I'm using the middle difficulty, it's between novice and master whatever. I forget the name. All I know is that it's the exact middle difficulty. Anyways, I'm having a hard time with dragons and yet not many seem to be having the same problem. I don't know what's going on, am I just bad at the game? I've only killed 2 dragons the whole game and I'm level 9.

I'm on expert cuz i thought stuff was starting to get slightly too easy. I really wanted more of a challenge from it, but because of this i've had to flee from a couple dragons. Honestly, i like it that way, i think the dragons should be feared, not something that you try to farm for souls.

Started on master but kept getting killed by a giant spider early in the game switched to expert. Provides a good challenge.

I switched to Expert. It's quite harder for my Alchemist archer, but I do just fine. Alchemy is a godsend. When I fight a dragon I can just use a 70% (insert element) resist potion, and that makes it much easier.