Poll: Did you ever find yourself grinding while playing Oblivion?

[WodashGSJ]

I do think it's not fun to grind. To get Alteration up, just cast a shield of some sort before every fight and you'll find that it levels itself pretty easily. On the other hand, Alchemy was always the easiest way to get your Feather effects, much better than the Alteration spells.

 

[Flour]

I used to walk between towns, just to get my athletics up...

Autowalk swimming in the Imperial City was a lot faster.

On-Topic: Using a mod where starting the main quest at level 4 or 5 is recommended, I had to grind a while. Not very long [http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2347], but playing an archer is still annoying when your summon steals your arrows on death.

 

[JEBWrench]

I would repeatedly cast Fortify Somethingorother to level up my Restoration while I was running somewhere. But that's about it.

 

[rokkolpo]

yes and i had fun doing it. i usually just spam spells while running around the place.
takes less than a day to get 3 skills to 100 easy. (being a mage is always the easiest choice)

actually the only class i haven't grinded is the alchemy class.
in all my time playing oblivon i have never made a potion.

 

[Estocavio]

I grinded a bit, but grinding your Hand To Hand skill is not easy - But its easier than raising it any other way.

 

[Kurokami]

Well I was playing Oblivion recently and I found myself trying to get my Alteration up to 100 so I wouldn't have to go back to town every 5 minutes to sell my stuff (Now I'm up to 10 minutes!) when it hit me; is this really how I should be playing the game? I might as well be playing WoW!"

So I wondered, have any of you ever found yourself grinding a certain skill in Oblivion? Do you feel grinding is "the wrong way"?

I don't grind, think the only game I did was FFX for a wee bit.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

There's really no point in grinding in Oblivion, as the rest of the game scales up with your level.

somewhat, thats the point of grinding though, so you get the +5 in each category you want per level, so you become extremely over powered in the long run to everything else.


so yes, there is alot of points in why grinding is super effective in oblivion. and some of the skills its so damn easy to grind to where you dont even have to be there

 

[Danallighieri]

Never really grinded on any play through of oblivion, just used whatever whenever at any time I felt like it lol worked well enough for me

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

You know... I just lied, sorry about that. I said no, but I just remembered spending many many hours summoning horrors then killing them with a sword, to get 2 minor skills up and I frequently walk around casting a on self spell like Minor Detect Life to up a magic skill. So yes, damn my hasty clicking. I've never "ground" to attain character levels, but to upgrade skills, yeah.

 

[Bek359]

No, I've almost never had to grind, if by grind you mean do something repetitively for a considerable length of time just to gain experience. I usually find a way to make grind-like behavior actually be productive, like leveling Conjuration and Mysticism by summoning and then soultrapping my own creatures to recharge my stuff using Azura's Star.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I did do the Lonely Suitor jump a few times, but only when I was going to be away for a few hours.

I wanted to ninja jump so badly!

 

[starhaven]

Let me think...

*Remembers chasing Summoned Skeleton with Turn Undead for easy Conjuration*
*Remembers attacking Summoned Skeleton for easy Blade/Hand to Hand*
*Remembers further abuse of Skeleton*

Yes, although I usually did it while waiting for someone or while I was travelling, so it was a sort of "In the mean time" thing.

bahaha agreed i did that to
u can also fling open easy lock in the city as well for easy Alteration u can do this for about 20mins and its abot lvl 50-70

 

[SilvanTyl]

I've not grinded so far. When I find myself needing skill points, I just go to the relevant trainer and spend some gold getting them. The stuff I use more often tends to go up by itself without me thinking about it.

 

[NLS]

Nope. The only "grinding" I've done is to set athletics and acrobatics as main skills, so I level up by running around and jumping, which I do anyways.

 

[deadguynotyetburied]

I played Daggerfall just playing it. I played Morrowind mostly just playing it, but grinding a few skills just because I have this obsession with making money. (Lots of it.) I've run through Oblivion three times, the first time just a straight fly through, the second and third times crafting maxed out characters -- and the third only because I miscalculated on the second. As much as I enjoyed the game, I am a bit of a numbers geek and figuring out HOW to max health, magicka, endurance, blah blah blah was not as much fun until I actually tried doing it.

 

[Penguinness]

I found myself playing it just for the achievements, I didn't really find it fun. So that's sorta grinding.