Tried searching but typing in anything having to do with "perks" finds HUNDREDS of topics, mostly off-topic, to sift through.

My question is, how many perks can you have on one character in a single play through? I'm finding mixed answers with some saying 50 (since that is the softcap) and some saying 80 since you can essentially reach level 80 by raising every skill to 100.

Thanks in advance.

80 I belive.

Anyone have a concrete answer?

Well, if max level is 80, you can get 79 perks, since level 1 you have no perks.

First I heard, the theoretical max was level was 70.

I tought you don't gain additional perks after level 50? Which would make the answer 49.

From everything i have seen it min max people should be able to hit 72for 71 perks ..... But after level 50 the leveling goes way down so it make take 10 times longer to get the next level such as 51. For most builds they are using 49 perks before leveling slows to the point where it will take the next 5 years to get the final 20 . Also the last deadric quest will give 5 perks from the quest. So the easiest is to end up with 54 . Other then that have fun and enjoy the game.

You keep gaining perks after fifty. Some people have maxed their skills through the console and it left them at 81. With 80 perks to spend. So I'm going with that. The real question is what these "divine quests" are cause there are rumors going around that they award you with a perk point and there is supposedly 20 of them. Though I have yet to see one.

That depends on If you gain a perk point every time you level up regardless of how high you level up. Then the max level would lead to max amount of perks minus one. Since we can lower Our skill levels by spending time in jail, can we not regain those skill levels and the experience they give towards leveling up and perks? This would lead to the same glitch that Oblivion had in the since that you could create a character that was maxed out in everything.

Getting every skill to 100 will result in you being L81 with 80 perks.

In a nutshell, all of them, but it would take probably thousands of hours to get them. I ran the numbers doing test with scripts and found that while the max for an skill level is a 100, I could reset the skills level down so I could level up more. After I reached level 181, I got bored of doing it and I was still short 51 perks. when I went to level again, it had 19 perks for use. Once you hit the max Skill level, the max perks I could earn resetting the skill levels ramped down dramatically. There are a total of 251 perks, oddly, the max level for Skills is 251, but the game doesn't allow for it to go any higher without setting the skill max limit.

The bottom line is, without scripting, will net you all skill levels at 100 (which is the max in game) and you would then earn 80 perks.

Then you might as well just console in the perks if you're going to do it that way. The concrete answer is 80.

Making a script is far easier to test the numbers then typing each command line out. I just create a speadsheet that run the numbers and then make a batch file to run it. Only took me a few minutes to run the numbers. Imagine typing the command line for each skill, then hitting enter and then leveling up each time. With a script, I hit it once and everything is there. And yes, the concrete answer is 80, but even then it would take well into the 100s, if not over a thousand gaming hours just to get to that level to achieve 80 perks.

You can hit level 81 in this game. So not counting level 1 (which you don't get a perk from), that's 80 perks. Plus you get 20 perks total from quests. So for a maxed character, and doing all the quests, you can get a grand total of 100 perks.

I'm saying that instead of leveling up and resetting, someone is most likely going to make a mod that just gives you all the perks. It would be easier to do that, or console in the perks (if there's a command for giving perks).

It would take far less than a hundred hours for someone to max their skills through gameplay if they powerlevel.

I dunno about "divine", but there are some quests that you get rewarded with skill increases.

I already made that mod, well it is a script anyway. The player will be maxed out with all perks available to the level 100 skill level max and I made a script that then unlocks every perk after maxing out the skill to fill in the rest of the perks.

Doesn't work that way. Once you hit the max 100 in a skill, you can no longer gain a perk from that skill and no skill book will make that skill go higher than 100. If I level every skill to 100, no skill books will apply to make that skill increase. There is a book similar to one in Oblivion, but this one is more powerful, where you choose what set of skills to what class you feel you want to play, and the book will make those relevant skills all 100 with adding the perks to the relevant scaling while adding relevant attribute points to use as well.

Dear Sir or Madam,

What?

As you say, it doesn't work that way, either. Once you hit 100 in a skill, you no longer gain progress toward the next level in that skill because- well- there is no next levels. Skills do not directly give you perks. Skills provide progress toward a level up, at which point leveling up gives you the perks. So you'll stop receiving perks when you get all of your skills to 100 and no longer level up. Also, that book doesn't level anything to 100 nor does it add perks. It levels your character by what I assume is a set amount of "experience" for each skill, meaning you'll probably notice a larger level increase at lower levels. There are also no attribute points in this game.

Now that you know, please stop spreading this misinformation about skills, perks, and leveling. It only serves to confuse everyone.