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Daelon DuLac

How do you backstab a Dragon?
Now that I have your attention - that's actually not what I'd like to talk about. :)

What strategies to y'all use to continue leveling past the former 81st cap?

Are there certain skills that you have a tendency to make legendary and then rebuild?

Are there skills that you rarely or never make legendary or ones that you always do?

In my case:

Legendizing skills:

Enchanting (that's obvious - you can make a good profit!)
Smithing (again, rather obvious, especially once you've legendary equipment)
Alchemy (unless you use a lot of poisons, it's more of a money maker - I never perk it either)
Illusion (with invisibility and muffle under your belt, why not keep leveling it? I never use it anyhow)
Lockpicking (since I can pick a master lock with one pick at level 1, what's the point in not?)

I do these five over and over and over again as I find them profitable and easy to level.

I also occasionally do Destruction, particularly when I have enchanted items that reduce the cost to zero regardless of my level.

Never Legendized skills:

Sneak (I always perk this out completely and keep it - I like sneaky characters :))
Archery (again I like archery and being able to blow everything out of the water)
Light Armor (if I'm wearing it - I like the perks)
Heavy Armor (same thing - unless you're grinding - it takes forever to get good at)
One-handed or Two-handed depends on whether I'm using magic or not and what weaponry I have on hand.
Alteration - never - it's far too hard to level it up and the perks are great
Restoration - never - again, it takes WAAAYYYY to much work to level it up.

Sometimes I'll make Conjuration legendary, if my magicka is high enough, but, not usually

I have never and probably will never use Block so that's not even in consideration.

Basically - if it's a crafting skill - I make it legendary; if it's a combat skill - I'll leave it.

What are your methods for continuing to grow your character's levels?
 

Dabiene Caristiana

Your friendly neighborhood weirdo
Mother of... You ass! :p My face when I saw the title:

o_O:eek::confused:

Anyway, I don't have much to offer on the table except this:

Restoration, just get Repel undead from Collette (it's an expert or Adept spell), go down to the midden and slay the ice wraith. Now I'm sure you remember there is a nice friendly draugr down there. If you have enchanting or do the Drevis "Check the focal points" glitch, you can cast the spell infinitely. For some reason when you cast the spell on the draugr he will run toward the summoning offering room. However, there is a gate that he tries to run through but he can't. Just keep casting the spell and he'll stay there. Boom. Levels up VERY fast at low to late levels.

Alteration. I use this location to level up: To the west of the college down by the water there are two wolves. If you move from the walkway and jump down a few rocks, you can see a perfect small overhang/ledge that is a little ways away from the wolves. Get their attention and start using Stoneflesh/any flesh spell. Takes about 10 minutes but it works.

However, those two are grinding ways and some would probably say it's down right cheating (focal point unlimited magicka glitch) but if you are leveling up a legendary skill, I'd say you earned a bit of cheating. Especially restoration. You deserve a cheat for leveling that monster up. :confused::eek:
 

Kohlar the Unkilled

Time for some ale
How deceptive of you! :beermug: Since I can't talk about level 81 because I haven't gotten there, here are my thoughts on your 'topic.'

Sylgja or Ingjard have my vote for sexiest character. I suppose I'll give the nod to Ingjard since she's a warrior supreme. Honorable mentions go to Jordis, Lydia, and Narri.
 

Daelon DuLac

How do you backstab a Dragon?
How deceptive of you! :beermug: Since I can't talk about level 81 because I haven't gotten there, here are my thoughts on your 'topic.'

Sylgja or Ingjard have my vote for sexiest character. I suppose I'll give the nod to Ingjard since she's a warrior supreme. Honorable mentions go to Jordis, Lydia, and Narri.
Now I want to start posting pictures! Yum!
 

Harkin

Necromatic Mastermind
Daelon Skyrim forums Master of Deception!

Perks;

Fool's Errand - Make a fool out of one victim

Fool's Gold - Make fools out of multiple victims

Trickster - Use trick tactics to get what you desire

Exploit Weakness - Ability to exploit victim inner weaknesses

Lure Trap - lure people in with decieving threads

Skillset

100 Deception
100 Illusion
100 Sneak
100 Conjuration
100 Decoy
100 Magic Tricks
100 Traps
100 Threadstarter
 

Daelon DuLac

How do you backstab a Dragon?
The easiest skill to level, bar none, is alteration.

All you need is 100% magicka cost reduction and the spell "Telekinesis". Find an object, put an elesctic on your controller/something heavy on your mouse, and afk for 15 minutes. The skill raises incredibly fast.
Why would anyone do 100% reduction on Alteration? 100% on Destruction, maybe, but Alteration? I find detect or paralyze or even the flesh spells more useful.
 

rlang290

Member
The easiest skill to level, bar none, is alteration.

All you need is 100% magicka cost reduction and the spell "Telekinesis". Find an object, put an elesctic on your controller/something heavy on your mouse, and afk for 15 minutes. The skill raises incredibly fast.

You can also pick up an object, keep holding it, then fast travel somewhere a long way away (like Riften to Solitude). The game assumes you've casted it for that amount of time and levels you up a ton as soon as you arrive. :)
 

Daelon DuLac

How do you backstab a Dragon?
The easiest skill to level, bar none, is alteration.

All you need is 100% magicka cost reduction and the spell "Telekinesis". Find an object, put an elesctic on your controller/something heavy on your mouse, and afk for 15 minutes. The skill raises incredibly fast.

You can also pick up an object, keep holding it, then fast travel somewhere a long way away (like Riften to Solitude). The game assumes you've casted it for that amount of time and levels you up a ton as soon as you arrive. :)
That's a useful tip! Maybe I'll do that. I'd like to get the rest of my perks. Now if I could do that with Restoration w/out having to turn undead, I'd be all set. :)
 

Gregor Moon Fang

Champion of Azura
The easiest skill to level, bar none, is alteration.

All you need is 100% magicka cost reduction and the spell "Telekinesis". Find an object, put an elesctic on your controller/something heavy on your mouse, and afk for 15 minutes. The skill raises incredibly fast.

You can also pick up an object, keep holding it, then fast travel somewhere a long way away (like Riften to Solitude). The game assumes you've casted it for that amount of time and levels you up a ton as soon as you arrive. :)

O.O You're joking. I gotta go and try this now.
 

Gregor Moon Fang

Champion of Azura
As for the thread you mean this wasn't the start of Book Club? I thought this was the new thing sitting around the Bannered Mare in a circle discussing books like the Lusty Argonian Maid, books in hand and everything. Gregor is sad now :sadface:.

Seriously though this is what I do:

Alchemy - Resto Loop (saved into a broken ass Fortify Alchemy ring I made)
Alteration - Telekinesis
Illusion - Detect Life
Block - Giants
Restoration - Guardian Circle
 

TheNatural

Active Member
Once my archery hits a high enough level, I usually legendize sneak, because at that point, I am powerful enough to take a couple hits and I can level up armor and one-handed/block.

This time I am trying out a build with Heavy Armor/1h/Archery/Block because my last million characters have always ended up as sneaky archers. I still love my bows, but I want to be a little more tanky.
 

Swordslam

Member
I haven't gotten to level 81 on a character yet, but when I need to grind out levels, I just do Illusion or Alteration.
 
Question- Why make anything legendary if you don't have perks in it? Don't you want perks so you can move them ro other skills? Or do you just want to make the skill legendary so you can start over and level it up again to help you level your character higher?
 

Daelon DuLac

How do you backstab a Dragon?
Question- Why make anything legendary if you don't have perks in it? Don't you want perks so you can move them ro other skills? Or do you just want to make the skill legendary so you can start over and level it up again to help you level your character higher?
It helps with leveling. At a certain point, you don't want to just move perks around, you want more perks but can't level up in certain skills (I've been at 100 in a few things but had perks that were needed). Since you get a perk point when you level up then you use that perk point to perk what you want.

I also do it, because, occasionally I want to perk up enchanting or smithing again (I'll be doing that in smithing so I'm saving points now as I level up since I want to do some Stahlrim armor).
 

TheNatural

Active Member
I use immersive armors, so I like to have ALL of the smithing perks, regardless of wether or not I use heavy or light armor.
 

Papoy

DON'T EXPECT SPOILER WARNINGS FROM ME
I thought that titie of thread is joke synonym for grander (i prefer to take male nords, fits the atmosphere of medieval knights, female archers) xd Never make main off. skills go legendary, i never tried it, but my guts tell me its bad choice.
 

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