Dragons have a crippling weakness to circle-strafing. You'll still get hurt a bit on the ground in melee, but as long as you stick to a dragon's ass like glue he can't really do much. Even easier if you're good with bows. Of course, these are just the random world dragons I've tried this with, it may be that the others are more powerful and require more than arrow, run in a circle, arrow, run in a circle, eat delicious dragon soul.
Werewolfism is awesome and has no downside beyond the once-per day use of the transformation. And of course being hunted down like the dog you are if you decide for some reason to transform in town. And the Nine Eight Divines help you if someone sees you change.
Otherwise you can quite handily take on groups of enemies and have a pretty big chance of procc'ing the special kill animation making you invulnerable for a few seconds while you tear some poor sod's throat out. And not only that, but enemies become walking health bags, and when you feast on their gooey remains you also get to stay in werewolf mode longer. Yay! :3 You aren't totally indestructible though, mages can be a pain if you don't pay attention, but arrows and one-handed weapons tend to bounce of you. Watch out for two-handers though as they can still be pretty nasty.
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