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Merlin the Mage is Level 10 and is having to fight hard on about 40% difficulty to stay alive. Thinking some armour may help him. Not just his dressing gown lol. :facepalm:

I played all kinds of chars. Most of them don't go over lev 30 because I get borred with them and start over with another char. Right now I'm playing high elf adventurer with all magick skills as mayor skills birthsign atronach, lev 12 named lill'ear because he has big ears

I have an Imperial warrior in level 31 or so, but i stopped playing on that one. Now i am playing an Altmer mage around level 15-20.

Haha, i guess merlin is a common name, my char before the char i'm playing now is named merlin aswell

First character is up to 50 and doesnt need to be any higher


just started again not too long ago and its up to lvl 5

My current file is level 3. :blush:

3 argonian
10 breton
17 nord
27 bosmer
29 orc
39 imperial
49 deleted by mistake (ooowwww)

48-51 seems to be my maximum.

Right now I'm at level 9 with about a 100 hours put in on my khajiit skirmisher Ra'Sava.

I have all my major skills leveled to 100 and I'm only 47. How are people getting levels so high?

Frosty is maxed out at level 51 with a few skills over 100 (Blade is 125 I think, heavy armor is 110, illusion, block, and restoration are 105) I play him the most by far, but I recently made like 6 new characters who have all only gotten out of the sewers and cleared out Vilverin. They are all level 1-3. A few other characters have maxed out between 40-50 but were deleted long ago.

I have a semi-retired Argonian Assassin who is at level 43, and my active character is a Dunmer Spellsword level 38.

45 or 46 dunmer

I maxed out at 49.

Amarel, my ranger/archer character, just hit level 32 the other day. No idea where her max level is; I run with nGCD and tend to forget about all that pesky levelling up business.

48, 38 and 4. The three characters I'm playing actively at the moment.

My current one (haven't played it much) is just lvl 3. The one I played the longest is about 37-38 something.

My dunmer Lothran has been on level 50 for at least two (more likely three) years now. But I wish I had stopped at 20 or so beacuse of the scaling. There is really no point of getting higher after 20-ish. Sure you get more health but you also have to stand there with whatever weapon you have for 1 minute longer, hacking your foe, every time you level up in order to get them down :shakehead:

Well-said and heartily agreed to. I find, with just a bit of attention to leveling, I can optimize my character's lethality by level 20. Beyond 30, the only thing that I get is foes with more hitpoints. My character leisurely took 400 hours to achieve her top design level of 20. At 550+ hours now and still at level 20, we are delighted with the choice. Simply picking some major skills to never use is the path we took to get there.

In choosing the top level for my characters, here are the data points I consider that compare your level to some of 'what you get':
17: Top alchemy gear and sigils
19: Top leveled Hatred's Soul
20: Daedric weapons, Daedric/Glass armor, all quests, almost all monsters
22: Xivilai
23: Perfect amber/madness (SI), gloom wraiths
25: Lots of top-leveled quest rewards.
26: Liches
30: Everything, including all remaining top-leveled quest rewards.

My current level is at 1 right now because I'm about to start a new character. My highest I ever got is 48 but I'm probably never going to go over LV 30 unless its for roleplaying reasons. No need to spend 5 minutes killing a stupid Goblin Warlord when I can spend 2 minutes instead.

My Bosmer Hunter is currently level 14, and I plan to stop at level 30. I have never raised my endurance, and I never will. I also don't wear any armor, and I play on 75% difficulty. I wanted to make the game harder, thus more exciting as far as I'm concerned, and Acadian has helped me out with a lot of great info in this regard. Now I could use a little more help...

I have done very, very little of the game's content on purpose. My plan was to get to level 30 before I really start into the game's content. My hope is that I'd get a little, or hopefully sometimes a lot, more out of the game this way. According to Acadian's list I would certainly find better gear and go up against tougher creatures. Both pluses in my book. Is there any other reason to do what I'm doing, and is there any reason to ditch what I'm doing and level up more naturally? I'm just looking to get as much out of the game with one character as possible.

Unfortunatly I have a levelling habbit, though I am not quite as high as some in this thread.

I have many characters also.

Garathar = Level 55
Sarathomir = Level 43
Kai = Level 20.

^_^

On your first point, 30 is a great level to cap at.

Just some thoughts too consider on delaying your questing:

- Tougher creatures is relative. That wolf is just as dangerous to a level 2 character as a brown bear is to a level 18 character.

- If you are delaying things for loot, consider what you get. What kind of gear does your character want? Do you really care about getting the top-leveled warhammer of doom and staff of magical kickbuttness? I would recommend you consider precisely what leveled items your character wants, and consider delaying those quests. For my character, the answer was that there was no leveled quest reward in the whole game she was interested in. In fact, the only magical item she carries that she did not enchant herself is Azura's Star.

- My character loves exploring, mapping things out, traveling on her horse to visit friends, clearing random dungeons. She happily could do that (and has) for hundreds of hours. If that is not your goblet of Tamika's however, then leveling without quests my be boring. My character has done less than 15% of the quests in the game, but that suits her natural playstyle. She has never avoided a quest due to level considerations.

- One thing I like to do is level slowly (about 20 hours of play per level). One benefit (of many) to this is that I find is the world changes more slowly and it feels more gradual. As those wovlves grow into brown bears and bandits begin sporting fancier armor and weaponry, the slow pace makes it seem more natural and less jarring.

Thanks once again Acadian. You have been sooooo helpful!