I'm finding the game a little easy.
This is my first and only character,
Duel weild sword, heavy armour + smithing, I've placed all perks where there needed, gone for 80/20 health to stamina ratio, am welding full legendary deadric armour + swords.
Difficulty untouched.

My issue is, I've not been killed yet (I died once doing some bards jump into a waterfall, those who've done it will know)
My character is now a God at level 30, and to be honest has been unbeatable since like level 5 lol

Does anyone else think the game is a bit easy? Should I have to put the difficulty up to max for any sort of a challenge?
Is it like this with all builds?

Why don't you increase the difficulty then? It's there for a reason.

Are you serious? Read your post and you will see why your finding the game easy.

But the difficulty is on adept, not 'easy', and it's a walk in the park, surely master won't be that bad I've read posts about it before.

You misspelled "dual". Well, not misspelled but the wrong one.

you must be kidding! since my first character i have only played master and gotten spanked too many times to even remember. this game is far from easy and there are tons of ways to make it even harder outside of the gameplay difficulty menu.

can't wait to start my "dead is dead" character save-files!!

Yes the game is easy on normal. If you don't use enchanting or smithing the game will be a lot more difficult.

Play on master without exploiting smithing.

You're out of luck. Even master, after a certain point becomes easy simply by making an optimal character. Just accept that Beth can't make challenging or balanced games if their lives depended on it.

Try not using those overpowered perks, overpowered enchantments, and overpowered armor and/or weapons.

I don't know about you but I find the game extremely hard. I was in one part where i fought a boss and it took forever. I used strategy and most of my potions and end up dying many times. I'm also level 26... and it is still hard. Maybe you should try turning up the difficulty if you want an challenge or perhaps even make a new character like an mage or thief.

You haven't played the other elder scrolls game haven't you?? Morrowind is extremely hard and confusing. Its hard to make a overpowered character. Oblivion is also hard because the enemies level up with you. Fallout 3 and fallout new vegas are also challenging with big enemies and frustrating moments. You haven't played the other elder scrolls game. I have. I have experienced it all. Please don't criticize beth's games when you haven't played all the games.

The problem is you went for the build with the strongest inter-skill synergy.

My light-armored non-smithing Two-handed using Khajiit has a lot of problems on Adept.
lol no... Morrowind's easy, and you can even beat the game focusing on Medium Armor, Axes, Acrobatics, and Athletics.

Nixher you need to understand. theres many things to make the game challenging and hard. Do not listen to the other people here as they do not give you a positive answer. Step 1. Turn up the difficulty Step 2. Make a different character and try a different build. Step 3. Play a character with no armor. Step 4. Play with no enchantment or potions. Step 5. Have fun and I hope you will enjoy the game.

Hmm..the game is pretty easy on adept, but if you honestly haven't died but that once you just haven't explored much or something, there are a few enemies out there that would've out you down..though maybe not with full on enchanting and smithing.

"optimal" character development should, eventually, make a game easy, imo.
having the options available to then make the game harder with sub-optimal character development is a must, imo.

Assumptions, assumptions. I started with Daggerfall, thank you very much. Anyone claiming Beth's games are difficult, are being disingenuous at best.

I play on adept and it's just about right, in a shield / heavy armor / 1H / Restoration build. No fast travel, no buying ingots. I could see upping the difficulty, but it would make certain fights just annoying. Right now at level 26, I get into plenty of fights where I'm in real danger; a couple Bandit Marauders and I'm in trouble.

I find it odd that you're min/maxing and complain that the game is too easy. Play like a normal person and the difficulty ratings are fairly accurate.

Don't make your character over-powered. I have a few sets of Dragonplate/Daedra armor. With one of my Dragonplate sets (each set has it's own pair of accessories) my Daedric Sword (ONe-Handed) does OVER 300 DAMAGE. It is so over-powered, I can pretty much spank anything in a few hits (even Dragons).

If the game is too easy, don't upgrade your gear, do NOT get Enchanting to 100, etc. Oh, and play on Master.

In general, yes. However I do not believe that should be the case with the harder difficulty settings, which should in theory be designed to challenge the more skilled players, who have deliberate, and intelligently designed and equipped characters.

I don't know that Bethesda is trying to make a "challenging" game, and balancing is near impossible when you have an infinite number of playstyles.

Bethesda gives you a canvas, and you can paint your game however you want. If they did what some people want- and made the game very challenging even for optimal builds- it would force players into playing a specific type of character.

But maybe you want to play a different way... maybe you want a little- you know- roleplaying in your RPG. Perhaps you're an Orc who refuses to use anything but Orcish weapons, and won't enchant them because you believe it dishonors the blade. Or maybe your wood elf ranger believes his only clothing should come from the animals he kills, so you never go above leather armor and his hunting bow. Perhaps you want to go full conjurer mage who lets his undead armies fight for him, and you never put the points into other areas. Maybe you're an Imperial, who will only wear his military armor and wield his Imperial sword, or a true Daughter of Skyrim who won't part with her steel Nordic armor.

Bethesda's challenge is to make a game that's fun and playable for millions of players playing millions of different types of characters. So sometimes you have to adjust the difficulty mid-game. Sometimes you have to play it out on the easiest level. I'm fine with that. It's better than knowing I can only succeed if I go "Duel weild sword, heavy armour + smithing," because that's the last character type I'd like to play.

Alot of it really depends on your build. Use the better skill combos, and in a build with a small number of focussed skills, and the game will be easier than it would be if you used a more generalist build.

(For example, my first character was 1-handed, block, light armor, sneak, lockpick, bow, smith, restoration, alchemy. Plus speech, since I sold alot of loot. Even by level 50, I didn't have more than 6 or 7 perks in any skill - mostly because when I was picking where to put skills, other ones seemed more important or more interesting than "yet another point into 1-handed". My first skill to hit 100 was Smithing.... at level 48. I had what I felt was a good level of challenge from level 10 to the mid 40's.... died a good number of times, and plenty of bosses required potion & resto use to survive.)

Pick armor and weapons that your character looks good in and fits them more, rather than whatever has the best armor rating

I give my nord a Skyforge steel greatsword and full scaled armor, except for the helmet. So I look badass and the game is pretty challenging

I find it ironic that I can stand there getting blasted by fireballs and stabbed by swords and barely take a dent in my health, yet a falling pot or 3-foot tall cliff 1-shots me.

As with all previous TES games, your character becomes unstoppable after a while.