i didnt have any major desire to have a house or anything, maybe its just me. i just kept wandered around with however much i had so bitches knew i was a baller.

6/13/2006 11:10:57 AM

haha well i got a house pretty much for storing stuff i couldnt carry. that was like my only reason.

6/13/2006 11:14:18 AM

Yea thats the only reason I would buy one as well. To keep shit that has good effects but I dont need atm on tables so I can always come back for it.

6/13/2006 11:58:10 AM

i installed the charok grand hall mod (awesome, and doesn't give you an advantage or disadvantage either way in terms of gameplay) so that i'd have a place to store my stuff...but then i got bored with going there, and so now i just store all my excess stuff in the basement that you get access to when you become the gray fox

6/13/2006 12:07:04 PM

yeah I use the mansion that i killed the necromancer in at Anvil for storing all my magical shit.

I need all that money to recharge all my fucking magical items. I have a sword of soul trap but its honestly a pain in the ass.

6/13/2006 12:18:43 PM

I just never bothered recharging my weapons. BRUTE FORCE, BITCHES!!!

Anyway, yeah, I bought a house, but houses are pretty easy to come by with quests in towns. That's what I don't get about this game. You can earn mad loot, buy lots of nice houses and furnish the hell out of them, and become pretty much the pimpest, most powerful person in the whole nation... but with all that you can't mack the ladies. Where's the realism?

6/13/2006 5:39:59 PM

maybe you should buy fable heh. but yeah i just used brute force too (though it is a lot easier with a fire/frost/shock proc).

6/13/2006 5:50:47 PM

It takes me about 20-30 normal hits on something to kill it.....this normal?

6/13/2006 8:59:20 PM

I mean... if you have the difficulty set way high, then maybe. Otherwise, you need a more powerful weapon, or higher weapon skill.

6/13/2006 9:46:35 PM

do those training dummies work on your skill at all?

I got a glass one handed sword

[Edited on June 13, 2006 at 10:21 PM. Reason : sdf]

6/13/2006 9:54:34 PM

use more power attacks or get the sword enchanted. I don't have a single weapon in my inventory that isn't magical and charged up. Stockpile soul gems. (You can just take them from the mages guild if you're a member or an arch-mage like me )

6/14/2006 8:36:37 AM

I want to get my armorer up so I can fix magical shit. Thats why I am using a nonmagical sword. I have a magical one, thought it isnt that great

6/14/2006 11:35:05 AM

use more repair hammers then.

6/14/2006 12:23:47 PM

WHat part of the game do i learn what to do with these soul gems??? like I have gems.... and powers to "trap" souls but never been told in the game what to do. I need to learn to keep my shit charged up.

6/14/2006 9:11:41 PM

^^ I repair things off of enemies, and sell them. I just got Novice and I am far away from Journeyman

6/14/2006 9:18:59 PM

you just got novice?

I thought you start off with every skill at at least novice.

6/15/2006 12:21:49 AM

Deputydog:

When you capture a soul, it stores it in an available soul gem in your inventory. When you "equip" a loaded soul gem, you can use the soul to recharge a magical item.

You can also use the soul gems to create magical items at the arcane university if you've been inducted there. Chironosium I think its called. Also, if you do the quest to find the star of azura, KEEP IT. Its a soul gem that isn't consumed after you use it to recharge an item.

[Edited on June 15, 2006 at 9:37 AM. Reason : .]

6/15/2006 9:36:54 AM

dude, really? i have the azura thingy...i figured it was something nice considering it's worth so much, but i haven't done anything with it yet

6/15/2006 9:50:34 AM

yeah its awesome.

The next trick is to enchant an item with soul trap and shock/ice/heat (I prefer shock personally) so while you're beating down your enemies you automatically recharge azura's star. so you kill 3 or 4 guys, recharge your weapon, beat down a couple more, recharge... you'll never run out of power for your magical items. Also be sure to repair your magical swords and stuff with a repair hammer, I often forget to do that.

6/15/2006 11:58:12 AM

How much mana do you need for soul trap?

6/15/2006 2:25:08 PM

you are the one with the guide, you tell me.

6/15/2006 2:57:00 PM

I am at work

6/15/2006 3:29:31 PM

i'm gonna start playing this game again. but i don't think i'm going to be able to beat the first oblivion gate...

6/15/2006 3:31:07 PM

just play as one char and do the main quest and nothing else. it is insanely easy like that unless you just suck at games.

6/15/2006 3:33:22 PM

or if you set the difficulty all the way up. I tried that once and the goblins were kicking my ass before I got to the point where the emperor dies.

6/15/2006 5:51:30 PM

i'm like a level 22 thief assassin type guy and i got my ass kicked. the clanfear or whatever the mutated stegasauruses are called always kick my ass.

[Edited on June 15, 2006 at 6:01 PM. Reason : fdj]

[Edited on June 15, 2006 at 6:02 PM. Reason : I have it on whatever the default difficulty is]

6/15/2006 6:01:14 PM

theives always got issues unless ur good at running backwards while shooting and that dont work so hot in buildings.

6/15/2006 6:12:45 PM

is there an extremely badass weapon or armor that could help that you get when you get rly high in the ranks of the fighters or mages guild?

i'm tryin to work my way up the fighters guild right now, i'm at the top of the thieves and the dark brotherhood, i got kicked out of the mages guild, and now i have 1 redwort flower or w/e out of 20 of those and 20 dragon tongue things to get back in

6/15/2006 6:52:32 PM

i also have 6 out of 10 ninroot things, is the potion you can get when you get ten of those as good and helpful as this guy makes it out to be?

6/15/2006 6:53:31 PM

the potion is alright but not that helpful. it is like a +X to hp and nightvision for quite a few minutes (dont remember exactly). i never used it.

as far as mage/fighters guild you get pretty much 0 armor. you get a weapon now and then in the fighters guild and a pretty cool helmet at the end, but thats it as far as i can recall.

6/15/2006 6:55:53 PM

it's getting pretty annoying having to clean up Maglir's mess all the time

6/15/2006 7:41:54 PM

ok i just found anecklace in a cave that lets me walk on water, does any1 kno if this will let me walk on the lava in oblivion?

6/15/2006 8:02:21 PM

^dumb question. lava is fire....you die

6/15/2006 9:03:26 PM

theres a grand ring of firewalking that will allow you to walk on lava.

but I didn't get it until after the main quest.

6/16/2006 8:24:10 AM

I was able to walk across a skinny portion of fire to get to a Robe of Aegis, which many my armor go

6/16/2006 9:54:02 AM

with the proper amount of healing potions/spells, you can walk across the lava in the grand oblivion gate and save yourself a shit load of time.

6/16/2006 1:53:30 PM

shrug, i play the game to play it, not to avoid all the lenghty parts.

6/16/2006 2:11:02 PM

Well, theres one oblivion gate thats timed, and if you fail it, well, game over man.

6/16/2006 3:05:47 PM

i know it's been out for 10 days, and yes, i'm just now posting it, but DAMMIT if this patch doesn't fix my cheydinhal recommendation issue (the last one was supposed to, but it didn't), then i'm going to be really really REALLY...annoyed, i suppose

http://static.bethsoft.com/Oblivion_v1.1FinalEnglish.exe

some people may not have known it was out (like me)...*shrug*

6/16/2006 7:27:17 PM

is there anywhere that has an abundance of redwort flowers and dragon tongues?

6/16/2006 7:50:54 PM

Heres some random info I found. Of course after you pick stuff if you check back a few days later it will have grown back. Also I think even though they say you need 20 each you only need like 10 maybe???? I thought I read that somewhere. Just remember to save often and dont save after you go on a rampage

http://www.achieve360points.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5258&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=a0c5808ca89852c055ed0fd269557d88

6/18/2006 6:49:39 PM

Has anyone tried deleting older game save files???? does it affect your recent saves?? The other day my xbox "lost" some of my recent saves and I was wonderin if it was cause i had too many. I think Im up to 452 saves I've always clicked "overwrite" file but it always made a new one.
Also My game is starting to get a little sluggish. does anyone know if clearin out the cache helps??

6/28/2006 9:19:26 AM

they say clearing the cache works to help speeds, particularly in outdoor areas. id imagine having 500 individual saves might be a pain too. theres obviously something you are missing if it isnt overwriting (i only had like 6-7 save games for my 3 chars, but have done multiple hundred as well).

6/28/2006 9:49:48 AM

This game seems very time consuming

6/30/2006 6:17:06 PM

Yea it is but sometimes its hard deciding what all I want to do next. I'm level 20 but I am not very far in the main quest. I also haven't finished the Kavitch quest either. They may be connected in someway but they show up as different quests. I need to find better armor. Ive been using my grand champion armor I got off that guy after winning the area quests. It worked well and had some good enchaments but I was only up to an armor level of 20 and thats mainly because the shield I got is cool and reflects 25% damages back. Ive collected a few other pieces of armor but my guy looks ragged using different varieties. I hadnt found one daedra thing.

7/1/2006 9:12:19 AM

i wouldnt feel too bad. my warrior used that arena armor for a long time as well. the armor rating isnt great, but the stats really help. i think i traded it off for some dwarven/orcish just to look better at the time. you wont get daedra armor until a little later in the game.

7/1/2006 10:20:34 AM

Yeah, although getting a full set of daedra armor then enchanting it with sigil stones and grand soul gems will make you very disgusting.

7/1/2006 1:41:06 PM

I just finished my second to last Thief's Guild quest, and have fenced the requisite $$$, but no one's visiting me to give me the next quest

I've slept in every zone in the Imperial City, and nothing.

7/3/2006 1:48:42 AM

hmmm

[Edited on July 3, 2006 at 2:49 AM. Reason : fhds]

7/3/2006 2:49:13 AM

Re. Picking locks - Not sure if anyone has said this, but if you don't have the skeleton key the easiest way to pick a lock is to listen. Every time you press a tumbler up it makes a sound. You will hear a different and distinct sound for each attempt in which the tumbler will come down slowly. It's almost easier to do it with your eyes closed.

I decided to do all the guilds before the main quest so I'm only up to the 1st oblivion gate. Where is the good armor that everyone is talking about? The enemies only drop hearts and crappy swords, maybe some fire salt. The pods only have gold. I searched the first gate from top to bottom, I don't think I saw one piece of armor.

7/25/2006 1:57:28 PM