Dubnoman Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) I was wondering for some of you, when you beat the main quest, for your characters you made after then, did any of you power level them up excessively before focuses on most quests? Like up to levels 40-45, or lesser levels, like 20-25? Did you power level excessively for some characters and not for others? What do you think about power leveling a character to the 40s before focusing on quests and quest lines? I want to play a second character without power leveling (although I want to get smithing to 100 sooner than later since smithing will be important for this character, so I might gain levels quickly with that). For my first character (her first iteration was up to around level 45), I decided I wanted to develop her a different way, so I went to a level 5 save and power leveled her up to somewhere in the 40s in the course of several days (pickpocketing helped a lot for that between getting it to level 100 and stealing from trainers, leveling up, paying for more lessons, and stealing the money back). Edited March 15, 2012 by Dubnoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldofscotty Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) TBH if your gonna do that just use the console to level the character the way you want and start straight away. I have boosted up character skills and health and walked to the south gate entrance to Skyrim , saved and started there as a seasoned warrior returning from Cyrodiil. The boosted characters never last long though. There is little to achieve once you've already powered up. I always start over and play properly in the end. Now I'm up to lvl 25 using my Alvor family mod barely venturing far from Riverwood and I just hunt, mine and herb the local area to provide for the family. Edited March 15, 2012 by worldofscotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubnoman Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 For my first character, I wanted to get back up to a level near where I was with the first iteration of the character. For my second character, I don't want to power level up. Sure, maybe I'll gain a few levels from bringing smithing up to 100 and help gain EXP fast from some trainers, and things like those, etc., but nothing excessive like I did with my first character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 To me, power level ruins the game. I have had several game completions and never power levelled. I also think that past about 35th level, the game is way too easy even on master level. I like the struggle part of early on and then when you do get a perk point, it means something. I wish there was a mod that only gave you a perk point every other level or every 3 and also at the same time increased the EXP needed to level. Take out all the craft levelling while your at it. But to keep on track with your question no I do not power level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubnoman Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 I wanted to get this first character's second iteration back up to a similar level and I'm sticking with it now, but I'm looking forward to this second character. With my first character, things ended up getting funky from the things mentioned. This second play through will be, in some ways, like the play through I wanted with my first character. No power leveling, and this time, I know what kind of character I want to create. Why I went to an earlier save with my first character is because I just had a lack of good focus with them, putting perks into different things but not making any particular type of character. I was unsatisfied with them. There are all these neat perks and I was running into different directions with the perks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thompsonar Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Yeah I can't bring myself to do any kind of power leveling. I will say I've waited quite a while to actually do any quests with my current character. From level 1 to about 35 I did not go into any dungeon, cave, ruin, etc. I just ran around discovering them on my map and fighting people in the wilderness, as well discovering the main cities and towns. It was quite fun and I felt like I was a seasoned adventurer before doing a single quest. I did rack up quite a long list in my journal, which I have since been whittling down. I don't think I could have done this without mods though. I'm using Live Another Life (alternate start), Immediate Dragons, Deadly Dragons, Wars in Skyrim plus a couple others. With these there was plenty to do out in the wilderness so I didn't really miss exploring interior places at all. I'll never forget meeting a dragon at level 1 and running for my life. I only lived because it got distracted by a group of bandits. It was great. I've never leveled smithing or enchanting early in the game, and I have never used a trainer with any of my characters. More fun to earn the levels I think. Try to avoid skill books too, at least early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staind716 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 To me the power leveling feels too much like cheating and takes a lot of the fun out of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubjectProphet Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Never power leveled before. And I never will. To level my character to 70, I went on a crazy guard killing spree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njorunn Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Like Brandy_123 said - it ruins the game. I don't know about you, but I get most enjoyment out of Skyrim - increasing my skills while doing quests, exploring or just lollygagging around in the gameworld. I tried spamming smithing once to max to increase the levels - but it got boring and felt like a cheat/exploit. I actually deleted that character after that since it felt like a cheat - and played my second one normally. Also if you think the game gets too easy after 35+ as Brandy mentioned - get some mods that increase spawns and make the enemies harder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbranin Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 What is power leveling? Smithing Iron Daggers to get to 100? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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