The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Gen. Discussion & Info

[quote name='The 7th Number']I just learned i can swim, lol. I was trying to get these fish scales thinking, i wonder if there is a power that lets me breathe under water. Till i accidentally swam up to the top.

Is there a way to restore my health by sleeping or something other than using these potions?[/QUOTE]

You can learn the restore health spell.:D

And for water-breathing, there are potions, scrolls and other wearable items that allow you to breath under water. I found a sweet helmet the other day.

We should merge this with the Official Oblivion discussion thread...
 
[quote name='shieryda']You can learn the restore health spell.:D

And for water-breathing, there are potions, scrolls and other wearable items that allow you to breath under water. I found a sweet helmet the other day.

We should merge this with the Official Oblivion discussion thread...[/QUOTE]

Yeah i got a ring for finding 12 scales that allows me to breathe under water. but its still hard to see. I would have posted in the official thread, except i couldnt find any when using the search feature.
 
also, you can rest anywhere where no enemies are nearby, and that restores.
i like balancing magic with melee, i think that's where most of the fun comes from.
 
Okay my strength was up to like 225, and i went into some cave and i think an enemy used a spell on me cos as i was fighting him it said lost willpower, lost strength, and then i was carring too much stuff. I look at my ratings and they are both in red. Are these going to go away after a set time and go back to normal?

And whats with them trying to arrest me for stolen goods? All i have that was stolen are notes from that paranoid guy. Then i left them at my castle and they still try to arrest me.
 
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Finally completed the last contract to achieve the Guardian rank in the Fighters' Guild. I also gained access to the University (Mages'), and have created a open very hard lock spell, as well as enchanted a couple items.

I'll never get tired of this game.
 
Ive been playing the crap out of this so far.

My strength still hasnt gone back to normal, i think it may be in illness and need a cure. Ya think? Ive spent like 7 days in jail + more time on top of that and its still not back to normal.

I think ive mainly been doing side missions. Ive only locked 1 gate, found 2 more but didnt attempt to lock those. I like to walk/ride my way around, unless ive been to a place before, then i will warp to it.

Im trying to figure out how to level up more. Right now im just doing it naturally as it comes to me. But i cant do any speechcraft because it says im maxed, and wont let me play that little game.

EDIT, i guess my speechcraft was maxed out because you can only talk to someone for so long. Then i can talk to others and play the mini game.
 
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Yeah their disposition gets maxed out if you play the game for a while. After that it's all spells and bribing to sweet talk your way in to whatever.

If you've got an illness, go to a chapel and use that little well altar thing. That cures most everything except fulll blown Vampirism (And AIDS)
 
I burned up the Hist tree in the Blackwood Company last night. The flame effects were pretty cool. Still haven't figured out how high (number-wise) my armorer skill has to be in order to fix my magical items myself. I'm still a Journeyman at like level 42, but how many freaking times do I have to fill the experience meter?

Edit: I guess I have to get to level 50 in Armorer to get bumped to the next mastery level.
 
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[quote name='Hydro2Oxide']Yeah their disposition gets maxed out if you play the game for a while. After that it's all spells and bribing to sweet talk your way in to whatever.

If you've got an illness, go to a chapel and use that little well altar thing. That cures most everything except fulll blown Vampirism (And AIDS)[/QUOTE]

I second that, it prevented me from becoming a vampire or having to create the potion to stop this. Maybe on my second playthrough.;)
 
I've been playing as a vampire the whole time. It's not as bad as I had thought it would be. You just have to feed every couple days to avoid the sun damage effect. You do get some perks by playing as a vamp, also.
 
Can someone tell me what Charge means? If i look at one weapon it says 194/500 charge Uses: 11. What does that mean and how do i get it fully charged? It has 98 health, so its not that damaged.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Can someone tell me what Charge means? If i look at one weapon it says 194/500 charge Uses: 11. What does that mean and how do i get it fully charged? It has 98 health, so its not that damaged.[/QUOTE]

The condition of your weapon is still at 98% health. You can use it 11 more times before the charge completely runs out. You'll have to use soul gems to recharge, and get it fixed by someone who fixes armor.
 
[quote name='shieryda']I've been playing as a vampire the whole time. It's not as bad as I had thought it would be. You just have to feed every couple days to avoid the sun damage effect. You do get some perks by playing as a vamp, also.[/QUOTE]
I played as a vampire for a good chunk of my game. I enjoyed it.
 
[quote name='Spybreak8']7th Number, do you have a manual? lol[/QUOTE]

Yes, i looked in the manual and on that oblivion wiki page, i couldnt find anything on charge. Damn, i think i sold all my soul gems.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Yes, i looked in the manual and on that oblivion wiki page, i couldnt find anything on charge. Damn, i think i sold all my soul gems.[/QUOTE]

You can also find a mage in some of the mage's guilds that will recharge the magic for a fee.
 
Man i love magic, last night i started using them more and found one to give my body light so i can see in caves, i have health restore...but its minor, i also have very easy lock pick and easy lock pick. LOL. Right now im going to all the towns trying to get letters of recommendation from the mage guilds. I think i have one left.

Are the oblivion gates random? Because i went into one, then reloaded and went into the same one again and i was not in the same area i was in before.
 
Yes they are random and that's funny as I'm doing the recommendations as well but lost track of how many I did or have left. I use healing and fire/frost damage along with my warrior so sorta like a paladin I guess.
 
Ok i have a question. I have the spell Heal Minor Wounds. Which is great. But does this make my 41 Weak potion of healing useless, along with any other healing potions? I ask because id sell them since i can just use magic to heal myself. But i didnt want to sell them all and then find out i need, or can use these potions down the line for something valuable.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Ok i have a question. I have the spell Heal Minor Wounds. Which is great. But does this make my 41 Weak potion of healing useless, along with any other healing potions? I ask because id sell them since i can just use magic to heal myself. But i didnt want to sell them all and then find out i need, or can use these potions down the line for something valuable.[/QUOTE]If you have 41 of them, sell about 30 or 35, and keep the others in case of emergency. Making your own healing potions is much more money efficient than using the potions of healing that you find. Sell those for the most part and stick to the healing spells and your homemade potions.
 
Here is some just random helpers

1.make your own potions by combining items found on your journeys. PICK THE FLOWERS!
2. while going to a new town.... jump, roll, or swim. Just keep doing this Every time you land jump again.. You will level up fast.
3. Learn to use helaing magics and starlight magics. It helps to see in the dark and not have to carry a torch.
4. Try sweet talking everyone....money helps too.
5. Bargin on everything. You can get rich just selling things for a little higher.
6. Store stuff in the horse shadow mane. Kill the horse and stick stuff in the corpse. You need it back... kill the damn horse take your stuff out. He will never DIE. just wait awhile he gets back up. Your stuff will never disapper. He is your personal luggage case. "And I though he smelled bad on the outside!"




All this talk about obivion made me want to play it again! Guess I have another 90 hours I can throw away! This game nver getts old. This will be my third or forth time. I like being some one different everytime.

Time to do a evil mage!
 
Oh yeah, and NEVER invest time to level up your Lockpicking skill. Waste of time.

Not really too much point in investing time in perfecting a "see in the dark" skill considering the Thieves Guild will take care of that for you. :cool:

I'd also recommend doing Thieves Guild THEN Dark Brotherhood. Makes DB a lot easier, especially stuff like killing Roderick.
 
dang man 42 hours in and you don't seem very far in yet either. Thats whats cool about that game. You play it for a LOOOONNNNNGGGG time! Def got my money worth outta that game
 
actually now that I think about it. I have never actually completed this game any time I have played it. I allways get to where you are closing the gates and I put it down for awhile and trade it off or move on to something eles. Then I get it back and make a new character and do something different.

Ive been a quick and light armored elf. Used a bow and acrobat style. good. Thevies guild.

Then I was a knight in heavy armor used a sword average between good and bad. fighters guild

Then I started as a rouge/badass mostly leaning to fully bad. Brother hood of darkness( only finished a couple of missions)

I need to be all out evil mage now and do the mages guild. maybe a dark elf



I haven't done the dlc yet.....maybe this time as well.
 
I think I'm about 82 hours in now. I'm trying to focus on getting the Mages guild shit completed, and then maybe Thieves. I haven't really done too much in the main campaign (only closed the first gate and escorted the king's son to the mountain stronghold).

The loot/weapons definitely get better when you get ranked up higher. I'm now a level 50 Armorer, but I still can't fix magic weapons. WTF is up with that?
 
I'm over 90 hours in and have kind of put it aside because my son got tired watching me play. I got caught up just doing random quests and outfitting all the DLC stuff I got (mages tower, and stronghold mostly). I also maxed out my Alchemy and I haven't even been to Shivering Isles yet. I finished the Arena first, then the Fighter's guild and Mage's guild before doing anything on the main quest. Then I made some progress there and was starting in on the Knights of the Nine most recently. I was just looking at the achievement list (I had better get them all with all the time I've put in!) and was disappointed to see Dark Brotherhood on there but Knights of the Nine not (I figured it would have added 50 of the extra 250 DLC points but I guess they are all in Shivering Isles).

I am kind of dreading doing both the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood as I've been playing "good" so far. I did end up getting a visit from the Dark Brotherhood after premptively killing someone who would have fought me anyway during a quest (it counted as a murder even though I would have to kill him anyway - I guess because I struck first though it was a big group of dudes one of the final Mage Guild quests so I really had no choice as I was being attacked by the others already).

I also have the Fin Gleam (google that or look it up in a FAQ as it is a cool piece of equipment to have early on) and the skeleton key (again, look it up but it renders lockpicks obsolete and was very nice to have since I focused my character on magic/alchemy/swords and passed on the thieving type skills). So I guess with those and my fairly powerful character now (lots of cool spells and potion-making abilities) I should be able to handle the Thieves guild/Dark Brotherhood without too much trouble.

A question about Shivering Isles - it looks like from descriptions I've read that you pretty much can't go back until very deep into that (or until you finish it?). Is that the case? If so I'd want to do some serious inventory management. I am always carrying too much because of all the achemy stuff and even with Feather spells and potions I get overloaded in dungeons when I keep getting claymores and such. But I am always obsessed with getting every item out to sell that I end up making multiple trips - another reason why I have so many hours into the game ;). For Shivering Isles, if I can't get back and forth I'd definitely want to go there fairly lightly loaded.
 
Is this a glitch or something? I looked on the UESPwiki and it didnt say anything about this. But these weird things show up in Eugal Belette's basement in the city of Chorrol.

dcp2745.jpg

It also said that he would attack me after i beat the Dagon Shrine quest, but he didnt. Instead the guard just started to fight him out of nowhere and killed him LOL.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Is this a glitch or something? I looked on the UESPwiki and it didnt say anything about this. But these weird things show up in Eugal Belette's basement in the city of Chorrol.

dcp2745.jpg

It also said that he would attack me after i beat the Dagon Shrine quest, but he didnt. Instead the guard just started to fight him out of nowhere and killed him LOL.[/QUOTE]

That pic is weird. Prolly a texture popping/glitch issue.

I love taking the fight outside and having NPC's join in the fray. I can just sit back and shoot off random fireballs to help out without getting hit.

I'm about 87 hours in now, mainly focusing on the Mages' guild quests. I've stopped picking up weapons and other stuff to sell, because I have plenty of gold. I only pick up scrolls/potions/weapons/armor now that will actually help me, since my carrying capacity is almost maxed.

I can now fix my own magical armor and weapons, so that's pretty helpful.
 
Found the Shrine of Dagon for 50 points in chivos last night. Also killed some vampires and vampire hunters for Hassildor. Wish I didn't have to kill the hunters, but oh well. I kept getting bounties and taken to the castle after I paid the fines. Luckily, I didn't have any stolen goods taken away, and didn't have to spend time in jail.

I really need to go through my shit and sell or drop items that I'm not using. I'm totally maxed out on carrying capacity. I think I'll just start buying houses in all the towns to store items that I may need later. It's not like I'm hurting for gold.
 
I have a ton of spells and potions i need to sell or use, i hate scrolling through them all lol. Right now im going to each city gathering soldiers to bring back to Bruma, of course i have to close a gate for each city so far....except for imperial city. I think i only have one city left.

Last night i couldnt access my Fighters Stronghold since xbox live was down, (guess i downloaded it on the xbox 360 i had before repairs) which sucks. I hope even though i saved my game without the castle there, that it remembers all the items i left inside the castle.
 
[quote name='shieryda']Found the Shrine of Dagon for 50 points in chivos last night. Also killed some vampires and vampire hunters for Hassildor. Wish I didn't have to kill the hunters, but oh well. I kept getting bounties and taken to the castle after I paid the fines. Luckily, I didn't have any stolen goods taken away, and didn't have to spend time in jail.
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The way I did that one was to tell the hunters about the vampires and then go to the cave. Once you enter, the hunters come in and start fighing the vampires. The vampires took care of the hunters for me and all I had to do was mop up a couple of vampires that were left over. Also, even if you have to kill the hunters there you won't get in trouble for it. I did it a few times and initially the hunters won but since I didn't want to increase my "murder" count, I reloaded until the vampires won. But when the hunters win they just stand there and you could kill them easily in the cave (and I don't think there's a bounty in that case, right?).

I've played the entire game so far without a single bounty or night in jail. That's why I've been hesitant to start the Thieves guild (or Dark Brotherhood) quest line yet.
 
Im on the quest "Defense of Bruma". After this quest, will all oblivion gates be gone? Im just asking because i think i read someone saying that there are certain things in the oblivion world that i cant get in the regular world. Im not sure if i should beat it and complete the main story.
 
[quote name='io']The way I did that one was to tell the hunters about the vampires and then go to the cave. Once you enter, the hunters come in and start fighing the vampires. The vampires took care of the hunters for me and all I had to do was mop up a couple of vampires that were left over. Also, even if you have to kill the hunters there you won't get in trouble for it. I did it a few times and initially the hunters won but since I didn't want to increase my "murder" count, I reloaded until the vampires won. But when the hunters win they just stand there and you could kill them easily in the cave (and I don't think there's a bounty in that case, right?).

I've played the entire game so far without a single bounty or night in jail. That's why I've been hesitant to start the Thieves guild (or Dark Brotherhood) quest line yet.[/QUOTE]

Not sure about the bounty stuff. It's kinda funny to see a guard come flying out of a town when you attack someone though. I tried to get the vampire hunters' dispositions down first, so that they'd attack me first (no bounty that way), but they wouldn't even talk to me.
 
Wow thats lame. I played all day offline because xbox live was down. So i didnt have the battlehorn castle DLC, i have to be online to use it i guess. Now that xbox live is back up, i had to do the Battlehorn castle quest again, and i lost everything i saved in my rooms, and ill have to rebuy the trophy room upgrade. This blows. I saved some cool stuff too, like the ring of burden. Sure it was worthless and like 250 weight, but it was something you kept. Also had some cool weapons i left in there. Things like that, all gone. Time to look for a house i can use offline, so this wont happen again. Also makes me rethink about buying any DLC for this game.
 
That's what I was afraid would happen by playing offline last night. I turned off my console when I got the message that some of the content could not be found.

Sucks that you had to experience that, 7th Number.
 
It's weird that this thread popped up from the depths; I randomly decided to pick this game up again last week.
 
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Wow, i got a glitch or something. The last animal part i gave to the taxidermist in the battlehorn castle was the claw to make that dinosaur animal. I gave it to her, more than two days have passed. I go to my trophy room and its the only one missing. When i talk to her, i select create a trophy, and the only option i can pick is 'Nevermind'. So i guess im screwed out of 1 missing trophy. Man im glad i got this castle for free, its been nothing but a hassle.
 
Right now im doing the quest where you have to take this womans staff because those demons keep showing up and makes her house smell like a barn, only im not doing the quest at all. Instead i just keep killing those bastards with magic so i can level up faster lol. I even used the spell to make people like you more on the woman, got my illusion magic up to 100 pretty quick. Im at level 20 overall.
 
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