Highest Level Attainable

[saravd]

I'm at 56 - how high can I go?

[.: DBM :.]

Prior to Dragonborn, the level cap was 81--the maximum amount a character could be levelled through raising all skills to 100.

The DLC effectively removed this cap, allowing for infinite-leveling by respeccing, although leveling past that point is exponentially slower.

[Moderator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jktpUHnRM

[Eriane]

I've never gotten up to level 100, always started a new game before then :P

So what happens when you "rebirth" your character? Does it do it automatically or do you have to complete a quest?

[.: DBM :.]

Originally posted by Hedgie:

I've never gotten up to level 100, always started a new game before then :P

So what happens when you "rebirth" your character? Does it do it automatically or do you have to complete a quest?

Here's a snippet from UESP:

With Patch 1.9, individual skills can be made "legendary", denoting them with an Imperial symbol. This will reset the skill to 15, and perk points used for that skill may be redistributed. Gaining levels in that skill will affect leveling again, thus effectively removing the level cap of 81. There is no restriction on the number of times that skills can be made legendary. This change makes it theoretically possible to obtain every single perk in the game. You can level up even after reaching level 252, so you can continue to increase magicka, health or stamina, though you will have nothing left to spend the resulting perk points on.

According to the formula, training one individual skill all the way from 15 to 100 (one mastering cycle) yields 4,930 XP. This amount of XP is enough to level from 1 to 17, or from 194 to 195. Leveling up to 252 (unlocking all perks) would take a total of 809,475 XP. This corresponds to over 164 skill mastering cycles, or mastering every skill over 9 times. The fastest approach to such a huge task would be to find the easiest skill to raise and to exclusively focus on that for leveling purposes.

[Eriane]

Wow that's quite interesting! I'd imagine that a level 1000 thief could simply steal your underwear just by looking at you from across the room.

[Rafael Freeman]

Originally posted by Hedgie:

Wow that's quite interesting! I'd imagine that a level 1000 thief could simply steal your underwear just by looking at you from across the room.

Even before the possibility of making skills legendary, some skills would make the character overpowered if all of the relevant perks were chosen and enchanting was used. With all the sneak perks plus enchanted apparel you'll become invisible :-)