The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Originally Posted by Kilroy

Okay, so I've begun making weapons and stuff on my own. I want to make a set of armour which makes me invisible. However, I can't find invisibility spells. Okay, not true, as Ramius Polus (Dude from Arcade U) has a giant one, but I can't use it, because I don't have that much magicka.
Where do I find an invisibility spell I can wield and use on me armour?

Really, you don't want invisibility. And in fact you can't use invisibility on armor. You can, however, use chameleon on armor. If you have enough items to add to 100% Chameleon, then you are completely invisible. I have done this and it worked great!!!

The easiest way I found to do this is by going to and fighting through four oblivion gates, and making sure you get the 30% Chameleon sigil stone (assuming you are high level and getting Transcendant Sigil Stones). You can do this by saving before you grab the stone, and reloading that save as many times as needed to randomly get the Chameleon stone.

Worked great for me!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I don't know about any of you guys, but I'm interested in seeing your characters, hearing about what you've done in Oblivion, what your favorite stuff is (place, character type, class, armors, clothing, horses, guilds, etc.), any mods you've installed and would recommend, alchemy combinations, enchanments that you've made, etc,

So far this thread hardly seems to be about sharing your experience with each other and to me, that seems like the best part about talking about this game. Debating over leveling and blah blah blah is just pointless. Let's try to maximize the $49+ that we spent on this game and have a good time telling our Oblivion stories...

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Below is Aleyia. Her custom class is going to be Death Dealer (like Selene baby!!). She focuses on blade, conjuration and destruction magic. I'd love to hear some feedback about how she looks. I'm really happy with how she has turned out, but I might tweak her face/stats some more before I start with her.




I also have a lvl 30 custom-class Elf Ranger named Dayvon (marksman, sneak, alchemy). I didn't tweek his face quite as much. I made him to roughly look like me, and that's it. I have Arborwatch in Chorrol pretty pimped out as you can see in the photo. Thanks to mod's for the custom paintings and the pets.



There's nowhere I can't reach.

Thought this might be of interest to ATI card owners out there that would like to improve the immersion of Oblivion. Basically by installing Catalyst 6.5 drivers, a more advanced anti-aliasing is possible called Adaptive AA. For the untechy guy, it will smooth jaggies to things like the grass and tree leaves etc. Also might help some of the armors such as chain and mithril look less jagged or pixely. You enable the option in the Catalyst Control Center, and then just use Oblivion's AA settings to control amount of AA.

Here is a quick Oblivion comparison between 2xAAA Quality and 2xAA. My card is a X800XT-PE at stock speeds running a Westy 32" LCD @ 1360x768 on a 3.0GHz P4 w/ 2GB RAM.

The first image in town fps was about 42fps for 2xAAA and 48fps for 2xAA. You can see the jaggies plainy if you zoom in the picture, and see the softness on the other side.


This image is outdoors with grass set at about 50%. Framerate was about 27fps 2xAA and 16-18fps for 2xAAA.


The good news is, with 2xAAA set to performance (instead of quality), the fps was about 25-26 with better than 2xAA quality .

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Been getting back into Oblivion after a hiatus of about 2-3months. Thought I'd share what I'm upto, as well as hopefully hearing what others are doing.

I spent alot of time working on the face of a Dark Elf Mage. You know, she has to look just right ...


So I've been trying gameplay a bit different with this character than with my first character, and it has been an amazingly better game experience. Basically what has made all the difference is I have chosen to not fast travel or "wait" command. I read of a couple people trying this out and they said it was awesome, so I figured I'd give that a go. It DOES make alot of difference. You actually feel like you are exploring, that there is challenge. Like you have a living, real character whereas before, it was all about accomplishing quests. It also makes the game more story like in that, you find a quest in Cheydinhal that needs you to go to Anvil. Instead of hitting the map and clicking, you have to plan accordingly to take a trip to Anvil. So much more realistic. It makes you plan your characters life instead of instant quest completing. I'm currently getting all the Recommendations, and it actually feels like a challenge because I actually have to get to these places.

I've also been enjoying some new mods... specifically the Natural Environments Mod. Makes weather much better. Getting some extra music tracks also helps keep the game fresher.

I've also tried to have a bit more fun with my character like doing some downtime things that a person would enjoy doing... like swimming. I found recently though, that something fun and kind of challenging to do is cliff diving. I'm from Minnesota where everyone seems to go cliffdiving up north, so it seems like a cool thing to do. It's also fun and challenging in that if you don't jump just right, it can kill you on the spot. You know, you gotta hit the deep water. Check it out.

QuickTime - CliffDiving w/ Aleyia

How ya doing, buddy?

It's true, the dark brotherhood is probably the most "fun" guild.

BTW, I had the same problem with Kvatch my first time through. I had a sneaky archer, and those daedric dudes were waaaay to tough. The biggest secret is getting yourself into alchemy so you can poison your shots as well as get your sneak attack bonus. Also, work on getting your sneak level up. Once you become a expert in sneak, your ability to stay hidden seems to increase 10x.

I was speaking idiomatically.