In today’s round of Skyrim news we have a couple of crafty ways in which gamers have discovered they can level up their characters. While one is pretty easy to complete, and makes your character a one-man army, the other requires a bit more ingenuity…and LEGOs.
For the first leveling trick, players will have to follow a few easy steps starting with completing the Hermaeus Mora daedric quest, which unlocks the Oghma Infinium book. With the Oghma Infinium in your possession, players simply need to go to a bookshelf, leaf through the book, and then trick the game into thinking you are continually reading the book for the first time. It’s actually a pretty simple leveling “trick” but it also results in any player being over-powered very quickly, which could detract from the RPG fun of a game like Skyrim.
But for those who would rather simply wipe every living dragon (there are a lot of them) off the face of the Skyrim world, here’s a handy video breakdown of the trick.
Now the other way to level, at least a small part, of your character’s abilities in Skyrim requires a bit more hard work, and a competent understanding of LEGOs. As you will see in the included video below, one gamer has crafted a LEGO-based device that intermittently presses the trigger button in order to use a spell. Use that spell long enough, and it will reach max level – essentially condensing 100 hours worth of spell use into a smaller fraction of time.
Now, this leveling up of skills, unlike the Oghma Infinium trick, can actually be recreated by a player who is determined enough to continuously press the trigger, making it somewhat legitimate. Unfortunately, throwing in a LEGO device, and going to sleep while your character levels is cheating the system.
Skyrim, thus far, has proven to be a game best experienced one layer at a time. There are moments meant to be savored, and those that are pure happenstance, but each has been crafted by Bethesda to keep the player exploring and help them level. If one were to bypass that system — try and jump to the front of the line so to speak — they would be violating the integrity of the product, and so I’d recommend experiencing Skyrim the way it was intended.
How do you feel about these Skyrim leveling exploits? Would you rather instantly jump to level 100 or do you like earning each new upgrade?
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These tricks are a little cheap. And the LEGO one, isn’t that a lot of work which could’ve been much better spent actually playing the game?
I’ve got some high skills in a bit unfair ways as well, but not as “cheating” as this. I leveled my Smithing by buying all the leather stips and Iron I could find, and just make loads of daggers. And I trained my block by just finding a mudcrab and defending myself like an hour. But at least I did those things myself
I don’t play Skyrim, but when it comes to RPG’s, I prefer to play as intended instead of cheat, at least on my first couple of playthroughs.
That said, when it comes to further playthroughs, I’d gladly use cheats and so on to make the game a bit more fun or overpower my character just to see what it’s like.
For spells, if you have the Mages’ stone active, I found it helped a whole lot. My favourite grinding tricks included:
Destruction:
1. Summon something
2. Kill it with destruction spells
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2
With the Mage’s stone, you can advance rather rapidly AS LONG as you use spells that consume as much Magicka as possible. Still though, I got most of my levels through the normal course of gameplay and only advanced this way during key moments where needed slightly a higher level to unlock an ability. Yesterday, I finally reached the master level for Destruction and decided to go from 99=>100 using the above trick.
Retoration:
1. Use Equilibrium to drain health
2. Use your best healing spell to restore it at the same time
(Just don’t kill yourself by mistake).
This got my from around 40 to 60 in about a half hour or so.
i mean wats the point in this? because i would prob never do this on the first go around of a game like this because this is just taking away from the fun of it completely! this is just because there are only 50 levels. if there were more levels i could understand but there is not. i would boost only after i beat the game and thats so i can get the trophies as fast as possible.
Actual you can go up to lvl 70, but it takes MUCH longer each level.
84. Modded all skills to 100 and got to level 84. Just throwin that out there.
These people don’t want to play the game, they want to level up. To me its just lazy and defeats the whole purpose and takes away from the experience. I bet these guys would take steroids if they weren’t so busy playing videogames.
And shame on you Gamerant, teaching players how to cheat lol this isn’t too bad since its offline, but still.
I agree with the comments so far. I’ve gotten to a point where I don’t see any benefit or fun in doing this?
Is this enhancing their experiences? The game rewards players for using skills anyway, so play the game!
meh, I’ll use cheats for the 3rd or 4th run through of the game way down the road. Right now. I’m having too much fun with it all to bother with them.
I dont like glitchs people can use to cheat their was through a game without REALLY playing the game. Im level 26, And ive played the game over 46 hours. Im sure there are people (losers) that have played WAY more then that, And did THEY cheat to get to level 50? No. They went throw every quest, every cave, and every temple. When all these cheaters had to do is find ONE shrine. Its not fair to the people that spend all their time on this game.
how is it not fair to you? its in no way affecting anyone else, as its a singleplayer-only game. Remember, Bethesda ENCOURAGES modding of their games, so much so that they even include a modding kit in the PC version to those willing to spend a few extra bucks.
If you want to play it normally, by all means please do. But to try to put down those who wish to play around with it and do what they want is just being an asshole.
i am 100% against cheating/modding if its on an online game where it ruins the game for others, ie. Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc., but in offline games, there isnt any harm in playing with the system.
after a couple playthroughs of Oblivion, i completely went to town with glitches and modded save file, cause its fun. and i intend to do the same thing with Skyrim, after a few playthroughs.
I can understand if you’re going for achievements/trophies but why do you care? After 46 hours you’re only halfway through leveling for the last achievement, maybe some people don’t have the time to do that or maybe they just want to reach a high level then play the game for fun, yes it will be easy but hey, everyone has their own idea of fun.
p.s. i have played the game about 15 hours less than you and are at the same level, and no i don’t cheat or glitch, so what the hell have you been doing on the game?
@HWG. excuse me? ive played Skyrim for DAYS on end for pretty much 140 hours. so im a loser? go f**k yourself
First Character was 36 when I stop playing wanted to make a new character and its going into 40′s today hoping to get it into 50s by the end of the night
lazy @$$ sons of b*tches. why the hell did you even buy the bloody thing?
people mod skyrim because its fun to them. are you saying that EVERYONES idea of fun should be what you think? i bought the game myself and i am going to glitch and mod the HELL out of it, and say to myself the whole time “this was totally worth the money.”
have a problem with that?
i said absolutely nothing about modding, idiot. i mod all the time on morrowind.
and uhh…you cant mod Skyrim. the dev kit hasnt been released yet so i havent a clue what the hell you are talking about on that.
and yeah ive got a problem with people parading around their lvl 80 mage that they just sat around for three days casting conjuration spells, hitting the creature with soul trap, and then killing it with destruction spells when the rest of us actually PLAYED THE DAMN GAME to get to where we are.
Lol there are mods out, I have the nude lady’s mod.
Since this game uses the Fallout 3 engine, albeit modded to the point of calling it a new engine, it still uses it. People are just going off what they knew from that. You are right though they haven’t released the kit yet.
if you had taken the time to actually read what i wrote, you would know that i said i AM GOING TO mod it. not that im currently doing so. i dont even have the game right now, i let my friend borrow it until he gets his copy, since i beat the story line, so i dont even have the option to right now.
and anyway, let them “parade around their level 80 mage” that they got from macroing, cause honestly, i see very few people actually getting to level 80 without doing that. if you want to play the game to get a high level, by all means do so. but dont talk down about people who dont want to play the way you do.
lol. idiot. you must not have known that people CAN reach lvl 80 WITHOUT cheating. stop trying to defend your pointless comment…
OH MY GOD. YOU. ARE. A. RETARD.
read what i say, and actually comprehend it before you reply.
i know its possible to get to level 80 without cheating, but theres gonna be WAY more people that get there by cheating/modding/macroing/however they get there, than people who get to 80 legitly.
so you defend your pointless comment with a comment completely dejected from the majority of rpg gamers. you sir make me laugh. ha. ha.
my argument has a valid point and a solid thought foundation, you just obviously dont comprehend it.
I’m gonna have to heftily disagree with you on this one, ‘Dance. In this setting, what other people do with their own games is nonyabizniz.
i like this man (or woman).
you sure are passionate about something that doesn’t affect you in the slightest. No I would never cut corners to level, but seriously why do even f’ing care? How pathetic is your life that you even give a s***?
let me guess… someone stole your sweet roll?
I really don’t mind “cheats” that much because with games like these that take forever anyways, and if people want to use them go right on ahead. Sure it may detract from the game a little bit, but after playing through a few times it can’t hurt any. While I dislike the idea of leveling without actually playing like with the legos, and have done my own cheap way of running around town casting spells every few seconds for hours on end to level up, finding a shortcut in game like the book is an experience in itself, and while I probably wouldn’t do it a lot, finding/testing that idea out sounds pretty cool. And as for actual cheating like God Mode, that’s just plain fun >:D
I did stuff like this in Oblivion. I would create a spell for each magic school that used barely any magic, and set a heavy marble on my keyboard to continually cast a spell. For armor, I’d find a mudcrab or something that barely did damage and let it beat the crap out of me, and then use hammers to repair the armor. I like Skyrim because it makes it harder to cheat the system in some ways.
level 34 and ive been playing for 52 hours, no cheating and i have so much stuff for smithing to make it go up ALOT. dont wanna do it all right away though, i think i will wait.
dang thats gonna take some time i have like 32 hours and im barely level 22 lol
What do I care? It’s their game, they payed for it and it doesn’t effect me at all. I wouldn’t do it myself though.
I’m not sure why they do this. I like allowing my character to level up and seeing what skills I unknowingly use the most. For example, it’d be nice to upgrade my one-handed weapons at level 35, but I obviously use destruction more at level 63. It kind of ruins the experience if you just grind to get things in the game that you haven’t fully earned or experienced.
quit your whining. people bought the game to experiance it the way they wanted.
so what is the highest level you can be without modding?
70 or something like that is the level cap. past that point you cant pick perks anymore.