Skyrim has the worst leveling system...

[vivster]

KylieDog said:

vivster said:

...or am I doing something wrong?

Yes.

Gaining a skill level does not level up your character level, it only contributes to leveling up your character level (nothing else does), this allows you to raise several skills without actually leveling up.

If you character level is high, raising low skills will barely contribute to character levels, meaning random skill level ups of those are never a bother.

Unlike Oblivion which pretty much guaranteed you would become too weak versus enemies as you leveled up, in Skyrim you end up becoming much stronger than enemies, despite enemies leveling with you.

Yes, it was much severe in Oblivion but there is still the strength cap. So over time you will level up even with smaller skills which will make enemies stronger while you still sit at the same DPS you were 100h ago. Mitigating the problem doesn't erase it. If you take the extreme example of completely mastering every skill, you will be outmatched. As opposed to every other RPG where if you max your character all your enemies will be outmatched.

They could've mitigated the problem even further if they'd set the skill level cap a lot higher and in case of a destruction mage, have a lot more spells to choose from.

It just feels stupid to have a massive RPG with hundreds of hours of playtime only to be maxed out after 50h when you stop advancing your character and are just going through the motions.