Hey everyone! I'm a long time player, but new to the forums. I have been playing Skyrim for a while now and really need a break. I had played through Oblivion many times, but really miss it, so I'm starting a new character. I never played a full warrior spec, so gonna give it a try. I recently bought the GOTY edition. I never did the expansions. My question is, should I wait till i'm pretty much done with all the original content before starting Shivering Isles? I know Oblivion levels with you, so I'm not sure if it matters whether I wait or not. Thankx! By the way, I really miss this game. I feel this is the best Elder Scrolls of them all, and one of the best RPG's ever.

It's up to you. You can always leave and come back to the shivering isles whenever you want.

what Bounce said, my level 50 started it at level 5 or so, and finished it just recently =D

The Oblivion Main Quest, has a "good" feel to it.
The Knights of the Nine has a very "good" feel to it.
The Shivering Isles does NOT have a "good" feel to it.
So if yer RPin' you might want to take that into consideration.

You will get the best gear in the SI at level 30.
Current character is using the SI for exploration and ingredient hunting. Nothing more, as in no main quest.

The best thing to do is to listen to your character. Your character will tell you when it's time.

There are a few unique weapons that don't scale after you got them, so it's best to wait till level 30, like big daddy said. But that's only for a few quests, it's safe to enter the SI, do some quests and enjoy the sights.

Edit: check this page for the quests you should consider doing at a later level.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Leveled_Item_Quests

Just do it whenever you feel its right. There is no need to do it early or late. Just be in the right mindset when you enter the crazy daedric realm of Sheogorath

My only warning is that the main quest of the Shivering Isles is not for 'good' characters. If your character is not cool with doing things like torturing and murdering people don't do it. You can still go to the SI and explore. Just don't go to the palace and talk to Sheogorath.

*Clock strikes midnight*
*Computer flickers on*
*Start oblivion*
*yearsofdecay1966....ITS TIME*

yearsofdecay1966 freaks out and quits oblivion

Good advice. My character would probably end up hating Sheo as much as Buffy if he were to make him do such horrible things

Cool, thanx guys. I prefer evil and despicable, so SI sounds perfect!

I like to go to Shivering Isles, so I have access to New Sheoth's merchants. Once I have access to New Shoeth, I usually put off doing anymore quests in SI until my character's level is high enough for higher end loot.

I always do shivering isles usually when I get to level 20 and complete it all in 1 go as there is so much to do and it is a fun place to go to just to get away from the main area and have a nice change of scenery, I always try to keep Angel quite a neuteral character so what I generally do is do this quest first then I come back and then do the knights of the round quest to get my character to a neutrel status, this is only the 3rd time I have played this game though so I am still quite a newbie, but usually I do the some side quests and get my character up to level 20 do shivering isles do Knights of the nine and then do the main story, but this time I am going to continue the game until I literally run out of things to do, so it could be a long long time.

Anyway just my take
Godmonkee

The beauty of the shivering isles is you can come and go - do both and flit between the realms.

And if you do complete the SI main quest, come back and visit Sheogorath's shrine for some nice extra dialog.