How do I get to/into the Thieves Guild, good sir? I am playing as a thief, and really want to know how to find my theiving brethren in Cyrodill.tobi the good boy said:
Overwhelmed by Oblivion
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Go to the imperial city and pay the beggars for information on the infamous 'Grey Fox' or end up in prison.Lear said:
Thank you, mate! Now, to more morally bankrupt theiving and backstabbing! AWAY!tobi the good boy said:
My first hour in Oblivion was crazy and I'll always remember it. Got out of the sewers, wandered around blah blah found a unicorn. Jumped on that and rode around not having a clue what was going on at all. Then became the highest rank of all the guilds and then actually started the main quests.
Do what I did this summer when I started playing Oblivion properly on my PS3. Roll an Argonian, swing the difficultly slider all the way to the left (<---- this way) and become the bauss of Oblivion. Rolling an Argonian is optional but I feel that being a water-breathing-poison-and-disease-resistant lizard man who can make a great stealth build is badass.
Alternatively, randomly spin through your quest book and choose the most fun quest. I suggest the Thieve's Guild and Dark Brotherhood as fun questlines but they have the tendency to require some thievery before starting the Guild's quest or special requirements to be fulfilled in order to get the phat loot/awesome stuff from the DB. Also some cities have very fun quests. Now I need to get Oblivion on the PC to keep Skyrim company/mods.
Alternatively, randomly spin through your quest book and choose the most fun quest. I suggest the Thieve's Guild and Dark Brotherhood as fun questlines but they have the tendency to require some thievery before starting the Guild's quest or special requirements to be fulfilled in order to get the phat loot/awesome stuff from the DB. Also some cities have very fun quests. Now I need to get Oblivion on the PC to keep Skyrim company/mods.
Definatly loose the OOO mod, thats more of a hardcore experianced player mod. any mod that doesnt change the gameplay or balance but visual only should be fine until you learn and play the game a bit.
As for what you are doing... STOP!!!!! and dont proceed further with the main quest! go and do some of those side quests and explore the world some. exploring and other quests are a huge part of an eldar scrolls game and oblivion had many really good side quests even compared to Skyrim. Shit I think the guild quests for Oblivion were far better than Skyrims. My first time in Oblivion the first thing I did after leaving the sewers was go across the water and check out that ruin, never thought to look behind me and see a city! and the main quest? No hurry to do that I have a whole world to explore!
For anyone that says choose this skill or that... ignore them for they do not know what they say. choose what you want and run with it, it is your game and your avatar and not theres.
As for what you are doing... STOP!!!!! and dont proceed further with the main quest! go and do some of those side quests and explore the world some. exploring and other quests are a huge part of an eldar scrolls game and oblivion had many really good side quests even compared to Skyrim. Shit I think the guild quests for Oblivion were far better than Skyrims. My first time in Oblivion the first thing I did after leaving the sewers was go across the water and check out that ruin, never thought to look behind me and see a city! and the main quest? No hurry to do that I have a whole world to explore!
For anyone that says choose this skill or that... ignore them for they do not know what they say. choose what you want and run with it, it is your game and your avatar and not theres.
well. see,the thing is, you can do anything you want. with a murderous gleam in your eye and a maniacal grin. or not, if thats your thing. but really, thats kind of silly.
Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine are pretty good, I've heard good things about the Dark Brotherhood but when I played it it just fell apart as a result of Oblivion's incredible shittiness. Fran's mod is pretty balanced as far as level scaling goes, you should be able to do pretty much anything you'd expect to be able to do. You also need something like Realistic Leveling to get rid of some of the crazy.
Thanks for the advice!! I'm installing Deadly Reflexes at the moment to try and make combat a bit more engaging.
Just another quick question...where do you get new spells, and what are the best ones I can get for destruction and restoration at like..level 2? I have loads of scrolls from the dudes I killed in the first Oblivion gate but I can't seem to be able to write them in my spellbook or whatever.
Just another quick question...where do you get new spells, and what are the best ones I can get for destruction and restoration at like..level 2? I have loads of scrolls from the dudes I killed in the first Oblivion gate but I can't seem to be able to write them in my spellbook or whatever.
I'd go as far as 'probable' over 'possible'. Oblivion's levelling is just awful (this is coming from someone who loves the game)OniaPL said:
Skyrim did the levelling so much better, though it does become a bit of a slog fighting endless ancient dragons and Deathlords at level 45+.
Hmm, yes. I find Skyrim's leveling system to be quite an improvement over Oblivion's: While Oblivion asks you to fill the paperwork in the start that determines what your character will be, Skyrim allows the player to jump straight in and make the character as he advances in the game. I wish RPG's would do this kind of system more often, because if the class system is not the traditional "Mage, Rogue, Warrior", you often have no idea what you will end up with as the class descriptions are lacking.MiracleOfSound said:
However, in Skyrim it is still possible to build your character "the wrong way", even if just temporarily. My girlfriend (liked Morrowind so she wanted Skyrim. By no means a veteran gamer, so she didn't know that well what to do.) made her character, a thief/archer rogue. She was into lockpicking, alchemy, smithing and pickpocketing, because she found those skills interesting as the combat in TES has always been lacking. She also was bitten by a vampire an hour after starting the game. With interest in non-combat skills and weakness to fire, the end result was that she was constantly running away from enemies and caves, until she paid huge amounts of gold to train the skills with trainers.
My point being, the level scaling system can easily damage your experience if you do not know what you are doing. By no means should level scaling be removed; but perhaps non-combat skills would advance your level progress only half as much as the combat skills.
Couldn't agree more dude. I'm not a fan of level scaling but there are probably ways just like your suggestion to make it a better system.OniaPL said:
1. do Arena quest line
2. get shit ton of gold
3. do mage questline.
4. buy shittons of spells
5. throw spells out the window, you need more mana than you can possibly get in order to use the best of them.
6. play rogue instead.
7. do dark broterhood and thieves guild
8. ?????
9. have fun for hours
2. get shit ton of gold
3. do mage questline.
4. buy shittons of spells
5. throw spells out the window, you need more mana than you can possibly get in order to use the best of them.
6. play rogue instead.
7. do dark broterhood and thieves guild
8. ?????
9. have fun for hours
Bah, you weak milk drinkers and your refusal to level up. The game is FAR FAR too easy for a level 1 character. Especially one with high skills. Dont cheat yourself like that on your first playthrough, you want some challenge!
This, Easiest way to fix the level scaling is to exploit the level up system in this manner.Naqel said:
Skills you want to use as secondary, keep a tally of how many times you've leveled them up, then grind one of the useless (Read: merchantile, speechcraft etc) skills to get the level up icon, go sleep, dump 5 points in to two attributes linked to your favourite skils.
Doing that you counteract the terrible level scaling because by the time you hit the level where bandits are attacking you in glass and ebony armour, you and sneeze at them and their face implodes.