Oblivion Guide - 25 Tips for Total Beginners [Elder Scrolls Guide]

In this video I am sharing my top beginner tips for new players in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This Oblivion new player guide covers the basic considerations of character creation, such as Class, Attributes and Skills, as well as a bunch of essential things to do early on in Oblivion, such as joining the various guilds and making some easy gold to get you started. There are also a bunch of Oblivion tips that highlight some of the things that you can simply miss while playing because the game doesn't necessarily point it out to you. Anyway, hopefully this helps you to get started in the Elder Scrolls IV and helps you to avoid making some of the mistakes that I did!

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[eshingler]

Top tip is to not bring the amulet of kings to the blade master at the beginning and always avoid the town destroyed by the great gate kvatch. This means no oblivion gates will open and you can play all the side quests to gains some needed items before taking on the main quest with a overpowered character.

[BennysGamingAttic]

Also NEVER SELL REPAIR HAMMERS in Oblivion. Use them to repair all your loot. Get your skill up to the point where you can repair magic items. You'll thank me

[someonerandom]

Used to watch my brothers play this game when I was younger but I couldn’t play it much myself because the rats scared me 😂. I’m now older and enjoy Skyrim. My oldest brother told me I’d probably like Oblivion as well so I’m here.

[capysarah]

6:35 I would advise against joining the Dark Brotherhood early. The armor and several unique quest rewards are leveled, and you don't get the strongest versions until level 30.

[Auftsragchiller]

If you plan on using magic I highly reccomend going to all of the cities' chapels and acquiring the various Restore Attribute spells that are sold by the priests and random worshippers that are present such as the Restore Intelligence, Restore Strength, and Restore Agility spells.

It's nice to not have to worry about keeping all sorts of different Restore potions in your inventory. Sometimes being debuffed and having no potions/spells can really screw you over plus, IIRC, even sleeping to level up won't remove them.

[erik]

Sad to say but I am one of the people who are just experiencing this game im now watching this video after I picked a monk class and am now pretty far in the game and I gotta say I love it. Great vid man

[agentmysterian]

Should have probably watched the Video. I started a few weeks ago, and now have my character (level 2) on the shivering isles while having absolutely done almost nothing in the actual game xD I mean I could leave the Isles and continue later but... I don´t really wanna kill the momentum I build haha

[charles]

‘Easy money-making techniques’

Dorian: ‘*chuckles* I’m in danger’

[ReignOfCurtis]

You're actually partially wrong about the bonus points on leveling. Avoiding sleeping doesn't help. By the time that you get your 10th major skill increase the game has already calculated your bonus points. If you want to delay leveling up to ensure higher bonuses, you must stop leveling up major skills BEFORE you fill up the level up bar. Sleeping has no effect on this.

[diddlydork]

To those who didn't get your attributes to 100, kill lots of guards and get sent to prison. Serve your time and it will lower your skills allowing you to level your attributes more.

[spicanagamer]

Fantastic tips! Hope people keep on playing Oblivion. One of the best games ever made.

[aiyori]

This is a nice video man and a quality content for beginers. I think it deserves more views. Good luck!

[daddyjoe]

To add to the money making with alchemy, you can make a lot of potions and sell them to various alchemy vendors and then from the same vendors buy their indegriends to make more potions. My top spot is Skingrad, not only are there two Alchemy vendors (one in the Inn in the basement, and one in shop called "All things Alchemical") but there are also large wine fields outside the gates from which you can freely take grapes and make huge amounts of potions from as well. (I believe there is also a small field of tomatoes somewhere next to the city walls)



Another personally good tip is also doing the Umbacano's quest for fetching the statues, not only will you get 500 gold for each statue, you will also get 5500 gold for completing the whole set of 10 statues, provided you take the time to find them all.



Another good tip is killing vampires. There is a small faction you can join after finishing it's small quest called "Order of The Virtuous Blood", and one of the NPCs will buy any and all Vampire Dusts from you at 250 gold.

[NerdyGamerGal]

Awesome guide! Just note that the 30 skills points necessary to receive the maximum +5 in 3 attributes will be divided by 20 minor skill ups (10 for each of 2 attributes) and 10 major skill ups for the 3rd attribute. You can mix and match but that gets complicating.
30 major skill ups will actually level you 3 times with only up to +5 in one category (or less but spread out) 3 times.
Keep in mind your 10th major skill up must happen after the 20 minors. That 10th major will trigger the level up and those remaining minor points will go to the following level up and mess up your numbers.

[dankmusicswag]

As a morrowind upon release, to skyrim upon release, to oblivion now (for some reason) player; this is very helpful not having to look at old ass 144p vids to get a little knowledge before starting.

[CaptainKronk]

If you go with the orc race grab warrior star sign and tag strength and endurance your character will be a beast right off the bat

[GAZZR]

Love the tips! Literally started this game for the first time today, yes I know I’m a bit behind. Having played the other Bethesda games I feel dumb for not starting earlier.

[bartsic]

After leaving the sewers:

1. Complete the next main quest (deliver the amulet to Jauffre at Weynon Priory) Talk to Prior Maborle on the spot and select the "Assistance" option to get a free horse.
2. Go on horseback to "Vidasel" where NPC Umbra is waiting for you. Leave the horse near the entrance. Come in, attack the NPC and direct it back to the horse.
3. Umbra will follow you until Imperial City. Go inside the city and let the guards do the rest.
4. You will receive Umbra's armor, her sword and shield. You can additionally sell the belongings of fallen guards. There will be a lot of them.

[crusaderofthelowlands]

Some tips I have for beginners:

1. Don't use a tutorial/guide. Play the game however you want to. Do not get too focused on min-maxing, gear, efficiency etc.
You only get to experience it for the first time once.
Figure things out yourself and be amazed at what this 16 year old game has to offer.
Explore, Explore, Explore!

2. If you're into min-maxing, pick skills you won't necessarily use as your major skills.
For example: If you want to make a warrior, who wears heavy armour, a sword and a shield, you'd want to focus on speed, strength and endurance.
So pick magic skills as your major skills and maybe add acrobatics to them as well.
Then play as you prefer, but make sure you know how many skills you've levelled to get the maximum amount of points.
Raise both your blunt and blade skills from 20 to 25. That's strength done.
Do this while wearing heavy armour, a shield for blocking and repair your armour yourself.
(Stay away from enchanted armour/weapons until you reach 50 armorer, because you can't repair it yourself)
Once those 3 skills have reached a combined 10 levels, find a corner and jump in it until a message pops up saying you've levelled up.
Sleep and there you have it. +5 to strength, +5 to speed and +5 to endurance.

3. To first thing you'd want to do is to join the mages guild, the fighters guild and the thieves guild.
The thieves guild gives you acces to a fence, which is super handy to gain some early money.
The mages guild gives you acces to more spells and vendors.
(you can loot all the alchemy supplies in a mage guild and sell it back to them)
The fighters guild gives you some low level quests alongside some decent low level armour, as well as some fairly good weapons like a silver short-sword and a fine steel longsword. (which you can simply grab in the guild master's room in Chorrol)

4. Stay away from the Dark Brotherhood and Deadric Shrines until you're a higher level. A lot of rewards are level based in Oblivion and while you do not need the max that out, it is a waste to do some of the quests at level 2 rather than level 10.

5. Like stated in the video, a good start to any character is to join the Arena. It's fairly decent money and a good way to level your skills.
But don't feel the need to grind through it right away. Some fights (like the orc with the glass warhammer, the three argonian prisoners and the Gray Prince if you haven't done his quest) are extremely tough and will cost you more than what you'll be able to earn from them.
Be sure to save before going into the bloodworks. If a fight is too difficult, just come back at a later time. You can only tell the Blademaster you're "Ready for a Match" between 9am and 9pm, but if you've done that you can start the fight whenever you want.

6. Talk to EVERYONE. I played the game when it came out and I still come across NPC's that I've never seen before who hand me a quest that I've never done before. Most of these are a bit generic, but it's still cool to see.

7. As @eshingler29 stated, stay away from the main quest for a while. You can bring the amulet to Jauffre (mainly because he has some supplies which are pretty good early on) but do not go to Kvatch. It's kind of like how not getting the Dragonstone for Farengar in Skyrim will delay Dragons spawning all the time, but this time it's Oblivion Gates instead of dragons.

8. Some creature in Oblivion are immune to normal weapons and can't only be hurt by magic, enchanted weapons, silver weapons and Daedric weapons.
Well, using enchanted weapons can be costly before your armorer is 50 since you can't repair them yourself and Daedric weapons won't appear until you reach level 20. So unless you're a mage, make sure you always have a silver weapon on hand. A dagger would suffice.
(For archers: you need silver arrows, the bow doesn't matter. A silver bow shooting glass arrows won't work, but an iron bow shooting silver arrows will.)

[ryu]

One addendum I would like to add to this video is in regards to a player home, assuming you don’t have the DLC’s (they’re cheap, I honestly suggest you get them) I would recommend saving the money you have and *not* buying the house in the Imperial City. Because in Anvil, the town most south west on the map, has a home you can buy for 5000 gold, and along with it comes one the better side quests… and in an Elder Scrolls game that’s regarded as having the best side quests, that’s a plus plus!


TL;DR: Don’t buy the house in the Waterfront, go the Count’s Arms in Anvil and buy the house from Velwyn Benirus!

> It’s 5000 gold, and it’s the best house for the money!