I play on novice too and had the same problem with all but one my vampire assassin. I can sneak past them with no problem

I've killed chauruses at Level 2 before on Adept. It isn't very hard if you know what you're doing

I played on Novice for quite some time, and still had a lot of difficulty with lots of enemies. Why? Because I didn't walk around in legendary Daedric armor and carry a legendary Daedric sword

Chaurus FTW. LOL.

I don't know what I missed but they're not that hard to kill.

Dude everyone has those moments. figure out a way to do it and prevail!

well bulls are cattle to humans, but i'd much rather take on a ranch hand than a full grown steer...

What do you guys think best way to deal with chauruses?

They have very high damage attack and their poison attack seems a lot stronger than anything else. High armor rating and poison resistance would help if you are going melee. Probably better idea is to keep distance and shoot them from distance. Archery or destruction.

In one game I was level 5 warrior on adept. I would die instantly if I went head to head. I would sneak and get one or two arrow shot in, and sprint away and sneak after getting some distance when I was out of line of sight. Wait until they gave up, and repeat.

I let my Dremora Lords take care of them.

Yeah, I did it with my Bosmer archer character. If you sneak attack them, sneak out of distance, rinse and repeat, it's actually pretty easy. It also helps a lot if you have poison resistance.

did some one say the game is hard !!!

LOL

bah maybe I'm just too good

I haven't really had a problem.. Only with Daedras..

When the Chaurus goes to spit its venom, used the highly advanced and complicated tactic of stepping to the side to avoid the attack.

I did in fact play Oblivion. For a VERY LONG time. And I'm a warrior/mage.

Oh really? Because I'm level 30 and they level up with you. Meaning they get much harder as you level up. I've played this game since the day it came out and restarted many many times. I think I know how hard it is to kill a Chaurus. Thanks for the advice.

Wait until you find the Reaper that is 5x normal size in the lighthouse. You'll really hate em then xD

I was playing with an unleveled world mod, so it wasn't a "low level" chaurus. I wasn't attacking you, just saying. I've played since day 1 too

Has it ever occurred to you that some enemies are not meant to be easy kills?

Use a bow. I one shot a Chaurus with a bow every time ever since level 25, they are not hard to kill at all. If I use sneak to creep up on the target, the double damage from a bow can even take out a dungeon boss in 3 shots, if you get the triple bow damage perk with sneak, a boss goes down in 2 shots.

Alternatively, with swords, you have to keep moving and get some enchants on your gear and jewelry - Fortify one handed, (or two handed if you use it) and add fire, frost or sparks damage to the sword(s) to boost your DPS. Basic swords without DPS enchants seem very underpowered compared to basic bows from my point of view. I dual wield normally if I don't use a bow but sneaking up on a target to get close enough to get the sword sneak bonus is much harder and it can take a lot of hacking to kill something. With a Chaurus, I usually run up and attack fast, I quite often get the custscene where I ram the sword into the back of it's neck and kill it with one blow.

Many enemies in Skyrim have different tactics so you have to change yor tactics to beat them. If you rely on the same tactics for every enemy, you will die a lot.

Tovald's Cave?

Have some resist poison potion. Lately I've been finding resist poison and disease effects on gear to disenchant, which I never did before. I'm hoping the devs might put in fortify enchanting effect as well, because the vanila potion you can create with Alchemy max out is pretty lame.

There is a Blocking perk which allows you to block magic actually. To the OP, I have to say this is one of the very few arguments about how the game is too easy. Especially on novice difficulty. Honestly if it is the follower being killed a bunch, I wouldn't blame the difficulty, but rather the stupidity of the friendly AI. Those followers are not the smartest fighters by any means.

I must be REALLY good at this game!

Be an archer.

Problem solved.

I have a similar problem, When i am between lvl 20-25 a bandit with fur armor and iron dagger can take down a third of my health in one hit, bandit archers with short bow almost kills me with one shot. I have 250hp full Plate armor..........