I've had this game for awhile, I think I got it a few months after its release, and still have no clue how to play it at all... I haven't even beaten the main questline yet. Thus far, the highest level character I've made is a 33, iirc. I haven't played this game for too long (maybe 70-80 hours), but still, after over 2 years you would think I'd understand the mechanics. The last time I played was probably 4-5 months ago, so I'm starting a new character again so that I can remember the story.

What are the sneaking mechanics? Are they like regular Elder Scrolls games or not?... Does sneaking do anything, like backstabbing, for example, seems to not work. I remember reading that backstabs were a thing, but if I crouch down to sneak up behind an npc, they always end up turning around and attacking me before I even get close (this was on a nb, too). Builds for nb's seem to be a bit contradictory too, assuming sneaking did work, medium armor enhances that, no? All of the skills for the nb are magicka based, so why use medium armor? The stats also seem to be strange to me, I have a 32 nb with every single point I've gotten put into magicka, but he does hardly any damage. He has the best weapon craftable for his level, that's also enchanted. My first character, a 33 dk with 90% of the points I had gotten put into health kills things faster...

The builds in general in this game seem to be odd. In most mmorpg's I've played, the stats you can pump make you do more damage (or give you more hp, but really, who wants that?), and different classes do different types of damage. In this, I don't even know... Different skill trees require different stats, so which one do I pump, and does pumping the correlating stat make the skills do more damage, or does it just allow you to have a larger reserve of whatever stat that might be?

I really want to finish this game, the story seems to be pretty good, but I just can't for some reason. I don't know what class the next character will be, probably the one that's best for PvE, since I don't think I'm too interested in the PvP aspect of the game. Been burnt out on mmorpg's since I quit Dekaron (If you ever played that, you would understand why).

I think the reason that it's so confusing is that this game seems to be trying to mush together aspects of a regular mmorpg with the mechanics of the other elder scrolls games, which just makes it really un-intuitive. Any help explaining things would be appreciated. I'm sure I forgot about 9,000 other things that were confusing me, too, but oh well.