I'd stick with doing that... As soon as I started getting into smithing/enchanting, the game got too easy for me.
Don't make the mistake I did!

i do think it's easier, i remember for the longest time i ran around with a bow doing 30 damage haha, now mine does 200 and i'm killing everything in 1 hit O_O

That's how I feel when I was running around with my badass Daedric swords that were double enchanted and all that... I'd prefer to play the challenging way, but there's nothing wrong with people liking an easier play style.
To each their own!

i still play my style even if i kill most things 1 hit, it's not like i did any different when i did less damage, i still killed most things 1-2 hits.
but i did notice that dragons are so much easier to kill.

i'm not sure if it's the enchantments or the armor that made it so much different.
i pretty much went from 50 light armor and 30 damage bows to my current decked out 300+ armor and 200+ bow haha.
i also now have nearly 500 life whereas before i only had 300.
but i really like not dying every 2 hits or so.

So with a Blacksmith potion I could re-upgrade my legendary glass sword for even greater damage, so I guess thats true.

How does one raise Alchemy faster?

And enchanting?

So, if I follow correctly...

Use Alchemy to make Enchatnting potions.
Use those potions to Enchant Smithing gear.
Use Alchemy to make Smithing potions.
Use that gear and potions to Smith weapons and armor?

Use Alchemy To Make Enchanting Potions
Use Enchanting Potions to Make Smithing AND Alchemy Gear
Remake Enchanting Potion with New Alchemy Gear

Repeat?

just came across this thread, figured id throw out some of my own 100% legit and non-power leveled stats (to an extent of course)

lv73
100 1h
93 archery
100 smith
100 enchant
100 destruction
100 heavy armor
91 illusion
100 conj
75 restoration
38 alteration
100 block
69 2h (working on this with a sexy 650 damage daedric warhammer huhu
54 light armor (need to start working on this)
100 sneak
92 lockpicking (cant wait for this to get 100 as its hella slow)
51 pickpocketing (i dont do much of it)
100 speech ( this took a shit long time to lvl)
100 alchemy

By far the hardest skill to level so far has been lockpicking/pickpocketing/enchanting/alchemy
Alchemy was taking forever until i figured out some rather expensive potions to make which i realized sped up the lvling process

I have gotten a armor rating of 3000 w/o any magic spells
Have a 2x sword dmg of 2650 damage
Havnt made a 100% max'd out bow setup yet because im not 100 archery

All type of 29% fortify gear ofc

Havnt watched a single youtube vid about power leveling or glitches either, as i know this would ruin it for me.

Will post pics/vids if you guys want ;D

This post was edited by ]GS[ Controller on Dec 14 2011 12:11am

Anyone know a lot about poisons?

When you apply them to a weapon do they just last for 1 hit or something?

Also anyone have some good recipes for damage potions?