Im playing as an Orc, specialising in Archery/Sneak with some one handed as back up. I am level 9 with 35 archery, 27 heavy armour, 29 one handed and 20 light armour. I am still yet to decide on whether i'd like to specialise in heavy armour or light armour, however all my perk points have been invested into my archery and sneak.

Also all I have invested into health every time I've leveled up. Im playing on ADEPT DIFFICULTY and I'm getting absolutely destroyed and I'm only on the main story quest where you have to travel up to high hrothgar.

This will be my 4th playthrough now as this is the same outcome and its game breaking for me, I'm getting sick of this game because I'm constantly worried I'm over levelling and that is why I'm getting destroyed however I'm not even power levelling, I'm playing the game normally. I couldn't even defeat the old orc warrior encounter and I'm seeing bandit thugs/outlaws already and i can't defeat them?

Even when I level up and my archery is not onto the next highest level for me to invest perk points into it I instead invest perk points into my one handed and heavy armour and its still not good enough to defeat these enemies.

I refuse to lower my difficulty because what sort of game forces you to lower difficulty just because its levelling you up to fast and therefore you have to result to that. I want a challenge but not to the point where I'm dying within 3 hits to a common enemy. I never had this problem before I tried becoming an archer.

Advice will be greatly appreciate, I feel like my games just glitches.

Thanks!