Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

I have never fought trolls in a cave with melee. I just go in shoot it with a few arrows, run out, wait a bit, rinse and repeat.

With a lvl 2-3 bronze buckler and any lvl 2+ bronze weapon you can kill one in 5 seconds with melee. Parry, spam attacks for crit damage, crit damage causes a second stun state, profit.