.įor example, there are a lot of dungeons early on which have the difficulty level '1-10', and that's where they'll always be, they won't scale beyond that, and similarly, dungeons of higher difficulty level will not be manageable by you until you level up some more. The latter one consists mostly of dungeons. It works like this: Certain things in the game world scale with your character linearly, like they did in Oblivion, and certain things are 'semi-static' and 'semi-scaling', meaning that they scale to a certain extent, but the scaling has limits.

Skyrim weapon level scaling