Meh. lol.
Woulda been nice to have a couple of those sooner, if I had known that.
Ah well, thanks for the info.
So anyways, a bit of an update:
I'm like level 22 now, and those bears and cats are free/easy kills. They can barely touch me now! They made skill levels very powerful; a couple points of armor skill or weapon skill matters much more than it did in Oblivion.
Those bandits that could take me down to 75% or so if there were 2-3 of them, now I can let 3 or 4 of them beat on me and they don't even touch my health meter. One Punch will kill a normal bandit. One. Punch. And my unarmed skill is nil. And I don't even have that heavy armor perk that deals with punching.
Killed an ice troll with ease earlier, though I have a sword from M... M... gah, what's her name? Midita or something like that? Her shrine is way up by Solitude, and she sends you on a multi-part longish quest. It is a one-handed sword that appears to be a fire sword that deals extra damage to undead and it appears to have infinite charges. Oh, I also got a helm from Clavaticus Vile. I LOVE that helm. +20% better prices, +10 speech craft, and +5% magicka regeneration. Ooooo.