Oblivion :: 8 Tips & Tricks for Efficient Leveling (Elder Scrolls 4)

Game is rated M for ages 17+
This video is non intended for anyone under 13.
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Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion :: Efficient Leveling Tips & Tricks

This follows my video laying out different leveling methods with some quick tips to make leveling in Oblivion just a little bit easier!

1- Plan In Out On Paper
I made sure to add scans of the docs I used for my character.
2- Use TES Oblivion Efficient Leveling App (Android)
3- Level Up Endurance First. If you can level END (with the full +5 bonus) l every level until it's maxed
4- Plan Enough Time to Level Everything
5- Finish Minor Skills Before Major Skills
6- Save A Lot!!! Especially before leveling you Major Skill for the 10th time!
7- Save Your Septims!
.b- Buy a House First! The house outside the Imperial City is the lowest price and has a central location which makes it convenient.
8- Use Iron Equipment 

#ElderScrollsOblivion #OblivionEfficientLeveling

[vitorfray]

For those who want to make a max level character, be aware that you can get base attributes past 100 by using felldew (from shimmering isles DLC) and by using the Oghma Infinium.

[michaelmartin]

There are some things you can do that lets you avoid buying a home altogether.

The easiest is just to go to Weynon Priory as quickly as you can, and talk to Brother Jauffre. In the dialog ask him for assistance and he will unlock a chest. At that time you can use it for free safe storage. Anything you put inside will never reset and will always be there when you need it.

The next is if you have the Knights of the Nine DLC. If you choose to do that at level 1, it is actually amazingly easy as even the final boss can be defeated with little effort. But early on in it you unlock the Priory of the Nine, and after you secure it and the first of the new members arrive, a chest and bedroom appears upstairs. That also acts as a player home, and the chest is safe and will never reset. But the members can consume alchemy ingredients and potions so keep those elsewhere.

There are also some you can get for free for completing quests. If you do the Aleswell quest, you get a free room upstairs in the Inn, and the dresser in the room is safe storage. However, the NPCs can remove stolen items from there and occasionally consume food and beverages. So store alchemy supplies and stolen goods elsewhere.
The Abandoned Shack in the Waterfront is also safe storage with seven sacks if you want to segregate your items.
If you try to board the pirate ship in the Imperial City Waterfront, they will attack. Once they are all dead the ship works as a home with safe storage.
Once you complete the quest "Spies", Jearl's home in Bruma essentially becomes yours. However, only the chest in the main building is safe storage.

And there are many other makeshift homes you can get in the game, but those are the only ones I really use. But my main one is now the Priory of the Nine, as I can get it easily in the early game. I simply keep everything in there but potions and alchemy tools and ingredients, which I keep in Jearl's home in Bruma.

[KoobztheShawk]

I had NO IDEA that minor skills after getting 10 major skillups are applied to the following level; that explains so much!

[marilynwasserman]

Mostl skills increase on "tries" - hitting a skeleton with a rusty dagger gives you the same boost to Blade as striking an a boss with Umbra. Same for magic skills. Casting the lowest level spell you have will give the same raise as one that takes all your magicka.. Acrobatic is different - the skill boost depends on how far you *fall* not how high or far you jump. Sneak is raised by sneaking undetected near an npc. If you "sneak" on automove into a corner that'll work fine. Swimming is said to raise Athletics faster than running - either way it's really slow.

[Nomorehats]

I can say with experience that "butterknifing" through the game as described is valid strategy.

I tend to use the weak and weightless "Blade of Woe." I don't repair it either. This ensures the weapon does as little damage as possible for more swings and exp

[bagasdwiseptyan]

I have a general tip. Avoid having major skill in particular Attribute that you can't control. For example, in Speed attribute, avoid having Athletic as your major skill, choose Light Armour instead. In Strength attribute, choose a major skill that comes up with the weapon you rarely use (choose Blunt or Hand to Hand if you mainly use sword in your playthrough). It sounds stupid, but it won't mess up your leveling plan. Well, unless you want to go full role playing, then choose whatever major skills you like.

[CMDR-Cody]

You are correct about damage based skills. Back when I was contributing to UESP wiki we (as in the community) found that you are granted x exp per hit so it is always more beneficial to use a fast weapon that has low damage. The amount of exp per hit does not change either.

[profile]

There isn't much on builds in youtube in general. I'd love to see some tips on all the races and classes. Right now I'm trying to get started on a Redguard warrior that's focused on speed and health using a blade, that also is able to cast destruction spells efficiently and I'm kind of stuck atm... I guess I'll just play along and see what comes out of it :D. but yeah build tutorials would def. be super interesting and useful!

[johnnyboy]

Hear ye hear ye! Our lady has returned!

[tyrander]

Do not buy a home first. Do not buy a home until you are rich, or ever. Save your money (from sigil stones and varla+welkynd stones) for trainer lessons and arrows (if applicable). You can live in the Abandoned shack in the Waterfront. All containers except the two barrels are safe. You can also store your things in the open top grain sacs in the Market District for easy sale later and sleep on a homeless pallet in the Arena district or fast travel to the pallet at Dosnot cave. White Stallion lodge is the best house and it is free from a quest. Fast travel to the front door. Why not live in Weynon Priory?

Full-on efficient leveling is something for OCD perfect stat freaks to worry about.
Simple tips to dominate the game:
1) Start with as much Endurance as you can (50-65) and add more early (you can survive the whole game sword fighting with 65) -- have all three endurance skills as minors to make it easy--especially Armorer and Heavy armor. This is better than starting a feeble character and then grinding Endurance for 12-14 levels trying to catch up on health.
2) Add at least five points to your primary major + specialty fighting skill each level to say even with leveling enemy power (simple math to reach Master skill vs Greater soul creatures after starting with Apprentice skill vs Petty soul creatures). The fighting opportunity in the main quest naturally leads you there if you follow that path from the start with the weapons and spells provided at the start of the game even with the horrible premade classes. If you add more points per level by doing more fighting you will dominate more. If you do not do the main quest you need to do a lot of dungeon fighting.
3) No record keeping --Save the game the instant the sleep icon appears so you can see your starting numbers later. Buy five minor skill trainer lessons after the sleep icon appears so they go towards the next level attribute bonuses. Build your five or ten minor skill points for attributes at the start of each level then go off without a worry to build your major skill + attribute.
4) Always have Athletics and Light Armor as minor skills so they do not conflict with your major fighting skill. High endurance will protect you. Save the armor wearing for building attribute points later.

[jimbomacroth]

Yes! Please do the build series you mentioned. Your tips are great, I never new about the app, thanks!
My top tip for leveling Athletics is go get Fin Gleam so you can breath underwater. Then jump in the river in Bravil and swim against the wooden gate. Now just rubber-band your controller or keyboard

[jimbomacroth]

Also, there are two escort quests which become problematic at high levels. 'The Killing Field' and 'The Wayward Knight'. I like to get these done early as they involve keeping very Squishy NPCs alive. This is a real pain if ememies are max level. Hand them in after power leveling for the unique rewards! (Chillrend and Thornblade or Staff of Indarys)

[tristanrosario]

I'm new to oblivion and looking to understand how to do builds and roleplay, the channel looks promising, hope you can continue and help noobs out.

[bksphantom]

Just planned for hours on excel and decided to make a character with all attributes 100 with a max level of 40.
To achieve this, you need the thief birthsign (+10 luck, +20 other attributes)
A custom class with +5 luck, +5endurance (endurance and luck must be prioritized at any costs)
With the custom class and the thief birthsign, you start with a luck of 65, it is quite big since this attribute can only get one level of a time!
It is also a little less brain eating to level up 5/5/1 instead of 5/5/5 because you just have to level up one minor attribute +10 and one major attribute +10

It is planned in such a way that at level 36, you have nearly all atributes including luck to 100 beside : Agility80, Speed85, Personality80
You could stop at level 36, your character will be insanely powerful already!
Or push the extra mile to 40 and achieve perfection at the lowest level possible!

[tdevkw]

You should stream Oblivion (and other TES/Bethesda games maybe?), there's few people on Twitch doing it and it's such a great game

[michaelmartin]

One thing I often do to cheese early on is go to the Arena at level 1. The first enemies are not all that tough, and actually rather easily defeated. That is where I level my armor fast, as they insist you wear armor they give you. The best fast method is to pick say heavy armor, and wear a light armor helm (or the reverse). Then simply stand in the arena and let them smack away at you. At that early, you can heal faster than they can damage you, so I just let them go at it until their weapon breaks. At that point I normally kill them, then start a new match. I am normally at level 25 in both heavy and light armor in rather short order that way. And as the armor they give you takes the brunt of the damage, it does little to no damage on your own. And the dresser next to the guy to start your match with has 5 sets of heavy and light, you can swap them out for whichever you want to level the most.

[imhatchmantoo]

If you're talking about Oblivion- im subscribed and liking vids. I didn't play Oblivion until 2021. Lets say i had a career back when this game came out. So no i get to finally experience these games. Anyways, happy to be here. Your voice is calming. Peace

[TheScienceguy]

Thanks for this video. I noticed that you're still uploading videos about Oblivion which is really cool. I subbed!

[kierancrumlish]

I’ve loved this game since I was a kid, first time playing like this and I’m actually enjoying it

[ramseydoon]

I'd really love to see build guides and some 'planning a new character' kind of videos👍🤞🙏