You mean you can't get its attention without ranged or ... how to fight it?
If you don't (and don't want to) use any ranged offensive stuff then you'll just have to take it with whatever you usually use when it lands I guess?
If you want to use ranged then... buy/find a ranged spell or bow.
You can kinda kite them if you can lure them to a settlement where there's some guards or giants/mammoths and they'll help you bring it down.
Depends what kind of character you are though. If you're all about heavy armour and big weapons then ... yeah, just wait for it to land and then give it a beating.
I suspect it's going to be hard to get by without any magic in this one though (unless two handed weapons are significantly more destructive than single handed, I dunno, not tried them) as the magic is very powerful this time. Far more so than in Oblivion. I didn't use magic at all in Oblivion (aside from healing) and didn't intend to in this but... have found myself doing so partly because it's fun but also because it's my best attack in a stand-up melee fight. It's my fallback when I'm in a tough spot.
Is anyone playing without magic at all?
I'm playing a sneaking up-close daggers person mainly. Relying on my backstab for tough stuff and speed/agility for weak/moderate groups. If there's room I'll use my bow to whittle down numbers if I can do so without being detected. But yeah, if I'm spotted with multiple enemies around in closed areas I have to get the flamethrower out.
So I kinda feel like I'm possibly spreading my perks/skills a bit thin. Most perks are in sneak and one handed but I also have a few in archery and then some in destruction and restoration.
How's everyone else playing?
I mean I can't get near the damn thing, every time it lands it's blasting my face off before I can get into melee range. I'm using the starter spells (flames and sparks) but they're only mid-range and can't hit it while it's flying.
That character was meant to be a mage type as well but so far he's just ended up swording most things. Dual-wielding a sword and a spell is awesome though. My second character is a stealthy one, archery and dual-wielding swords and daggers. Brutal battleaxe'd barbarian dude is up next. As always, making characters turns out to be more fun than playing them. :D
That's pretty sneaky.
I was thinking last night that my character must look like some kind of psycho to a watching NPC. I'd get into a fight with three heavily armed guys. There'd be arrows flying everywhere, axes being shoved into people, magic all over the place. Eventually, I'd be the only one left standing, on the edge of death and covered in blood. Then I'd suddenly start chasing butterflies trying to catch them. Fucking nutter.