I'm thinking of going High Elf Mage Vampire, since Illusion spells get 25% increased damage, as well as immunity to poison and diseases, and 50% frost resist added.

Only downside is I lose 50% fire resist, I become completely vulnerable during the sun, and I have to feed unless I want to level up to max level and then not be able to do any quests.

So, just finished the main quest, maxed sneaking/blacksmithing/one-handed, etc.

Is there a way to play this game that does not get EXTREMELY overpowered once you hit the mid 20's? I kind of got bored playing as a stealth/dual wield character, killing dragons in 3 seconds flat (that whirlwind shout is BS), and one-shotting everything else.

Thinking of trying a mage next

yup lvl 50 archer here, 2 hit dragons with out even trying, starting my level 3 highelf mage atm

You could always upgrade the game difficulty, the max level is 50 by the way.
I am playing a High Elf Mage and it is really a fantastic experience man, I finished the College of Winterhold quest-line and now working on Dark Brotherhood. After that is finished, i'll probably return back to main questline.

soft cap is level 50, you can go higher but leveling gets harder

I've been playing on master ever since I hit level 30.

The game just became way too easy after maxing blacksmithing. 420 armor and 80 damage weapons. It's ridiculous.

Hoping a mage will be a bit more interesting to play.

All of you who whines about the game being too easy, are you even playing on the highest difficulty?

yes

i play on master with my stealth char too, i don't use shouts and don't upgrade my weapons/armor at all with smithing though
i feel like a handful of things should be nerfed, they definitely made sneak very OP and using smithing and enchanting in conjunction is way over too overpowered as well
i still love stealth though but i was thinking of starting a mage too, master level battles will be more time consuming though

Yeah, if they patched dagger stabs to a more reasonable number...like 8x...and made blacksmithing like half as effective as it currently is, I'd be hella happy with the difficulty.

Hoping playing a caster will be harder than my stealth character, though, since you aren't really wearing any armor.

This post was edited by gateguy on Nov 18 2011 11:32pm

iam already at 132 with my daedra onehand sword.
dragons die in 1 combo as dual wield

This post was edited by Kurdisch_styler on Nov 19 2011 08:10am