For people that want to get to level 20+ quickly and get Daedric or Glass armors, then here are ways I have discovered to level very quickly.

Depending on what your class is, pick these skills

For a thief like class, pick Alchemy, Light Armor, Sneak and Security. To level Alchemy quickly, obtain an Apple and some cheese. Go to the Mystic Emporium and buy 2+ of the same scroll. Use the scroll dupe glitch on the Apple and Cheese, and dupe many. You probably need 600+ of each ingredient to level your Alchemy to 100. Leveling your alchemy to 100 will get you to level 7.

To level Light armor the quickest, simply go to Arvena Thelas's house, go into the basemant, and unequippe ANY weapons and turn the difficulty slider to very hard. Punch each rat once, and then turn the difficulty slider to very easy. Let the rats beat on you until your Light Armor skill is 100. This won't take long, and be sure to have light armor equipped, and you need to occasionally drink a heal potion or cast a restoration spell.

To level Sneak quickly, go to the Inn of Ill Omen, and go to the corner where the trap door is. Press the auto-move button (Q is default) and go into sneak mode. Make sure the eye in sneak mode is not bright, and that there are people around. It doesn't take to terribly long, but it still takes a little while. If you do this, go watch TV for awhile. You will NOT level your skills if you alt-tab out.

To level Security easy, use the scroll dupe glitch and dupe a few hundred lock picks. Find an Altar of Spellmaking (If you do not want to join the Mages guild, download this mod: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15116) and create a Drain Security 100 on self spell. Go find a lock door, cast the spell and quickly go into lock picking mode. Press auto-attempt over and over until you run out of lock picks. If this happens, dupe more. You will level security very quickly.

Doing these steps will get you to level 20+ very quickly. Once you get to level 20+, you can go to the Roxy Inn and kill the NPCs inside to get Daedric and Glass armor.

For Warrior Class

To level Heavy armor the quickest, simply do the same thing as I told you to do with Light armor, just wear heavy armor this time.

To level Blade or Blunt quickly, go to Peryite's Shrine. Equip a sword or mace, and bring many repair hammers with you. Beat on the followers at the shrine. They cannot die, and will stand there while you beat on them. Note: This takes a long time to level your Blade or Blunt skills to 100. You need a lot of patience. Also, use with caution. Beating on the followers can possibly cause an unstable game and crashes.

There are a few less skills to level with a Warrior class, and you'll probably won't get as many levels as fast as you would with a Thief or Mage class.

Leveling a mage fast, it's simple. Pick the Mage class, Apprentice Birth Sign, and get a few mana potions. Pick a spell in the class you want to level, and find an object to hold down the cast button with. After a few levels, you probably won't need any mana potions. And, if you don't mind cheating a bit, bring up your console if you're on a PC and type in tgm. This way your mana won't deplete and you can cast until the cows come home.



just some tips I've picked up through 3 years of playing that I thought I would share. Hope it's useful!

Most of these (and when I say most I mean all) are already well known, since the games been out for what... 4 years, almost 5 now? The Peryite Shrine one is also dangerous to your game. Read up why at the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Peryite#Notes.

To more experienced players yes, but when I first started I spent a lot of time searching for ways to level up quickly so I thought it'd be helpful to some. Even though it's been out for 4 years, there are still new players getting into the game everyday.

True. But for a thing like the Peryite shrine bug, I'd be right pissed if somebody came and told me about this fast leveling scheme, only to find out it crashes my game constantly. I was just giving fair warning.

A better title would be "How to make a really bad lvl 20 character". I suggest either a little more reading or a lot more playing before you go into the advice business.

Mara

Well, i cosider Duping as cheat, so i will never use this guide.

But for people who wants to do this, it's an okay guide.

Wouldn't an alternative be to simply enter Console and use:

advskill X Y

where X is the english name of the skill (with no spaces) and Y the amount of points you want to raise skill X ?

It would take minutes.... Reading the website above may give more info, including possible problems by raising skills 'too much' (I think here it means advancing skill by 100 pts or something as exaggerating).

Really need to work in a survival guide for dealing with lvl 20+ enemies with virtually no increase in battle skills.

What would be more useful is a guide on how to AVOID getting to level 20. Leveling up is a mixed blessing.

Power levelling alchemy as major skill can easy create an unusable character. The enemy levels up, get stronger and more dangerous while you only get more health. Alchemy only helps you in combat if you use poisons and potions in combat. Be very careful about easy to level non combat skills as major skills, and don’t power level them. This is true in both Morrowind and Oblivion. If Fallout 3 you can create this character by not putting any points into the combat skill you use.
Power levelling alchemy as a minor skill is a nice way of getting a +5 in intelligence every level up and earn money in the process.

Thats helpful.... Except for X-Box and PS3 players of course :rolleyes:

Why is it really bad? Almost all Thieves, Warriors and especially Mages pick those skills. I've used these tips for years without a problem.

SiriusKhajit

I think it means that because of Oblivion's somewhat dreadful leveling system, it would be crippling to level nearly all your non-combat skills to get to level 20 because you would be fighting Liches and such with only 50 skill in blade or Apprentice skill in Destruction or something and would/could be not strong enough (unless you play with that slider all the way to the left)

Then you must leave the slider all the way to the left since you haven't levelled any kill skill. Or Armorer, which would let you use enchanted gear. You levelled Security (totally useless), Sneak (easily levelled as a minor and of dubious use without bow or melee skills), Light Armor (well, at least you'll take longer to die in combat), and alchemy (I guess you can sneak-run around in circles while they eventually die of poison? except for things that resist poison) You should have decentsih intelligence, agility and speed, and zip for the rest of the attributes.

If you want to cheat, there's better ways.

Mara

Yes, things would get somewhat better then you find better equipment, however you still has to kill somebody to loot it.
I has run into this trap in both Morrowind and Oblivion simply by playing a city thief in the start, sneak around, steal things and pick locks, note I was not power gaming, I was just playing a thief character in the city with minimal fighting. This had the problem that I levelled up perhaps to level 5 without getting better fighting so then I left town I had a serious hard time.

As its been mentioned before, your guide contains dupe cheats, plus u recommended TGM

If your gunna do that, why not do setpclevel 20 and player.setav ... so pointless

Well, I think thats helpful.... Except for X-Box and PS3 players of course :rolleyes:

Wow.. This would actually be a reeallly baad lvl 20 character

I don't like to criticize, but... wouldn't you encounter the Levelling Problem in no time if you follow this? :blink:

It's actually some of the worst advice I've seen on this forum. It's a very effective way of insuring that your enemies progress faster than you do, so that by level 20 you're weaker than just about everything you meet. This is because all those enemies level up when you do.

People do this stuff because they don't understand the way leveling works in Elder Scrolls games. In Oblivion, the leveling system is designed to elevate the skills you actually use, while making the skills you don't use (and the attributes they affect) become relatively weaker. It's sometimes referred to as a "problem," but it's really the game's way of making your actions affect the developing character.

When you artificially force (cheat) major skills to advance faster, your character becomes extremely unbalanced, and weaker than a naturally developed character. You're only cheating yourself if you do this stuff.

actually, the OP is only showing "how to get to level 20+ within hours". he's not saying how to develop a character well or efficiently.

"For people that want to get to level 20+ quickly and get Daedric or Glass armors, then here are ways I have discovered to level very quickly."

Granted, if u do that, u will get to 20 fast and be able to get Daedric stuff (probably by sneaking and pickpocket, as battle-wise....).

I'd like to see you pickpocket that daedric stuff.

isn't it possible to pp this type of weapon / armour? never did it and just assumed one could do that.

You can't pickpocket anything that's equipped. One way would be to hit the NPC with disintegrate armor (or disintegrate weapon) so they'll unequip the item, and then try to steal it, but that would mean having some high-level magical skill.

thx - i did not know that.