How important is it to use a trainer at each level?

[aguliondew]

This playthrough I am using trainers as a gold dump. The last playthrough I had so much money by the end of it. Just remember skills under level 25 cost 500 or so, level 50 cost 1600, level 75 cost 4000. It is best to use your money for the higher leveled skills since they take longer to level up. Just remember that you can only train 5 times per level so always train something before you choose to level up.

 

Yeah their are a lot of bugs in this game SickFak. Still gold is easy without those bugs and it gets to a point where you are just running through dungeons without looting. This takes the fun out of exploring once you have cleared half of the map.

Edited January 11, 2012 by aguliondew

[Brandy1123]

I think training ruins the game. The skills themself raise entirely too fast as it is. You get the right stone selected and skill levels fly. I think the experience raise should be only 1/10 of what it is. At least that way you can actually learn your skills and appreciate the ones you get.

 

As for skill points for perks, they should be limited also to maybe 1 every 2 character levels. Make the points have value. Make it a life path defining choice on where you start stacking them, not an inconvenience for 5 minutes till your next level up.

[Sheralynn]

Trainers can be useful for these skills you otherwise have to grind. But if you use them for one or two skills those training sessions will start to cost you tons of money after a while. Avoid them as long as you can. Use them only to raise some (in difficult or tedious to level) skills. Thats my take.

[thesapien]

I'm going to confuse you by disagreeing with everyone before me.

 

Caution: if you use trainers to level up in things you don't use much, then you might actually make the game harder during combat. Keep in mind that whenever you level up, many of your enemies then automatically level up too.

 

For instance, if you mix many potions just to sell but level up in alchemy, then you're needlessly leveling up your foes for something not important to you when fighting. When you sell those potions, you also level up in speechcraft. However, you don't get many options for talking your way out of a fight (excluding shouting, but that's counted separately). This is important during your mid-game or even late for many of us who don't use one character to clear the entire map and max out their perks.

 

To illustrate, try using cheat codes in the early game. You'll quickly find that it's not really any easier being leveled up unless you really cheat and max everything out while at the same time being fully practiced in how to us all your abilities. You'll close the cheat console and be like, cool, I'm level 30 already, but suddenly get your ass burned by a higher ranking dragon that only appears for higher ranked characters.

 

I get flack for saying this, but maybe even avoid leveling at times when you're not sure. If you come across a book this is suspiciously expensive and sitting by itself on a table looking like it's probably a skill book, but you don't know for which skill, consider not reading it. Often you can guess by where you found it or the title, but not always. The first I played, I read every book. That meant leveling up in say heavy armor when I never wore heavy armor and at the same time leveling up my enemies regardless of my ignorance.

 

Don't play just to level up. It's highly over-rated. You'll just reach the top and then what? Let the game itself worry about leveling. Plus, I hear that maxing out everything just makes the late game too easy if you do play one character for that long.