Skyrim Leveling STUCK!

#1
Thomas John

Posted September 24, 2012 - 02:51 PM

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I've been playing Skyrim for 9 months now, finished the main quests and all of the "main" side quests and went away for a while. I came back for HearthFire and I've had a ball building houses and rescuing kids. Now I'm psyched for DawnGuard, but I have a problem. I'm at Level 57...where I've been for at least 75 hours of play time. It didn't matter because I'd gotten all the perks I wanted, have a million six in gold and wasn't looking to really improve anything. Now that I'm considering DawnGuard I want to be able to take advantage of the new skill tree, but obviously can;t if I never level up. Has anyone else seen this problem? With the exception of a few dead end radiant quests and being shut out of buying the Markarth House despite having all the criteria, I really haven't seen any other major problems in 450+ hours of play. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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#2
Snuggles

Posted September 24, 2012 - 06:51 PM

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You just have to start leveling skills you never used. I played with a Bow my first character. Maxed it and Sneak before any other skill was even 75. Then I went to One-Handed weapons so I could continue to level. It's a bit difficult at that high of a level but not impossible.

#3
Blake

Posted September 24, 2012 - 10:47 PM

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The level cap is something like 81 or 82, so you can definitely level up more. But at level 50, the amount of skills needed to be raised to raise a level is dramatically risen. So like Snuggle said, work on other skills.

Of course there is the alternative where you have a rare bug that completely freezes your leveling, no matter how many skills your raise. In that case, the only fix that I know of is reverting to a save before you got the level that should of rose your character's level. But, according to your pose, this may be too far back. =/

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#4
thomas john

Posted September 25, 2012 - 10:21 AM

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Thanks so much for the input guys, I didn't know if anybody was really out there this far into a game's existence! I definitely have been leaning on bows and stealth, so I'll try using nothing but magic for a few days and see what happens. Thanks again.

#5
David

Posted September 25, 2012 - 11:27 AM

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But at level 50, the amount of skills needed to be raised to raise a level is dramatically risen.

Not true, it just takes more experience (which always happens when increasing levels).

#6
Blake

Posted September 25, 2012 - 01:45 PM

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Not true, it just takes more experience (which always happens when increasing levels).

I hear conflicting reports on that, just like whether or not you keep getting perks after level 50. From what I know though, 50 is the soft cap while 81 (or rather 81.5) is the hard cap.

#7
Snuggles

Posted September 25, 2012 - 02:15 PM

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The formula for character leveling is as follows: Character XP gained = Skill level acquired
Example: Training alchemy from 20 to 21 gives 21 Character XP points XP required to level up your character = (Current level + 3) * 25
Example: 100 XP is required to advance from level 1 to level 2, and 1300 XP is required to advance from level 49 to 50. This is consistent across all levels. (70→71 follows the same formula as 3→4)

As for perks, you get a total of 80 throughout the entire game.