Hello,

So I started playing a High Elf and went through the first dungeon to get the golden claw and I'm like level 2, maybe just made it to 3.

My wife, on the other hand, is playing a Khajiit. She did the same dungeon plus she went through this mine nearby but she is level 6 already. She is sneaking alot and uses a 2-handed axe or sword. She kills them pretty fast with that weapon and is leveling much faster I think. I pretty much use Destruction like Flame and Spark or dual Flame.

Am I doing something wrong here? My goal is to become a ridiculously powerful mage hence I have not used anything but Destruction.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

have you activated the mages stone? that lets you skill up 20% faster... and when you sneak around you get tons of ''free'' skill levels imo, you only get some light armor skill if you are unlucky and destruction ..melee gets (if you sneak) sneak,armor,weapon hence they level faster

Ya I came across these three stones. Mage, warrior and rogue or whatever it was. I did the mage one

You're mostly using one skill - Destruction. Your wife uses 3 - Sneak, Twohanded and Armor. It's only natural she will level faster this way.

depends on what skills youre using...sneaker usually level the fastest...my assassin was allready level 11 after the first dungeon past rivervord (bleakfall ferrodingdadong)....dunno if 2handed weapon make a lot of sense with sneaking tough...

Variety ranks up more skills so you level up faster. Focusing on one skill makes that skill more powerful relative to your level (and to the scaled enemies you meet), but you have fewer perks/level ups.

Also, destruction is apparently not very strong. I don't know if you're ever going to feel ridiculously powerful, as the higher end enemies use wards negating a lot of magic damage.

It's going to vary a bit, depending on play style. Jack-of-all-trades characters who use a wide variety of skills in and out of combat are going to tend to level up quickly. Characters who only level up by using combat skills are going to level up a little slower.

Yep what Bawtzki said. You need to use more of your magic skills. All of them in fact, if you have useful spells for them. Otherwise you'll have to wait until you do get more useful spells. Also take up smithing, alchemy, enchanting, lockpicking, sneaking and one hand sword (to go with a staff if you found one). If those go against your play style/RPing..then nevermind obviously but that's how you level up in this game.

I think its really good how they gave us quite a few options to determine how fast we level. :thumbsup:

Thanks. I do plan and am already working on secondary skills. I was thinking of using a bow too maybe but I guess I'll start attacking with sword too, set them on fire and hit them ^_^

I am a battle mage and I must say....I level way too fast. My advise for leveling is to use all your abilities pre battle. You should buy zombie and the alteration shield move. Make a zombie and shield yourself before eveyr battle. Pull with a sneak arrow, then burn [censored]as and finish em with a power attack from your main hand. Try to get hit atleast once so you get resto exp after battle.

Ratio is X/X first X being 1 point. Second X being how many battles
You should get 1/3 desto, 1/5 resto, 1/2 alt, 1/2 cong, 1/6 sneak, 1/3 bow, 1/5 1 hander.


For fillers because points really matter for mages, level up blcksmithing. Don't spend a single perk in blacksmithing, just level it up. You will get like atleast 8 perks to spend on your mage trees.

Also, try to have a main hand weapon for every scenario. A soul stealer, a fear on contact, a turn undead, etc. It helps as my melee weapon usually serves a big purpose.

By the time I left the golden claw place, I was level 10 and had every level 1 perk for eveyr mage tree except illusions.

I play on expert because master is just a pain in the ass. The enemy have obnoxiously high hp and I am a battle mage. mage + master = gay

I notice it really depends what you decide to do, what skills, etc. Like sometimes I takes forever for me to level up but when I am utilizing the skills given to me, I level up in a heart beat.

go conjuration and use the bound bow..its incredibly powerful.. right now im playing a character with sneak and conjuration..the bound bow one shots most things and i even killed a dragon priest at lvl 8

Tons of great advice here!

I think I have a pretty good idea of what to do; I'm gonna mix things up a bit. Definitely start healing myself using Restoration and use Conjuration as well.