You guys have way more enchanted armor than I do. I have some rings, and amulet, and a helmet. The rest of my armor is Ebony, except for the gauntlets which are dwarven. I do like the Ebony long sword. It is really good for fighting in the arena. I am level 20, I have completed one theive's guild quest, one fighter's guild quest, and I have 3 recommendations from the mage's guild. I also joined a vampire hunter's brotherhood. I've explored a lot of random caves, and dungeons, but I've only done Kvatch and a couple things after that on the main quest. Despite all my running around, I don't have that much stuff, that much money (8,500) and I haven't completed that many guild quests yet. I can't believe how much there is to do in the game.
Mithril is what I'm using for my shield, cuirass, and boots... lol... it gets damaged so easily because I'm not proficient with light armor I think.
There's a little cave or shrine thing over by the Imperial City called Sericen I believe. It's to the N or NW of the city on a road. Inside that location is only 1 level and probably about 3 or 4 bandits. The ringleader always drops good stuff (well for your level anyway). You can get some decent stuff there quickly. That's what I kept doing to get stuff. I'd take it and sell it for money.
I've done that one once. It is where I got about half of the few enchanted items I have now. It is probably about time for me to pay another visit there, now that I am a higher level. Sometimes those dungeons with boss mobs like that are really stressful. It's hard to to take the tension of going back in.
All the stuff i pick up are daeric, ebony, or glass now, but I can't sell them for full value, I can only get up to 1200 gold. Do you guys know of a store that has more than 1200 gold? Like the scamp in Morrowind
I haven't seen anything about a buyer who pays full price and I don't even think it's possible. The merchant system this time around is way tougher, like they made a conscious effort to get you to work on your mercantile skill and your speechcraft to improve the dispositions of buyers.
Well, I just finished the main quest. Second to last quest is painfully easy, the last quest can be easy if you want it to be, I'll say this, expect some frame rate dropping during the last quest.
Spent about 70K buying a manor in Skingrad and decking it out... it's cool... but no perks that i know of .
There are two minor "quests" for the Skingrad Manor house. There is some hidden loot that you find by reading a "long forgotten note" that is hidden in the house. The note is hidden in the master bedroom and the loot is elsewhere in the house. I don't want to give it away if you don't want it ruined. If you want to know where it is, just google it. There is also a servant in Skingrad that will come work for you if you have the servants quarters package bought. She makes meat pies and gives you ale once she works for you. The pies are pretty good fortifiers. I use the Skingrad house to store all my extra loot that I don't use but don't want to sell. The display cases are great for that.
theres another house in anvil that has a quest attached to it as well, where you have to drive out ghosts...thats what i use as my lair
ha. never noticed those. i always want to store cool stuff i find in the display cases, but i can't drop it in there, it always drops randomly on the floor next to the display case. is there a trick to doing it?? the thing about equipment you never use... i pretty much sell everything. sometimes when i find something that's worth like 6000+ though I want to keep it, because you can only get 1200 gold for it. again, does anyone know a store where the proprietor has more than 1200 to spend on a given item?
I don't think there is any merchant that has more than 1200 gold. If you get your mercantile skills up over 100 I've read where you can get an "invest" option in a merchant, though, to bring him up to 1700... wooptie do. Outside of that, there are mods out there that bump up merchants' money. Sure would be nice to find a talking crab...
Well at last I've started to make strides on my money problem. I don't have a ton but in one dungeon I almost doubled the amount I had. I am thinking of buying a house. I think the perks are that you can store things there. Keep a fire resistant enchanted suit of armor for something that you would need that for, and wear other armor when you go out. Keep a light suit there for stealth missions. That way you can always go there and change equipment. You can also rest there anytime you want, etc. I still haven't been to all the cities yet, but once I do that then I will think about which one I want to live in.
Which dungeon? I'm ready to go out and kick butt to get a bit more money... I just bought the most expensive house in the game, furnished it, and now I'm broke. About a week's worth of moneymaking all up in smoke on a house that's nothing more than a storage bin. lol. Of course the fact you can get the servant to cook for you is maybe worthwhile to some... Oh, and I switched back to heavy armor... that light armor just wasn't going to cut it...
Well, I finally got to play Oblivion, although only for about a day. I was kind of curious about the magic discussion we were having earlier, so I decided to make a magic-oriented character. I went with a Breton Sorcerer, although I picked The Shadow birthsign for some dumb reason (I don't even use the invisibility power I got from it much, wish I could go back and switch signs). I mostly did quests for the Fighters Guild (Swordsman rank IIRC) and the Mages Guild/Arcane University (Conjurer rank), although I became Grand Champion of the Arena too. I didn't do much of the main quest. I was a little bit into the first portal outside of Kvatch at the end of my playtime. I think I was around level 14 at that time. The game didn't seem that impossible considering my lack of expertise in combat skills; in fact, it was actually pretty easy at some points. I mostly stuck to leveling up my Conjuration skills so that I could summon up daedra to help me out. Summoning skeleton warriors, zombies, dremoras, daedroths, etc., really seemed to make the game easy. I would usually just summon a daedroth to take care of the dirty work, and I'd support it if I could. I did get in there with my sword from time to time, but I don't think my attacks did much damage. Usually though, the daedroth didn't need much help and would show off Oblivion's nice physics engine at it smacked my enemies around with its claws. I'll probably be better off once I level up my blade, heavy armor, and block skills while also spending some time with enchanting and spellmaking. I also probably need to get some better equipment. I was still mostly wearing steel armor, except for my Ebony shield (which went with my Ebony longsword). I was killing enemies with dwarven, elven, silver, and ebony equipment though (although nothing I needed), so I was at a small disadvantage at times. While it wasn't a great source of income, I would occasionally use my alchemy skill to get some extra money. For example, I could usually buy something like bread and cheese from a merchant for about 1-2 gold pieces. I could then create a Restore Fatigue potion and sell it for about 15-20 gold pieces. I'd usually just buy every ingredient the merchant, use most of them to create potions, and then sell them back to the merchant. I went a little crazy when I found the little "garden" at the Arcane University that had a variety of ingredients. I probably could have made some potions for myself as well, but my spells and any potions I found were enough for me. Needless to say, I loved Oblivion for the short amount of time I played it. I imagine it will be even better when I can play it for an extended amount of time, especially when I get to the main quest.
Wow, you got to lvl 14 in one day? How many hours did you put in? I'm lvl 14 now and I just beat the game, but I think I average about 2 hours a day.
lol. I just hit lvl 14 today. But then I intentionally try not to finish games quickly... especially rpg's like this one. Too much cool stuff to do. Lvl 14 in one day is kinda um... scary. I guess summoning is the way to go then if you're a mage. But it sounds dull... do you ever do anything other than summon? That's one of the reasons I wanted to play a fighter/mage class. It's a bit tougher initially from what I understand than a straight class. Although I thought a mage would be overmatched early on, I hadn't considered a summoner. I was thinking more of an aggressive mage with a bunch of destruction spells.
I think one of my saves had like around 14 hours or so, but it may have been a little more than that when I got to level 14. Sounds about right since I spent very little time sleeping, eating, talking with my family, etc., during that ~24 hours; I know I went from around midnight Friday/Saturday to like 8-9 AM Saturday without taking a break. And I only took a break because I started falling asleep while I was dungeon crawling. Plus, I was using a leveling mod (which I forgot to mention), although I wouldn't think it would affect leveling up that much (more for the attributes and health than for leveling up). IIRC, this mod lets you gain a level once you increase like 10 Major Skills...which might be what the game does as well, but I can't remember. I had major skills like Restoration, Conjuration, Destruction, Alchemy, and Heavy Armor, which I used a LOT, so it isn't a surprise that I leveled up that many times. I already maxed out Conjuration (with a +4 from my Conjurer's Robe, so it's at 104). I won't get a chance to play it again until finals are over, so I made the most out of my time with the game. It kind of depends on the situation. As I said, I sometimes try to help out my summons by fighting along with them, but my blade skills still need some improving before I can do any real damage with a regular weapon. I do cast some Destruction spells, like fireballs and stuff, but my summoned creatures are usually in the way...and again, they rarely need the help. I usually just conserve my magicka for re-summoning and for regular support spells. Once I start balancing out my skills a bit, it will probably be a bit more interesting. I started training my blade skill via a Fighters Guild trainer, so that will probably be the next thing I'll be focusing on. I'll probably work on my Block skill as well, which should help increase my Agility rating. It is sitting at 38 right now...so I guess that's why I kept getting knocked down when I was getting attacked.
