More Hidden Quest for Treasure Details
- The last one is tricky. Its high up in the mountains at the south end of the vale, and its not near the path. Return to the door to the Serpents Trail and head southwest. Initially, you'll find the slope too steep to climb, but further west it becomes more gradual and you'll be able to make your way south to a great gray outcropping; the chest is half buried in the ground in front of the outcropping. Inside you'll find the Circlet of Omnipotence, one bad ass ring.
- —Guest Wilhelm (cashmoney)
Hidden Quest for Treasure
- There is a little side quest that doesn't show up in your quest log but leads to a pretty awesome ring. From the tower that contains the entrance to the Ruined Pale Pass Fort, descend the path to the frozen lake. Rather than following the path as it continues to the south, turn north. Climb over the rocks, and walk around the debris of the fortress; up against the rocks, next to a big mushroom, you'll find a barrel containing a crumpled note and a rusty key. Do you see the second tower west of the one we've just visited, somewhat higher on the mountainside? Climb up and enter it. Now, see the bush below and ahead of you? The chest is under it. It contains and old key. The next container is near the path. From the statues, follow the path up the hill to the south east. Where the path turns straight south, you'll see, off to your left, a curving section of stone wall and some large gray rocks. The chest containing a forgotten key is behind the rocks. (continued...)
- —Guest Wilhelm (cashmoney)
Trouble Getting Through Doors? Nope!
- If you experience the Iron Door Problem, where you can't walk through doors in Alyeid Ruins because "this door is opened remotely" and the pushblocks / pressureplates / levers don't work or you can't find them because they aren't there... go to the console and type TCL, which enables No-Collision aka NOCLIP mode, so fly through the doors. (see Oblivion PC codes for reference) Type it again in console to disable it. If you need an NPC to follow you, they cannot travel through walls, however, if you have their NPC item code (which can be found here at the greatest oblivion site of all time =) then you will be fine). Just simply walk through the door, and spawn that NPC on the other side with you and all will be well.
- —Guest Wilhelm (cashmoney)
Bound those Boots for Acrobatics
- After you receive the Boots of Springheel Jack from one of the later Theives Guild missions. Wear the shoes and use a spell to bound your boots. You will permanantly gain 50 points for your Acrobatics skill.
- —Guest Nawaf A.
Get in Close and Use a Fast Blade
- As an Assassin there are some obvious tactics, use poision, get good at Alchemy, and find those shadows. My tip is to use the fastest blade you can find when getting in close. The damage of 2 fast critical hits far outweighs the damage increase a bigger weapon gives. For example a Dagger with 8 damage and a Longsword with 12 damage. Dagger at 6x twice = 32 damage Longsword 6x once = 24 damage Not to mention if you actually poison both hits.
- —Guest Rich S.
Fortify Security for Lock-picking
- When you finish the Mage Guild Initiation and can visit the University make a spell that fortifies your security skill. Even if it increases the skill by 100 points it will still cost under 50 mana (not sure about exact number). The spell has to only last for 1 second as the game pauses when you are in the lock pick menu. So you end up casting a 50 mana spell to have a security of 100... and none of the tumblers fall when you break a pick.
- —Guest AS.Legion
Oblivion's Mr. Invisible 360
- First, accumulate as many "chameleon" Sigil Stones or Enchanted items as possible. Some very good ones are the Chrystaline Cuirass and the Grand Ring of Chameleon. Their total percent effect can be found on the constant effects tab under Magic. Wear the necessary amount to bring your total up to or above 100. Now you can complete any quest without being seen, take any action without sneaking, and never get a bounty (except for assaulting guards). You can walk right up to Daedra and beat them to death as slowly as you like. This cheat is exceptional for boosting your stats in any skill fairly quickly. Also good for taking on high level bosses or thieving. For this cheat to be affective, do not complete the main quest. Tested on Xbox 360.
- —Guest Clark C.
Need Arrows? Easy Way to Get Arrows!
- Need Arrows? When you are in the Arena Bloodworks usually the Blue Team Gladiator is shooting arrows at the training target. So if you stand by the side of the training target you can collect all of his arrows (iron). After half an hour standing there I got 20k arrows! It is well good if you are an archer.
- —Guest Connor B.
Boots of Springheel Jak Trick
- First you must have completed the Thieves Guild quests without destroying the Boots of Springheel Jak. In order to do that you must simply survive a small fall near the end of the last quest with the boots unequipped. After that go to the Shrine of Sanguine and get the quest there. Follow what the quest tells you to do and when you cast the spell, guards will try and arrest you. Get arrested. (Don't worry, all your equipment is in a chest at the Shrine of Sanguine, so you shouldn't lose anything.) After you serve your time, you should have the Boots of Springheel Jak in your inventory. If you try to equip them, it will say "You can not equip this enchanted item at this time." But if you check your Active Effects page under Fortify Acrobatics, it should say that you still have the boost from the boots. You can also feel free to equip any other boots as well.
- —Guest Stephen Collum, Gary Walsh
Arrested? No Problem!
- When you are about to get arrested, go to your inventory and drop all stolen goods. Then you get to go back afterwards and get them.
- —Guest Logan Jarrell
Increasing Speachcraft with High Fame
- Lets say you finish the main quest in Oblivion. Everyone you meet is going to be 100% disposition or close to it. Yet you want to level up to that ultra uber L40+ (I finished the game at L39). To increase speachcraft when your fame is so high everyone likes you, simply find a merchant with expert mercantile skill (chorrol weapons dealer) set your haggle to 100% and she will refuse nearly every time. (or try to sell a stack of items for more than the merchant can afford anywhere else). This drives down their dispotion, giving you a chance to butter them up all over again. Can be done repeatedly so long as their dispotion is lower than your skill/personality max and you havn't tried speachcraft on them too many 'times' during that 'day'.
- —Guest Nathaniel McIntyre
Some Rare Oblivion Item Locations
- Azura's Star: Quest in Shrine of Azura (level 1 minimum). * Umbra's Sword: Fort East of Imperial City, on Umbra. * Staff of Worms (Necromancer's Staff): Arch Mage reward. * Bloodworm Helm: Dissent in the Council Quests for mages guild. * Necromancer's Amulet: Same mage quest as above. * Curaiss of the Saviour's Hide: Molag Bal's Quest (I think).
- —Guest Lord Nekulor Dyrr
Some more Oblivion Easter Eggs
- # Glarthiir in Skingrad is actually not so paranoid, contrary to everyone's beliefs. # After quest with Dark Brotherhood dealing with Allectus, you can take his finger back once you get the reward (I carry it everywhere). # The only unicorn in the game doesn't like people with drawn weapons. (Daedra Lord Hircine's Quest) # The young imperial at the party in the DB questline is the son of Frostmoth's East Empire coordinator.
- —Guest Lord Nekulor Dyrr
Some Oblivion Easter Eggs
- * In Anvil, a woman with a strikingly similar name to one of Morrowind's unique characters (a certain rat lady) has a house full of rats that she loves, quite opposite her cousin. * After completing all the daedra quests, you will be contacted by another daedra lord. This lord will offer you a quest in order to recieve a lexicon granting major skill bonuses * St. Jiub (Jiub fron MW's prison ship) drove the cliffracers from morrowind, as heard around Tamriel. * Periodically, NPC's will break into ten on ten brawls due to a certain AI bug where attacking a guard is a crime, even if the guard commited the crime. * M'aiq the Liar is back, now talking about fishy sticks (forum thing on official forum), dragons, mounted combat, and many other very funny things. M'aiq runs between cities, so catch him if you see him. * In Skingrad, the girl in the alchemy shop asks about the crime penalty for Necrophillia... not sure why, may be involved in a little known quest.
- —Guest Lord Nekulor Dyrr
Oblivion Arcane University Tricks
- If you can enter the Arcane University (if you have all recommendations of all guild halls of the mage's guild), buy a Frenzy Spell (anywhere) so that you can upgrade it to a better one while in the university. Then while in the university, target a Mage Apprentice only to see him attack others and not you. He will certainly die, but don't worry, he will respawn in a matter of days. He will have a nice Dagger attached to him (or it is thrown out of his hands so that you may need to search for it). However, you will gain no bounty and if you do it by daytime when the apprentices meet together the guards will interfere if you just put the doors open. They won't attack you, and you have a chance to get a very good weapon of disintegrate if the guards get a chance at fighting a scholar. Sell these items and receive a lot of gold for it or use them as weapons.
- —Guest Lennart Bruggink