I've been playing for like 24 hours and im a level 10 battlemage. This is so much fun, i cant believe i stopped playing to write this.

I've gotten up to level 6, levelling was sort of a background issue for me, I only wish to be as skilled as necessary to complete the duty at hand.

I only played for 2 days before LOSING my cd.

But at this point I'm at 7.

you LOST YOUR CD???!??!?!?! OMFG!

Been playing for 2 days and im level 8 just bought some furnature for my house

This game seems easier than Morrowind. 2 days and you're already level 8? I've played 8 hours and I'm already level 3.

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yea, seriously, you lost the CD. How in the world is that even possible

im on level 1, and proud of it! i havent gone on it that much because i have other things to do, and when i do go on it ive been just looking around places really.

well, actually i should be level 2 but i cant find a bed to use right now...

there is a crack just go find it and you can play the game still, and I wouldn't consider it a morally bad thing since you did PAY for the game.

I've played one day, i'm only lvl 2... yes sad

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and what is the maximum lvl?

Using only "natural" methods? Between 45 and 53, depending on your choice of starting skill levels. If you're willing to bend the rules a bit, then it's either 255 or 4 294 967 295.

I just reached lvl 5 with my sneaky battle mage archer

What do you mean bending the rules a bit?

Im still level 0 because I dont have the game yet

I'm a level 8 male nordic "Sentinel", my own custom class which uses Blade,Block,Heavy Armor, Athletics, Speechcraft, Mercentile & Security.

I don't understand how speechcraft works though rofl!

My character is level 6.

My thief (although I wished i had made him an assassin once i joined the Dark Brotherhood that is ;p not having blade skill is bad D:) was lvl 13 but i deleted all my save games and am gonna remake as an assassin

I have a sort of archer who isn't afriad to throw a fire ball or bring out a sword, and I am having a lot of success with him. He's a level 2 dark elf.

Well, in Morrowind, it used to be that any master trainer would train you past 100 in a given skill, provided that your level in its governing attribute is greater than 100. Skillbooks would also train you past 100, regardless of your attributes. Of course, neither of these actually increased the skill in question -- they just pushed the "skill increases before level-up" marker down by a notch.

On the other side of things, you could decrease your skills specifically to train them back up again and get the normal decrease to the number of skill increases needed before level-up. Stealing an object worth, say, 4940 gold was effective in doing this, since you'd rot in prison so long that most of your skills would decrease as a result of disuse.

Magic was also an option -- spells that damage or drain skills always had predictable effects. I guess the most effective method of achieving unnaturally high levels would have been to have a junk skill like Spear as one of your minors and enchanting something with CE damage skill at 1 point on self. That way, your spear skill would always be at 0, so training would have be pretty much free, and any person off the street could've trained you. 500 continuous training sessions later, you would've gained 50 levels right there on the spot; since with every level-up, you would've been getting x5 in Endurance, with the proper precautions, you would have always gotten the maximum health increase, too.

I'm sure that people will find similar sorts of things going on with Oblivion in time -- the training limit per level makes them harder, though.

Lvl 3 and i've played all weekend (leaving about 8 hours for sleep overall )

I've been playing the game alot too. It's usually 1 PM to 5 AM if I don't spend time with my girlfriend. I have been doing that alot too. I don't want to forget about her. <3
1) Girlfriend
2) Oblivion
3) Family
4) Myself

Well, i have just reached level7 with my female mage....going around in nasty dungeons and ruins, for nearly the whole time....several hours a day, gets you to level 7.....but I am starting to have problems now...I need to do quests soon.....and I need a house to dispose of my big luggage of loot..

10 PM to 5:21 AM @_@, time for sleep..

My Assassin is currently level 14...I'm really enjoying how the game is set up. The Dark Brotherhood quests were amazingly well-written, but I'm not a fan of the "Robin-Hood-y" Thieves' Guild. I just wanna kill peoples, I suppose. I'm gonna need to buy a house, soon, as well, so I can drop some of my stuff and I have quite a few ideas for decorating, hehe.

I am level 22, yes I typed that correctly, 22. I have a LOT of free time. Want the skills?
Blade (Master), Block (Soon to be Journyman), Light armor(Almost Expert), Destruction(Apprentice(Damned lack of trainers!), Athletics(Journyman, or is it expert?), Acrobatics(Journyman), Security(Expert due to an uber item, other wise journyman). Yeah I am a fast leveler, so what?

When I voted I was level 19, but as I type I'm actually level 22. My playtime runs to close 30 hours, thus it's approximately one level every 1h 20min (rather fast huh?).

Still I haven't powerleveled in any way, my main skills are Blade, Heavy Armor, Armorer, Destruction, Restoration, Alteration and Block thus none are of the power-leveler sort. I guess it was just easy.

Although I've pretty much come to a place were my leveling has become an obstacle. The enemies are suddenly a lot harder and I haven't progressed very far in any quest-branches to have specifically good gear. I guess I'll have to raid some ruins or similar without leveling too much before continuing with the main quest (that has become just too hard to go on with).

I just finished the Cheryondyl Oblivion Gate. I'm a level 7 Nord Barbarian. <3

qft :P
I loved the DB quest storyline, the Mages guild seemed just like morrowind I rose to the top in one day :P

I am a lvl 17, im also guildmaster of the fighter's guild and grand champion of the arena....ive wasted most of my time on these....not even done with main quest yet

My Xbox 360 broke in early March.....still haven't gotten in back yet either but I play at my friends house from time to time and Im level 7 now lol

LOL. Oblivion = yourself.

It's pretty easy to power level any of those except perhaps armorer (although you can do that too). Any magic skill is easy to power level. Just make a tiny effect spell in that category and cast it over and over. For the fighting ones, find a weak enemy and let them pound on you. For blade do fights over and over where the enemy respawns (there are a few) with a low damage weap.

Gets boring tho and I'd rather do quests.
BTW I'm currently lvl 13 with equal thieves/mage/fighter/DB questing (rank generally ~3rd advancement) and two OB gates closed so far. Only leveled sneak and intelligence because they started so low and are so important overall, and they don't cause your character to level up when they are a minor skill.

lvl 21 battle-mage

dude guys im lvl 38 and the key to lvling up is when u see that u need to rest and meditate on wat uve learned message u never rest u lvl up alot more things like ur major skills and then when u eventually sleep, u need to sleep more than once and u will lvl up way more than usuall

29lvl

Level... 48!

Easy, just do some running, some casting, some jumping. Sooo Easy!

The Oghma Infinium helps a fair bit too.

OB has a very frustrating training system...

So "resurrect thread," IS an effect in Oblivion?

At any rate, when this thread was made, I believe my only character at the time, my mage Rallahn, was level 3. However, by now, they're level 21, though they're perhaps one of the oldest Oblivion characters at existence, having logged a little over 367 hours of play time.

It stopped being quite so fun when, past about level 11 or so, enemies started getting harder, as having more than 100 in a skill had no effect, and that was the point I reached 100 in destruction.

Also, I never touched the trainers, once. I didn't like them at all in Morrowind, and I didn't touch them with that character in Oblivion. I do, though, like how they balanced things out a bit more; you have to acomplish a skill-related task first before the master trainer will train you, and even then, capping it at 5 skill points per level is a good solution to prevent "uber-training" as well.

Level 18 or 19 Mage/Ninja character. I don't really keep track of my levels... I thought I was level 13 when I was level 17
Closed far too many oblivion gates for my own good, got level 100 conjuration even though it's not a major skill (what can I say? I love watching my lich beat the living daylights out of anything that moves) and I recently decided to train hand-to-hand after watching my cousin playing on his hand-to-hand charater - it looks so fun to pummel daedra to death with your fists! Only problem with that is that the enemies are a bit hard for my lowish-HP mage to be beating to death with her fists.

I'm a level 18 Battlemage. Funny, leveling up was really hard for me during the main quest, after I finished it, during one week, from level 11-18. Great, I level up like crazy AFTER the Oblivion crisis. Took me about 3 weeks because it was my last month of class...so...yeah. I am obsessed with Conjuration, I enchanted all of my stuff for intelligence just so i can make my lich last 50 seconds, that's right, I have a lich that last 50 seconds.

Well I have been playing the game for like way to long, so long that i am Arch Mage, Arena Champion, and The Gray Fox. I am like high in the dark brother hood but i kinda stopped with that guild once i got shadowmere. But the level I am at right now is level 32.

Lvl 32. Over 200 hours of play in less than a month.

Yep, you geused it, I have way too much free time, way too much.

Thats actully verry sad when you think about it.

So verry verry sad.

Well ... I' haven't got around to getting oblivion yet (depressed)...

I finished the Oblivion Main Quest at lvl 36 with my Assassin/Thief. Just like in Morrowind I decided to try to do everything fitting to my character before finishing the main quest. Archers don't really do tonnes of damage even with an enchanted Daedric Bow, but the paralyzing is mighty helpful. If you have alchemy as one of your skills, it doesn't take too long to level up, that and Sneak, since now it's fast enough to travel normally with it.

I'm sure most would consider this cheap, but I rapidly leveled up my latest character this weekend. Starting fresh on Friday, I hit level 33 by Sunday. I'm playing on the 360, but I used an item duplication glitch to keep my gold around 10-20k.

I used trainers for every level. I maxed out five of my seven major skills (Armorer, Athletics, Blade, Block, and Heavy Armor) and I didn't touch the two others (Marksman and Restoration). I used several of the minor skills to round out level multipliers though.

I kinda wish I hadn't taken the Warrior birthsign. It really only helped me max my Endurance quickly, but I should have taken the Thief instead so my Luck could have slowly kept up.

I've maxed my character's Strength, Endurance, Agility, and Speed. Intelligence, Willpower, and Personality are in the low 30s, barely touched. Luck just broke 60 a couple levels ago.

All of that aside, it's really sweet tearing up my opponents with an Armorer-enhanced Goldbrand. I plan to eventually make four Daedric Longswords with Transcendant Sigil Stone-powered Fire, Shock, Frost, and Damage Health enchantments. They'd actually be more powerful than Goldbrand. I'll carry Umbra as a back-up to fill my Azura's Star or the handful of Black Soul Gems I carry.

Once I get the Oghma Infinium, I'll duplicate it (if possible, which I think it is) and use it max out my Magic potential, just for the hell of it. I prefer combat.

Currently on my second character as the first character I made was not working out like I wanted. But I've got a level 18 Mage (has about 55 hours of playtime at this point) and I've done more misc quests then anything. I've done a little of the main quest (closed the first gate) and joined the mage guild. Other then that it's all misc quests for the most part, I do only have one recommendation quest left for the mages guild. Just taking my time exploring and having fun. I'm not using the dupe glitch as to me that defeats the purpose of playing the game in the first place.

The point of the game? I thought the point of every game was entertainment. If that's the case, I'm still very entertained, even if I have to dupe to get myself the sweet character I've been wanting.

Whatever makes you happy and enjoy the dupe glitch while you can. I'm sure the next patch will fix the dupe glitch on the Xbox 360 and since you have to have the newest patch to get the newest DLC you will have a choice to make. No patch means no new content or get the patch and forget about the dupe.