Game Way Too Hard

[Misato Wifeguy]

I am a level 14 mage and I cannot beat the enemies in the first Oblivion Gate. Is this to do with level scaling? They take a ton of damage and kill me in about 4 hits.

[Wai]

From the information given, I would surmise that you have levelled far too quickly and with too few combat skills (Strength and Endurance). The easy solution here is to lower the difficulty using the difficulty slider in options.

(However, if you decide you would prefer to start over, Endurance is the important attribute to consider. Endurance also improves health. It is increased by Armourer, Block and Heavy Armour. It is the only attribute I seek to increase by +5 every time I level until it is maxed. As I do not use armour I make sure to use block frequently and that I repair every piece of armour or weapon I possibly can even if I do not intend to loot these items. If you are happy to use Heavy armour this will quickly increase your Endurance.)

[WhateverWorks]

Do you have armor or just clothing on? What race did you pick? What birthsign? The enemies in and around gates tend to use magic a lot, which is really bad if you're High Elf or Apprentice or both.

That or you have leveled too fast and haven't bothered to get gear that's on your level.

[ximslammin]

Git Gud

[Misato Wifeguy]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

Do you have armor or just clothing on? What race did you pick? What birthsign? The enemies in and around gates tend to use magic a lot, which is really bad if you're High Elf or Apprentice or both.

That or you have leveled too fast and haven't bothered to get gear that's on your level.

I'm Breton, Mage sign. I have no armor.

[WhateverWorks]

Originally posted by Misato Wifeguy:

I'm Breton, Mage sign. I have no armor.

Then you need to either get armor, or learn some solid shield spells and remember to use them.

[beatles42o]

well, you are playing a mage in oblivion, thats your first problem XDDD

[WhateverWorks]

Originally posted by beatles42o:

well, you are playing a mage in oblivion, thats your first problem XDDD

mage is easily the most broken, but not if done wrong.

[psychotron666]

At level 14 you're almost at the hardest point of the game. I'd put the difficulty down at this point because you leveled too quickly and don't have the gear and combat skills to deal with the current challenges.

[Wai]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

Originally posted by beatles42o:

well, you are playing a mage in oblivion, thats your first problem XDDD

mage is easily the most broken, but not if done wrong.

Broken only if you are new to playing as a mage, which as a new player you obviously are. Great fun if you do it right. It is very easy to enchant your clothing with "Shield" effects using the altar in Frostcrag Spire quite early on - but, you will need to upgrade it as your abilities improve. One benefit, of enchanting clothing, early game, is clothing never needs repairing at a time when your low armourer ability makes it impossible to repair enchanted armour and weapons yourself.

It is not strictly playing as a mage, but, for me, making sure you have high endurance remains vital (every point of extra health counts) and I play as a sort of battle mage poor relation and deliberately explore caves for the purpose of combat fighting with shield and mace to increase my endurance (and strength) until I have maxed my endurance.

Chameleon and invisibility spells and enchantments are also your friends when playing as a mage. But, and this is a personal opinion, you should not overuse these as they can completely "break" the game if used as clothing enchantments all the time (@100% they become an exploit which drains all challenge from the game).

[WhateverWorks]

Originally posted by Wai:

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

mage is easily the most broken, but not if done wrong.

Broken only if you are new to playing as a mage, which as a new player you obviously are.

My dude, I've owned it on every platform, have played since launch, and continue to play regularly to this day. Very far from a "new player". Magic is busted. You can render every other skill meaningless via magic.

[iblegend247]

I scaled the difficulty down to 40 on my first Oblivion gate. There is no shame in doing so. You can always bring it back up later if things get easier on you.

[Wai]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

Originally posted by Wai:

Broken only if you are new to playing as a mage, which as a new player you obviously are.

My dude, I've owned it on every platform, have played since launch, and continue to play regularly to this day. Very far from a "new player". Magic is busted. You can render every other skill meaningless via magic.

Miss read me once again! I know you have played this for years. But, the OP has not, or, so he/she quite plainly said. However, I do see, how, on this occasion, my remark might have been ambiguous. I was expanding on your statement - "mage is easily the most broken, but not if done wrong." - that was all.

[Prussia]

If your difficulty setting is too high, the enemies will become bullet sponges. So its best to keep it down a bit.

[*Logan*]

There is 0 reason to fight anything in an Oblivion gate.

Run past everything and get the sigil stone.
The End.

[Lucidess]

Originally posted by *Logan*:

There is 0 reason to fight anything in an Oblivion gate.

Run past everything and get the sigil stone.
The End.

I just did that earlier lol. currently have a fresh level 1, just ran through, currently doing the mythic dawn stuff. naked and runnin'

Man I realized, this game is like, kind of bad. sorry, but i shouldn't be able to just run past everything just because i'm level 1. it's all imps, gobs, and basic enemies that do nothing. While this game is doable, there's literally no sense of progression. If enemies are strong, you are strong, if enemies are weak, you are weak. it's a linear ring.

Might go back to skyrim or morrowind haha..