I'm very aware that, in the end it all comes to down to how I feel about this and what I will decide.

But I still believe that having other people's input included in the equation does contribute.

I have five characters, and my favorite one is my Nord warrior. The morally good hero.

His skills are two-handed, heavy armor, archery and restoration.

Now, the source of my dilemma. At first, I only used the Oghma exploit so I could skip the tedious smithing grinding.

But then, after beating all MQ's, I wanted to have him face the Ebony Warrior. I used the same method to reach lvl 80. I had to touch upon thief and mage skills in order to reach it.

Now I get comments from the guards about his thieving skills even though he's a good guy. I hate that.

And there's this whole feeling of being fake.

The cons are that, I've played this same character twice in the past, because I never got the chin right and Galathil's services weren't available for PS3 users back then.

It would be more or less the same experience, and no, I'd never change his skillset. It's who he is.

I only want to know, what would you do if you were in my shoes? If it were your favorite character's situation.

master the theiving skills then reset them ot just ignote the guards.
I dont see why you should restart.

Can you not set the skills to legendary? This will stop the off-character comments you get from NPC's

Isn't it true that the patch 1.9 does more harm than good?

That's what I was thinking.

Where did you hear that?

... and what exactly was the harming issues?

75% good 25% bad.

There's a lip sync issue but nothing that can't be ignored as you quest. Other then that it's a pretty solid patch

I realized he didn't have 1.9 installed, thus he was able to use the OI glitch to start with. However, I still questioned as to "why" he wasn't using it.

People still use the OI glitch by uninstalling the patch, using the glitch to get to 81 and then installing 1.9. I see no difference in being able to do that here.