Hiyas all, new here. Wondering how folks get to lvl 50 and beyond is all.

I am lvl 38, have full set Daedric armours/weapon, I run thieves/college/companion/dark brother/nightengales, etc..

I have no other quest than the repeating Forever Dark Brotherhood ones....

time to make a new toon?

discovered all of the landmarks?

eh you can finish the MQ at level 1 if you wanted to I think.

It's all about exploration and working those skills up in the process.
I'm only about 2/3 of the way through exploring the whole world and completing quests along the way and I'm level 54.

That's around 270 game hours I believe

I plan to finish it up after a Sims Medieval break.

hm, im lvl 36 and have done nothing but a few side quests and misc quest. no guild lines or anything. I walk everywhere also

There is still plenty to do. Have you completed the MQ? Civil War? Daedric quests? Have you retrieved all the Dragon Priests masks? Of course there is random exploration still, thats one of my favorite things to do.

I don't. This isn't Oblivion.

I guess you could take an essential follower and simply herd him through the game but even then that would take horrid amounts of time.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you went straight for the "big questlines", didn't explore much, and didn't take many side quests.

I'm at lvl 30, and have only scratched the surface of most of the questlines. Admittedly, I think I'm nearing the end of the main questline for the College(I just got sent to Labyrinian to get the staff, not sure where that actually falls in the questline); but I just found out that the Companions are werewolves, and just finished my first quest as a full member of the Thieves guild. Haven't touched Dark Brotherhood. I've only just met the Greybeards in the MQ.

I haven't even gone to anything west of Whiterun yet, so I still have Falkreath, Markarth, Solitude, Dawnstar, and surrounding areas to explore. And honestly, I still have a bunch of places to go east of Whiterun, too. Just visited my first Dwarven ruin today(AWESOME).

I'm lvl 36, and I also wonder if there are more quests. Done every quest except mage college since I play a nord with a big 2 hander. So now I just run around and wonder what to do. And it doesnt seem to be any places left to find either. So more quests please

If all you do is cut heads off then I guess that's how the game works. To get to 50 you need to specialize in at least two combat styles and some crafting on the side.

TES games are not only about quests and linear stories like DA, Witcher 2 or something else. You should also explore the open world, enter a dungeon or two on your way to a quest location, speak to people and so on. Limited use of fast travelling (I use it a little bit like in Morrowind) is a way to have a lot of occupations beside quests. Its a good idea also not to do all questlines with the same char. I for example momentarily have more than 200 hours played and a mage at Lvl 46 (parked) and a warrior at Lvl 36. The mage has ended the mage guild quest line but I haven't ended the main quest line with both (I'm before Karth Peak or what the name is), haven't ended the Companion-ql with the warrior, haven't started the civil war and will never ever start the thief guild or DB quest line, haven't quested in Windhelm, Rifton and Solitude and only a little bit in Markath.

You should perhaps start a new char and give yourself some rules. Make your own story and behave accordingly. My warrior f.e. doesn't like to be the Dovahkiin, he tries to avoid taking responsibility, although he is forced to do it more and more, is in a deadly struggle with the DB and is searching mainly for Dwemer ruins. He also dislikes the Deadra and tries to bring as much trouble and death to their worshippers as possible. He, as a Breton, has a natural sympathy towards the Forsworn (although kills them with pleasure if necessary) and tries to get all the knowledge possible about them.

Yea on my characters i find it kinda hard to get past 50, e.g i max out one handed, light armor, sneak , enchanting and smithing, and thats about it. Then my character's at around 45 or so.

You don't "finish" this game. You finish quests, or questlines. This is an open world sandbox, RPG, where you use your imagination and put some rules to yourself. It's not about reaching the highest level, skills cap, best armour or completing all the guild quests. It's about playing a char and having fun.

I'm 240 hours, only one char, level 36, barely advanced on the main quest, and just 3-4 quests on both the Companions and Empire. The rest is just exploring, playing without hurries (of course never fast-traveled) and side-quests here and there. I still have lots of open areas to explore, including 1 or 2 cities I haven't visited yet, and their surroundings.

And I've said this plenty of times, but I'm also enforcing some rules to myself with this char. I just use the skills I assume my char knows. No crafting at all, no magic, no melee weapons (it's a sneaky archer with knowledge in locks). It's a good-sided char that doesn't steal anything, not even "white-flagged" items, if they belong to someone else (example: barrels outside a house). This means I ignored completely the Winterhold (mages) quest, Theives guild, Dark Brotherhood, etc... It also means I don't read any spellbook neither enchant or use alchemy, as this character doesn't know how to do that. I just sell or collect all those items, as if they were unusable in this game.

I joined the Empire to pick a side on the war (for my first play) and the Companions as I considered them "good people", helping others, etc...

For my next round with another char, I will pick another playstyle. I have in mind a Mage that has no idea on lockpicking nor sneaking (this means I will never use them), no idea in crafting, but knows about Alchemy. And that's all... I may join another guild, but I will just have fun around using the char. Another one I got planed is an Assassin, again sneaky but with melee instead of archery, so I can join the Dark Brotherhood and possibly Thieves Guild. And possibly I will sometime create a tank-warrior with no idea on alchemy, sneaking, lockpicking, magic, archery, etc... meaning I won't use them, neither join guilds that don't fit the char.

What I mean is that the purpose here is not to level and beat everything ... If you start another char I would recommend to just set a profile for it and enforce yourself some rules. You can't create a character that joins the Companions and goes around playing as good-sided, but then kill a farmer because you (as player) know it's carrying 3000 gold as a present for his brother, who is marrying....

Just my two cents.

One does not 'finish' a TES game

I find enforcing some small rules on your chracter, makes it more fun as well. Also fleshing out their backstories and motivations, makes it more of an adventure.

you dont know how to play elder scrolls

I got to level 50 before getting involved in any quest by simply exploring at leveling up (only via hard earned experience, no trainers!) the 7 skills I decided to pursue with my character. There's ton of content and places to explore. TES games are like that. Quests are only a fraction of what you can see in the world.

Ya it's usually time to make a new toon around level ~45. The game just becomes a routine after that level. This game is too good to allow yourself to be in a routine!

Doubt this, unless you mean "every quest" is just the main quest lines. There are over 150 dungeons in this game. Thats a heck of a lot.

nope everything is level scaled.....

I learned only recently that there is absolutely no leveling experience gained by completing quests or exploration --- none, zero. You only level up by leveling skills. That means that if you want to reach lvl81, you must, must level every skill --- regardless of its value to you --- to 100. As a thief, I had to level illusion, block, conjuration, two-handed ... talents I never, ever used.

geez im level 45, no daedric except a mace i found somewhere i forgot O.o 100+hrs.. not running anything and still got LOADS of quests to do O.o


my fault i guess for just exploring all the time lol >.<

You've done the 20 + original side quests (not radiant) on top of all the guild quests and still are at 36?

I highly doubt this, there is much... much... much more to do. Just in the side quests alone, which are... all in all pretty interesting stories and events.

http://www.trueachievements.com/a157051/sideways-achievement.htm?showguides

I haven't really found a definitive list, but Saxton's comment is about the best I can do.

Go try some of those, look them up in UESPwiki for fuller details. That should give you 60 hours plus easy, and another 20 or 30 ranks at least.

Due to RPG choices I never reached level 50. I finished the game 3 times around level 45-47, because all the skills needed were at 100 and I didn't have a need for the others.The (too many) skill books read made the difference in the levels.

Depending of the character you make, I think a non specialized mage could go above level 50 more easily than a heavy fighter or a thief because he can raise more skills when the fighter or the thief really uses only 5 or 6

Once all the needed skills are at 100 you don't level anymore. So you can do hundreds of quests and explore thousands of dungeons and stay at the same level.

Except of course, if suddenly you want to change your orc warrior to an illusionist or are willing to reach the max level by raising useless skills for your type of character. It is a choice, but I prefer to start with a new different character because at level 40 the game is already so easy it is no longer interesting or challenging You kill dragons in 3 hits.

I sort of feel like role playing your character shouldn't necessarily involve not leveling all your skills...maybe just not using them all.