The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Chat Thread

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• no. I don't have any chameleon at all. I wants it badly though. : edgewise
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  I have gotten my cameleon to 100%. Ive had so much fun playing this game so far, but I feel that the bei... : eliotwistr
  • try turning up the difficulty and see if it's any better? : pyide
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  And start the game over...way way way to many hours dedicated to this game so far to have to start from s... : eliotwistr
  • wut? you can adjust the difficulty slider as you play, you don't have to restart. it's there for siti... : pyide
• Well I tried to increase the difficulty level. It appears that the only difference that ive noticed with... : eliotwistr
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  how do you get your chamelion up to 100%? please tell me : diub
  • Dont bother to do it...the game will be completely boring when you do. You'll be able to walk through an... : eliotwistr

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• yes, 60. But for most character builds you get a max of ~45 : needlez
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  Oblivion Cap http://www.oblivionstore.com/sunriseidcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=3&idproduct=87 : Schnapple
  • Nice cap. : ihya
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  Don't think there is a 'hard' cap, but since you gain levels by gaining skills once your major skills are... : Nixx2004
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    Just get an insanely high bounty on your head and serve your time. You'll have your main skills drop dow... : Kentor
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      You won't de-level? : Ebu
      • Not that I've seen. : Kentor

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• lol man f cliff racers : giroml
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  Here they come, Here come cliff racers! They are demons with wings! Go cliff racers, go cliff racers! : Rice-Rocketeer
  • nah, it was something simple like fly, cliff racer, fly! or cliff racer, flying high through the skyy! : pyide
  • LOL! Awesome! : genom
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  Wackiest thing I've seen recently was Weebam-Na going off about the rat problem in Leyawiin: http://img22... : Languid_Heap
  • lol, man thats awsome : jason28
  • wtf hahahaha : Daggoth
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    http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/5121/oblivionshot637gf.jpg : pyide
    • i cracked up when i saw this person. : kbnerd
• Dude, I laughed my ass off when I found that guy. "Fly... Cliff Racer Fly....." : Miller_TYM

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  It's really easy to get the soundtrack for the game, they are all MP3 files. Just go into the oblivion/da... : BrokenNut
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    Last Of The Mohicans soundtrack is fucking perfect for this game. Fort Battle kicking in when you char... : Drewus
    • And some of the Thief: Deadly Shadows music is perfect for dungeons. Especially the haunted music. : Drewus
  • Thanks! That's totally cool of them :D : d fluke

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  And: anytime ANYONE draws a weapon it will attack them. This includes guards. It also includes you. Th... : Twist of Cain
  • Somehow I think it just adds to the legend of the thing. I think there's a mod out there to make the thin... : cdbeckman
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  Shadowmere > * Do a few of the dark brotherhood quests : ArtilleryMarker
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    can you expand on this? : get_navi
    • Shadowmere is fast, has good pointd and helps you attack stuff. It's basically a black horse with red : ArtilleryMarker
  • <3 Shadowmere : SockMonkeh
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  Once I got off the unicorn to check out a super-fast thief dude running outside Leyawin(?). When I turned... : reign27
  • i'm at work and trying so hard not to laugh at this : erotic sock
  • hahahaah wtf : Mondo
  • It missed you =( : genom
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    You just witnessed a rare event, a unicorn in heat. : mikage
    • buh dunk dunk cshhhhhh : SockMonkeh

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  Someone answered it for me, so I'll answer it for you. Dude outside of the walls of the imperial city dre... : cdbeckman
  • many thanks everyone : scottk52
• shady sam is the man you need. outside wall on northwest side of Imperial City : ariakaz
• What you need is a skeleton key. : SockMonkeh

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  So...fast travel there? : Kerath
  • didn't know that was possible : dantastic

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  armor should be capped at like 100 or 100 million or some thing. are levels capped too? : kbnerd
  • Apparently the level cap is 60, but most builds won't see it. Since skills cap at 100, once your major s... : Nixx2004
• Shield spell enchantments FTW! Your Armor rating is a flat percentage that's taken off all physical da... : Arcanum

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  I dropped off around 20 pieces of venision in the middle of the Imperial city market. A month later (gam... : metralgia
  • It pleases me that noone will take your meat. : ezanga
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  In the paranoid quest, after the guard killed the guy I took his key. It showed up as stolen in my invent... : theamazingrand0
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    So someone claimed that stuff they had put into a container disappeared after several days. Do items pla... : ezanga
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      Yes. Items put into containers that you do not own will disappear. This happened to me recently and I hav : glio1337
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        Yeah, that seems to be what I've experienced and read. In Morrowind, I never put things in to containers... : ezanga
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          Are there mannequins in Oblivion? : Rich McNinch
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            It was a mod in Morrowind. I think it's either out or in the works for Oblivion : Ebu
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              Mod: http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=2055 I wonder if they included an armor stand mannequ... : Arcanum
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                Mirror? :[ : Ebu
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                  None that I know of. Apparently the "mannequins" move like living creatures after they're placed, too (I... : Arcanum
                  • Ah. :( : Ebu
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                    That's creepy. : Kerath
                    • Exactly. Which is why I just want a freaking armor stand type deal. : Arcanum
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        .... How long will they stay? 'cause I've been using a container in the Mages guild and not had problems... : Zhaneel
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          I was using one there too but I wouldn't take any chances. I was using a barrell in the abandoned shack o... : glio1337
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            There's probably a flag somewhere that says there should be leveled items in certain containers, so when ... : flox
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              I've been told that specifically named containers won't reset either. Like if there's a "<character_name... : DinK
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                just buy that cheap ass house in anvil so you dont have to worry about your shit vanishing : rezinbowl
                • Yeah I have two houses that I use. Don't want to mess with stored items : DinK
  • I use that guy's house as my storage place now. :D : freshyk
• i thought the point of buying a house was safely stashing your stuff - but you can pretty much drop it in... : e v i l
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  i think if you leave it on the ground, it wont dissapear, but if you stash it in some random crate (that ... : ballystix
  • ive dropped things on the floor in the blade temple and they have stayed there forever. : spdon

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  I've got like 100 books sitting on my coffee table in my house in Anvil. Hit the mages guilds. There are ... : malevolence
  • on 100 different topics? There are hundreds of books of the same type lying around, ive not got into the ... : spdon
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  Seems like the same amount of books, but far less of them skill you up. : invisible_kid
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    Yeah, I was noticing this. =( I was thinking that none did for a while there... perhaps I'll go about re... : zakazi
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      That book is out there, I don't remember exactly though sorry. There's a man in his cabin in the middl : NeatoPrsn
      • thanks. Will have a look and get the position recorded for everyone when I find it. : spdon
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  I found some Barenziah books to be censored. Heh. : MrLonghair
  • isnt it just that the Barenziah biographies are censored but the 'Real Barenziah' books are not? It was l... : spdon

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  there are millions of daedric longswords and they are all a bit rubbish compared to glass and ebony weapo... : spdon
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    daedrics are the best base weapon type in the game. you are probably thinking of dremora, which do blow. ... : stgulik
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      maybe it is dremora, its just the stuff that those boring oblivion guys drop. : spdon
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        yeah, i have a daedric longsword. it looks the same as those but does almost 2x damage. : pyide
        • Did it come from an Oblivion plane or just some random place in the world? I'm level 35 and cleared a ... : Nixx2004

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• if you click on it, it will ask you what you want to enchant.. just like the enchantment altars in the Ar... : porp
• Click the stone in your inventory, it'll give you the option to use it on an item you're carrying : d fluke
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  i have one that's Reduce Armor by 20 on Strike. would this work on a bow, or does strike mean melee only... : deathmuppeter
  • It would work on a bow. : Athlon7

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• It took me a long time to figure out why the camera was always looking up to other people when I'd talk t... : Athlon7

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  Try stealing them from mages guilds. : moogle
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    Chorrol ftw! : sKetchflow
    • unfortunaltey 2 of those have souls in :/ But you will get 2 empty ones there. : spdon

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  http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1083 : Nixx2004
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    that's a morrowind mod :< : pyide
    • Ah, woops. Just searched for weather, didn't notice that part. : Nixx2004
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  can't rain all the time : bad_fish
  • * T H E C R O W ' D * : kevp
  • ERIC?!?!?! : warcrow
• http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1810 "A ring that allows the player to change the weather. ... : Kerath
• I think there's an INI setting precipitation=1 or some such... just set it to zero... : zakazi
• Here's one that just got uploaded: http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=2096 : Nixx2004

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• I like to wear just clothes. Or if I find some sort of enchanted "outfit" Since I don't intend to get h... : invisible_kid
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  You can wear a full set of light armor, be at decent skill with it, and still have 85%+ spell effectivene... : SusanTD
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    I wear full heavy armor and my spell effectiveness is still at 83%. : snot3353
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      Is there somewhere that tells you your exact effectiveness? : invisible_kid
      • on the bottom of your spells tab, kinda where you see your encumberence. ;) : Draco
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      I'm at 93%. Odd. : Rotten Deadite
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        It improves as your skill improves. I'm at 95%. : Arcanum
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          Oh okay. I figured it was a bug. I mean, I'm wearing full Ebony for God's sake. Also: Ebony helms lo... : Rotten Deadite
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            Historically accurate to...what? : glio1337
            • why, ebony armor in cyrodiil circa 3e 327 of course! what : Gauss
          • A lot of the helms in Oblivion are patterned after ancient Western civilization helmets. Watch the bonus... : Rotten Deadite
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  Plain old Red Silk Robes, Red Silk Hood & Gold trimmed shoes! They suit how I want my character to loo... : biofrog
  • Hot. I want some shit like that. I like the look of mages in clothing. I want ROBES. I kind of like th : Rice-Rocketeer
  • there is a robe over armor mod out there that should work with the clothes. i've been meaning to grab it ... : stgulik
• 78 Armor Rating at level 15 = 65 Heavy Armor. Plus 78 Alteration. I can pretty happily take ridiculous ... : Polysorbate
• Apprentice Robes, atm : Ebu
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  I took a black robe off a dead monk. Enchanted it with Fortify Magicka 50. Ring of Shield 20% Ring o... : graceofdragons
  • You're not wearing the Necromancer robes are you? O_o : Ebu

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  Or how about this: Fallout with the Oblivion engine. Wait, oh shit, it's actually coming *fap fap fap* : cdbeckman
  • Can't fucking wait. : genom

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  If you ever want to start a war, get a decent Frenzy spell and run around casting it on everyone. It gets... : BrokenNut
  • Hahah, someone needs to make a Benny Hill intro machinima : d fluke
  • That's how I do alot of my murders in the middle of town. : quietb0y

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  Maybe you could use the Real LifeTM notebook + pen feature? :D I guess you wouldn't get the map marker t... : Krypt_
  • Real life? What the fuck is that? : Albemuth
  • that's silly, no thx:( : abrasion
• Only one i could find http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1960 Read the info about marks placed... : ShortStop

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• Just bumped into the guy with the offer an hour ago. So exciting! : kingdepork

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  The one -> full mana The other -> all items in your inventory are fully recharged. So I hear : Ebu
  • Serious? I thought they were only good for selling. : aeg1x
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  those ruins kick ass. Those enchant resupply stones are totally worth the run through, especially when yo... : theWhite
  • Maybe I'll make a few enchanted Daedric daggers, use up the charges then recharge all at once. : Nixx2004

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  Gain access to the Arcane University, and make your own. :) : Arcanum
  • ah, okay, on my way :) : forgeo
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  To make your own you'll need to have at least 1 spell of that type already. Like if you wanna make a sup... : NeatoPrsn
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    How? I'm the arch mage there and I dont get to do shit :< : idmud
    • Theres 2 places in the arcane university to create your own spells. One spell making altar is in the para... : BrokenNut

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• Well there are mods that do something like that. Here's one: http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=... : Nixx2004

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  why would a game need .net framework to run smoothly? i'm not saying that doesn't work, i don't know, ... : pyide
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    I'm a .NET developer by trade and I don't see the connection. : Schnapple
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      sacrifice two chickens : Gauss
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        Man, why's it always gotta be chickens? Why not geese? What did the chickens ever do to you? : Arcanum
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          increase my framez (I read it on a forum on the internets) : Gauss
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            Fortunately it's .NET so you can sacrifice 1.1 chickens alongside 2.0 chickens : Schnapple
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              How do you sacrifice 1.1 chickens? What constitutes sacrificing 1/10th of a chicken? Do you cut off a f... : Arcanum
              • Those are those three-legged chickens that they bred to have more legs for market. Problem is no one know... : Schnapple
              • http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.html : biofrog
• thanks for the tips : synapse420
• Got a link to the thread? I might try this. : Athlon7
• NVM, got it. http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=320251&hl=write+combining : Athlon7
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  sacrifice a chicken : Gauss
  • At this point, it might just work. : Visceral Monkey
  • in game or out of game? does it need to be, say, an enchanted chicken? Diadric? or will any old chicke... : cdbeckman

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  Whatever it was, I think Oblivion has probably beaten it by now. This game has already become a shackhyp... : Krypt_
  • It's way past ShackHype now, it's ShackThisIsAnAwesomeGameForRealsYo : d fluke

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  it's levelled like the whole game, i did that quest at level 3 and got iron and shit. : giroml
  • Well when I did it (uh don't remember exactly when, maybe around level 10) the stuff was the best I'd see... : Nixx2004

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  Psst thief have no excuse for ever being thrown in prison. If you get a bounty run like hell out of the ... : giroml
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    *awesome* thanks much. still curious if it hits stats forever tho :( : cdbeckman
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      eh the stat lower thing isn't really a problem in fact some people abuse it and purposely get caught to l... : giroml
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        which is stupid cus it doesn't work the same : graceofdragons
        • why doesn't it? : cltcprd

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• I'm taking a break tonight. I've played every single day since I bought it. I still feel like I have bare... : silent prophet
• I'm just now an Evoker in the Mage Guild. (restarted as a caster) Going to make a series of characters a... : Ebu

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  wait you're a vampire and you caught the vampirism disease again? WTF! : giroml
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    Yup. I'm kinda wondering if it will roll over and give me vampirism twice.... : Arcanum
    • that would be sweet, but I highly doubt it. : graceofdragons

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• i dont think ive been like this about any game since i was like 14-15 and i was playing UO : -meeks-