Starting a new character and enjoying him and he's my more serious character and after using the trainer/companion trick to get my archery up to 50. I went wife hunting and came across the block trainer and a thought had occured to me. Am I doing it wrong? It seems to be more time effective to use the trainers of the skills that are harder to level up and that I barely/never use rather than trying to take the fast track to awesomeville while the levels are easy to get. Hate to hit the soft cap at lvl 50 and see that I still have 80+ levels of blocking I have to level up manually if I want to get close to the max level. Better to get it out the way where I can get a level, go to trainer and get 5 levels of training out of the way and repeat and be done by in under 20 levels. But that has its problems too cause then I'll have a lot of levels of 'empty' skiills and will only make combat harder until my other skills catch up. Eh, decisions decisions.

So how do you make use of the trainers? I'm thinking of a 3/2 split. Train 2 points in skills that I use regularly and 3 points in skills I don't use every level and then alternate every other level.

I don't use trainers, there's no need. Skills I use level fast, skills I don't use.... Well I don't use. Leveling is half the fun for me, Id hate to play through without it.

I use my training sessions on Alchemy. If you are using block (and there are a few easy but time consuming methods to level that), then it will level up rather fast. Faster than levelling your armor, which svcks btw. Alchemy just takes forever. 20 potions to gain a level, and it is only 37 right now. I can only imagine the 80's.