Overwhelmed by Oblivion

[Mr Companion]

I used to- actually never mind...

 

[masticina]

Start from zero.

Make sure your Major skills are skills you WON'T use.

This, Easiest way to fix the level scaling is to exploit the level up system in this manner.
Skills you want to use as secondary, keep a tally of how many times you've leveled them up, then grind one of the useless (Read: merchantile, speechcraft etc) skills to get the level up icon, go sleep, dump 5 points in to two attributes linked to your favourite skils.

Doing that you counteract the terrible level scaling because by the time you hit the level where bandits are attacking you in glass and ebony armour, you and sneeze at them and their face implodes.

How true, even though choosing your major skills to be what you use allot seems smart with the initial bonus it also means you level up damn to fast and the enemies to.

Counterskill yourself, aka make something like Merchantile or something you can find a trainer for and you can level up "minor" skills like mad reaching 100 before you even are level 10. Your enemies ever saw you coming!