This game is hard!

[CoolLew]

I realize that I probably just suck, but I'm 9th level and trolls and black bears are kicking my butt!
I'm worried that I'm trying to level up too many skills, instead of focusing on being just a warrior or rogue or Mage, I'm trying to be a jack of all trades.
Most of my combat skills are between 25-50 right now, is that about right?

[CMDR Herne]

It's the leveling system. It's easy to make it harder for yourself by leveling up the wrong skills. Which is what your are finding now. Nothing wrong with turning the the differculty down if you are finding it hard.

[AC Denton]

Some enemies are generally just too hard to fight at low levels. Try other story-based quests first, not dungeons. Imperial city has lots of them. I reccomend sticking to the towns and cities for now, get a feel for the game. Focus on building your character a certain way like you should any RPG and you'll be fine. I played this game as a kid and never went into dungeons until i was around level 20ish. Purely because i found it to diffucult and i was a kid, i was scared, literally lol. There's no shame in turning the difficulty down or not heading straight into combat.

The best part of TES and FO games are the world, people and quests, not combat. I would also reccomend the Fighters Guild first, as you usually have backup to help you fight and you can level up easily.

[Furiosa]

Im level 9 just turned 9 last night and my blade is about 45 - 50 i can beat trolls easily but at the moment im focused on stealth with blade incorparated with the assassin class but if i were you i would focus on leveling up your combat whether it be blade, marksman or destruction, CMDR is right the level system is abit weird creatures and loot level with you if your concentrating on skills that dont do much for you with the character your trying to be it can back fire, but if you wanna be a mage you can do blade and destruction magic, make sure you have picked the right class for the skills you want to level up, you can change class, via console command if you dont wanna start again (I wouldn't call it cheating you don't gain much just changing your major skills), therefore changing with skills level up easier than others

[hanehiko]

After getting annoyed with vanilla system, I tried Realistic Leveling, but it has flaws too, and so Oblivion XP rescued me here, offering me the game I wanna to play and enjoy.

[Brandybuck]

Originally posted by CoolLew:

I'm worried that I'm trying to level up too many skills, instead of focusing on being just a warrior or rogue or Mage, I'm trying to be a jack of all trades.

That is indeed the problem. Skyrim is very forgiving in this regard, but when all the foes level with you, it's not wise to be a jack of all trades in Oblivion. You definitely need to specialize.

But specialization does not mean to be a one-trick-pony. Take two or three of your class skills to be specializations. One of those skills needs to be combat related, either offensive, defensive, or avoidance. Then make sure those two or three skills are always significantly higher than the rest. You may need to practice or train to keep them up. Once you have a couple of core skills above 75, then you can start branching out more. My opinion.

[CoolLew]

Thanks for the info here guys :)

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

There is nothing wrong with being a jack of all trades, you just can't be a jack of all trades primarily with major skills. You can't have all your best skills as majors and expect to keep them all leveled properly.

[Furiosa]

Originally posted by Jbegonis:

Trolls and ogres uses to be tough but now all I do is block with the shield and power strike or I just slash and dash which is when I move in and hit a few times and then move back enough to avoid his attack.

Jbegonis is right once you get your blade past 50 you are okay, concentrate on on an armour light or heavy, if your stealthy go light if your more run in and lop a head off with an axe go heavy. But once they are high enough you can switch to a different skill, and if your leaning towards a mage class use destruction/conjuartion but incorparate blade and an armour.

[mark.warren]

Go into the options menu and click on gameplay, then there will be a option to lower the difficulty

[Bansheebutt]

Look up some enemy weaknesses. The main advantage of a true Jack is you can prepare for anything.

All non-atronach daedra have a weakness to shock magic.

Make a DoT Fire spell to deal with trolls. At the very least it will negate their regeneration.

Ogres have a weakness to both poison and fire. I'm not sure if Fire poisons count as actual Fire Damage, but you can make a poison with both Fire and Normal damage out of Spiddal Stick, Blue Entomola, and Wisp Stalk, assuming you at least 50 alchemy. Toss a Weakness to poison spell at em' beforehand and watch them drop.

If all else fails, learn a Damage Strength/Speed spell. Enemies that can't walk aren't much of a threat.

Warriors are the most gimped out of any other playstyle, so if you're playing as a JoAT straight up melee is what you should be doing least. You have to have some support through potions, sneak attacks, or magic.

[CoolLew]

cool thanks

[ManualMakron]

The game isn't all that difficult. The leveling system doesn't make it harder either. You're supposed to combine what the game offers and make the best out of it. Poisons, sneak attacks, spells, enchantments, etc..

[CullinB]

Originally posted by CoolLew:

I realize that I probably just suck, but I'm 9th level and trolls and black bears are kicking my butt!
I'm worried that I'm trying to level up too many skills, instead of focusing on being just a warrior or rogue or Mage, I'm trying to be a jack of all trades.
Most of my combat skills are between 25-50 right now, is that about right?

I had almost the same feeling with my first Breton female character.
I didn't do any quest lines so, my equipment was very poor and low strength could not run fast enough to flee from troll's chase!
At that time i can summon only ghost and skelton, cannot brew good potion (only have novice motar), That was the start point for me and fun started there.

[Sir Nomic]

im doing a combat mage who wont be left out on sneaky guilds
- mage birthsign
- strength, willpower
- blade
- alteration
- destruction
- armorer
- sneak
- illusion ( i was going to do restoration but i thought of what i would really do if i was apart of that world basically roleplaying myself "these are not thr droids you are looking for")
- light armor
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right off bat i do the city market place quest (grave robbers).
then i gamble arena til i won 1k gold (333 from last quest lucky yellow team OP).
then i pound out areana questline (4500k gold by the end) champion's name is spellslinger cause i would run around the arena backwards shootings flames til they died.
go on shopping spree.
do only active dlc quest atm horse armor and get free horse and well armor lol.
kill my adoring fan from arena to get the dark brotherhood quest going lol.
im at the door right now about to awnser skull to get in after killing guy at far away inn.
this is my first time playing on PC but i didnt get that far on xbox anyways.