Malakai on 2/1/2003 at 20:29

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I beat Umbra when I was level 12 Dark Elf. With Glass armor as a rating of 76. And a Daedric battle Axe. Pretty easy.;)

bwsly on 8/1/2003 at 21:14

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I killed Umbra by hopping up behind the rocks to the right of him (as you walk up the path to face him) and shot him with my longbow until he was about 25% health then dived on him with my Jinxblade.

(if you can't jump up over the rocks, a levitation spell would probably work as well)

Eventually, he was paralyzed so I hit him with my shock blade and silver longsword. Ocassionly switching back to the Jinx every 5 or so seconds, just to be sure.

At that stage, my Wood Elf custom (archer/thief-ish/wizard-ish) character was about level 12 or so. It took most of my ammo (80 or so steel arrows) and all of my shock blade charges .. and I 'exploited' the terrain. I wouldn't have had a chance going one-on-one with my weapons.

I haven't met anything that difficult to kill since.

Thanks to Umbra, the sword, my long blade skill is now 50-ish. It's a really nice sword, it has a handy 'power' too.

Cheers.


Brendon

Jordana Chal on 11/1/2003 at 02:04

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Same thing happened to me; it's because I killed him without talking to him first, because it didn't even occur to me to strike up a conversation. If you talk to him first he asks you to kill him, then your journal updates when you've done so. If you attack him straight off (which I presume is what you did) the quest remains permanently active, as far as I can tell.