The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Chat Thread

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  It's actually int he mountains above the town. You should be able to fast-travel there. : genom
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    right, i've been up there and the building is locked : khroma
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      Are Martin and Jauffre still following you? IIRC they approach the gate, and it opens up. : genom
      • Wierd. they are following me but jauffre wont walk up to the gate. : khroma
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  i was doing this last night. i guess ill just try again when i get home and hopefully the npcs do their j... : khroma
  • Hey just attack him 4 times and get him to chase you, make sure no guards catch you....but drag him up to... : derimos

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• oh damn, i forget about deadlier traps. *downloads* : pyide
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  Agree on gem price actually, they are currently pointless. Portable bedroll, kinda cool too What does a... : abrasion
  • Yeah none of these mess with balance hardly at all. Yes Arcane Velocity and Arrow Velocity just make i... : giroml
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  Where can I find the ArrowLite mod? I don't see it on that page... : whippy
  • http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Lite_Arrows : giroml
  • http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Lighter_Arrows : Nixx2004
• Great post. I didn't know about some of those. Now the game feels completererer. : mrwolf710
• Oblivion mods tagged : freakord
• I just added the huntsman's lodge. That looks like a sweet home. http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki... : quietb0y
• nice list of mods there. yeah, its pretty cool how quickly they've made some many useful ones. I like L... : ariakaz
• tag................... : timaste

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• Which site are you using to download mods from? : Damnlazy
• I’ve dug up some links to a few mods he has listed: BRIGHTER TORCHES V1.2: [url] http://w... : Killrig
• One more time… BRIGHTER TORCHES V1.2: http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1842 BT... : Killrig
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  What UI mod are you using? : Clay
  • I think he is using UI Mod... oh the irony. : 69shots
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    http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/UI_Mods : freshyk
    • same mod, newer latest version (2.11) here: http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/BTmod : pyide
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  I apologize for not linking anything. It slipped my mind. : freshyk
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    Fucking post bug. I bet I get PRLed. You'll find everything here: http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwi... : freshyk
    • The Core Pocket Media Player should be able to play most anything. I have speed problems for video not en... : DarkWolf5
• UI mod and More Arena spectators. That's it : Drewus
• I read that as passive breasts 0_o : spdon
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  Short grass http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=2069 : rotten element
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    Those screenshots, it still looks quite long? : abrasion
    • Before and after shots. It's still long, but definitely shorter. Look at the purple flowered bush on ... : Nixx2004
  • Short grass! Finally, some love for wood elves! : Balboa
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  i'm using a few too: - Better Water - Faster Turning Horses - ArcaneVelocity - LevelSlow (50%) - M... : frostythehitman
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    oh yeah, and i slow down time by using the console command "set timescale to 15" (30 is the default). he... : frostythehitman
    • yeah, that is a must. days are way too fast @ default. i use 6 which is supposed to be ~ 4 hours. : pyide
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      Yeah it seems a day moves way too quick in the game to me :( : abrasion
      • at the default 30, an hour game time goes by every two minutes real time. : pyide
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      OblivionTime mod makes it realtime. Pretty cool. : giroml
      • time mods only work with new games. if anyone wants realtime in a current game use set timescale to 1 ... : pyide
  • For my second character, which I won't start until after I've done as many quests as I can, I will defini... : shred.
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  - Dynamic Health Regen - Chase Camera Mod (better 3rd person) - Vanity Camera Smoother (better 3rd pers... : pyide
  • definitely want more arena spectators when i get a beefier system. also a mod that makes the arena harder... : pyide
  • also using Color Map Mod http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Color_Map_Mod http://img... : pyide
• the color map mod is awesome : crunkfunk
• tagged : CRasterImage
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  It is possible to modify keystrokes while in the game's UI? I would like to see ESC used to cancel the... : CRasterImage
  • What voodoo magic is this? Who would ever think to use Esc to back out of a menu? And let's not eve : Ebu
  • When I hit esc to bring up the main menu, I tend to hit esc to get rid of it. Sometimes it does, sometime... : reign27

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  Haha I'm so going to try this. : Ebu
  • Srsly. I wish I'd bought the PC version so I could have taken a picture of this guy on the dock with an ... : Rich McNinch
• Screenie! Screenie! : jodiuh

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• yeah 360 is AA+HDR : giroml
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  Does that water mod kill the frame rate ? : raija
  • Improves it for me. : Rice-Rocketeer

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  same problem. : Clay
  • I ended up getting the Ultimate Archer mod and finished this quest with reasonable difficulty. It's nowhe... : node
• I tried this several times until I ended up making a run for it. I either picked the final lock or killed... : slickdoody

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• short answer: Yes! : Dusty_Slim
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  End of the Dark Brotherhood chain gives you black robes that buff up thief-esque stats : reign27
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    You can also get these earlier, on the DB quest when you kill the guy in Bruma . Check his home thor : AdmiralBman
    • Oooo thanks....looks like I finally need to get evil and do the DB stuff :) : Agent404
    • I wonder if the others had them in there home too. I checked the listeners home but didn't see anything. : quietb0y

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  haha got your own little murder mystery party do ya? : giroml
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    it's straight out of hitchcock, I'll tell ya! : -Panther-
    • I lol'd so hard when they called me the "8th guest* : cdbeckman
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  They kind of go downhill when you move on to the dead-drops. The missions with the stealth bonuses were m... : flooq
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    ooh no once you get through the dead drops it gets awesome again. Very awesome. : aeg1x
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      I totally agree about the end of the DB quests, it's just that I found the dead-drops to be a lot less in : flooq
      • Yeah, but Then you realize WHY it was less interesting, which was awesome, lol. : karhgath
• Oh, I can't wait until you see the ending. It was my favorite set of quests ever! The thieves guild endi... : quietb0y
• Tell us how it went down! I want to know if it was different from my run through it. http://www.shacknew... : quietb0y

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• Nope, he should be hanging around. I think I caught him in the castle early on, around 9am or so. : graah
• Go during the day.... : Str8Dog
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  I went during the day, i went at 9 am, I went during the night, i searched fucking EVERYWHERE! I think... : Drewus
  • I think it's the orc guy who sells the house : quietb0y
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    where your green arrow is between the castle and the town is he laying there dead? =o : italiano3d
    • What happens is i'll be standing outside the town, and a red arrow will appear on one of the town gates. ... : Drewus
• there is a bug where he is sometimes dead (he was for me) so you can't actually buy a house from him. do ... : kbnerd

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  hahahahahah : edgewise
  • Autosaves = on. : EvilDolemite
  • Yeah, that was my first reaction. Sorry for your loss. : Nixx2004
• hahahaha : hobosapien
• I really shouldn't laugh... no really, I feel bad. :) : 69shots
• Dude, that's a Penny Arcade right there. : GeorgeB3DR
• I told you I was hardcore : shred.
• Sounds more like Tardcore. : pchef
• I recently fell off that balcony too, but survived, miraculously (granted, I was level 25 and had 100 agi... : famine101
• hardcore OWNED : NFXFSX

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• GPU-limited : Ebu

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• ahhh great stuff. yeah i am ruined for other games right now too. bethesda always does this to me. : giroml
• Hahah that sounds great...did you get a screen shot? : whippy

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  Do it. Or you don't belong. : Svperstarr
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    Will everyone be my friend if I buy it? : PSYCHON
    • No. But Oblivion will never leave you. : Ebu
• Resistance is futile! : Matt Burris
• It's real. It is not hype. : mikage
• Do it. That is all. : jonin

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• I uses that to my advantage. I kept pulling one at a time outside to get killed by the townspeople as the... : trelain

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• unless you're willing to use a mod (such as saddle bags for y our horsey) you're pretty much out of luck. : -Panther-

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• Yes. I'm level 18 and some a highwayman held me up, and he was wearing it. Mine now. : shred.
• started seeing it around 30 i believe : giroml
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  christ i'm level 10 and i'm still wearing my heavy arena raiment that i won after being named grand champ... : kanuckguy
  • comes with levels, all loot is scaled : giroml

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  Also: What about non-guards? Shopkeepers, citizens, etc? : Fayk
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    Anyone that is "important" to the main storyline can't be killed. They can only be rendered unconscious. ... : xpaladin
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      Really I was not meaning if they CAN be killed - but if it was 'permanent' or if a faceless NPC replaced ... : Fayk
      • only guards seem to respawn, however the named ones arent killable, you can only knock them out, pickpock... : pixxelpimp
• ive went on a mass-murdering spree in the imperial city market district. over 50 guards killed, and they ... : pixxelpimp

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• I use bound dagger a lot. Bound weapons are great damage (Relatively speaking) and you don't need to care... : Fayk
• The spell duration makes them next to useless, however you might be able to make your own version at the ... : graah
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  http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11896534 : Syixxs
  • Damn, that's nice. : DrZettl
  • wow, im now playing a mage, that sounds sick : pixxelpimp
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  I rely on bound shield for tough fights, since it lasts 120 seconds it's handy. : Matt Burris
  • Does bound equipment no longer contain the fortify skill/attributes that they did in Morrowind? : lyme

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• They burn out eventually. : Nixx2004

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• pick the one u want. thats the whole idea :D : trelain
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  the only one you really need to beware of is the atronach : alexthegreat2
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    Atronach would probably work moderately well for a primarily melee character with magic as a backup. : Arcanum
    • Even still I'm not sure how you'd cast enough spells to level it up to keep pace with your melee : alexthegreat2
  • Atronach was amazing in Morrowind. Here, with the fast Magika regen, it seems like it would be impossible... : lyme

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• Keep going deeper into the caves, until you come out on an island outside the city. Kill everybody and t : VinnieTheSquid
• Look for a bunch of purple torch lights, inside a coffin/container is an unused wood staff. : Matt Burris
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  Hahahahahaha : Rich McNinch
  • I re: that hahahahahahahaha : sigma
• necromancers are the biggest bitches.. i love when i get to kill them. : porp
• www.hotsluts.com : Gauss
• So...you're asking how to get wood? : genom
• HELP! I need wood, can someone please tell me where to get wood? I NEED SOMEONE TO GIVE ME WOOD! : Farbauti
• ahahah genuine lol...... ahhgreat stuff. : abrasion
• lol, you love the wood don't you : needlez
• Rofl : shred.

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• I started playing through Morrowind again in September in anticipation of this... But just recently I sta... : lyme

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  you can but it wont be safe, however there is a mod that adds safe chests to guild houses. : giroml
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    ok, I'll check that out. : quietb0y
    • There's this one: http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Guild_Storage : Nixx2004
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    Won't be safe? I've had 50 things in my "house" lying on the floor and it's been fine. Maybe just the p... : GeorgeB3DR
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      guild houses are full of people, who may or may not take any item you leave lying around in chests or in ... : pyide
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        Maybe the Thief quest is different. Never lost an item. I think nobody goes into the room I dump stuff ... : GeorgeB3DR
        • The word from the strategy guide is that the only way to be %100 certain that you won't get ganked is to ... : -Panther-
    • houses you buy in game are marked safe in the construction set. I doubt guild houses are. dunno. : giroml

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  I use the arrow keys. I cant understand why anyone wouldnt. : Visceral Monkey
  • ASDF! gg. : giroml
• This mod is the best PC mod out right now, fixes the terrible console interface. Highly recommended! Al... : giroml

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  some gates are a serious nightmare. there is one that requires reaching the top of the gate to activate a : mega man
  • The sigil stone is in another tower. : Magus
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    yea there was 3 towers.. i took so long jus to get to the top of one and not die.. screw it. : Kn4w
    • Yeah, I've been through three gates so far, and so far none of them were really worth the time and effort... : Arcanum
  • yeah i just run through and grab any "fleshy pods" i see or whatever. Most of the time they have no chan... : kenmis
• that means you are in the wrong tower : Maarten Goldstein
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  I've closed 7 of them. And holy shit they can get annoying. : NFXFSX
  • They keep popping up everywhere and I just run by them. No sense wasting an hour of not having fun when I... : shred.
• that's why if you don't see a pillar of fire as soon as you enter the tower, it means you're in the wrong... : NeatoPrsn

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  The dark brotherhood standard issue ain't bad for ninja clothes. : DinK
  • Think I could pass as a ninja watching over the people? Here's my dude at lower levels: http://img24... : DinK
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  I requested one on the official forums, I'll monitor it and post it if someone makes it. I have no doubt... : giroml
  • oh noes, the epic battle. . . : ikonoklast86

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• yes, if you kill the person quick enough the guards won't know you committed murder if you're going fo... : Cold Hate / Warm Blo
• Yes, you can get away with all that. It can sometimes be difficult to take a guy out in one shot even wh... : Krypt_
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  Level up Illusion so you can get the Invis spell from the Dark Brotherhood, trust me, it's pretty much th... : Eej
  • illusion is great, detect life is really useful for sneaky thieves/assassins : fufux
• As a sneaky archer guy, I really had no trouble fighting normal enemies until of course going to kvatch a... : DinK
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  You can steal stuff unnoticed if you wait till they go to bed it's easier. If you try to kill them, th... : tree8
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    I disagree about sneak/marksman not being good for cave clearing. I've found that it's absolutely superb... : DinK
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      will 100% chameleon let you drop into sneak during battle like invis will? : Draugluin
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        Probably. that'd be a damn high end and very useful illusion spell though. : DinK
        • Yes you can, I have a glass curaiss that gives me +30% chameleon and the spell that gives +75% chameleon.... : NeatoPrsn
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    Get your sneak high enough and you almost never have to shoot an arrow ;) : quietb0y
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      But how are you going to get all the phat loot from their bodies? : Eej
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        pick pockets. Seriously though. get your sneak high enough and you can get multiple extra damage hits. : quietb0y
        • how high is "high enough?" I'm fairly stealthy as long as I dont attack anything, and then its like a bea... : ikonoklast86
• I have a high enough sneak that I can fire 5 or 6 arrows without being detected in a dungeon. Each shot d... : Svperstarr
• Currently playing with a "real" assassin. Sneak/Blade/Alchemy (poison)/Light Armour/Illusion/Security... : Ebu

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• daedric longsword/shortie/bow (had em all) with 17 each of fire, cold and electric. gotta have azura's st... : stgulik

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• AFAIK, not killing anyone only applies when you're on the territory of a thieves' guild mission. I had bo... : reign27
• nope do it. you can join any guild and not conflict. the thieves guild rule applies for when you're doi... : giroml

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• Potion or spell of restore luck. I think a temple shrine will cure it also. : Arcanum
• You know there's a way to prevent this, right? He hints at a problem when he gives you the scroll. Conti : Rich McNinch
• aww shit man, this is why you always read the quest text before doing it. : giroml

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• Not with the base game no, I think there are mods, not sure. : giroml
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  It requires black soul gems. I've seen exactly two of them, and they were associated with a Mage's Guild : Arcanum
  • Oh, was wondering what that was for. Got it awhile ago, don't remember where. : Nixx2004
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    oh yeah forgot about those : giroml
    • Reading the official forums, they're not worth the effort unless you start getting them early on. They'r... : Arcanum

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  They allies don't have to survive that one. Both of mine did (did it before I even went through Kvatc... : Ebu
  • I'll just sit back and watch then. Thanks! : Rich McNinch

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  If you search the comments, you'll probably find many of the good posts that have been made. There are... : DinK
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    oh there are also abilities that you gain when you're in the stronger states. However you always have an... : DinK
    • thank you : -Panther-

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  Yes a mod that would default the action to grab rather than take would be sweet. : SeaLlama
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    yeah, if you aren't sneaking it should default to grab, agree totally. : mikage
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      I thought people came after you for grabbing their stuff as well as taking it. Haven't tried, but other ... : DinK
      • Yea, I got tagged for a 2 septim bounty for accidently moving someone's loaf of bread a foot. That was ki... : Ebu

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  tagged for later. totally getting this : AMikaboshi
  • Problem is loot is random so you probably won't get that. I have cleared out that entire section and I di... : Svperstarr
• Best loot I've found was at level 15 this amulet: http://foogaming.com/images/uploads/oblivion-amulet.... : Matt Burris

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  I can't imagine playing this without stealth. : edgewise
  • I'm playing a battle mage without stealth and I really enjoy it :( only prob is that my mana runs out ... : soulr
  • I agree. You're missing out on a lot of content if you don't do stealth/security. Every town has like 5... : Krypt_
• Funny, i play a stealth like character enough and I start to miss the melee stuff. : Visceral Monkey
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  Make a custom class with Blade, Sneak, Agility, Light Armor, Restoration, Illusion, and Block. : EvilDolemite
  • I'd replace Agility with Marksman ;) : giroml
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    There's no Agility skill...I think you mean Marksman? That sounds similar to my custom class, which I cal... : MaxPete82
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      Yep I made a Ninja custom class: Blade Light Armor Marksman Block Sneak Illusion Alchemy Gre... : giroml
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        Word. I wish there was some kind of classic black shinobi ninja suit in the game. Hehe. : MaxPete82
        • Mod time! Woot! : giroml
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          Great minds think alike. :) Someone get to work on the ninja outfit mod, stat! : laidback
          • I just requested one on the official mod forums. ;) : giroml
      • Blade, Marksman, Sneak, Acrobatics, Alchemy, Illusion, Destruction....I like the Destruction, but I may h... : AxeMan808