The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Chat Thread

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• Get a bounty to get rid of? : Rich McNinch
• that works but it gets your infamy up so go talk to a guard : oblivionguide

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• yeah, everytime i sell a buncha shit, it goes up a few times. : tomatoactivator
• yeah i just stole abuncha shit and sold it to a thieves guild whateverthehelltheyare and got it to 50 in ... : oblivionguide

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• The loot you'll find in those places scale with your character, so you're probably not going to find anyt... : JINKY
• go to the store next to rosethorn hall and you can reach the upper lvl by jumping the gap and you can sto... : oblivionguide

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• There's a mod that puts a cure potion in the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary. : Magus
• okay hi yeah there is a cure it's a quest called "Vampire Cure" and if you do it, you get a potion that i... : oblivionguide

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• Sleep in the bed for 12 hours or so. : Dslyecxi
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  Sleep in the bed upstairs for even just an hour, you will find that Ghosts will appear and a message will : .dotpredator
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    Does the house's quality "improve" after you do all of that? I may just hold off and buy a nicer house i... : slickdoody
    • Yeap, after you complete the quest, all the furniture is righted and the outside is tidied etc. for you a... : yortw

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  It's probably just the wacky scaling difficulty! I just tried to do kvatch at level 18 and it seemed to ... : JINKY
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    Kvatch was insane at level ~15 or so. The first time I did it, the first part of the battle (up to the ch... : Dslyecxi
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      Is there a possibility spellsword sucks nuts? - cause I'm reading a couple of threads with people having ... : abrasion
      • I doubt it. I'm a level 33 High Elf Spellsword, I've only closed two Oblivion gates, but one was after le... : yortw
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  I'd like to hear the thoughts and suggestions of any Spellswords who think they're playing the character ... : Dslyecxi
  • I'm playing a spellsword as well. You really have to use everything you have to win against mulitple opp... : Priest77
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  It can be tough, but after Morrowind I'm glad it's so challenging. A swear the combat AI system is prett... : Priest77
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    I absolutely love the combat in the game. It performs so much better once you're actually controlling it ... : Drewus
    • Seeing the richochet up close like that was hot. It occurs to me that once your arrow leaves the bow it ... : Rich McNinch
    • So there actually is locational damage in the game? : Magus
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  Mountian Lions are the toughest mob's I've fought. : tree8
  • Fire based destruction magic works wonders against mountain lions. If you've got access to the univers... : yortw

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• In the Imperial City people will usually tell you, under rumors, who trains in what. Also, I believe ther... : Magus

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• if you're level ~10-15 go to an alyeid dungeon and loot for armor, thats how i got expensive orcish / elv... : ballystix

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• I didn't see this plot evolve either, but I still have their bible. : Rich McNinch
• Did you get a quest reward for that one? I didn't =\ : LadyPixy

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• Just wait a few hours. I did waiting 2 hours at a time checking the door. I think its in the evening when... : DOOManiac
• Did you ever figure this watchman quest out? Jensine wont talk to me about it either and there is no ind... : vitek r
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  I finished the corrupt watchman quest. What, exactly, are you having trouble with? : buroja
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    Jensine gives you 2 chat options when you talk to her about it. One is mentioning the 2 guys names to he... : vitek r
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      Sounds like you need to apply a bit of charm and get her disposition higher using the mini-game before ra : buroja
      • I got Jensine, the two victims, and Itius Hayn to like me a lot, and I convinced the two to testify, but ... : MisterAlex

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• he gave you a quest? i just killed him : edgewise

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  I think you have to sleep for 3 days or something like that; that's how it was in Morrowind. : Kerath
  • I've waited well over three days (at this point, I believe it's about 10) and I slept, but I still haven'... : nrpeterson85
• you have 2 days to be cured without a quest involved : sKetchflow
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  find a church and atone for your sins! : Maarten Goldstein
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    I want blood :( : adhy
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      Hope you like the dark..... a lot! : raija
      • oblivion allows u to stay in the sun if you feed daily. The more days u dont feed the more inhuman u beco... : italiano3d
• A priest told me to go to the arcane university to talk to Rominus Paulus or something. I can't find that... : i_mon61

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11854505 : reign27
• no, not at all. That's the awesomeness of the Elder scroll games. I have probably played something like 1... : Fredrik S
• I'm 8 hours in and *just* made level 3. I've been exploring like crazy and have only completed like 5 que... : kevp
• i had just discovered how to join the mages guild, so Ill prolly spend tonight doing that. So far I have... : Str8Dog
• i sorta did the same, wearing heavy armor that i wasn't skilled for, and i was getting romped by everythi... : yay4furryanimals
• No way dude. Whatever works for you. As the large thread here points out, what level you are really doe... : invisible_kid
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  I'm seven hours in and am still level 1 (though getting close to level 2). Though I definitely dont prefe... : Maarten Goldstein
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    What type of charcter are you playing, Maarten? : bluntage
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      I'm a dark elf knight : Maarten Goldstein
      • I was playing around last night with a Dark Elf doing a bit off melee and archery... what are your skills... : bluntage
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        Doh, disregard, "knight" ... preset skills I can look up for myself. =( : bluntage
        • maybe like a nightblade? thats what i have, high speed and int i think, with skills with destruction magi... : yay4furryanimals
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  make sure to sleep. you won't level up if you dont' rest. basically once the funky 'level up' icon pops : ariakaz
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    Press T. States the time so you can calculate how long you want to wait. : voodoochildtm
    • Or check the top of either the local or world map : reign27
• I am trying to play it with light armour too - keep forgetting not to put on the plate. : abrasion

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  Yup. It's a universal controller for their XInput system - the new hotness post-DirectInput. : mopic42
  • what is xinput? : abrasion

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  Why visit, you are of such low birth. : Rich McNinch
  • lol : abrasion
• I don't hang out with criminal scum! : lightly inclined
• Just make sure you don't store your stuff there, use a house that you legitimately own. : DinK

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• Hello fellow spellsword. This would explain why my goblin staff kicked ass when I first got it. : abrasion

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• One dungeon pissed me off, I got lost in like an hour in the Toadstool one. Finally worked out you had to : node
• I am going to have to agree with the comment on dungeon lighting though - it's l ike an office building... : abrasion

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• can somebody please help : PhatMonkeyKing
• Ask around, beggars may give you a clue. : Matt Burris
• I was in Bruma and in the mages guild, doing the quest to find jaskarr by stealing the book from the bizz : abrasion

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• Make that Valen not Draven. : HuggyBear
• The guard wouldn't leave for me either, I just got in a position in my cell where I was still unseen, but... : mikage
• Please use the spoiler tag! : Merconium
• Wierd, I did this quest and the guard did leave. Right after the conversation they were having ended. : gijoehosaphat

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• yeah I cant find this key either is this a bug? : SYN5280
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  no what you do is take the bridge across to the other tower and the boss you slay has the key to all of t... : PhatMonkeyKing
  • wow.... I cant believe I missed the door, they were doubling dooring me the whole time and I went for it. : SYN5280

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• did you max out your disposition with them? : metralgia
• I just used the bribe option a few times. : jonin
• you have to get invited. : conandan
• disposition usually has to be >70. And go get yourself thrown in jail (pref for stealing something small... : DinK

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  Im sorry but I dont trust you enough to discuss this : spdon
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    ugh, how did you get that guy to speak about ulrich btw? : mankeroo
    • complete the charm mini game - it takes about 5 minutes to figure out once you got it, it's easy. : abrasion
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  Oh, and a question re: Oblivion Gates How many gates are there scattered across the countryside? I fou... : Dslyecxi
  • Why did you spoiler the word "countryside"? Right now i can't seem to think of a less spoilerific word. : slickdoody
  • the areas of Oblivion they lead to are randomly generated. I don't know if there's a limit on the number ... : ghale
• I put in a request for pack horses on your behalf in the official mod forums. http://www.elderscrolls.... : pyide
• I got the 15,000 gold house in whatever the damn town's name is. It SUCKS. It's really dark and not big... : JINKY
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  can you buy containers? if so where? I didn't see any at the three brothers. : quietb0y
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    You buy a storage unit, it comes with two dressers and a chest. : Dslyecxi
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      where do you buy the storage unit? : quietb0y
      • Go to Sergius Verus at Three Brothers Trade Goods in the Imperial Marketplace. The kits are 750 each, app... : Dslyecxi
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  how do you buy the house? ive seen the shack on the waterfront but dont know how to buy it. : eeeealmo
  • In the Marketplace, there's a Commerce shop of some sort (forgot the name, it's by the armorer), go in th... : Dslyecxi
• I bought the one in Anvil for 5000g. it's haunted :D, real fun to turn the house "nice" again :D, it's : .dotpredator

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• umm.... any input? : rezombie
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  My XP2400+ defaults to medium, got 512 meg, r9800 pro and it runs perfectly fine, even better than Morrow... : MrLonghair
  • hmm... thanks. now to find the money to purchase it and the time to enjoy it... : rezombie

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  Seriously is there like a guide I can download to tell me what to do? : osiris_brad
  • Haha, just head to the nearest ruin and kill some stuff for fun. I felt a little like you do when I first... : Visceral Monkey
  • did you like, listen to the last few conversations you had with the guards? And doesn't the game explain... : DinK
  • If you want to follow the main quest then follow the red arrow on your compass. To get places, you can j... : Krypt_
  • This is a start: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11850275 : Nixx2004
• i suggest you read the manual! like there is an option to fast travel, which will get you to a city you ... : pyide
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  This is the reason why they put the red marker and a ton of other markers on the compass, so the Xbox cro... : Matt Burris
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    I'm playing on PC :[ : osiris_brad
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      No, I was referring to Bethesda consolifying the game due to the Xbox 360. : Matt Burris
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        I'm actually rather fond of some of the "consolized" decisions that were made, particularly with the comp : Dslyecxi
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          yes, yes it does. Only super ninja smart intelligent menz don't use the compass. In fact no PC game has e : armybob
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            It's not so much that they're catering to the XBox crowd as that they had to make some usablility concess : Ebu
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              I'm specifically talking about the compass markers. Matt Burris somehow thinks this is the first PC game ... : armybob
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                and i'm sorry if this turns into another yet stupid debate on the shack. I ended up getting sick last nig... : armybob
                • No need to apologize, I agree completely with what you're saying. That kind of elitism, particularly when... : Dslyecxi
• lol does mommy pin a note to your shirt? j/k :) : sixfoot6
• I got out of the sewers at night. I couldn't find the entrance to the city at all. was down the side ... : ariakaz
• I was a bit disoriented when I first started too, but I'm getting the hang of it now. Getting the invite ... : edgewise

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  Damn, my Assassin (PC version) breaks lockpicks like no tomorrow. I can't seem to get the timing right. : yemeth
  • Ran out of picks on the second locked chest I saw in the tutorial dungeon, came back after getting more f... : MrLonghair
  • I love the lockpicking stuff, managed to get several locks with 3 and 4 thingamajigs open already at lvl ... : d fluke
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    The best thing to do is just keep tapping a pin until it goes up slowly, which you should be able to dete... : SockMonkeh
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      but once you tap it and it comes back down during one of your test taps, it will break the pick right? : edgewise
      • You can tap the pins all you want, it's only when you try to lock it that it might break (if you timed it... : Dslyecxi

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• Buy and sell shit after haggling. : Arcanum
• haggle vendors to the point where they almost refuse your offer, but don't : haccess

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• GOTY btw. : MrLonghair
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  You don't really need mark and recall, since you can travel to anyplace you've been previously with the f... : Vincent Grayson
  • I always used to recall to my scyda naen hut in Morrowind to offload items. There's a million septim wort... : MrLonghair
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    When you buy a house, do you get a fast travel marker for it? : Arcanum
    • Ooh, important question...anyone? : Ebu
    • As far as I can see, no. At least not with the Imperial City Shack of Doom. : Dslyecxi
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  I somehow pissed off the pirates and killed them all when they attacked. Can I just use their ship as a h... : node
  • Bad idea: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11856500 : buroja
  • I used it for a bit, but yeah, you don't want to leave stuff cause people are friggen greedy and take you... : quietb0y

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• Second'd. : Dslyecxi
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  Third'ed, with the additional request that they fire all employees who used to work on the LithTech engin... : DOOManiac
  • Nah, bugs are pretty much par for the course in a just-released Elder Scrolls game. : Arcanum
• Fourthed. : Rich McNinch
• Sixth'd : Priest77
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  Elder Scrolls XXXVI please : Gauss
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    No. Fallout 3 next. : Judicator.Khas
    • yes please. LOVE the Fallout games. : armybob
• nineteenth'd! Best RPG i have ever played. Ever...........ever ever. : Drewus
• By far one of the best games I've ever played : slickdoody

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• I found a couple ghosts with ectoplasm in some elven ruins (the ones with white pillars and such). : Arcanum
• http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/pics/ecto/left.gif : slickdoody

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• yep its just Cyrodiil, it'll tell you to turn back once you get to the boundaries (on the map, the other ... : Maarten Goldstein

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  you have to murder someone and then they'll find you next time you fall asleep :) : -Panther-
  • Yup, found that out. Also, paid a visit to the Inn of Ill Omen. :0 : Visceral Monkey
• It doesn't matter how you kill, as long as you do as you're told and kill who you're told. You may not ge... : quietb0y

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• Get proficient with a dagger. : Drewus
• same setup here, with some magic thrown in. just pick up a one handed blade/hammer and shield and use th... : Enraged Pineapple
• Get some illusion spells. Right off the bat, you're able to at least do a touch attack that stops them fo... : BlackCat9
• Conjure up some buddies to take the heat off you. : NastyJack
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  One word - Conjuration. Crouch in the shadows while sneaking, summon a zombie just keep sneak attackin... : sinclair4217
  • One thing I forgot to mention, when facing multiple opponets, do not lead with a sneak attack. Conjure yo... : sinclair4217
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    What do you do about magicka? Do you go intelligence for extra or do you rely on potions and restoration? : uberkrueger
    • It's a struggle, no doubt about it. But, you have to remember that magic on this class is a suppliment, n... : sinclair4217
• I read earlier that acrobatics can be useful in your situation. Get good at jumping up on things and sni... : CRasterImage
• I dunno but my guy pretty much one shots most monsters so far with a stealth arrow shot. : mnok
• Wow, the game was too easy for me as an archer. I stopped, made a class called "Imperial Marine" and and ... : Visceral Monkey
• You don't need any of that other nonsense. Dress light and use your speed to your advantage. Run backward : SockMonkeh

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  rtfm? click your compass : -meeks-
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    RMDRTM, thanks : paravis
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      lol what does that mean : -meeks-
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        Starts with Real Men... ;) : paravis
        • o.. heh : -meeks-
    • Well then, RMTOF :p : mulu
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  Click your compass? I click the locations on the map... : i_mon61
  • yep : Maarten Goldstein

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  Im stuck at the 1st gladiator one i keep getting raped by the 3 prisoners :( : adsriordan
  • ya. that was a pain in the ass. : AMikaboshi
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    any tips? : adsriordan
    • Don't enter the ring without a barrel full of health potions tucked up your sleeves (and/or magicka potio... : buroja
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  "Technically you could play through the entire Arena line-up at level 1, but as you go on and the enemies... : Maarten Goldstein
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    uhm not him, the current champion. : Maarten Goldstein
    • I think you missed a quest.... : Kentor

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• There's an option for it in the video settings : d fluke