What is the point of legendary skills

[Roiwiez]

i have 2 profiles in skyrim and i have lvl 100 skills in each but i dont see the point in going legendary. is their any plus side to starting over or is it just to say u have legendary sneak skill or whatever

[INSANE]

You can keep leveling (to gain more mana/health/stamina) even after you hit every skill 100. It's that simple.

[science enthusiast]

do also gain skill points ?

[INSANE]

Originally posted by TmjHQ:

do also gain skill points ?

Necro, but yes.

[Bomb Bloke]

Well, not really. You go from 100 skill points to 15, and the skill's effectiveness decreases accordingly. You gain the opportunity to re-earn them, but you'll never actually get better at the skill than you were before making it legendary.

You do, however, get to keep any perks you'd assigned to the skill - they get removed from its tree so you can assign them elsewhere, and the extra levels you gain by leveling it up again will give you even more perk points to spend.

[Trigger]

each time you make a skill at 100 LEGENDARY, it allows you to level ABOUT 2 levels above the OLD level cap of 81....level 252 or so gives you every skill tree fully perked up= YOU ARE A WAR-LORD.

[♥ Barney ♥]

My advice is don't make anything Legendary that takes ages to get back to 100 like One-Handed, Two-Handed, Light and Heavy Armour, Archery, Destruction etc.

Quickest way to go from 15 to 100 I've found so far is Illusion and using the muffle spell.

[INSANE]

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

My advice is don't make anything Legendary that takes ages to get back to 100 like One-Handed, Two-Handed, Light and Heavy Armour, Archery, Destruction etc.

Quickest way to go from 15 to 100 I've found so far is Illusion and using the muffle spell.

I'm pretty sure that using the harmony spell in the middle of Whiterun is a lot faster. IIRC if you cast it 7 times, you get back to 100. It's especially fast if you use as many items to reduce spell cost as possible.

[♥ Barney ♥]

Originally posted by INSANE:

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

My advice is don't make anything Legendary that takes ages to get back to 100 like One-Handed, Two-Handed, Light and Heavy Armour, Archery, Destruction etc.

Quickest way to go from 15 to 100 I've found so far is Illusion and using the muffle spell.

I'm pretty sure that using the harmony spell in the middle of Whiterun is a lot faster. IIRC if you cast it 7 times, you get back to 100. It's especially fast if you use as many items to reduce spell cost as possible.

Yeah, there are probably a few spells you can use to zip up to 100 really fast. I've not got the Harmony spell yet so don't know about that one but will definately try it out. I've also heard Paralyze is quite good for levelling.

[Carl!!!!]

Detect Life is great for alteration especially if dual casted. Without the unofficial patches, soul trap wins for conjuration (cuz you can cast the spell on a corpses and gain good exp (but pretty sure that was fixed with the unofficial patches)).

Light and heavy armors are easy. If you have enough hp to take a couple hits and enough potions or healing spells to keep your hp up, go get hit for awhile by giants. Also work snicely for alteration (with armor spells on, but fighting low lvl mages with concentrated spells works great as well). Pickpocket is easy, sneak is easy, speech is easy, alchemy is easy. Restoration is easy, just time consuming. You need the equilibruim spell (i think is the name, drain slife gives magicka), keep that going while healing yourself with restoration. Smithing is easy. Enchanting is also easy, and block (same trick with armors on giants, just block).

Just leaves the 3 weapon skills. Also easy, just time consuming. Just attack shadowmere with an untempered weapon. He won't go hostile, and has a lot of hp that regenerates really fast. Exp gains for weapon skills are based off the base damage of the weapon, so tempering is useless if you're just grinding levels, because it won't affect exp, but will risk you killing your horse.

[Bomb Bloke]

Lots of skills are "easy" to get to level 100, but the majority are very time consuming. There are very few skills that're "fast" to get there - as in, "a few minutes" - and those which are, are magical. Barney's quite right in saying to not to make a combat skill legendary - I mean, if you want the icon next to the skill, then go for it, but there's really no other point.

Catch is you usually can't max out most of the magic skills quickly the first time around 'cause you have to get them up high before you get access to the game-breaking "hit level 100 right away" spells. But once you have those spells, you can still cast 'em after making a skill legendary and resetting them back to 15 points, so... free levels forever.

[ImSid]

Getting a mod like Dynamic Things allows you to level up 1 handed, 2 handed, archery and destruction on training dummies and archery targets if you wanna power level :)

[Alucard †]

i see you guys are trying to level up your Conjuration skill on this thread ;) ok

[ImSid]

LMAO.. only just realised the OP date

+ 10 Necromancy skill