I strongly agree. I keep grinding on other wolves and try every level, it's been a couple of hours. If I can't beat him by level 10 (In the old version I beat him soundly at level 5) I'm going to keep playing the old one.
I agree with what other people have mentioned, the armor doesn't register and the game acts like it's not there. Wolves are hitting me critically with over 100 damage and my critical attacks are dealing 18-29 damage.
I really really love this game (I'm still hopeful it will get a proper ending someday) but I might set it aside for now.