Playing Oblivion for the first time, anything I should know? Tips, early game secrets, good builds, that kinda thing

just rush the main quest and be done with it

Morrowind>Skyrim>Shit>Oblivion

So easy you can level sneak to 100 in the tutorial area where the rat cage is.

Is morrowind really better than oblivion?

Look at the skills you will want to use
Create custom class
Choose primary skills the ones which you have zero interest in
>that doesn't make any sense
well that's oblivion to you
I wish I was joking

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the rat running around in the cage would just spike up sneak?

Kill it. The rats in the cage dont usually get out unless you lwt them out.

seek out brother jauffre
he's the grandmaster of my order, he lives quietly as a monk, in weynon priory

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easily

Use the W key to move forward

Hmm, I might just play that instead. I have all the elderscrolls but I heard Oblivion was really good

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Play both and figure out whats better for yourself. I have nostalgia for oblivion so I think its better. I think morrowind is shit and its world/atmosphere doesnt make up for the shit gameplay which is like oblivion but much much worse.

I see.. Good idea, thank you fren

Underageb&

Wow, you sure showed him.

oblivion is the hehe funny meme game with goofy npcs and dialogue but shit gameplay and story
morrowind is legit good

That depends on when you were born

I'm probably same age as you and my life is also probably much better as well. You know what my secret was? Playing based Oblivion as a teenager.

That doesn't even make sense.

by orders of magnitude

I feel like I finally got my character's look down in Morrowind. My dear friend Dagoth was right, shirtless with a mask is the way to go.

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Looks nice dude

World is far more interesting with all the factions and lore but most NPCs are robotic save for a few and quest writing is generally less interesting.

How about gameplay-wise?

The reason many people are saying reverse your skill decisions is that your player level is based on how quickly you level up the skills you define as Major.
If you accidentally pick a skill that is incredibly easy to skill up (athletics, alchemy, sneak) or you use constantly then you will level up faster but be skill-poor resulting in enemies become overpowering after a while since everything scales.

In the sewers loot everything and pick every plant, combine every plant with alchemy its easy skillups to unlock wonderful shit later.
Cross the river when you come out and go into the ruins feel free to sell shit in impreial city first if you like but the ruins are very much worth it and some nice little self-contained story in there. Don't forget to activate the firepit thing at the top of the ruin before you go in for a buff
Holding a torch out with lockpicking allegedly makes it easier, there is a rhythmn to learning the lockpick minigame that you will pick up on.
Prepare to always do the dialogue wheel thing with every npc for better prices or even chance of new dialogue or a quest (watch the face, pick the one that smiles on large wedges and frowns on small wedges)
Don't feel pressured to do the main questline, its arguably one of the weaker parts of the game, just pick a town head to it and do quests from them and maybe pick a random direction for cave exploring

It's more fun with the ways you can break the game thanks to spellmaking. You might find the combat infuriating at the start since melee weapons with low skill levels miss a lot and even more if you're fatigued. Once you get to 40 or 50 of a weapon then you'll start to hit more consistently.

Spellmaking?

Custom spells. After you purchase a spell, that spell's effects also become available for you to implement in custom spells you can design (with sliders for manipulating values such as damage, duration and/or AoE). Plenty of spell merchants offer spellmaking.

....I'm in.

never sleep, become god

No, because they're good for different reason. If you want a strange world to explore with rich lore play morrowind, if you want interesting quests play oblivion.

>don't play on the hardest difficulty ever
It's a really good way to increase your skills really quickly, given that your survive the first two rats that can two-shot you even while parrying.
I did a playthrough like that, it was great fun, eventually your attributes and skills allow you to avoid a quick death but you're never safe, and instead of just running into the enemy, you have to develop strategies on how to take out opponents outnumbering you.

The same way sushis are better than pizza. Yes I know, food analogy.
Yeah one have more quality to it but that doesn't mean the other isn't good.

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which is why i never understand why morrowfags want every other province to suddenly look like morrowind in terms of alien creatures and mushroom houses. not only does it mess with the lore of the other provinces it dilutes what makes morrowind special.

>It-It's you, the hero of Kvatch!

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Soon Tamriel will fall to the Bosmer menace.
Vivec help!

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I prefer the noble orc look.
Randomized Morrownd run is the most fun I've had in some time.

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Have you heard of the high elves?

Orcs do look good with fancy outfits. The contrast is nice.

that's not what i meant, enemies one-shotting you is only part of the problem, they become literal carbon steel golems at higher difficulties, it's not even funny that they need 11.000 hits to die

Assuming you have mods to deal with the leveling and scaling

>Steel armor for wearing or selling: Battlehorn castle west of Chorrol
>Give the amulet to Jauffre near Chorrol for some basic shit
>For easy gold go to Skingrad and wait until Glarthir comes to you, do his quest (no need to follow anyone) and when he's dead take his key and check out the basket in his house for 500 gold
>When you have enough money, buy the Apotheosis staff from the stave store in Imperial City for a nice trump card
>Sell your shit to the dark elf in Merchant's Inn in Imperial City's Market district
>If you want decent unkillable followers, don't finish the quest after taking Martin to Jauffre so they keep following you. there are some other quests where you can do this trick too
>Get spell making as soon as possible (do all mages quest initiation quests or buy magetallow candles from mystic emporium in IC and take them to the mage tower) and make some useful spells like charm 100pts for one second, 100pts lockpicking for one second, etc.. If you need access to +stat spells, do the orrery quest
>If you need some starting gold and fame, do the arena, but be sure to do the gray prince's quest first
>Go to the pirate ship at IC waterfront, then run to the guards for a laugh

Whilst i have always felt that TES and FO games were better enjoyed at higher difficulties i have to say that the bullet sponge enemies just ruin the credibility of the encounter. I am playing my own oblivion run currently and some of the enemies are just having me run around in circles flinging spells over and over till it stops moving. It looks ridiculous

Is this still the definitive list for starting out?
Heard Imperial City from Better Cities is just bloat incarnate

Have you tried to recreate the face of some AGDQ trans speedrunner?

Just go for Gaston and be done with it

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Spam E the whole time

Oblivion has spellmaking too

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There's a hollowed-out stump behind Rindir's Staff that can be used for infinite storage since it is used in a quest and its contents don't reset like most public containers do. Plus it's in the biggest shopping area in the game so it's the perfect place to stash extra loot.

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