BF2S Forums [Oblivion] need help from Oblivion players

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Restart the game and never sleep. Over time, your skills will dramatically increase to superhuman status in comparison to most of the low level monsters.

how does that work?? never sleep? wont that make u tired or something? sorry im a newbie to the game

SargeV1.4 wrote:

EDIT: nevermind, I didn't see XBOX. The levelling problem isn't as bad as everyone says it is, but it is bad. Speaking out of a lot of experience, I recommend that you just play the game normally even if you can't use mods. Your character will get stronger, but just not as much as you might expect him to be. However, the disadvantages of never leveling up outway the advantages, imo. So yeah, just carry on playing.

It's a real shame you've got the xbox version though. Lack of mods = bad.

agh dam it >< well i'll just get it for the PC as well then

I've got the ps3 version, and so far my character is at level 10. I am going with a stealthy type mage character. Basically so i can get in, do some damage with the mulitplier, and back it up with some magic. It seems to work ok, I've got a pretty high speed, so I can get away if things get messy (over 70 now i think).

Basically, I can't use mods either, and I don't find it to be that bad. Although, as with any game really, things can get pretty hairy at times, but I find myself getting out of these bad situations intact most of the time. Plus, as you level up, you get better gear, and a lot of the quests you can do level with you. For example, completing a quest at level 1-5 will net you 500 gold, but doing the same quest when you're level 20+ will get you 2400 gold.

And sleeping is how you level up. So if you never sleep, you never level up, while all your skills keep increasing. So basically you'll have very high skills with a very low level and just destroy everything.

I wouldnt go for marksman as it dosnt do enough dammage you cannot go though the oblivion relm with only a bow and arrow. Maby if you mix this with with amazing magic skills then it might work.

Use the initial stats boost to get higher luck - because you only get 1 point of luck at a time when leveling. Try to balance the skills you increase a bit so you get +5 for each of the 3 stats you increase every time you level.

jimmanycricket wrote:

I wouldnt go for marksman as it dosnt do enough dammage you cannot go though the oblivion relm with only a bow and arrow. Maby if you mix this with with amazing magic skills then it might work.

Of course you can. Marksman and sneak are a deadly combination. It lets you pick enemies off from miles away. Works especially well with poisoned magic weapons and magic arrows.

Marksman not a useful skill? my first character's only offensive weapon was a bow, and I made it through pretty much the entire game with it (even killed mankar camoran with one arrow at the end). Marksman is for stealthy characters. If you've a high sneak skill then attacking from a distance can turn any fight into an easy one.

As Kakashi is new to Oblivion, here's some general tips:

Skill choices:

Only have ONE weapon skill. If you choose more, you'll still only use one and thus neglect the others, so you're stuck with useless skills. So make a choice between blade/blunt/marksman/hand to hand.
A combat based character should have heavy armor, block, and armorer to begin with. With a weapon skill on top of that you have 3 skills left. Athletics is useful too, so that leaves you with two. You should choose two magic schools as your last skills. I recommend restoration and illusion

A stealthy character should either have a blade or a bow. Blades are stronger in Oblivion, and the sneak attack bonus damage is much higher for a blade than a bow. If you simply prefer bows then you can still choose them, though. Prerequisits for a stealthy character are sneak, security, and illusion. acrobatics and light armor are usually chosen as well. Alchemy is good too. However, acrobatics increases a lot even if you don't have it as a major skill, and you can also choose to replace light armor with another magic skill as well.
A good stealth character should have: blade, sneak, security, illusion, alchemy, and a choice of: light armor, block, alteration, or mysticism. A final change would be to replace blade with destruction, but that's not a useful idea as you forfeit the sneak attack bonus

A mage should stick to all the magic skills and alchemy. But replacing one of the magic skills with a weapon is a good idea (magicka runs out)

jimmanycricket wrote:

I wouldnt go for marksman as it dosnt do enough dammage you cannot go though the oblivion relm with only a bow and arrow. Maby if you mix this with with amazing magic skills then it might work.

Wrong...on Morrowind ive been an archery whore...did the main quest and prolly about 80% of the game with a bow...sometimes its a pain in the ass but you can do it

I win

http://www.fileplanet.com/170251/downlo … -mod-v3.3d

SargeV1.4 wrote:

doctastrangelove1964 wrote:

I win

http://www.fileplanet.com/170251/downlo … -mod-v3.3d

to the contrary, you fail:

• His copy of oblivion is for the xbox 360
• I have already recommended a better mod, OOO

Thanks to eveyone who gave me advice im really taking a warming to these forums, and i agree with SargeV1.4, he wins ^^

jimmanycricket wrote:

I wouldnt go for marksman as it dosnt do enough dammage you cannot go though the oblivion relm with only a bow and arrow. Maby if you mix this with with amazing magic skills then it might work.

I've done it...

But I had stealth with me too . Go as an evil, Wood Elf, assassin, thats what I am and I have no prob. handling monsters... I can usually 1 hit guys if I shoot from the shadows.

oblivion is so easy u wont really have trouble in the game. i have it on 360 and i have done pretty much all guilds (not mage , yet) the enemies are usually easy to kill. the only hard part is quests. but i just use online guides to do the hard ones. I did full on warrior. and i wud have bloody completed the game by now if it didnt bloody glitch up( on one of the mission's(the one were u ride the horse to the cloud temple)i abadondoned them and came back, only to never find the again o.0)(do brackets in breackets even make sense?)

I still say everyone with Oblivion should try playing through the entire game without increasing their character level at all. It's monumentally easy. The most common and dangerous creature you'll encounter will probably be a wolf.

10973 wrote:

oblivion is so easy u wont really have trouble in the game. i have it on 360 and i have done pretty much all guilds (not mage , yet) the enemies are usually easy to kill. the only hard part is quests. but i just use online guides to do the hard ones. I did full on warrior. and i wud have bloody completed the game by now if it didnt bloody glitch up( on one of the mission's(the one were u ride the horse to the cloud temple)i abadondoned them and came back, only to never find the again o.0)(do brackets in breackets even make sense?)

Best way to do brackets within brackets is {[()]}, but you should never have to resort to so many layers. But you have way more grammar issues to worry about than parenthesis.

Oblivion is so easy that you won't really have trouble with the game. I have it on the '360 and have done pretty much all guilds', except for the mage. The enemies are usually easy to kill, so the only hard parts are the quests, so I just use online guides for the hard ones. I did full-on warrior, and I would have bloody well completed the game by now if it didn't bloody glitch up. I abandoned one of the missions (the one were you ride the horse to the cloud temple) and came back, only to never find it again o.0 (do brackets within brackets even make sense?).

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-05-13 20:27:45)