Oblivion: How to Make a MAX Level Character

You can make a good Oblivion character, but how do you make a MAX level character.

Oblivion has complex character creation system that can make or break a character. Max level characters require a few things:

1. Pick the opposite character that fits your play style. For instance, if you want to play a mage, you pick an Orc.

2. Pick a Birth sign (Star sign) that fits your play style. If you want to play a mage, pick the Apprentice or Mage.

3. Enhance your attributes, but make sure endurance is buffed.

4. Pick opposite skills of your play style. If you play a mage, pick warrior skills.

Also, make sure you level up your skills 30 times, 10 per attribute, before you level up. The video explains this more.

(I forgot to tell you to make sure endurance is buffed in the beginning.)

[deusvult]

2019 and still play oblivion!! There's nothing that beats childhood memories

[laurancestreet]

Btw, I'm really glad all of you are still playing this

[ebowbara]

disclaimer: This guide is assuming you do not have +5 attribute mod on PC. Other than that amazing guide!

[JoJo-gbor]

Really glad you’re still playing oblivion, can’t let it die

[henryh]

This is probably the most well explained video I’ve ever watched. Explained the reasoning behind it and explained everything multiple times. Great video! Thanks for the help.

[greeneagle_]

So, just to make sure I got this right: The skills you want to use the most during your playthrough, are the ones you want to be as low as possible at the beginning, so you can level them more often, right? And that will allow you to get a higher level in the end bc you can level these skills up more often. And bc you chose skills you do not want to use on a regular basis you will have an easier time leveling them to 100 because they are already higher to begin with.

[craigmcgrath]

So basically what you're saying is... water breathing is the best skill in the game?

[rudolphstamaria]

The best and simple explanation so far. Kudos, brother. Now I can play my nord mage without anxiety

[dannyb]

I’ve always gone as a single class in oblivion and I’ve just gain an interest in restarting it. The problem was that I wanted to be a jack of all trades, and with oblivion being oblivion, I thought this was impossible. I have watched and read a lot of tutorials about this technique and none of them made sense. This one however, made me jump straight into the game to set this character up! Thank you for a great tutorial man! Keep doing what you’re doing!

[catmaksimus]

Oh my God.
The man said "The Elder Scrolls IV" part instead of just "Oblivion"

[CLuTcH_MaChiiNe]

I can get a character to level 48-49 almost every time without doing this. On my current character I picked a Nord with Warrior birth sign. My 7 major skills being
1. Acrobatics
2. Alchemy
3. Blade
4. Conjuration
5. Armourer
6. Heavy armor
7. Illusion

I can also have my character in his mid 30s from going right from the Sewers and going straight to Imperial city.

*also I play on 360 without mods and since this game has been out for 13 years now I fully embrace the “exploits” of item duplication, and the ring glitch*

[rfonseca]

thx for the vid! some really nice tips. after using ur strategy some notes: 1) for combat characters, put things like illusion, mystcsm & conjure as major (b/c those u can spam and choose when to level, destruction needs a target), 2) the game dosent tell u, but if level up a wanted minor too much bt'n sleeping levelups, then the minor skill up's contribution to attribute will be lost, 3) havent tried yet, but i heard if u go to jail u can reduce skills (and then relevel them to refill those attribute stats)? anyways keep up the good work, having a vid showing character creation in the background would really help too.

[tyrander]

I have watched this video and still don't know what you are getting at--efficient leveling? maximum # of levels? or maximizing attributes?
The theoretical maximum number of levels without help from getting arrested is is 55.5. You get this by starting out with all seven major skills at 25 and then add on the three levels made possible with the the Ogma Infinium quest skill boosts. It is difficult to make an easyish-to-play character this way so I usually make a build that will only go to level 52-53.
All you have to do is 1) look at the race you want and pick major skills that do not overlap with its skill bonuses, 2) pick a specialty that does not boost any of those major skills, 3) pick a birthsign that also does not boost any major skills, and 4) pick the Ogma Infinium choice that will boost three major skills (complete this quest once you have taken those three skills to 10 or it will be a pain to make the levels). There are info pages on the web with things like race skill tables so you don't have to do a lot of work figuring things out.
I'm not sure why you had trouble developing a character powerful enough to play at end game levels. A character can easily have everything it needs by level 19-24.

[bakouzad]

thanks for this video man ! I am someone who likes exploring every aspect of a game and although creating many characters sounds fun sometimes, I don't wanna go through the same quests multiple times, so I prefer being able to make one character and level it up in every aspect possible. So this is the exact video I was looking for, no 56 min video explaining every skill and perk and stuff in details, just a quick practical guide on how to get started, thanks again man :D i'll take it from here, have a wonderful day !

[thomasrosendahl]

There is a slight problem though, if you are roleplaying as a mage it would not make sense to choose a orc or nord since they are pure warriors. In the elder scrolls lore it is a toss up between dark elves and high elves who are the strongest wizards, and Bretons take second place, imperials third place.

[fireluigi]

I'm an idiot, I recently got oblivion after 10 years of not playing with the goal of making a character with ALL attributes and skills 100, but I didn't read up on efficient leveling until my character was like lvl 30 so when I reach max lvl all my attributes will be 100 except luck and personality will be lacking a bit (my character is a Dark Elf default Warrior class birthsign The Lady.) this sucks because luck is actually more important than you think, a character with 100 luck will gain a +20 boost to all skills except athletics and acrobatics, making them sort of OP. I think i'm going to try this Orc/Mage setup, born under the Thief so I will have a 10 luck boost off the get go and do the 5/5/1 approach

[SmokeGravity]

almost perfect video!
starting at base 65 endurance is unbeatable and if you get mara blessing straight away it counts as 70, very cool starting the game with 140 hp vs starting at 80 or 100

[tedcook]

I fequently use an Orc for a fighter mage build, and use Atronach as my birth sign. Once you complete the mages guild quest that sends you to skingrad you get an amulet that boosts magic absorption, and that gives you usually about 65% chance to absorb any magic cast at you. Nifty for recharge.
Other thought, once you are close to maxing out, GO TO PRISON. usually your atribute stats get lowered so you can gain a few levels that way "regaining' attribute points.

[Airis]

"Pick the wrong skills and play the wrong way to be optimal" Makes sense.

[luckyowl]

I am odd duck as far as playing Oblivion goes...

I just prefer using the premade classes. Granted, there's this unofficial character planner I look at to help me out, but *still*.

And now I see I can potentially get 100 *all attributes* via an Orc Monk. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!