I am playing as a mage / thief.
It seems that despite how powerful I am becoming (master destruction - expert restoration) and utilitising both spells, I can never manage enemies without extreme difficulty and basically obliterating them as quickly as possible before I lose due to attrition.
Now I am fighting other mages and using the most powerful lightning bolt (which I should expect attacks their magika) but method seems pointless as enemies constantly attack with magic spells right until they die . Because of the massive draig on magica, I have invested heavily in alchemy, to make strong magika potions to replenish (while I fight) But the levelling system is so out of whack that even with expert potions (boosted 150% strength and using master destruction spells, I have to drink gallons of the stuff AND kill the enemy before he closes, or if he is melee one hit and im dead (stoneflesh is irrelevant, still just one hit) I can use a greater ward when attacking a mage but the magic drain is even more absurd than before and it makes no difference, downing gallons of magic potions and attacking with electricity , I run out of magic and/or health before the enemy who isnt casting one health spell.

This is totally out of whack and reminds me of the absurd levelling system on oblivion. It seems that while I am going up in levels due to magic/ theif skills. the enemies are only levelling up in brute raw strength and power, the result is that if you waste any skill points or perks in anything other than combat, you will end up a puny little weakling, who only wins fights by spotting from a distance and quickly as possible extingushing the threat using a multitude of spells / potions.

I attempted to do one quest with a draugr archer, who was killing me with one single shot, brutal accuracy and ridiculous damage from just one arrow. While most draugr archers arent that powerful (or accurate) i feel thats totally ridiculous at my level and using stoneflesh and elven armor.... I mean COME ON.
Also i can tell that dragons are levelling up ridiculously powerful . As compared to the start of my game , the gap between our strength is bigger now than ever (as described earlier by my theory that enemies who level up with you all their points go in combat)
when a dragon was in combat before, it might take 10 seconds of fire breathing and im dead. Now the same fire attack im dead in 2 seconds flat.

I am fed up with being ambushed by a sabre tooth cat or bear and frantially casting heal/ stoneflesh , destruction spell, potions, more destruction, heal, more potions. It;s A BEAR..... and based on my skill level i should be practically a demi god.

Please tell me im not the only person with this issue and there could be a bugfix /mod