Oblivion Beginner's Tips

Hello, I am trying to make a oblivion tips page, for people who have only just started the game, so I would be glad if any of you could post your tips and secrets below, I will test them to see if they are true/ if they work, and then I will update the guide with your tip and give you credit. Thanks.
Note: I don't check this page very often so it may take a while to update tips

Must-Know Tips

1.) You drop items by shift-clicking said item.

2.) This is a problem many are aware of, you CANNOT sprint in oblivion.

3.) Skill progression is different from Skyrim, when your skill reaches a certain level (e.g marksman) it gives you a "perk" automatically

4.) You can set hotkeys by going in your inventory and seleting an item or spell while holding a number key, this will bind the item or spell to that number.

5.) To actually "win" the speechcraft minigame all you need to do is hover over one of the four choices and look at the NPC's face, if he looks angry while you're hovering over it it will decrease his opinion of you if you select it, if he looks happy with the option you're hovering over it select it to increase his opinion of you.

Combat Tips

1.) Ghosts can only take damage from magic, enchanted weapons, and a few certain weapons such as silver weapons and daedric weapons.

2.) Keep your weapons and armour in good condition, the lower the condition is, the less damage it deals/stops. You can pay armourers and shop vendors to repair gear for you or you can use a repair hammer and repair items manually. The effectiveness of using a repair hammer is judged by the level of the armourer skill (enchanted items can only be repaired with an armourer skill of 50).

General Tips

1.) If you ask a NPC something, and the question is still in white when they are finished talking, they are lying to you. They either don't trust you enough, or you have not met the requirements.

2.) Beggars are very helpful in the game if you want to find out information.

3.) Playing the game on the hardest difficulty is not recommended because enemies have 6x health and 6x damage, while you're damage is divided by 6. Remember, you can lower the difficulty in the options.

4.) If you keep dying while trying to close a oblivion gate, you can simply just run past all the enemies and take the sigil stone, you might miss out on loot, but it saves alot of time.

5.) Most shops open at 8 AM, and close at around 10 PM. Inns are always open.

6.) Be careful who you kill, especially in the shivering isles, they could be important to a quest.

7.) If you jump everywhere you go, your acrobatics skill will increase quickly (but this uses up a lot of stamina), the same goes for sneaking but requires no stamina.

8.)To get your sneak skill up easily, go to someones house who is sleeping, go into sneak mode, and run continuously into a wall outside their room.

9.) Have a storage space somewhere you visit often to drop off all your items, i recommend the imperial waterfront.

10.) You may have heard of chameleon enchants. These do not make you completely invisible, but make you less likely to be seen, and unlike invisibility, it does not wear off when you interact with something. If you reach 100% chameleon, you stay invisible and can do amazing things like steal without having it wear off. If you enchant each piece of gear (boots, greaves, chestplate, gloves, and helmet) with 20 percent chameleon to equal 100% nothing can see or detect you, and you can't be hit by opponents.

11.) Remember that as a member of the thieves guild you can pay off any bounties or fines for half the price without losing any stolen goods by talking to Armand Christophe in the Imperial Waterfront or S'krivva in Bravil.

12.) Much like in Skyrim, altars will usually cure most diseases

13.) NPCs will like you less if you talk to them with your weapon drawn

14.) Save right before you exit the sewers at the beginning of the game and don't save over that file. This way, if you want to make a new character, you can do it quickly instead of going through the starter dungeon again.

Item Tips

1.) Umbra, located just East of the Clavicus Vile Shrine is a dungeon named "Vindasel" go there and slay "Umbra" to obtain her ebony armor, and sword, aslo named "Umbra", which has high damage and soul trap for 120 seconds on strike. The sword is also linked to the "Clavicus Vile's Shrine" quest but the quest is not a requirement for obtaining the sword.

2.) Azura's Star, you can retrieve this item from Azura's shrine by completing the quest Azura assigns to you when placing an offering of glowdust on her shrine at 6 AM or so, to obtain glowdust to start this quest you must slay the "wisp o' willo" with a silver sword, then beat the quest after talking to Azura, and she will reward you with "Azura's Star", infinite use soul gem with high capacity.

DLC Tips

1.) Don't do Knights of the Nine if your character is in or is thinking of joining the Dark Brotherhood, makes it harder to start and makes it impossible to use the relics.

2.) Shivering Isles gives you the ability to make armour and weapons. Madness Ore for heavy armour, Amber for light and you can find "Matrices" (Singular: Matrix) that can be used to make already enchanted gear (has to be made at the city in Shivering Isles by the blacksmiths).

Credits

General Tip 3 and Combat Tip 2- anime
General Tip 14 - Stormegeddon017
Item Tips 1 and 2 - TrOpic
DLC Tips 1 and 2 - Minegineer

[Hashashin Fida'yin]

Nice tips, on Umbra, if you never complete the quest it will stay 0 weight.

[no <3]

i remembered another good way to grind some offensive/defensive skills, in Leyawiin there's a house owned by Rosentia Gallenus, shes has a magical staff that summons 4 everscamps, these scamps continuously spawn near her no matter what, making this one of my favorite spots the grind any combat skill.
The difficulty slider is my best friend here, for defense skills i aggro 2-4 of them and sit in a corner while on the easiest setting, you will only receive 1/6th of the dmg you are suppose to. so they can wail on you for awhile and not kill you, its good for farming block or light/heavy armor
For offensive skills like hand-to-hand i set the difficulty to very hard, and only aggro 1-2 scamps at a time, in the hardest setting you take 6x the dmg your suppose to, so i hid behind the pillars next to the staircase, you can hit them through the gap between the pillars and they cant get through allowing for free hits. (be careful not to stand too close as they can hit you with a charge attack)

[no <3]

one of the best ways to train sneak is to run into a wall while next to someone in sneak mode, the two places i like to do it in is,
1. in the tutorial area where you run into a live goblin, prompting the hint text, since its the tutorial the goblin never turns around / moves to find you so you can find a corner near it and auto run for like an hour and a half to get 80 sneak (or higher).
2. in the arena stands in the Imperial city, place a bet with the yellow guy and go into a stand, then sneak + auto run into a wall, its very safe but i don't like it as much as the people will move making them see you which can be annoying. plus the cheering never stops.

hope this helps!

(p.s. i will save my game when i get the upgrade text so if something happens i don't lose a ton of progress. ive had my game crash a couple of times when grinding skills so i like to be careful.)

[Birdman5454]

i would 100% as soon as possible get both daedric artifacts azuras star and the skeleton key

[ZombieSlayer500J]

This was very helpful, thank you!

[Falfferette]

Quick edit to my previous comment, while the toggle run doesn't use stamina it will slow down the regen speed if you continue to move with the toggle run on

[Falfferette]

Must know tip # 2 is incorrect you can toggle run with caps lock, so you can run everywhere or slowly walk everywhere, until you get a horse

[Gerroffmee]

If you follow item tip 1, you will never complete the Daedric quest line and will miss out on Heraeus Mora's huge levelling up boost. Ignore DLC tip 1. Complete the DB quests and THEN do the KOT9 quest. Once you finish the Pilgrims way you will be at "0" Infamy and can happily do the quests and use the items and still collect your weekly at the Cheydinhal Sanctuary.

[FitnessGram PACER テストは]

Hold the Z key to move stuff around as in bodies and items

[FitnessGram PACER テストは]

so when you want a NPC to like you more. First do the speech minigame. Second pull out your weapon or fists then do the minigame again. Now when you lower your weapon and talk to them if you check their disposition itll be even higher then just the first time.