I personally like adept, but would be interested to find out what others think. Are the difficulties balanced? What do you prefer?

Expert.... but seriously, I lose interest in anything but "normal" lately. Why? no challenge, as harder difficulties tend to only spike enemies' HP and damage output. And that, my friend, is lame.

I play on Master because I find the other settings to be a bit easy. I like that the game is challenging which, in my experience, is something that the Master difficulty provides. Unless you abuse smithing and/or enchanting of course.

Adept since it's my first time to play this game. Kinda new to the controls. I'll do expert or master once I'm done with my first attempt.