O_Guaglione on 2/11/2003 at 06:20

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I agree about getting too strong too fast.

I enchanted the best shirt, pants, skirt, amulet, belt, 2 rings, and robe with as much "Constant Effect: Fortify Strength" as they could hold, and beefed my guy up to around 270 in Strength.

I was able to enchant a Daedric Longsword to deal 75 Fire Damage on strike. With that kind of damage, you're able to kill Daedra Lords and Daedroths and Atronochs and most humans in one or two hits.

I kept hearing about how the trek up Red Mountain will involve advancing-and-retreating-and-skulking-about type behavior, but you can just march your way up and in, slaying boogie-men left and right as they flail their limp, boney, girl-arms at you without even breaking a sweat.

The game is so easy to manipulate, I was able to make a series of "Fortify Alchemy" spells to temporarily raise my Alchemy skill it to 5700 and make potions for Levitate at 950 points for 4000 seconds (NOT EXAGGERATING) and Restore Health potions at 300 points for 3000 seconds.

I had to make a few weak "Fortify Restoration" spells that would enable to me cast stronger "Fortify Restoration" spells. Once I got my Restoration up high enough, I started casting my series of "Fortify Alchemy by 800 points" spells. The first was for 28 seconds, then 24, 20... all the way to 4 seconds. Then all you do is bring up your inventory and start a-mixin.

It made the game too damn easy. Although if you look at it, your're not technically cheating. You're just using the natural elements of the game. Or something.

Jordana on 2/11/2003 at 10:46

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My one and only character, Wood Elf, is at level 47, and she still gets her ass kicked in Bloodmoon sometimes. Mainly when about 5 Raiders gang up on me-they do a lot of damage, and if I try to hit them with powerful spells, it just gets reflected back at me. I had similar trouble dealing with Almalexia at the end of Tribunal.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong (or right), but the "invincible kill everything in 3 seconds there's no challenge any more" character that people talk about is not my experience at all. Admittedly I've never made the slightest attempt to exploit the system in any way, either by using enchantments or attribute upgrades.

redem on 3/11/2003 at 11:08

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I had a Dunmer Fighter/mage/thief, at level 49 he was more than a match for anything.

After about level 20 I had no preblem in any of the expansion packs.

SLIEZER on 3/11/2003 at 18:07

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If i remember correct, it was 2006.

Celwyn on 13/11/2003 at 20:08

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I pushed one of my characters to level 45 once, but as many others have noted, it was boring. I have that one running around killing every AI on the island now.

My favourite character now is one I have created to stay low in level - I chose for major and minor skills the ones I will use the least, and therefor the character goes up in levels very slowly. That makes the game more fun for me, especially as I have this guy running around the island collecting the most powerful artifacts in the game - so he's both lowly level 4 yet powerful in his uber-gear. It makes the game fun again.

Daggerfall was more logical in it's level progression. It took a lot longer, and at those first levels, you were desperate to go up... so that a zombie wouldn't smush you with one meaty swing! No matter how far you went, an ancient lich was something to be feared... there's not much in Morrowind that makes me sweat.