Originally posted by Vintorez:

Each tier of enemies are pretty much balanced around the armor you get from their zones. Once you get silver armor, wolves aren't much more deadly than earlier encounters. If you're fighting draugr in bronze armor, you're slightly obsolete. This can be partially negated by upgrading your gear beforehand, but ultimately you should be working towards getting iron armor, which will then carry you to fighting wolves.

The first time your progression takes you to a new zone will be the most difficult. As you gather from the zone, you grow in strength and will conquer it.

Still fighting 2 star draughs with upgraded bronze armor and weapon can almost one shot you, the ranged ones are nastier though and you have to evade their missiles or you're taken down with 2-3 hits max, even with 110-130 hp from food buffs

Edit: I would get a cauldron and do some decent food like carot soup or even turnip soup, with sausages and other meat, you should have a decent stamina/hp for that tier, also potions also help, healing ones for emergencies, stamina potions to recover it fast so you can fight back and poison res for swamp area and 3rd boss