» Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:01 am
If by "uber" you mean having maxed all three craft skills (Alchemy, Enchanting, Smithing) on one character, then that would be me. On my only character, may I add, because I'm playing the same only character for three months, and still don't see the end of her story on horizon (not far into main quest, haven't joined any side for civil war yet, still wondering whether and if yes then when to join Thieves Guild and DB, avoiding most of Daedric quests for now). I do have power limitations on my character though, but those are not strict rules. I just like the idea that encounter with 1278th sabre cat or bandit doesn't have to be a challenge and a huge time sink, and yet I can strip my character off of those powers whenever I feel like I want that 79870th bandit to give challenge. Another downside (or funside) is that since most of my perks went into crafting and little went into combat skills, my character was very gear-dependant, and certain quests render your character stripped of possessions for some time, and you're left with bare stats and perks. Refreshing.
Anyways, I don't put fortify weapon and armor skills on my gear, in order to maintain some challenge from bosses and ancient dragons, but common critters shouldn't be a challenge to a formidable hero like Dragonborn - common sense. So at 100 armor skill and no perks and fortify enchantments, but max legendary smithed armor, I'm still way below the armor cap. As for damage, same. I may have the strongest self-smithed weapons, but they're not overenchanted (in fact, I'm lazy to recharge them after every 10 hits, so often they got no magiks at all). My main focus in enchanting is on Carry Weight, and that's one field I'm no way going to limit myself, since I tend to clog my inventory with random forgotten stuff like books, ingredients, pelts, named items of sentimental value etc. And some buffs (elemental resistances, health, stamina or whatever) as a secondary effect. Nothing out of proportions. Ancient dragons still is quite a pain in the butt.
Leveling craft skills was hard. At least for me, for I didn't know about 'exploits' such as iron daggers. It was hard to gather craft materials, being always broke and not being able to even dream about affording to buy Breezehome where to unload stuff for a long time. So I believe, I no way cheated or exploited my way to uberness within my reach (which I can chose to use or not use). My poor lizardgirl would chop wood in Riverwood nights after nights, to be able to afford to buy soul gems back in those times. That's how her rise to power began.
). So my question for those of you who do play uber, is what you find fun about it, because I am baffled. Also, what kind of "uber" are you? Are you the sneak-up-on-the-draugur-death-overlord-and-stab-the-svcker-in-the-back uber or the dress-up-in-triple-enchanted-daedric-armor-with-magic-weapons uber? Those of you who are anti-uber are welcome to share your opinions too as long as you keep them at least remotely resembling positive criticism 
