There must be something wrong with me lol, im lvl 12 on this character and have 11 points to spend but i cant see myself using them yet... anyone else do this? or hold off forawhile?

if you're playing anything above adept, you should be having a hard time defeating enemies now.

I hold off on some but that is a bit extreme!

There was a thread the other day about someone wondering how to smith better armors. Guy was in the high twenties and hadn't realized he was gaining perk points every level yet. Was just upgrading his health / magicka / stamina and closing the menu

Level 15 and just holding off 1 perk

Alot of the fights are pretty hard surprisingly, and dragons are easy to kill on my other character, but this one with no points i get eaten alive lol.

I have 20 perk points to use myself, only used 2 far - 20% archery damage and eagle eye (or w/e it's called). After looking up the perks not a lot of them interest me so i should start spending them i guess.

I have 34 perk points, Not spending FTW.

I tend to store perk points until I come across a situation where I need them.. ie a tough battle I'll upgrade one handed by a point. I am being very careful not to make my character too powerful. Theres nothing worse than 1-shotting everything you come across... the desperate battles are the best ones. (am playing on expert)

Lol! So you're essentially sticking to a sort of "Shonen Upgrade" sort of format!? You wait till you're getting beaten into the ground, and then, in a moment of great inspiration, you use three perks and beat the crap out of your enemy? XD

I like it! xD

I tend to have 3 or 4 perks available at all times, mostly because I tend to wait until a skill reaches 50/70/100

I know what you mean in the beginning my shield 1h warrior type would come across bandits alot and in one case a redguard who insulted me, the fights were tough having to block but not keep blocking

otherwise I'd be dead and swing / bash at the right moments... fun times.

I use all my perks I play on expert and while for some of the tougher bosses I take very little dmg unless its a spell caster and I didn't have my shield raised at the time but for the most part I can take down larger

parties of melee and casters if their not masters. it just takes me a while to take them down with my trusty forsworn axe.

I've held off a few times. Mainly because I was trying to decide what to put them into. Not wanting to "make the wrong choice" factored into it too.

I've also stored perks, deciding what to pick up.

Just like now, I have 7 perks to spend and I don't really know. I'm playing 1h + shield, heavy armor warrior. I just can't decide if I should put them to shield bash/deadly bash/bash disarm or into archery OR into restoration.