Think I screwed up *spoilers*

[The Autizzler]

So I just finished the MQ and all oblivion gates that were open are now closed. I didn't realize how important sigil stones were for enchanting, and i've only closed 7 gates. To make matters worse, I didnt create a save before the attack at the imperial city. This is my first playthrough so of course I'm a newb, but how badly did I mess up? Am I missing out on enchantments that I can't make?

[SnickerToodles]

Your options:

-Cheat in the sigil stones you want with the console.
-Use the Wizard's Tower glitch (or... just find the ID of the test world and coc yourself there) to get as many stones as you want.
-Find a mod that lets you reopen gates.

Finally, the option you probably want:

Open console and put these in.

set MQ00.RandomGateChance to y (This is the command that will make gates spawn again. Set it to 25 or 50 for normal Main Quest parameters. If you set it to 100, when you enter a random gate's cell, the gate will ALWAYS spawn.)
set MQ00.MaxOpenGates to x (You only need to touch this if you want ALL possible gates to be able to spawn. Normally this is always 60. Change it to 90.)

If you don't want NEW GATES to spawn:

set MQ00.AllowGatesToReopen to z (1 or 0. Gates you spawned before you beat the main quest may open again. No new gates will spawn unless you touch the above commands.)


When you're satsified, you can reset these parameters by putting in this:
set MQ00.RandomGateChance to 0
set MQ00.AllowGatesToReopen to 0 (If you turned this on.)

Gates will no longer spawn.

[76561198034396398]

try this mod Sigil Stone Chest in Bruma http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/5050/? as for enchantments they're nothing fantastic

[󰀉tempeh󰀉]

Eh, my 316 speed and 243 athletics disagrees. If I didn't have sigils, I'd have... uh... 10 less speed. That's almost a 2% reduction in land movement speed.

Okay, not the best example, but it matters more for feather effects.

Also, you should definitely make more saves because random crashes and save corruption happen sometimes. If you're mostly relying on auto-saves and quick-saves, you could find yourself set back by potentially dozens of hours or worse.

[76561198034396398]

i hard save every 30 minutes,especially since the game doesn't autosave like Skyrim,plus i have to reset the ABomb counter

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by Evil Doctor Porkchop:

plus i have to reset the ABomb counter

manually, or with wrye bash?

fwiw, the latest version of enginebugfixes autoresets the a-bomb flag when you approach 400(?) hours, mostly negating the need for doing it manually unless you don't use OBSE

[76561198034396398]

I use Wyre Bash,reweigh potions,update NPC lvls etc, the ABomb bug really only starts with Oblivion Gates, i'm using OBSE but running 120 plugins plus 20G of textures once it hits 3 to 4 % i can tell it needs resetting,not sure of the enginebugfixes your referring to

[cyäegha]

enginebugfixes[www.nexusmods.com] has some pretty neat fixes for various problems with the engine, just like the name implies

i think the a-bomb fix was just added for convenience

[Arrancar]

Chill bro you do not really need them to beat the game, which you obviously did. If you want them that badly, just use console commands or start a new playthrough.

[The Autizzler]

Originally posted by Arrancar:

Chill bro you do not really need them to beat the game, which you obviously did. If you want them that badly, just use console commands or start a new playthrough.

True. The sigil stones I have are pretty decent for my character. I also went to UESP to look at the other kinds I could've gotten, and I'm satisfied with what I got. Lesson learned though, don't bring Martin to the imperial city until I have what I want from the gates.

[ralphtobybob]

Once you get to a high enough level, the sigil stones are useless. In one game I had a container full of them, and the weapons and armor I'd found in the Ayleid ruins and from shrine quests were better than what I could have enchanted from the stones. Even better than the Fighter's guild stuff. I think I was able to enchant some better stuff too.

You can try a previous autosave by renaming autosave.ess to autosave.xxx Then rename autosave.bak to autosave.ess Slight chance you might have an autosave from before you finished. The .bak file is the save before the current one. If you didn't quicksave during the Imperial City fight, you might be able to recover a game from before you entered Imperial City.

[󰀉tempeh󰀉]

That's not really true. For many effects, sigil stones continue to surpass grand souls and unique items. Just not all of them. You won't need custom +12 speed greaves, for instance.

[ralphtobybob]

Originally posted by sentientcloudwastaken:

That's not really true. For many effects, sigil stones continue to surpass grand souls and unique items. Just not all of them. You won't need custom +12 speed greaves, for instance.

Loaded an old level 29 game: Sigil stones: 2 shock damage 25/nighteye - Disentegrate weapon 50/fortify blunt 12 - Disentegrate weapon 50/blade 12 - Absorb Agility/fortify agil. 12 -Absorb magicka/fortify magicka 50 - Absorb intelligence/fortify intel.- Silence 15 sec/chameleon 30%
Damage health 30/fortify health 30 - Dispel 120/spell absorbition 15pts

Weapons and armor on character:
Goldbrand 22 fire damage - Greater staff of fire 80pts - Mage's staff of shock 60pts - Daedric fire bow 25 fire damage - Skull of Corruption - Umbra 31 damage/soul trap - Amulet of Axes reflect damage 33/fortify blunt 25 - Mundane ring reflect 35/resist magicka 50% - Ring of Namira reflect damage 12%/reflect spell 10% - Also Ring of Shadows,Vipereye,Vitality used as needed.

My frost damage weapon is in container: Frosty the Longsword 25 frost damage.

It is possible I used a fire damage stone for the bow, but I don't remember. I'm not saying they're all useless, just not all usable if you get them after you've done a lot of exploring.

Disentegrate weapon can be useful, but not always. I'd rather use elemental damage from the git go.