Is there a level cap?

[patrixmc]

Does you main level have a cap?

[meheezen]

yes and no.

your level is capped when all your major skills reach 100

but you can always use some tricks to keep training them and increase your level (like boosting you trainer beyond 100 or damaging your skills to keep training)

however, once your attributes reach 100, theres is little point on increasing level, and i if i recall correctly you can reach max attributes before you reach lvl 60

[patrixmc]

So leveling up your "Minor skills" or "Misc. Skills" won't raise your main level at all?

[Sadahon]

minor skills do help increase your level, misc skills do not

[Saelune]

Reading skill books for your main skills even after they reach 100 still counts for leveling up by the way. Managed to squeeze out 2 extra levels that way on my maxed out character. Ultimately got to level 75 on that character.

[The Flying Rodent]

You level up by increasing either your minor or major skills. So once they are all 100, unless one reads skill books for skills that are already 100, or finds ways to artificially lower skills to level them again, one cannot level any further.

Major skills can start from anywhere between 30-50, and minors anywhere from 15-35. From memory, the game’s ‘level cap’ , not counting uses tricks to increase level beyond 100 major/minor skills, is about levels 72-78. If all major skills start at 30, and all minors start at 15, then one can effectively get 70x5 + 85x5 = 350+425 = 775 skill increases, or 77.5 levels, making the game’s absolute ‘level cap’ not including tricks to be 78.5 .

As a point of comparison, most of the enemies in the base game are below level 20, so it’s not hard to outpace Base game opponents with levels. The expansions however contain enemies more towards the level 70ish end, so having lots of levels can help out here.

[The Flying Rodent]

Originally posted by meheezen:

yes and no.

your level is capped when all your major skills reach 100

but you can always use some tricks to keep training them and increase your level (like boosting you trainer beyond 100 or damaging your skills to keep training)

however, once your attributes reach 100, theres is little point on increasing level, and i if i recall correctly you can reach max attributes before you reach lvl 60

If you absolutely plan everything to a tee, it turns out that you can reach 100 in every attribute by level 37. As explained here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/22320/discussions/0/1697167168517642560/

However! I don’t actually know if the game lets one level their character any further once they ‘do’ get all their attributes to 100.

This was the case in Oblivion ; once every attribute was 100, the game just prevented you from levelling, even if one still had Major skills under 100. I haven’t had the opportunity to test this in Morrowind.

[lonetrav]

Question is what's the point of levelling up beyond 30, 40 or 50 (depending on whether you play the base game or one of the expansions), except for the sake of levelling up. As great a game as Morrowind is, sooner or later you'll reach a point where you're more or less invincible, can unlock every door, etc. (an exception is Gedna, a mage you'll encounter in the Tribunal expansion - really tough at all levels, but she's at the end of a sidequest).

[Executioner Gaming]

Make spells that lower a major or minor skill and just keep casting them while in front of a trainer for one of those skills. Only benefit really being more and more health gain per level if I remember right.

[Saelune]

Originally posted by The Flying Rodent:

Originally posted by meheezen:

yes and no.

your level is capped when all your major skills reach 100

but you can always use some tricks to keep training them and increase your level (like boosting you trainer beyond 100 or damaging your skills to keep training)

however, once your attributes reach 100, theres is little point on increasing level, and i if i recall correctly you can reach max attributes before you reach lvl 60

If you absolutely plan everything to a tee, it turns out that you can reach 100 in every attribute by level 37. As explained here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/22320/discussions/0/1697167168517642560/

However! I don’t actually know if the game lets one level their character any further once they ‘do’ get all their attributes to 100.

This was the case in Oblivion ; once every attribute was 100, the game just prevented you from levelling, even if one still had Major skills under 100. I haven’t had the opportunity to test this in Morrowind.

In Morrowind, you can keep leveling even when your abilities get to 100. For like, 30 or so levels I just leveled Luck alone, and then when that reached 100 too, I still got a couple of levels after.

[Teralitha]

Min Max Leveling in vanilla morrowind is a hassle. Get a leveling mod like Madd Leveler and never worry about it again.

[meheezen]

^ ive never had a issue tho, just need septims and know the location of trainers