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Posted by: Loki Mar 26 2006, 12:35 AM

I've been playing for like 24 hours and im a level 10 battlemage. This is so much fun, i cant believe i stopped playing to write this.

Posted by: DoomedOne Mar 26 2006, 09:54 AM

I've gotten up to level 6, levelling was sort of a background issue for me, I only wish to be as skilled as necessary to complete the duty at hand.

Posted by: Intestinal Chaos Mar 26 2006, 10:13 AM

I only played for 2 days before LOSING my cd.

But at this point I'm at 7.

Posted by: Duncan Frost Mar 26 2006, 11:34 AM

you LOST YOUR CD???!??!?!?! OMFG!

Posted by: sins_to_dark Mar 26 2006, 12:16 PM

Been playing for 2 days and im level 8 just bought some furnature for my house

Posted by: Agent Griff Mar 26 2006, 02:07 PM

This game seems easier than Morrowind. 2 days and you're already level 8? I've played 8 hours and I'm already level 3.

Posted by: Geonox Mar 26 2006, 02:39 PM

1 x-x

Posted by: Loki Mar 26 2006, 05:22 PM

yea, seriously, you lost the CD. How in the world is that even possible

Posted by: MarkII Mar 26 2006, 05:36 PM

im on level 1, and proud of it! i havent gone on it that much because i have other things to do, and when i do go on it ive been just looking around places really.

well, actually i should be level 2 but i cant find a bed to use right now...

Posted by: jchamber Mar 26 2006, 05:39 PM

there is a crack just go find it and you can play the game still, and I wouldn't consider it a morally bad thing since you did PAY for the game.

Posted by: Soulseeker3.0 Mar 26 2006, 06:07 PM

I've played one day, i'm only lvl 2... yes sad

Posted by: Elrodon Mar 26 2006, 06:09 PM

Yes check this site http://m1010.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_the_elder_scrolls_4.shtml
and what is the maximum lvl?

Posted by: Marxist ßastard Mar 26 2006, 06:32 PM

Using only "natural" methods? Between 45 and 53, depending on your choice of starting skill levels. If you're willing to bend the rules a bit, then it's either 255 or 4 294 967 295.

Posted by: Ola Martin Mar 26 2006, 07:25 PM

I just reached lvl 5 with my sneaky battle mage archer

Posted by: Elrodon Mar 26 2006, 07:25 PM

What do you mean bending the rules a bit?

Posted by: Dark one Mar 26 2006, 07:45 PM

Im still level 0 because I dont have the game yet

Posted by: Wurlon Mar 26 2006, 08:18 PM

I'm a level 8 male nordic "Sentinel", my own custom class which uses Blade,Block,Heavy Armor, Athletics, Speechcraft, Mercentile & Security.

I don't understand how speechcraft works though rofl!

Posted by: itsupthere Mar 26 2006, 10:32 PM

My character is level 6.

Posted by: Mike Mar 27 2006, 04:48 AM

My thief (although I wished i had made him an assassin once i joined the Dark Brotherhood that is ;p not having blade skill is bad D:) was lvl 13 but i deleted all my save games and am gonna remake as an assassin

Posted by: Neix Mar 27 2006, 04:58 AM

I have a sort of archer who isn't afriad to throw a fire ball or bring out a sword, and I am having a lot of success with him. He's a level 2 dark elf.

Posted by: Marxist ßastard Mar 27 2006, 06:29 AM

Well, in Morrowind, it used to be that any master trainer would train you past 100 in a given skill, provided that your level in its governing attribute is greater than 100. Skillbooks would also train you past 100, regardless of your attributes. Of course, neither of these actually increased the skill in question -- they just pushed the "skill increases before level-up" marker down by a notch.

On the other side of things, you could decrease your skills specifically to train them back up again and get the normal decrease to the number of skill increases needed before level-up. Stealing an object worth, say, 4940 gold was effective in doing this, since you'd rot in prison so long that most of your skills would decrease as a result of disuse.

Magic was also an option -- spells that damage or drain skills always had predictable effects. I guess the most effective method of achieving unnaturally high levels would have been to have a junk skill like Spear as one of your minors and enchanting something with CE damage skill at 1 point on self. That way, your spear skill would always be at 0, so training would have be pretty much free, and any person off the street could've trained you. 500 continuous training sessions later, you would've gained 50 levels right there on the spot; since with every level-up, you would've been getting x5 in Endurance, with the proper precautions, you would have always gotten the maximum health increase, too.

I'm sure that people will find similar sorts of things going on with Oblivion in time -- the training limit per level makes them harder, though.

Posted by: Khaan Mar 27 2006, 09:33 AM

Lvl 3 and i've played all weekend (leaving about 8 hours for sleep overall )

Posted by: itsupthere Mar 27 2006, 09:41 AM

I've been playing the game alot too. It's usually 1 PM to 5 AM if I don't spend time with my girlfriend. I have been doing that alot too. I don't want to forget about her. <3
1) Girlfriend
2) Oblivion
3) Family
4) Myself

Posted by: Tellie Mar 27 2006, 11:17 AM

Well, i have just reached level7 with my female mage....going around in nasty dungeons and ruins, for nearly the whole time....several hours a day, gets you to level 7.....but I am starting to have problems now...I need to do quests soon.....and I need a house to dispose of my big luggage of loot..

Posted by: itsupthere Mar 27 2006, 12:22 PM

10 PM to 5:21 AM @_@, time for sleep..

Posted by: Razaki Mar 27 2006, 12:25 PM

My Assassin is currently level 14...I'm really enjoying how the game is set up. The Dark Brotherhood quests were amazingly well-written, but I'm not a fan of the "Robin-Hood-y" Thieves' Guild. I just wanna kill peoples, I suppose. I'm gonna need to buy a house, soon, as well, so I can drop some of my stuff and I have quite a few ideas for decorating, hehe.

Posted by: Zelda_Zealot Mar 27 2006, 08:29 PM

I am level 22, yes I typed that correctly, 22. I have a LOT of free time. Want the skills?
Blade (Master), Block (Soon to be Journyman), Light armor(Almost Expert), Destruction(Apprentice(Damned lack of trainers!), Athletics(Journyman, or is it expert?), Acrobatics(Journyman), Security(Expert due to an uber item, other wise journyman). Yeah I am a fast leveler, so what?

Posted by: Bofra Mar 27 2006, 11:34 PM

When I voted I was level 19, but as I type I'm actually level 22. My playtime runs to close 30 hours, thus it's approximately one level every 1h 20min (rather fast huh?).

Still I haven't powerleveled in any way, my main skills are Blade, Heavy Armor, Armorer, Destruction, Restoration, Alteration and Block thus none are of the power-leveler sort. I guess it was just easy.

Although I've pretty much come to a place were my leveling has become an obstacle. The enemies are suddenly a lot harder and I haven't progressed very far in any quest-branches to have specifically good gear. I guess I'll have to raid some ruins or similar without leveling too much before continuing with the main quest (that has become just too hard to go on with).

Posted by: itsupthere Mar 27 2006, 11:46 PM

I just finished the Cheryondyl Oblivion Gate. I'm a level 7 Nord Barbarian. <3

Posted by: Mike Mar 28 2006, 12:47 AM

qft :P
I loved the DB quest storyline, the Mages guild seemed just like morrowind I rose to the top in one day :P

Posted by: nemesis Mar 28 2006, 01:16 AM

I am a lvl 17, im also guildmaster of the fighter's guild and grand champion of the arena....ive wasted most of my time on these....not even done with main quest yet

Posted by: Ryusaki Mar 28 2006, 02:35 AM

My Xbox 360 broke in early March.....still haven't gotten in back yet either but I play at my friends house from time to time and Im level 7 now lol

Posted by: Furious_George Mar 28 2006, 07:05 PM

LOL. Oblivion = yourself.

Posted by: Furious_George Mar 28 2006, 07:11 PM

It's pretty easy to power level any of those except perhaps armorer (although you can do that too). Any magic skill is easy to power level. Just make a tiny effect spell in that category and cast it over and over. For the fighting ones, find a weak enemy and let them pound on you. For blade do fights over and over where the enemy respawns (there are a few) with a low damage weap.

Gets boring tho and I'd rather do quests.
BTW I'm currently lvl 13 with equal thieves/mage/fighter/DB questing (rank generally ~3rd advancement) and two OB gates closed so far. Only leveled sneak and intelligence because they started so low and are so important overall, and they don't cause your character to level up when they are a minor skill.

Posted by: Dat dope boy May 29 2006, 03:07 PM

lvl 21 battle-mage

Posted by: DaEdRiCWaRrIoR May 30 2006, 12:00 AM

dude guys im lvl 38 and the key to lvling up is when u see that u need to rest and meditate on wat uve learned message u never rest u lvl up alot more things like ur major skills and then when u eventually sleep, u need to sleep more than once and u will lvl up way more than usuall

Posted by: Fargoth May 30 2006, 10:40 AM

29lvl

Posted by: Powerslide May 30 2006, 06:34 PM

Level... 48!

Easy, just do some running, some casting, some jumping. Sooo Easy!

The Oghma Infinium helps a fair bit too.

Posted by: Powerslide May 30 2006, 06:35 PM

OB has a very frustrating training system...

Posted by: Nottheking May 30 2006, 11:12 PM

So "resurrect thread," IS an effect in Oblivion?

At any rate, when this thread was made, I believe my only character at the time, my mage Rallahn, was level 3. However, by now, they're level 21, though they're perhaps one of the oldest Oblivion characters at existence, having logged a little over 367 hours of play time.

It stopped being quite so fun when, past about level 11 or so, enemies started getting harder, as having more than 100 in a skill had no effect, and that was the point I reached 100 in destruction.

Also, I never touched the trainers, once. I didn't like them at all in Morrowind, and I didn't touch them with that character in Oblivion. I do, though, like how they balanced things out a bit more; you have to acomplish a skill-related task first before the master trainer will train you, and even then, capping it at 5 skill points per level is a good solution to prevent "uber-training" as well.

Posted by: The Ascendant May 31 2006, 10:36 AM

Level 18 or 19 Mage/Ninja character. I don't really keep track of my levels... I thought I was level 13 when I was level 17
Closed far too many oblivion gates for my own good, got level 100 conjuration even though it's not a major skill (what can I say? I love watching my lich beat the living daylights out of anything that moves) and I recently decided to train hand-to-hand after watching my cousin playing on his hand-to-hand charater - it looks so fun to pummel daedra to death with your fists! Only problem with that is that the enemies are a bit hard for my lowish-HP mage to be beating to death with her fists.

Posted by: Chalur May 31 2006, 11:56 AM

I'm a level 18 Battlemage. Funny, leveling up was really hard for me during the main quest, after I finished it, during one week, from level 11-18. Great, I level up like crazy AFTER the Oblivion crisis. Took me about 3 weeks because it was my last month of class...so...yeah. I am obsessed with Conjuration, I enchanted all of my stuff for intelligence just so i can make my lich last 50 seconds, that's right, I have a lich that last 50 seconds.

Posted by: General_Weed Jun 2 2006, 08:19 PM

Well I have been playing the game for like way to long, so long that i am Arch Mage, Arena Champion, and The Gray Fox. I am like high in the dark brother hood but i kinda stopped with that guild once i got shadowmere. But the level I am at right now is level 32.

Posted by: Lord DoomsDay Jun 2 2006, 10:45 PM

Lvl 32. Over 200 hours of play in less than a month.

Yep, you geused it, I have way too much free time, way too much.

Thats actully verry sad when you think about it.

So verry verry sad.

Posted by: DarkHunter Jun 20 2006, 12:22 PM

Well ... I' haven't got around to getting oblivion yet (depressed)...

Posted by: The Metal Mallet Jun 22 2006, 12:50 AM

I finished the Oblivion Main Quest at lvl 36 with my Assassin/Thief. Just like in Morrowind I decided to try to do everything fitting to my character before finishing the main quest. Archers don't really do tonnes of damage even with an enchanted Daedric Bow, but the paralyzing is mighty helpful. If you have alchemy as one of your skills, it doesn't take too long to level up, that and Sneak, since now it's fast enough to travel normally with it.

Posted by: The Klise Jun 26 2006, 08:38 PM

I'm sure most would consider this cheap, but I rapidly leveled up my latest character this weekend. Starting fresh on Friday, I hit level 33 by Sunday. I'm playing on the 360, but I used an item duplication glitch to keep my gold around 10-20k.

I used trainers for every level. I maxed out five of my seven major skills (Armorer, Athletics, Blade, Block, and Heavy Armor) and I didn't touch the two others (Marksman and Restoration). I used several of the minor skills to round out level multipliers though.

I kinda wish I hadn't taken the Warrior birthsign. It really only helped me max my Endurance quickly, but I should have taken the Thief instead so my Luck could have slowly kept up.

I've maxed my character's Strength, Endurance, Agility, and Speed. Intelligence, Willpower, and Personality are in the low 30s, barely touched. Luck just broke 60 a couple levels ago.

All of that aside, it's really sweet tearing up my opponents with an Armorer-enhanced Goldbrand. I plan to eventually make four Daedric Longswords with Transcendant Sigil Stone-powered Fire, Shock, Frost, and Damage Health enchantments. They'd actually be more powerful than Goldbrand. I'll carry Umbra as a back-up to fill my Azura's Star or the handful of Black Soul Gems I carry.

Once I get the Oghma Infinium, I'll duplicate it (if possible, which I think it is) and use it max out my Magic potential, just for the hell of it. I prefer combat.

Posted by: TormentedSoul Jun 27 2006, 07:00 AM

Currently on my second character as the first character I made was not working out like I wanted. But I've got a level 18 Mage (has about 55 hours of playtime at this point) and I've done more misc quests then anything. I've done a little of the main quest (closed the first gate) and joined the mage guild. Other then that it's all misc quests for the most part, I do only have one recommendation quest left for the mages guild. Just taking my time exploring and having fun. I'm not using the dupe glitch as to me that defeats the purpose of playing the game in the first place.

Posted by: The Klise Jun 27 2006, 01:44 PM

The point of the game? I thought the point of every game was entertainment. If that's the case, I'm still very entertained, even if I have to dupe to get myself the sweet character I've been wanting.

Posted by: TormentedSoul Jun 27 2006, 11:46 PM

Whatever makes you happy and enjoy the dupe glitch while you can. I'm sure the next patch will fix the dupe glitch on the Xbox 360 and since you have to have the newest patch to get the newest DLC you will have a choice to make. No patch means no new content or get the patch and forget about the dupe.

Posted by: Doomextreme Jul 13 2006, 02:06 PM

Well it seems that im very unique... im the only one here who has reached lvl 74. It just shows how far you can get if you try. So far i have 64000 odd gold, clocked the main story and I struggle to fight a bandit... I dont understand why they would do this leveling thing unless they were sure it was the best way to attract new fans... but it made me hate the game + dont forget the compass. You want to know how I got this far, its simple, ive played for exactly 2 months on end. So i guess theres a lot of noobs here or im just good...

Posted by: Fargoth Jul 13 2006, 08:00 PM

Now i'm a lvl 56 knight. A dunmer called Arven Falom. When I think that the situation is
critical I say "I'm a knight. I'll never give up!"

I use this in the real world too!

Posted by: Sir Radont Jul 24 2006, 10:51 AM

I'm at level 9, I finally bought the game two days ago.

Posted by: Wurlon Jul 24 2006, 02:03 PM

As of right now, I have two level 28 argonian warriors (one male, one female) but I'm only using one right now.

Posted by: mritchey Jul 27 2006, 01:26 AM

You want to explain to us 'noobs' how you got to level 74? My meager math skills only allow me to get to about level 53.

Posted by: DungeonHunter Aug 13 2006, 06:35 AM

i have a level 18 custom class breton "dungeon hunter" who was basically designed to go into dungeons and get out alive with profit.

his skills (if i recall) include
LIGHT ARMOR (doesnt weigh much)
ALTERATION(for levitating, shields, water breathing, opening locks, feather, and all taht good dungeon stuff)
RESTORATION (so i get out alive!)
ALCHEMY (so i dont need to buy potions plus its profitable and easy to level up, and then theres making poisons, which is just plain fun )
BLADE (needs no explanation)
MERCANTILE ( to sell my.....findings.)
ARMORER (armor degrades fast in a dungeon)


yeah that may have been a little over kill, but its a cool class

Posted by: hunter14 Aug 13 2006, 06:47 AM

"im the only one here who has reached lvl 74. It just shows how far you can get if you try. So i guess theres a lot of noobs here or im just good..."

one i have never heard of some one getting past lvl 53, and two u have no life. u must have like 2400 hours on your char.

Posted by: TheImperialDragon Aug 30 2006, 06:01 AM

First of all, I know for a fact the max is not above lvl. 55, so no, I don't think you guys got that high. Unless you used an external mod, or cheated or something.

As for my character, level 29 custom class. (Long blade, Block, heavy armour, Marksman, Restoration, Mercantile, security. Something similar anyway.)

Posted by: Momaw Aug 30 2006, 08:54 AM

The maximum level without exploiting certain game features is 525 skill advances, or, level 53. Using a certain well known exploit, the limit is much higher. I've heard 255 but I won't vouch for that number.

Posted by: Pisces Sep 2 2006, 03:27 AM

I haven't bothered making a high level character yet but I'm assuming the jail thing is still the way to get to above max levels. For anyone who doesn't know, the jail thing means going to jail, no tricks or anything, going to jail will lower your skills allowing you to raise them up again.

Posted by: Ibis Sep 2 2006, 06:30 AM

So what do you do? Become a repeat criminal and keep raising each time you get out? A career criminal ... never tried that in MW.

Posted by: 1234king Sep 2 2006, 08:04 PM

My female Redguard is currently at lvl 7! I deleted all my other characters because i didn't like them. Do any of you find that you also delete a lot of characters.

Posted by: Intestinal Chaos Sep 3 2006, 07:01 AM

I don't really commit to singular characters, and my RP characters don't level very often, as many of them aren't career adventurers. But my highest is maybe.. early 30's.

Posted by: Abu the Cat Sep 9 2006, 05:20 AM

Treinta y cinco

Posted by: 1234king Sep 9 2006, 05:56 AM

That's 35 in mexican right?

Posted by: The Metal Mallet Sep 9 2006, 02:19 PM

*cough* It's spanish *cough**cough*

Darn colds!

Posted by: Doc_Hux Sep 11 2006, 08:28 AM

My strongest character is level 45. He's a Breton Battlemage.

Posted by: deemu Oct 1 2006, 11:17 PM

at the moment im level 15

Posted by: hunter14 Oct 2 2006, 04:49 AM

lvl 17 ranger baby, ooooooooooooooooo yea

Posted by: the listener Mar 9 2008, 07:04 PM

YOU HAVE PROBLEMS YOU CANT LOOSE A DISK IN THAT TIME !!!

Posted by: Hypedupturtle Mar 9 2008, 07:22 PM

I have a few characters above 20. My main is a level 41 Altmer an the rest are mostly in late 20s/early 30s. The way I did it was by getting addicted to the game

Posted by: Daedroth Mar 14 2008, 05:31 PM

Take it easy man... I think it's strange to but but.
Anyway, I don't focus on to level up so much but to complete quests and to get achievements to my xbox. I'm in level 13 right now. By the way: it's waaay more easy to level up in Morrowind. Last month, I created a new character and one week later I was on level 52.


//Daedroth



Update: Yay I'm level 17 now!


Another update: I'm lvl 25 for the moment


Third update: I'm lvl 31 now

Posted by: Hypedupturtle Mar 14 2008, 06:11 PM

Lol, I find the opposite, but hey...

Posted by: Daedroth Mar 26 2008, 09:23 PM

You do? hehu, I think Morrowind's more easy because you can be trained more, in Oblivion it's like 5 times.


//Daedroth

Posted by: Hypedupturtle Apr 3 2008, 12:42 PM

Ye, your right in that respect, but I always find that you level up more quickly in Oblivion. However, I do find Morrowind harder, so that may be why.

Posted by: Badda-Tish Jan 25 2009, 04:01 PM

well, I got several characters (2 actually). My nord berserker is lvl 18 or 19 (can´t remember) and my breton warlock is lvl 30.

Posted by: Illydoor Mar 5 2009, 12:54 AM

My character's a Lvl 37 Nord guy named Losgord, and I've basically done everything in Cyrodil so I'm in the Shivering Isles now. Problem is his magicka's absolutely pants (what you'd expect from a nord) and I regret it now because magic becomes really useful in the latter levels of the game. However, he is a master in blade, heavy armour, armorer, and security (thaaannk you skeleton key!)

Since I've got kinda' bored with him now I've got a new mage character named Illydoor to see if a magic-base char is better.

Posted by: mookaban Aug 9 2009, 07:23 PM

My redgaurd is a level 33, my khajiit is a level 2.

I've been playing this game for 2 years, and yet, i'm still not sick of it. something must be wrong with me.

i think the highest i've ever gotten was a level 34 with a khajiit character that no longer exists..

Posted by: Syndelius Daerleth Dec 20 2009, 02:37 AM

the highest ive ever goten was level 50 i couldnt get any higher because all my major skills where at 100 i named him Syndelius and hes a dark elf my major skills are

acrobatics
athletics
heavy armor
light armor
sneak
security
blade

Posted by: Bolzmania Dec 21 2009, 07:02 PM

If you go to jail your major skills are decreased so keep going to jail if you want to level up more. Don't do it though, the enemies only get stronger.

Posted by: Zalphon Mar 18 2010, 01:08 AM

20+ I used to play a lot.

Posted by: Liam Mar 20 2010, 05:19 AM

Ever since I've started playing, I've had at least fifteen characters. I usually start a fresh one at level 10-14.
My highest level was like, 100 because I was cheating a lot.

-Liam

Posted by: FishRfine Jul 1 2010, 04:59 PM

46. I'd be higher but on a 360 it starts to get boring.

Posted by: ureniashtram Jul 7 2010, 11:13 AM

Lv 43. And Fishy's right. It does get boring after you complete all the quests.

Posted by: SubRosa Jul 7 2010, 10:57 PM

I usually only play a character for a few months before moving on to something different, so I never get uber-high level. The longest-running character I have played so far was my Dark Seducer Aerin, who was level 27 when I finished playing her.

Posted by: mALX Aug 25 2010, 04:46 PM

The highest level I have ever gotten one character to was my first - level 43 on a 360. The hard drive crashed and I lost her. Since then I rarely get up to 30 before starting another game.

Posted by: Acadian Aug 26 2010, 12:28 PM

My char is level 20. She has four major skills she will never touch, so despite her almost 500 hours of play, she is forever young. She very rarely does an actual quest, instead focusing on things that respawn or regenerate.

Having played many characters in the past, I just never tire of this one. Should she someday believe she has run out of things to do, I would help clear her memory and start her anew.

Posted by: Captain Hammer Aug 28 2010, 02:36 AM

Level 53, though I haven't yet used the Felldew exploit (and possibly might, to allow my enemies to get the advantages of some good leveling).

Everything is pretty much maxed for a Breton of a custom class. At this point, I am susceptible to:
Arrows
Projectile traps
Crushing/spiky/unpleasant impact traps
Lava

Posted by: TheOtherRick Jan 25 2011, 04:29 PM

I currently have 2 characters active. I play DID (Ironman) style. My Dunmer is at Level 9, and my brand new Bosmer is at Level 1. The highest I have ever made it (remember, I play "Dead-Is-Dead") is Level 21.

Posted by: McBadgere Oct 21 2011, 07:46 PM

Most of mine (There's 4 main ones) are around 35-45...The others are in the 20s...

Posted by: liliandra nadiar Oct 25 2011, 02:16 AM

My Dunmer Myrin got level 38 after just a bit short of 90hrs. Just now getting to the MQ, as this is my first 'full' run of the game so I'm looking into everything. Probably return to the save out of the tutorial after she finishes everything to make the 'official Myrin' game.

Posted by: SubRosa Oct 25 2011, 03:05 AM

Level 38? You are going to have a gauntlet to run. The MQ gets harder the higher level you do it at. It is going to be all Spider Daedra and Xivilai for you. Worse, trying to keep people like Baurus and Jauffre alive is going to be extremely difficult.

Posted by: McBadgere Oct 25 2011, 06:35 AM

*Wails*...

My Argonian J'Drell just finished the MQ, he's level 39 now...Aaaand Baurus and Jauffre died outside the Bruma gate...Unfortunately no-one seems to want their Katanas back at Cloud Ruler Temple...

Currently leveling up my Bosmer Wench Aeirawen...She's level 9...Aww, bless her...

Posted by: Riften Oct 29 2011, 11:18 PM

Riftens level 20 and I have been playing for 1000+ hours, I'm not leveling up anymore at that point it gets me very annoyed.

Posted by: mirocu Feb 8 2013, 11:37 PM

Level 50, although I wish I had stayed at 20-ish. No real point going beyond that level. But back then I didn´t know any better...