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How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Hello I have just installed this game and this game was awesome. I just need to know How are people level 25+ 40 hours in, are people fast traveling all over the place or what? I refuse to fast travel and I am level 17. I don’t wander too much or go off quests. I would feel like I burned through the game and ruined it if I were past level 30 at this point, 40 hours in.
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Old 20-11-2011
Nimos Nimos is offline
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
They are playing easy cake difficulties like expert and adept and so they don’t die. The standing stone bonus, sleep bonus, dungeon raiding and training.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I'm like 70+ into the game and I'm only like level 28. I like taking my time no need to rush and I do enjoy walking around seeing everything. I had Oblivion forever and still found stuff I never seen before so I want it out of this game also. However I only use FT to go to town to sell stuff then FT back to the closes spot I FT from.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I was level 33, picked the game up at midnight release. I was barely even scratching the surface in the main quest; I hadn't even gone up the 7000 steps yet. All I did was side quests and adventuring... I just played a But since my PS3 blew up and I lost all of that, I'm happily restarting with a new character, new race, and new template. Nothing wrong with the one that I picked first, but why not play something else if I have to reroll anyways? Started a game last night and up to level 9. I can't help leveling; I use tons of different skills. One thing I'm doing differently though is that I'm saving choosing perks for a little bit until I'm sure which template I want.
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Old 20-11-2011
Orochimaru Orochimaru is offline
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
It took me 50 hours to reach level 25+ on adept/expert level. Don’t know what others do, probably massing their levels with smithing, enchanting and alchemy, but I gained nearly all my levels through heavy armor and two handed, and a small part destruction, smithing and lock picking. Mostly cause I was smithing and enchanting to make money and explored a bit.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
First thing i did was bringing pocket picking up to 100 before doing any quests beside 2 main quests to get the random dragons spawning. This alone brought me to level 18 in about 10-12 hours. After that i have played "normally" and am 30 hours in now, at the moment at level 24. I only fast travel from white run to river wood. I level with warrior stone, well rested bonus & no training just dungeons. 37 hours lv26! Also play on Master & with my character build I die in 1-3 hits from pretty much anything expect 2 animals so I'm pretty good in melee combat & timing. I just pick fights with everything I can.
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Old 20-11-2011
AlisaDsa AlisaDsa is offline
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
If you walk around you run into a lot more wolves and bears, etc, meaning you really should level just about as fast. Perhaps you just play more conservatively? I'm at about 45 hours and at level 26 or so, but I don't feel like I'm leveling all that quickly. Walking around isn't everything, though. I have a slow computer, so i tend to fast travel a lot more than I would otherwise. But if you walk around, you also find many more alchemy ingredients, so you should level alchemy faster! It really all should balance out before the end.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
It’s easy I think, I got to 26 in 30 hours. Blacksmith will raise levels fast, and I trained skills often along with using the standing stones. Hoard a lot of alchemy items then slam out a lot of potions, same with blacksmith. Along the way speech will raise as a side effect of buying/selling.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
By and large it has virtually nothing to do with fast travel, power-gaming, or difficulty. The truth is that you will level faster or slower depending on character archetype, which is then offset by how often you fight. While the game is classless, it's not so much what you play as how you play that's important. Some characters, such as the classic rogue archetype, will skyrocket through levels simply because the sheer amount of skills they use in conjunction. Meanwhile, a mage with a limited spellbook (as is the case with virtually all early game mages) will be subject to a much slower rate of progress because their repertoire will likely consist of a few destruction and restoration spells for some time, and even after they expand it they will likely only use a few key spells to progress. Point is, it's all subjective. The more skills you use or choose to incorporate in your playstyle the quicker you will progress. That doesn't mean you're missing anything, or that you're a powergamer, or that you're cheapening the experience. Why? Because for better or worse, the game scales with you.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I'm level 26 with 40 hours of Gameplay. It's precisely because I love to explore and walk everywhere and there are a lot of enemies in the wilderness! I use fast travel only when I have to travel on the same way 2-3 times in a single quest because that can be boring after a time. Also I do everything in role-play, so even if I fast travel I mostly pay the caravan guy. I play my game with how it feels at the moment, if I feel like going and killing a bunch of things in a dungeon I'll go do it..Or I'll spend hours just wondering around Whiterun or Riften. Though me and my best friend did play together for 16 hours straight side by side trying to 'one up' each other in terms of cool loot. He beat me by grabbing Vile's artifact before me...he stumbled across the quest before I did.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Actually you level faster if you don’t use Fast Travel. Why? Because then you don't get into all those odd situations where you increase your skills. Besides I found that you level very rapidly in the beginning, as then all the skills you use often added by all the random skills you gain from skill books and the like add up to levels with disturbing pace if you have an appropriate stone activated that fits your play-style. So being level 25 by 40 hours? No prob. Especially if you have skills like Smithing, Enchanting or Alchemy which are in a sense not combat-oriented at all and can be skilled ad infinitum in theory. This of course poses a great danger, but since the practical approach is usually that say around 3 skill gains per level are based on these skills while your main combat skills make up around 5 with another 2 for random skill gains, from skill books and/or Speech which is doomed to be leveled if you want it or not. Add to this the existence of the three speed-skill-stones and the extremely potent Lover's Stone (which works as all three together if I have understood it correctly) and you'll pass level 25 before hitting hour 25 if you are rather effective, so to speak. But this is not a problem that lingers for long past that. And that's for two reasons: Less reason to not use Fast Travel as you start to explore all the convenient places, and when your main skills reach their top.

I easily reached level 25 by the 40 hours mark due to such heavy use of skills and because I found the world too interesting to fast travel through. But not long after level 25, I think it was around level 27, my leveling speed almost flat lined. Why? Because by then my Smithing reached 100, my Two-Hand reached around 90 where it gets slow as hell and my other main skills; Heavy Armor, Restoration & Lock picking, reached a point where they started to slow in gain. Add to this that I explored so much of what you might call the "common" areas, that is the stretches of land between the larger cities, that my reasons for not using Fast Travel began to diminish as I became more interested in the quests themselves. Now I'm reaching the 80 hours mark, and I'm just level 35. And more than a few of those levels came rather recently as I decided to take up Enchanting which levels with dangerous speed to a maxed-out Smither who no longer need regular armor upgrades(Full Daedric). Also to disperse the potential comments, I played on Expert until level 25+ where I went over to Master. So maybe I would have been slightly off track with Master as it can be rather difficult, but I would probably still have leveled in a similar fashion.

Although I do wonder, wouldn't the higher difficulties mean more skill gains as you need more hits, more tactics through additional skills and most likely healing to defeat your opponents - and so level faster than one playing on Adept or even Novice, where I assume that everything must be relatively one-shotted? After all, I do recall a rather... prolonged... fight with a certain "Elder Dragon" that might have in itself given me almost an entire level up.
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Old 21-11-2011
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Re: How to reach on level 25 + in 40 hours in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Dying does NOT equate to challenge, that's an fps mentality. The real challenge is keeping in character as you play the game, and doing what your character would do. This is an Elder Scrolls game, not some fps with a 2 second respawn. Please take your "elitist" mentality back to MW3 and all the other crappy games, where it belongs.