Unable to deal damage to Alduin
I'm trying to beat Alduin, at the Throat of the World. But I can't hurt him!
I'm level 47 and I'm wearing all Ebony armor, the helmet is +35% for archery. The weapons I've used are Dragonbane and a Daedric bow w/ shock damage. Everything is legendary. Is this some kind of glitch?
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The Elder Scrolls Wiki reports a bug similar to the problems you are experiencing.
Taken from The Elder Scrolls Wiki: Skyrim: Alduin's Bane: Bugs:
Alduin may become invincible during the fight. According to the patch notes, this bug was supposed to have been fixed by version 1.9.26.0.8 of the Skyrim Official Patch. However, there have still been confirmed reports of this bug occurring; specifically, if you exit dialogue with Alduin prematurely after returning from the vision in the Time Wound, or if you die during the fight with Alduin and reload the game. Open the console, click on Alduin, then use the command disable followed by enable. This may result in Alduin being able to be damaged normally. Saving immediately before combat starts, then fast-traveling away and returning, may fix this. As of 1.9.32.0, the game creates an autosave after exiting the Merethic-era cutscene, right before the conversation with Alduin.
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How do you do damage to Alduin?
Use "Dragonrend" to bring Alduin to the ground. If you miss you will have to wait while your shout recharges. Equip an Amulet of Talos if you need the shout cooldown to be shortened. Although Paarthurnax will spar with Alduin in the air, Alduin cannot be damaged until you ground him with Dragonrend.What level should I be to defeat Alduin?
In other words, a character with top-tier equipment and lots of spells will have an easier job killing Alduin at level 30 than a character with cloth armor and no spells at level 60.How do you hurt Alduin at the throat of the world?
You MUST use dragonrend to make him land before you can damage him. Now, as a vampire, you are extremely vulnerable to fire, but not so much to cold. Alduin uses both fire and ice breath. You should consider enchanting your items with "resist fire" to deal with his fire breath.Can you not loot Alduin?
There is a brief moment where the option to loot Alduin's body appears before he disintegrates, although he cannot actually be looted. It is possible, if Kahvozein's Fang is equipped in the right hand, to harvest Dragon Heartscales. When Alduin dies, the Dragonborn does not absorb his soul.SKYRIM: Alduin invincible glitch \u0026 how to avoid and fix it!. With Commentary
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It happened to me when I got killed after I beat Alduin. I got nuked by like 6 of the meteors. When I loaded back in, I hit Dragonrend and started wailing on him and did zero damage between my decked out Dragonbone bow (that I beat him with the first time) 90 damage plus 25 fire. And Shadowmere + Parthyboi, not even one point of damage between us.
The only thing I tried that worked was (on PC) the command killall.
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