I've found that now I have this amazing ability to turn as I please I tend to turn when in combat rather than use human form to fight, does anyone else think its a good thing or slightly distracting?
Not really. I tend to only use it on lesser fights....
Fighting a legendary dragon in VL form is just silly, at least on master difficulty.
However, bandits, forsworn, sometimes dawnguard, and various critters - I generally TRY to fight them in VL form, to get the life-absorption's.