Twohanded enemies one shot me

Solution 1:

I have seen people mention this a few times and question if the game is broken.

Its basically that the game is meant to be challenging. A power strike from a two handed weapon does considerable damage to a player and is not something you can normally block. When you see an enemy winding up you pretty much need to get out of the way in one way or another. Your options, as I recall, are along the lines of:

• Do something to disrupt their attack
  • A shield bash
  • a shout that can disrupt actions
• Get out of the way
• Raise your HP enough to where you can withstand a large two handed attack.

You can lower the difficulty, that will make enemies do less damage so by its very nature you are effectively doing what is last on the list up there just inversely.

Hope this helps.

Solution 2:

Well, as a Sword and Board character you're pretty much going to want to shield bash him the moment you see him winding up a power attack. If you can time it so your bash hits him just before his weapon hits you, it creates a larger stagger effect, allowing for more strikes before he recovers.

Another option, there is a perk in the Block skill tree, "Quick Reflexes," that slows time whenever you're blocking during an enemy power attack; this perk is AMAZING. Most enemies will power attack around 40-50% of the time, allowing for you to activate this perk, CONSTANTLY. It slows time so much, that you can move out of the way of their attack, all the way behind them, getting in 2-3 hits in the process.

A 3rd option would simply be to stagger lock him. Simply spamming shield bash in between your attacks should prevent him from doing much of anything, all the while you can chip away at his health. However, this requires quite a bit of Stamina/Stamina regen. to work properly.

Hopefully you'll have luck with 1 of these 3 styles my friend. C;