Anyone Played Skyrim (Elder Scrolls V) Yet?

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Here's a good tip for anyone starting the game from scratch when it comes to levelling up. You will get the option of pushing up your magic, your health or your strength. The temptation is to push them all up together, but your best bet of all is to keep levelling up your Strength until it is 300 and ignore the other two.

The reason is that it will give you the best return at the early part of the game. Increasing strength means you can power hit if caught up in a melee for longer. You can also carry more booty from dungeon raids or foraging for alchemy ingredients or mining for ores and stones.

Most important of all, it means you can RUN for longer, which might mean the difference between you escaping an overwhelmingly strong bandit force or a giant, or not - remember that thu'um takes a long time to recharge! Early in the game you are weak, and your best skilling up hopes lie in alchemy, smithing and enchanting, selling on and making more powerful weapons to overcome your shortcomings, using poisons on them, and so on.