» Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:21 pm
This poll is surprisingly top heavy...
122 hours, one character. Spent on guilds and main quest. Not a whole lot of side questing.
Started out as stealth + bow, DID-style (shot in the face by a draugr deathlord at like level 6, reloaded save-game in defeat, beat him Dark Soul's style by using more skill, looted an ebony bow, that kind of stuff.).
I like to have a sense of progression, so I make odd choices once in a while. Things like... once my sneak & bow reached 100, it felt like a waste to keep using them since you're not progressing. My character isn't progressing, isn't learning new things, isn't challenging herself or pushing to improve herself... She's stagnated... So I've slowly but surely gone for heavy armor/shield/1 hander. Once my 1 handed gets maxed, I'm doing shield+destruction, then shield should be maxed, so I'll be switching to dual casting until that doesn't progress any further. I don't really min-max in that sense.. I prefer going through the game and advancing naturally as opposed to grinding skills, but there's a nagging sense of non-progression if I keep using skills that are at 100. It's like "I can do this other thing, and it'll actually make my character better" / feel like some sense of growth... which kinda just suits my very shallow RP reason for first characters (as I usually do in these games) which is "power hungry" (as a means to justify joining every guild and reaching the top) since I wanna go through the story in the quest lines.