Finally collected a full set of Ebony armor (my character refuses to use anything Daedric out of principle), time to make use of those Transcendant Sigil Stones I've been hoarding and saving up for this moment. And possibly head to Frostcrag Spire to cook up some original enchantments too.

Made an ebony blade with 30 damage health, beefed up my armor rating to 80, 60% all elemental and magic resistance...

Level 20 at the moment, I tear through hoardes of Dremora and Xivilai without breaking a sweat, pesky roadside bandits are basically 1-hit kills, I can also just walk into any bandit camp and pwn everyone there.

So one day I was just minding my own business in The West Weald when a brown bear attacked me. The damn bear was connecting power attack after power attack like he had infinite Fatigue, STAGGERING the ^#%! out of me with almost every hit (it was so bad I couldn't do ANYTHING because I kept getting stagger-locked all the time). The fight costed me 4 Strong Healing Potions and 5 Strong Respite Potions (things I generally almost never have to use) and at the end of the battle I barely made it out alive (my life bar was at about 5%).

lol this game's balancing is horrible