There are 18 skills with 100 points each.

You need 1800 total skill points to be fully leveled

If you need to get 20 skill points to level you'd have 1400 points by level 70. That sounds right, considering you don't start with 0 skill points.


Say if your character starts with 15 skill points for each skill, that would be 270 points total. By level 70, it would be 1670 total. By level 76, you'd reach 1800 points.


Making the max level, 76. If the game decides to give you 300 points in the beginning, the max would be level 75.



Perhaps this will vary depending on which race you choose.

It will most likely vary depending on the race you choose, and the max level being 75/76 is quite an accurate guess, kudos to you.

-Mr Maric

In some article I saw 50 being tossed around. Just saying...

Why would you want to level all skills anyway. That's not a unique character. I will never do such a thing.

50 is the soft level cap, that means that 50 is the max of what the game will scale to. enemies will never go over level 50. the player however can level up further since at level 50 there are still quite a few skills left to level.

They have been saying for a long time that higher level skills advance you towards the next level faster than low level skills. i.e. going from 99 to 100 in one handed helps more towards a level up than going from 1 to 2 in two handed does. So the formula isn't going to be linear like yours.

I think during a german interview they said you can go up to level 70-75 but your character is so powerfull there is no more challenge in the game.

Experience gain based on skill increases is not linear. The higher the skill is, the more xp contribution you get towards your level. Once you hit 50, there is a soft cap that slows down ALL skill increases (which is besides the point).

Your assumption that it takes 20 points to raise a level is wrong.

Once I have done everything there is to do in Skyrim, I shall level to the highest level and go on a killing spree that shall completely decimate the population of Skyrim.

-Mr. Maric

As Arigold said, raising higher skills means leveling faster. Which actually does mean you should be able to make a more well-rounded character in this game as opposed to Oblivion/Morrowind where spreading out over many skills actually made the game much harder.

Characters who focus on a handful of skills will be able to raise those "other" skills up without fear of leveling too much and making the game harder against level-adjusted enemies.

Say the max level is 75, then raising one skill from the beginning average to 100 gives you about four character levels. As for at what point in that 20-100 process each level-up arrives, on the one hand the skill gets harder to raise but on the other hand it counts more towards level up as it gets higher. So the short answer is I don't know.

A lot here doesn't make sense. We already know from Eurogamer that if you use your starting racial skills, it takes about 5 skill ups to gain a level. If they contributed more the higher they got, you would and up levelling up after 2 or 3. It must mean 5 is the lowest number required, if they are your highest. The numerical skill number can't matter, if your highest skill is 25 or 95, it's still your highest skill. And that 20 per level is an average, and as such makes perfect sense.