Really? My blocking really sucks, then. When I try it, my character grunts with pain and my health goes way down, so I quickly scratched that idea. And I don't like the idea of a long series of Draugr Deathlords. My first and only encounter with one of those ended in me dying after about four hits, but that was a few levels and crappy weapons ago.
Maybe I'll get the hang of all this by the time I start a second game. My first run-through with an Elder Scrolls game is usually just to figure stuff out, and then once I start over I have a better grasp of how things work and make fewer bad decisions, like not raising the Smithing and Block skills right away.
Does anyone else have a terrible weakness to shock spells? It seems like whenever I fight something that uses lightening, it eats up my health really fast. Like that jerk Beem-Ja. He's gonna get it one of these days.
