difficulty slider may help.
mistlands tames well after you realize that heal,fire resist potions and pierce resist chest piece are very useful things. The difficulty is on par... remember your first troll? And now its a one shot from the crossbow before it even sees you? By the end of mistlands you one-shot the basic seekers with the sword alt attack, or whatever other weapon you like, and while ** stuff hits hard, its supposed to. Gjall are 4 shots with the crossbow. You just have to gear up, suffer a few deaths to learn the ins & outs. Did these guys never die in the plains to tarswarm or fuling village, or in the mountains to a wolfpack or golem??