» Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:35 am
So to update, my plan worked perfectly. I had PLENTY of money to both train (and get my money back) and consistently level smithing up via the iron dagger trick. I even had plenty left over to get Aela to bump my archery up to an admiral level.
I had also powerleveled my sneak by setting the game on Master and backstabbing Hadvar in his house. I bumped it to around 74 or something, enough to get me the triple damage for bows.
So then I went to take up a job from an innkeeper like I said I would. They sent me against two giants.
I was level 29 with 71~ish heavy armor and ~68ish Archery so it's not like I was a weakling, but these giants messed me UP. I completed it (Miraculously) and then went off to Bleak Falls barrow, and wondered why I was so weak against a Frost Troll who brought me down to 1/3rd health. I ran from it, and the bandits were rough, too! I finally remembered that I had Master on from powerleveling sneak and finally turned it down, and resumed my orc's normal badassery.
But boy, did I feel stupid.
I'm actually doing a little of the main quest and eventually the Civil War stuff so I can get the house in Windhelm. All my characters use the house in Whiterun and I could use a change in scenery.