Custom classes are awesome but take a lot of fine tuning to level up. I'm playing an archer type now where I only level up when i know i'll get 5x for 3 attributes each time. He's only level 4 right now but i've put all my points in strength, agility, and endurance. Lots of time spent bashing things with my fists to get the strength/endurance multipliers up but it pays off. I leave a lot of important skills off my major list for precisely that reason.

Anyone here done the "Finding the roots"-quest, or w/e its called? Id say its really worth it.

I finished a quest where I had to kill bears and bring back fangs. So After I give the dude the fangs I get on MY horse, he calls me a thief, so we fight, I kill him. I decide to sleep in his house, wake up with a speaker from the dark brother hood in hte room, he recruited me.

Seeking your roots or something? I cant seem to do that.

I went on the greatest quest ever today: I had to go to this place called "Hunter's Run." It's an island off of Bravil. I got out of it all dwarvin armor, and all dwarvin weapons, like a bow, a longsword, a mace. It was WELL worth it. And then after I have to kill the guy who sent me there and he has this crazy weapon called like The Pummeler or something. It completely drains the target of their strength and agility so they cant move and get overencombered. But I killed him and took it, was worth like 700 gold.

Uuum, I don't see why anyone wouldn't create a custom class. Even if it's the exact same as a preset one you still get the opportunity to complete customize.

That reminds me - I left that laying on the ground after I killed him. I've got to go back - I hope its still there. Probably not.

As good as some of these weapons are - the best ones are the ones you enchant -

Drain Health on a Bow plus poisoning it with a Drain Health potion. . .means a dead NPC before they get in range. . .I love cummulative spells.

A sword of Drain Fatigue is great for upclose combat as well.

Making money is easy. Im sitting on 50K worth of gold - and I've spent damn near 50K on houses and shit (having multiple houses is great so that you're not wasting time (in-game time) back-tracking. Just dungeon crawl. . .at higher levels mobs will have on Ebony/Dwarven armor - just rob em of that and you're good to go.

Also - rob non-killable NPC like the Contract Man in the Brotherhood. . .he ALWAYS has some uber weapon on him. Also rob guild members - they too are loaded with sweet stuff.

Merchants will always have a nice wad of cash on them, as will the fences.

Basically just steal shit.

Seeking your roots is ok - hopefully after finding another 10 roots and getting the better reward. . .hell give me the fucking recipe. Because right now - all nirnroot does is provide pain in a bottle. And they DONT respawn. beer:

TGB what level is your char?

I've played a solid 10 hours on my character and I'm only at level 9.

I make my money by looting and doing assassination quests..only have ~200 gold though

still sitting at lvl 1 (almost 2 now)

I went up to Eliminator for the Dark Brotherhood and to the victor go the spoils.

Silver Longsword: http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/7308/obliv13qi.jpg
Silver Longsword 2: http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/1971/obliv27vz.jpg

shit dude the arena is a great place to level up if you are a combat class...i'm a gladiator but i have a fight where i have to kill three argonian prisoners and its sort of hard...i figure i just had to get a little better weaponry. the arena got boring though so i decided to do some fighters guild quests...right now i'm a lvl 4 nord...so how do i join the dark brotherhood? i mean i killed like fifteen people in the arena but do i have to just kill them at their home or something then sleep?

kill someone in cold blood...an innocent soul.

then, go sleep, when you wake up, Lucius will greet you and invite you.

hrm im still level 1 and the level progress bar is full (seems like im missing 1 thing)

I checked my major skills and they are all 1 step above novice (forgot what they are called)

I am gladiator in the Arena though, got nice cash from it :)

did u sleep? you have to sleep to level up...eh btw no spoils but do the quest from the one half orc guy in the bloodworks and it will help you in the arena, take my word for it...