I recently did a Morrowind playthrough where I trained sneak by crouching on the roof of the Balmora building with 2 dudes by the Silt Strider, then I went and had dinner.
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SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In morrowind, you would gain athletics experience for swimming, even if you weren’t moving. So an easy way to powerlevel was to jump into a canal in balmora, wrap a rubber band around your controller stick, and walk away for a few hours whole your character endlessly swam into a wall leveling up.
I know there were also several broken spell combinations, but my favorite was using a custom fortify jump 100 for 3 seconds and then a fortify jump 200 for 1 second and leaping across the map (because fast travel was transit style between fixed points).
Oh and summons disappear when they die, but if you looted one the same instant you killed it, you could get its gear. So you could create a cheap summon golden saint spell for a few seconds, kill and loot it and repeat for unlimited ebony and glass shields and weapons.
In skyrim, there are enchantments that enhance alchemy, and potions that enhance enchanting, so by alternating between the two, you could create gear with RIDICULOUS enchantments. Like the numbers on them would be in the hundreds of thousands.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sneak is basically useless with the code patch though. Even with max sneak, iirc the max chances of pickpocketing even like a spoon is ~30%.
greenbelt@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
In Oblivion you can sneak into a wall endlessly next to some NPC and get to level 100 pretty well. Bethesda knew what they where doing.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Pretty much every time I played Oblivion I’d spend a week in the tutorial cave, levelling Agility by using a turbo controller and rubber band, jumping in a corner where the ceiling height is just high enough so you can spam about 5 jumps per second. Later on you can do what you said near a goblin to max Sneak, but I think it’s quicker by that guy you need to kill for the Dark Brotherhood
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know the goblin you’re talking about, but one better for sneak in the tutorial is right when you encounter the first zombie, three rats are fleeing it. They’re hostile, but the devs wanted you to focus on the zombie, so they don’t attack no matter what. Killing the zombie then sneaking into a wall by those rats is safe but also gives you more experience because you’re sneaking around three enemies
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Incroyable!