Does anyone know to what difficulty level the health listed applies? A bear is listed as a level 12 with 260 health but I killed one in that cave in the first quest at level 1 with just dual wielding the flame spell until ran out of mana. The difficulty was on Adept which I assume should be the normal difficulty and correspond to the guide but it just doesnt add up

I don't know anything about the strategy guide, but the bear in the tutorial dungeon was significantly weaker than any other bear I've seen.