Always have companion(s) until then! Since your companions do not suffer the 0.25X/3X penalties that you do, they become critical to survive and to advance quests, and you’ll have to run from many situations as well. For the most part, until you get your endgame gear, you feel like a wimp. Situations that for me were doable on master became impossible on legendary. I have done master difficulty playthroughs before, and the increase in legendary is pretty significant, especially on earlier levels. It also enables you to reset skills that have reached 100, thus removing the level cap, which was at 81. By comparison, master difficulty is 0.5X/2X.

Legendary difficulty reduces your damage done to 0.25X and increases damage taken to 3X vs.

While I try to keep spoilers at a minimum, this guide may contain some, although I would expect most people reading this to have played the game at least once in lower difficulties. Notes: This guide does not take into account any gameplay-affecting PC mods, and it assumes that you have all DLC (Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn), as well as patch 1.9.

Skyrim legendary skills mod