Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31246660-20180322124320/@comment-28157605-20180829211231

PaulEmmons wrote: It's interesting to read various people's experiences with attacks at homesteads. Now that I've played for awhile, my experience is similar to Ottoman Hold's: Windstad Manor is the most hazardous, having been attacked directly by wolves, horkers, draugrs, and giants. I try to avoid arriving at any of the homesteads on horseback, but preferably on foot and with weapons drawn, lest attackers kill your horse before you can even dismount and respond. And I've been attacked many times by bandits, necromancers, etc. on the way from Windstad to Morthal while practically in sight of the house. (In general, the more I play, the less I use a horse except to fast-travel home from a dungeon raid when overburdened). Since I have Heartfire I've played 4-5 times and my experience is always the same :

- The most attacked homestead are in order 1) Winstad, 2) Lakeview and 3) Heljarchen

- The most buggy is Winsdtad, sometimes when there's too many bandits it sometimes crashes and the only other place where I experimented that is Haarkon's Castle. Other than that sometimes books dissapeared through the floor.

- The types of enemies I always encountered in my homesteads are : bandits, trolls, horkers, draugr, bandits in old nordic armor (Dragonborn dlc) around level 40 and giants for Windstad. That annoying respawing necromancer, giants and bandits for Lakeview, as for Heljarchen where I spend most of my playthroughs now that I know more about it, only a few giants and wolves.

- My horses where never killed at home, except for Windstad. The people at home can die easily too if their level cap is low.

- Dragons rarely spawned, and I think I remember that only in Lakeview. Dragons are ... a bit dangerous for your cow and chicken.

To me it makes sense : Morthal is in a deadly place, in a creepy bog. Heljarchen is far from averything, in a cold place. As for lakeview it's in the middle.