This.

Why should one wander the wilds of Skyrim and not feel imminent danger every once in awhile?

Do you post a complaint every time your character gets killed?

I sincerely hope Bethesda never make this game easy enough to keep idiots like you happy.

The majority of players experienced this 'baptism of fire' at lower levels, we just didn't bother complaining about it.

Are you playing with mods? even if you don't, is it really so strange that you meet a character in the game who is vastly superior to yours? There's a good way to deal with these situations, RUN.

Alchemy is your friend here, pretty easy to make decent restrict frost + fire potions. If you use +alchemy enchants you can get them past 85% resist.
No it might not help you if you get ambushed by an mage but you can pretty much ignore dragon breath with one.

Atronach Stone. Nuff said

spellbreaker is your friend allso diferent resistence potions and gear will help a bucket

I don't mind occasionally stumbling across a really strong mob, I just wish it was possible to escape. Even with high stamina, there are mobs that seem to be ungodly fast. Bears in particular are fast as hell and never seem to run out of stamina. And then there's the occasional spawn crazy mob. I stumbled across FIVE saber tooth cats. At level 12. You're lucky to survive a fight with one of them at that level, but five? I only got away because I was playing a wood elf and was able to use my racial skill to make them non-hostile. Otherwise, I'd have been toast.

I do think the difficulty of some mobs need to be tweaked, if only to allow your character to escape from battle by the skin of their teeth. I don't mind difficulty, but some of these mobs are so heavily loaded against the player that it's damn near impossible to beat them without exactly the right setup.

I recall a few companions quests where I'd end up fighting around 5 bandits at once, sometimes including a boss. I'd have to reload several times before I got lucky. With a new character, I decided to commit to leveling alchemy, and not rely on restoration for healing. When I got back to these areas with the new character, I may have had to spam potions, but I didn't have to reload. Now, at ~lv 65, similar encounters may require one health potion.

Recently, I was fighting a trio of thalmor after freeing a stormcloak prisoner, and a thief demanded my money mid-battle. Instead of having to reload and getting upset, my Nord took minimal damage and I was able to laugh at the situation, because he was able to take on 3 thalmor and a thief himself with his 500 health and max armor rating. That included the dialogue with the thief as the thalmor were stabbing my Nord in the back.

There are also occasions when I'm in a dungeon and end up fighting 2-3 draugr deathlords (sometimes an overlord) at once, and at least one will shout me on my ass, and while my Nord is getting back up, they are pelting him with arrows. If he wasn't so durable, he'd easily be dead. Instead, my Nord got back up, and took out the small army of draugr deathlords one by one and moved on.

My Nord gets blindsided by sabercats frequently while outdoors. He just pulls his sword out, turns around and kill them in one or two hits, as if they were some fly.

While these tough fights can be frustrating at lower levels, they become fun at higher levels. If mages give you trouble, increase magic resistance and call it a day. For everyone else, it's all about boosting health and armor rating.

Yup. Funny thing, is within a couple hours of complaining in thehttp://www.gamesas.com/topic/1320372-report-update-issues-here-dec2011/page__view__findpost__p__20369587 thread it started to work, after weeks of not working. Go complain in that thread and maybe it will work for you too. It was rather odd really.