Hi,

I was a victim of level-scaling with my level 30 melee/magic hybrid which was a bit of everything... he was almost completely useless with the level-scaling due to my lack of understanding of the level-scaling system and poor decision-making. I could barely kill anything although I was apparently an EPIC HERO!

I made a new pure mage character now and he's level 10 and is soo powerful and loving it. However, paranoia has set in lol.. I die a little inside whenever the following happen;

1) Reading a skill book to find it ranks up a skill I never use increasing my level - any chance we could be advised before reading what it ranks up?
2) Selling/buying things and my speech skill increases
3) FAILING lockpicks and the skill still increases!
4) Disenchanting an item and the monsters in the world get stronger

Essential any skill rank up that its not related to combat proficiencies or smithing/enchanting..

However, although I believe the above are poor design I made the most stupid mistakes.

1) Being a jack-of-all trades - spreading myself so thin I was not amazing at anything and the bandits at level 30 were uber powerful often 2-3 shotting me...
2) TRAINING with any trainer that was teaching skills unrelated to what I wanted in order to rank to a higher level... this was a big mistake! I was ranking up pickpocket, alchemy, archery and others which I never used just to rank up! REALLY STUPID don't do it. I went up several levels doing this and on top of all the above made me weaker.
3) Putting perks into giving you more recharge in soul gems and recharging when killing enemies. No NEED for these as there are millions of soul gems everywhere! That was another waste of a few levels.

Thats me done!

imo you are wrong here though...

I play on master difficult

I have this skills:
archer 62
1 hand 64
sneak 62
smithing 55
speechcraft 45
light armor 45
lockpicking/enchanting/restoration/about 2-3 more cant remember....in the 30ish

the rest i leveled all of them at least 1-2 times some about 5-6 times....but im pretty sure i used every skill at least a few times to they got leveled up

i am level 25 by now..and pretty much can kill any mob i come across...only have difficult kiling end boss of dungeons...


also....about reading books

you can pretty easy see it is a skill book= value is above 20...
also why just dont save / load before reading it?

Hi Kazekage,

I did the same thing, although I didnt spread myself as thin, I had a mage/1h and the destruction was the main skill. The destruction levelled up really high and the 1h levelled about half of the destruction (No flaming about destruction mage not having other mage skills i.e. conjuration) and then I realised that the 1h was more powerful but because I was so high levelled from the destruction it was no longer affective on most things.

So I started again and went down the 2h heavy armour route.. which I regretted because although a heavy damage dealer, I was slow and unable to heal properly or block efficiently. So I have switched to 1h and shield with a backup of some restoration. Although my 1h is about 30 levels behind the 2h, its still working because of my level been around 20 its taking around 4-5 1h levels to gain a level, because the main level pool is so big I can allow for more levels not to level me. So in the end you can spread thin as long as you have a backup, for example the 2h allowed me to level my heavy armour really high and that serves as protection for my noob 1h so I can level that and not worry as much about getting destroyed. Hopefully the 1h/2h will turn out ok.

Mickage