Picture this...

...Your character is fighting a Legendary dragon. It's something you've done on many occasions. You don't even anticipate breaking sweat. You use dragonrend, you swing your trusty mace using a power attack. Ha ha, dragon, prepare to meet thine end!

Several swings later, the dragon takes off again. It attacks once more. It's barely lost any health. What the...? This is one tough reptile. Two health potions later and after nearly dying the beast is slain...wow that was tough.

A little uneasy about how difficult the battle was you take on a vampire...just an ordinary one, nothing special. This is uncomfortably hard too. What the heck is wrong? Have you lost your touch? Is the dragonborn getting a bit long in the tooth? Is it time to slink away from Skyrim in shame?

No...it turns out that I wondered how hard it would be to go from Master difficulty to Legendary a couple of dungeons ago and forgot to change the setting back! Doh!

I've been playing on Legendary difficulty ever since and fretting over my increasing ineptitude. I swapped back to Master which was hard enough and now it seems like a cake walk (almost). I feel like such a berk.

Have any of you made similar gaffs?

Usually i play with Atronach Stone up to ~ 75, but sometimes i forget to switch to The Lord Stone and a Legendary Dragon takes me by surprise and kills me in one Drain Vitality shout.

this one went into battle with a Breton once only to be killed by the first fire ball that hit her when this one reloaded she discovered that she had replaced her amulet of fire resistance 50% with a amulet of smithing because she was upgrading her armor & forgot to switch it back .............has done this many times with amulets and rings

I do this too. Place old gear in a box somewhere, make new set, excitedly dash out the door to try out the new stuff. Smished. Yup. Forgot to wear new gear and fighting in my smithing outfit again... always a humbling experience.

yep I just did the exact same thing, I forgot to switch my smithing gear to my archery gear then fought a dragon 3 times on Master (i dont play DiD) befor I realized, these occasions are great for honing skills.

Krymzon,

You've just reminded me about how scatter-brained I can be.

I'd completely forgotten the time I made a lovely shiny set of Stalhrim armour and just like you, I rushed out to test it.

I got thumped and was bitterly disappointed with my new gear...right until I realised that I'd been fighting the dragon in my underwear. I'd forgotten to put on my armour after stowing away the smithing and enchanting gear.