User blog comment:NightShade25/Character Builds/@comment-4644719-20111201003155

I did almost the same thing you did, I'm level 48 now, and when i put on the assasin's clothes I don't get seen, and therefore I don't die. I've found a couple things that will make things much, much better for your playstyle. First, however, your longer paragraphs are hard to read, not because of the voice or the vocabulary, but because for some strange reason, people like to move on to new paragraphs. Try using more paragraphs, break up the "wall of text" effect. Your dagger's stabbiness is determined by your one handed skill and the dagger's inherent stabbiness. Sneaking and stabbing (much as I enjoy that) does not level your one handed, it levels your sneak. You need both. Therefore, I suggest doing the quest "Unfathomable Depths", given by the Argonian From-Deepest-fathoms. The final reward for this quest is a bonus to your smithing learning rate, as well as your overall learning rate so long as you wear Dwarven armor. By dint of completing the quest, you should have enough Dwarven scraps to smelt into ingots to make yourself a full set of the yellow stuff. Remember that Bent Scrap Metal will not go into the smelter, for it was forgotten by some Bethesda developer (curses!). I would STRONGLY reccomend doing two things, but they are both entirely optional in the plan, the first is to get the spell "bound blade", or "bound blade", or "bound stabby slashy thing", whatever it's called. The second is to get the "courage" spell and power level it by running around town in dwarven armor with the mage stone casting courage on everyone, the jarl, the shopkeeper, the beggars, Mai'q, vampires, bandits, giants, your spouse, and so on. Do that till your Illusion is at level 50, at which point you can keep doing it if you think it's fun. Then, as you level your main level, invest in perks along the far right line of Illusion either the fourth or the fifth perk is something about silencing all spells. In order to level your character, I suggest you go to some of the first dungeons you cleared, they're probably still around the level you cleared them at. or, you can just wander the lowlands and kill wolves. Whatever you do, be sure to do it with your bound stabby thing so you're leveling your Conjuration. The other option is to just make something Dwarven that is one handed and beat the crap out of things with it. By the time you've finished leveling one handed to wherever you want to get it, you've probably managed to gain enough skills to get enough levels to get enough perks that you can go all the way up the bound stuff chain of Conjuration perks These are, extra damage, soul capture, and turn undead/banish deadra. That means that by the time you finish all this, you'll be able to conjure a weapon out of the air which you can use to defend yourself in the unlikely event you are spotted, AND you'll be able to summon an awesome bow with ONE HUNDRED FREE ARROWS meaning you will never have to farm arrows from those guys doing target practice ever again, plus the banishing and the soul trapping. hallelujah and praise be Talos (hear that Thalmor?) The benefits to this is it lead right into enchanting stuff, it gives you unlimited arrows, and getting all the skills mentioned here to high levels gives you tons of levels and therefore perks.