The first ever bandit cave near Seyda Neen

[Rhea]

Originally posted by TheSlayer: IF he require some sneak training yes. But he said 'I don't want any strategies that start with, "Train and level up...blah blah blah.' Sooo...

I didn't realize that meant NO training at all. I like to steal some stuff, sell it, train a little on sneak, and then it's dead easy.

The mage is devastating when you're low-level, but sneaking up on him also gives you the advantage of a critical hit, and he is really low on HP.

[Rageheart]

or if you start out with a couple spells run up and cast them so to drain his health, and then run away and dodge his spells

[Lord Brass]

This doesn't work all the time, but I have successfully managed to get the last bandit to follow me into the water near the platform you've mentioned (with the corpse and the rusty chest). The bandit followed me in, got into some difficulties negotiating the underwater elements of the very short passage and drowned! Ha, ha. You might have fireballs mate, but you never learned to swim.

[B_part]

After all, fire and water don't match...interesting solution, but too complicated. Just dodge dodge dodge and then kill him... like you do in first person shooters when yu are caught reloading.

[DraconisRex]

That's going to depend on your character. But yes, you can beat him at level one.

First, he likes to cast fireball spells. Get yourself where they won't hurt you. Dodging helps. Second, he likes a "touch" ranged fire attack.

So, a little resist fire might help. I think there may be a scroll for that in the first tomb, just up the coast. Also, drinking healing potions while being attacked helps. I do that. Or one of those regeneration scrolls.

But, it can be done at level 1, as I've done it.

[HeWhoWalksInShadow]

The way i got started in the game, was that I became a dark elf (they have a good balance of power) and went to vivec. In vivec I went to the Redoran plaza. Once in the plaza, I went into one of the houses (can't remember which one) and stole the key to the Redoran tresury, the key unlocks the second vault. Once in front of the second vault, you have to wait until the guard comes near the door, if you close the door on him, he should run out of the vault leaving you free to take the wealth of weapons, jewels, and cash inside. I then took all of the goods and sold them to the talking mudcrab, (located on an island off the SE coast of Mzahnch) Keeping in mind that the mudcrab has 10,000 gp and you have to do some creative selling. I then took the money, and used it on trainers. Because of all the skill points I got from this, I was able to level up several times. This money really came in handy.