I've got 60 stamina and greatswords and the like can still drain my stamina fast when I'm swinging non-stop. I like it though, actually is incentive to train strength and stamina to high degrees.

>>Are you using fatigue-heavy moves like draw, sweep, and chop? That could be the problem. With only 22 stam I've been doing fine by using lighter, balance-building attacks followed by slice, slice, slice.

Draw, slice, chop, repeat

It doesn't matter though, Avalanche Berserk keeps me good regardless.

The lower damage moves take forever to kill everything (at least with 30 strength). With 140 ME as a trader I used to slice my way through swain as fast as I wanted. It's a much slower process and they will dodge/parry occasionally (with a 7 second rate on my end as well, ouch!) I play a Dwarven Trader and had no intention of ever raising strength or stamina past 30. I am now considering pushing stamina up a bit. I think this will also increase the demand for different types of forged weapons based on peoples strength and stamina which is always a good thing. Like I said though I am enjoying combat and paying attention to it a lot more now. The only negative is having to rework a lot of scripts.


Karnas

I might be wrong, but I believe that attacking immediately after some moves imparts additional penalties to fatigue/balance.

My barb with 35 strength can swing a broadsword or hammer forever if I circle between swings. I think you just need to space your attacks out a touch more.