Elder scrolls games will never be able to have true difficulty until they ditch the archaic combat system.

Agreed thats why I enjoyed it better, A dungeon that i did at level five now feels like a completely new one at a higher level. The dungeons were also more rewarding and challenging due to scaling. In skyrim there are not that many end game dungeons, which kills end game gameplay for me.

When I get bored with my main, I put Iron armor on it and use Iron weapons. It works big time for me.

I cannot stress how much of a difference this makes on the game if you actually Role-Play it with an active imagination.

When I was playing Skyrim (First ES game I ever played) I came off of a 7 year addiction to World of Warcraft, and played Skyrim comming off the WoW mentality in mind. And, I - too - found it easy. Fun, but also very easy.

Then, while on one of the forums, somebody actually said "Skyrim is a role-player's game... play it as if your character has a backstory and personality, like you're playing a tabletop RPG". And thus I did, and I have to admit, it works surprisingly well! You develop likes/dislikes for certain characters and factions... your game shifts from "gearing up/getting loot" to "what's going to be today's whacky unpredictable adventure?"

Skyrim, and indeed the entire Elder Scroll mentality, reminded me of what I WANTED from World of Warcraft - and sadly what World of Warcraft has diverted into becming. WoW is nothing more than a min-max game of mathematics via upgrading stats. There is no spirit of cooperation or adventure anymore... Elder Scrolls is about your particular individual character's story/personal journey of adventure - NOT testing your gaming prowess and stat-building theories and getting the next big shiny new upgrade. You grow more than stats... you grow your spirit, your story and thirst for adventure!

I don't wanna promote WoW by this post, but you do have RPing servers on WoW too. I am on one myself, it actually can turn out into amazing experience when you RP with loads of people after hours of PvP/PvEing.

This is the truth.

Some good feedback there, especially the "hardcoe Skyrim" link.
Altho I got nothing against RP's, i don't particulary enjoy RP, as i got quite a handful to deal with in real life, so not really looking for a virtual life, i just wanted a little input as to how to make few features in skyrim a little bit more realistic, with mods or otherwise, since the last time i played TES game was ...oh so many years ago... (Morrowind) and i've been playing MMO's like The Lord of the Rings Online/EVE etc in between, my only guideline was pretty much memories of good ol' Morrowind which are rather cloudy at best of times and if i remember correctly, without a shiny blade and high armor rating (with all respective stats and attributes ofc), you pretty much got your buttocks handed to you on a plate. And gotta admit, i am competitive in nature and getting my flashy blade is a good reward for me, but at current state, i get it for doing trivial things which i want to change, cuz when an army of Draugr Death Overlords with combined force don't even scratch me apart from annoyingly Thu'um me around the room, and even on the ground they can't still hit me, it's probably time to change a few things.