Hit level 5

people actually boughted Oblivion De-make

Lmao. I'll stick with Morrowind, the last good Elder Scrolls.

make a better class

Like? Whats the secret sauce to making master mode ezpz

history repeats itself, faster and faster

poisons, conjuration, destruction and enchantments
unga bunga melee fighting without poisons or strong enchants is not viable on higher difficulties

rats and wolves stop existing as a species

You are fast traveling too much, I still see these things at level 22.

I don't fast travel really

It's hilarious that if you don't sleep right away you have a high chance of just getting three level ups at once because you kept leveling skills.

they don't stack

do you understand why that's bad game design?

so literally just dont play unless you can spam ranged attacks from the top of a rock or have minions play the game for you

They do in fact. I've had multiple times where I slept and the symbol was still there after. Just because you didn't sleep doesn't mean the bar isn't still filling.

That is the Oblivion on master experience yes. Conjuration is basically mandatory.

So making a better build wouldnt work? The solution is just to cheese the game? Kind of contradicting yourself

So making a better build wouldnt work?

That is the better build.

The game has two "builds" lmao
1. Enchant a weapon to give them a weakness and then hit them with it.
2. Paralyze something and then spend 5 minutes hacking/shooting at its corpse
Oblivion honestly has some of the worst "gameplay" and RPG elements of any major RPG released, and yes, I played it back in the day. In fact, I played it back when Oldblivion was one of the most popular mods because it ran like shit and people had to make it look like a Nintend64 game to get it to function properly.
The world is fun to explore the first time and there are some good quests but the combat and RPG elements are so awful.

Not sure why you'd think this is some mechanically in depth game. Master just bloats healthbars even more than they already are, the only solution to that is to increase your DPS to the max, which means abusing systems.

Very weird hill to die on but sure, the one of two viable builds is the better build.

Welcome to level scaling.

What you thought Oblivion scaling was a meme? Never listen to Anon Babble contrarians who said it's not actually a problem with the game.

sneak archer so you don't have to engage with the combat duh

Imagine if Morrowind had level scaling.

Cliff Racers are as strong as Dagoth Ur's servants

more like

Winged Twilights become an invasive species and replace all Cliff Racers

at master difficulty lower levels yeah you can only rely on conjuration to avoid having to spam attacks on enemies for 5 minutes straight but eventually with spellmaking you can make low mana cost nukes with destruction. good luck with monsters who have magic resist though, im lvl 30+ and 70% of the non-dremora daedra in oblivion planes are xivilai with 50% chance to resist spells.

People that say it's not a problem are the ones that get to level 10-15 and drop it, or who just never level up at all and assume everyone wants to play completely counter intuitively.

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You think Ayleid Wells are harmless little mana fountains? Just refill stations for your spells? WRONG. They’re ancient cortical leashes designed to reprogram your thought patterns every time you “meditate” at one.

The Ayleids didn’t build those wells for charity. They were broadcast pylons, transmitting magicka-encoded thoughtforms that kept their slaves docile. You think it’s a coincidence that after touching one, you suddenly feel “clear-minded” and “ready for battle”? That’s not clarity — that’s compliance.

And now, the Mages Guild is restoring them? Of course they are. They’re reactivating the network, tuning your brainwaves like a lute in a torture chamber. Every time you recharge, they siphon your willpower into a giant arcane data vault in Firsthold where it’s used to model predictive behavior simulations.

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buys a bad game because it's the new (old) big thing people are talking about

it's bad

No one to blame but yourself.

i didn't buy it

By lategame you can stack enough defenses and weakness to magicka (or chameleon) everything besides physical damage is viable.
But there are only two things that work on master from the get go

poisons, as poison damage is unaffected by difficulty

summons, as summon damage is unaffected by difficulty

basically the only way to play master is to not play master

ELDER SCROLLS ARE SOUL TRAPS FOR REALITY

You ever wonder why they call them Elder Scrolls? Because they’re older than reality itself — and they don’t just predict events, they cause them. Every time someone reads an Elder Scroll, the universe lurches sideways and the timeline bleeds. That’s why readers go blind — their eyes aren’t damaged. Their minds are rejected by the false code of existence.

What do the Scrolls contain? A recursive daedric echo-loop designed to rewrite Nirn every few centuries, like a magical firmware update. You think it’s a coincidence that every “hero” who stops a crisis has some connection to one of these dusty reality-bombs? You’re not the hero. You’re a scripted correction.

The Elder Scrolls are not holy. They’re not divine. They’re cosmic scroll saws, carving mortals into shapes the Aedra and Daedra can digest.

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There are two Elder Scrolls in Oblivion Remastered and neither causes any side effects when read

play the original with Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul instead

The only thing good about the remaster is the character creator. Making elves that aren't 100% hideous is a fun challenge.

picrel is ur elf

This shit makes my game hard crash

install mods tbmhat fix that shit

GOTY

High IQ game.

what mod manager do you use? does it hard crash on startup or after a while?

crashes on startup and I use MO2. It crashes even when no other mods are loaded.

Why are all the elves perpetually stoned in this game?

I used Wrye Bash, don't know if it works with MO2 but last time I tried using it I also got crashes.
a crash on startup could also mean you're missing a dependency for an ESP file

Everyone and their mother is on dat Skooma

Ascension is the best mod for that right?

This isnt how Alex Jones speaks

No thanks

Or Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. Use Ascension if you want to use a different or no combat rebalance mod.

It is. The best outcome from it is that you don’t get unlimited access to the best gear in the game from just fighting shitty bandits. A lot of people complain that glass and ebony are too rare as a result, but they should be.

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I just wish enemies would do expert damage while we keep our adept damage. I don’t even bother blocking.

Cool. I was also thinking of also adding that mod that makes clutter more valuable too for an alternative income source.

I saw a recommendation from a guy who said his ideal way to play is to play on adept. Rolling through enemies is fun and fodder should get crushed. Bump the difficulty up to expert for Oblivion Gates and dungeon bosses. Those should be a challenge. Then use master for the final bosses. Seems reasonable to me until a better scaling mod gets developed. The slider ones that are out now aren’t ideal.

I know who you’re talking about. Sounds reasonable enough. I just really dislike how magic and enchanting are the only ways to be strong. I got excited seeing the debuff perk for blade but it hardly lasts and honestly isn’t that noticeable. I have 100 willpower and agility and still run out of fatigue quick as hell.

The level scaling was always bad but how fast certain skills level up makes it even worse. You just speedrun to level 20 like it's nothing. Then it feels a little more normal only because those skills hit max level. Mod to slow down everything doesn't work well because it's mostly magic like restoration and illusion that levels ridiculously fast, but your blade, blunt, block, etc. feels like a snails pace by comparison.
I know there are some mods that target certain fast leveling skills only but I don't trust it's fully tested, I already see comments how some of it is fucked up.
At the end of the day it's not that big a deal I guess. You're blowing past weak bandits and some shitty enemies but there's still plenty to do at 20+ for your character. I just use it as an opportunity to make more characters and do different quests with each.
It definitely needs to be retuned for TES6. Skyrim wasn't nearly as bad but still needs improvement.

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By Alek Jo’anz, broadcasting from an undisclosed mead cellar beneath Bravil

You ever wonder why every guard in Tamriel asks you if someone stole your sweetroll? Why that question? Why not “Did someone mug you?” or “Did a troll headbutt your uncle?” No. It’s always the sweetroll.

Because the sweetroll is not just a pastry — it’s a cultural obedience test, a sigil of soft-skulled servitude pushed by secret worshippers of Clavicus Vile. You heard me. That sticky swirl of sugar and bread is a Daedric brand, used to identify the compliant.

You keep accepting sweetrolls from strangers? You’re marking yourself as spiritually weak, an easy mark for contracts, pacts, and soul trades. That’s why they’re always “just lying around.” It’s a bait test. Eat it, and boom — you’re on the Daedric mailing list.

And don’t even get me started on the Guard Script. Every single soldier asking that same question? They’ve been trained to gauge your reaction. You laugh? You pass. You stammer? You’re flagged. You cry? Congratulations — Dagon’s already got your bedroom mapped.

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Don’t take the roll. Take control.
— Alek Jo’anz, rolling out.

It’s the unfortunate truth of Oblivion. Always has been. Everyone is a mage, whether they like it or not. Physical damage just does not scale well on its own and you begin to hit the constraints of fatigue like you said when you’re hitting enemies 50 times to kill them. You have to stack weakness as a warrior. So you get to pick between alchemy, enchanting, or destruction or a combination of them.