Quote from: Bexi on February 15, 2013, 08:34:38 AM
I stopped playing it months ago, to save my sanity (I was beginning to see bandits around every corner 
) but my brothers have started playing it again!
I think I had a wood elf archer too, who was also partial to a spot of backstabbing. But as I was going from quest to quest, I would cast spells to raise those abilities too. She was eventually level 50 in no time!
I was unable to find the disc just now... it will show up, now that I'm thinking of it, I hope. My main concentration was on potions and blacksmithing at first, to generate the gold to level up fast, and to have all the useful stuff. The AI is still fairly messed up, and I hate getting NPCs killed, so while I have a lot of available followers, I didn't use them very much. My mage skills are heavily weighted to conjuring, so I have, at this point the Conjure Storm Atronach (or one of my wands with that spell) -- my usual follower now, though, comes from arming (or finding well armed and armoured) corpses and using the Summon Thrall spell, which lasts until they get killed again.
At the present level, the problem becomes one that very few battles are that interesting, or that common attackers wind up being way, way more powerful than they have any right to be, given my own level (which also makes things nasty for followers). That was as much of the reason I started to lose interest... that and how bogged down some of the superquest battles could get at that level.
One think I do with almost any game is find the wiki and start figuring out a course that sounds like fun (and that won't turn out to be too distressing because of some limitation). First time around, for instance, I was getting way too many horses killed, and at lower levels those can be expensive to replace.
