So I have been enjoying this game massively, there is so much to do. I keep finding out new things as I go, I only yesterday realized you can access the shouts via dragon souls (I'm a bit slow like that), so now I want to get all words for maximum shoutage!!

I'm currently running a build which I guess could be called either Arcane Warrior or Battlemancer... I have Conjuration at 100, One Hand 71, Heavy Armor 79. I also got Smithing and Enchanting to 100, which I was very happy about. I use daedric armor and bound weapons. The game like this is very fun idd. I can take a deathlord solo with no help from drem lords, but yesterday I was in a situation where I had one bandit (from nowhere), a dragon priest, and a deathlord against me. I whipped out the drem lords One on deathlord and one on dragon priest, jumped down and fought the dragon priest while leaving the other drem to tank the deathlord. The dragon priest was pretty much 1/2 hp when I got down...

Do you think drem lords are slightly OP? I mean even if they were to die they can be insta re-summoned anyway. I only use them when I need to tbh, but they do make any situation pretty much cake. However in saying that I would say I am over-geared, seeing as I have daedric plus double enchantment. BTW this is at level 49 on Master. Is there anything I would struggle on?

I'm having a blast myself and I just recently got the Dremora Lord. Loved him in Oblivion and love him still but I have a problem with him attacking Lydia after a fight. Anyone else ever see this? Your battle sounds like it was a good one. I'm in cloth and using magic and have to struggle sometimes to defeat those kinds of enemies but now with the DLord, it's better. I need his fighting and sometimes it seems he's dispelled by an enemy so he doesn't last long. Finally, I can't imagine playing on Master. It's feeling just difficult enough for me on Adept.

Now that it's the new year, I can safely say that Skyrim was by far the best game of 2011.

My level 40 conjuration/destruction character has no weapons or armor, so conjuration is a must. I switch between Dremora Lords and Storm Thralls to mix it up. It's honestly much easier then my standard sword and shield character, even though my mage can get killed in one hit by pretty much anything other than a bandit at max difficulty.