BF2S Forums [OBLIVION] Am I doing things right?

Thats your problem... you are level 15 but have crappy stats. And seeing as enemies level up with you, it causes a problem. Download Kobu's Leveling Mod. It makes things better. (If you have a PC)


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When you make a character... make the minor stats the ones you would use. I.e. Make a warrior but put warrior skills as Minor and stuff like magic as major. So that when you level the warrior skills you don't level you character.

Levelling actually makes you weaker, as it has very little impact on your stats. In fact, if you never sleep, you'll be almost invincible, as your stats will increase, but the enemies wont get any tougher. Since you're still using a steel swrod but are level 15, I'm guessing you levelled way too quickly. Your only solutions are to restart the game and sleep less often, or to lower the difficulty and not sleep for ages (until you are ocmfortable with the enemy difficulty).

Personally I try to create a character that has a decent balance of magic and fighting qualities. Your initial problem is selecting the Imperial class as it's one of those "jack of all trades master of none" sort of character. Try to balance out your swordfighting and magicka so that you also use a large amount of spells in battle as that may tip the balance in your favour.

Next time you are up at character selection try to pick a character that is a "master" of a certain quality. If you wish to go with shields and swords go with either the Orc or Redguard, Redguard being the better of the two. If you wish to go the magic way try either a Breton or a High Elf, Breton being my personal favourite.

The other classes are largely useless and only have novelty advantages (such as the Argonian waterbreathing quality or the Khajiit see-in-the-dark advantage).

It's also possible that you've tried to gain levels too quickly which has meant your enemies have beaten you easily because you most of your minor traits have not risen with your majority traits. What class did you choose at the start of the game? By Level 15 you should really be into the glass stuff. A steal longsword and dwarven shield will not cut it at level 15. You must put some serious cash into buying a glass claymore and a top-notch glass shield (as gay as they make you look).

Hope this may help, the first time playing the game can really suck. If you keep having problems try turning the difficulty down in the game settings. Although you may feel like you are cheating the game will become less frustrating and more enjoyable.

Go and get the Umbra sword as well, it should make your life a little easier. Go to the Vindasel ruin which is a short trip southwest of the Imperial City. There's only rats and a few traps to contend with in there so should be rather easy. When you reach the npc at the end, pickpocket her and make her follow you to the gas trap (don't attack her or you'll get minced rather quickly ).
Once there just run around the trap until she drops dead, and now you have some decent armour and teh uber sword all to yourself

Vub wrote:

Thank you all for your enlightened solutions. Now here are a few more questions to tickle your respective brains.

1. Do enemies and items regenerate in forts, ruins and caves? If I adjust the difficulty slider down and go into one to completely decimate the inhabitants, next time I return are they going to be there again for another session?

2. What should a quintessential Level 15 character have as his various skill and attribute levels?

1. Every 3 days. It becomes repetitive in that area.

2. I dont know, I always start my characters at level 30ish so I have a real challenge.

OK, I recently acquired this game(through legal channels)

Hhahaha I only had to read that before I knew the answer was no.

Efficient Levelling... Check the UESP guide.

If i am not mistaken :

You need 20 Minor skill points in the relevant atrributes you want +5 modifiers in and 10 (split up 3.3.4) Major skill points to level efficiently. ie : when you level up, you will be able to +5 your main attributes (all 3).

I had to start a new character because of how gimped mine was...

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

The game is much easier if you don't level. Trust me. If you just run around improving your skills and not character level, the monster difficulty won't slide up. Unfortunately, battles will become rather dull.

Yeah and the weapons you can get are worse? I read that from somewhere.

And to Phatso: Do tell about your gimped character! I really can't be bothered to start again, but I want to see how badly gimped your character was.

What do calm and frenzy actually do?

I followed your advice and set the difficulty level down Amazingly the game is a lot more fun now that I have a chance of killing my enemies. And in those 1 against 3 fights I have a good chance of survival! This makes me happy, because this is what I spent my money on, virtual, unrealistic pleasure derived from 345600 pixels dancing around on the screen (yes I have to set it to low because I run it on a laptop ). Yes, I have indeed reached my epiphany, we play games to have fun, time to give my injured ego a reality check.

Of course some of you more ardent players may regard me with disdain as I have to turn down the difficulty to survive in Cyrodil, but to you I say this: If you regard a computer game, a product of someone else's imagination, the definitive examination of skill, then you should reconsider who is most pitiful out of us two. Now I hope this message doesn't have to apply to anyone here, we're all savvy internet buddies right?

One more thing, I think levelling up is important because of the nature of weapons you can pick up, types of creatures you can battle, and also the amount of loot you can acquire. People who consistently stay on level 6 will find buying their first home to be a very difficult task