In any case, this was working great until I started encountering werewolves just now. It seems that a werewolf can one shot me with over 500 health with the difficulty increased. I tried lowering it to 64 or so and this still randomly happens with no warning or ability to stop it, which is very frustrating of course.
Is there a way to increase the difficulty that won't leave me either underchallenged against anything but werewolves or better challenged against most enemies, but one shot at random by werewolves? Thanks.