I’ve also been dabbling a bit more in Daggerfall recently, and after trying to do a few more dungeon-diving quests, I gave in and turned on the cheat mode, just so I could use the rotate-through-‘interesting’-spot hotkeys. Otherwise, things are just way too hard to find or wind up being somewhere completely inaccessible.
I’ve mainly only done quests for the various guilds, though, gaining a couple of ranks in each and a couple of levels along the way. Levels have been slow though, since I haven’t been using my usual method of raising magic skills, and I probably took a few too many advantages at character creation. The available armour is still pretty low-quality stuff.