I do have to say that the benefits of being a vampire DO NOT outweight the negatives by a long shot.

6/1/2006 10:07:30 AM

yes I have moonshadow anyway, so the invisible thing is no big deal, and I think I have a nightvision spell also

6/1/2006 1:06:48 PM

neither of which are particularly useful. The detect life spell is much more useful in the dark (and when fighting vamps)

6/1/2006 2:16:05 PM

yes detect life is the shiznit

[Edited on June 1, 2006 at 4:01 PM. Reason : jsd]

6/1/2006 3:58:51 PM

I'm stuck in the Anvil oblivion gate.

Almost all my weapons lost charge (I've got 4 magical swords) and I'm getting my ass raped by fire atronaks.

6/1/2006 5:34:42 PM

why not leave the gate and then get ur weapons recharged if thats the main issue?

[Edited on June 1, 2006 at 5:42 PM. Reason : i never recharged any of my weapons for the entire game.]

6/1/2006 5:41:43 PM

yay I got the

*spoiler*
















gray fox hood, so now there's basically no point in being a vampire, time to find the Grand soul gems.

and do they have to be empty? i think that's what it said but sometimes you don't have to do precisely what the quest log says

6/1/2006 6:40:10 PM

yeah they have to be empty. i tried giving her filled ones and she told me to fuck off.

[Edited on June 1, 2006 at 6:43 PM. Reason : grey fox hood + vamp = mega sneak though]

6/1/2006 6:43:23 PM

I've got like 200k in gold now, do I have to watch out for that gray fox fucker?

Also, cyrion, I cannot recharge my weapons because I'm a warrior and only have 72 magicka at 8th level and you need 78 to cast soul trap

6/1/2006 7:07:25 PM

but you can get them recharged at the mages guild or buy soul gems.

6/1/2006 7:22:06 PM

oblivion gates are easy when you can summon storm atronachs, go invisible, and watch the slaughter (yes, i realize this is cheap, but it makes me happy)

6/1/2006 7:40:59 PM

ive never had a problem just summoning whatever monster seemed correct and running around in circles, they monster pulls aggro.

[Edited on June 1, 2006 at 9:31 PM. Reason : though ive had a few beatdowns on me, but have so many potions stocked up]

6/1/2006 9:30:58 PM

i keep forgetting to take the grey fox hood off and bitch guards keep trying to kill me

6/1/2006 11:38:43 PM

guards are kinda vagina-faces

6/2/2006 1:50:38 AM

this is fucking ridiculous, so this orc tells me to go get this axe and he'll let this guy that's in debt go, so i go and turns out the axe story is a trick, so i'm being hunted by these guys as a Hostel like thing, pay to kill, so I kill all these bitches that tried to kill me and I come out the den, what I find? the orc killing the debt guy, so even though i beat the bitch's game, he's killing the dude anyway, so then he kills me so i load up the autosave of exiting the den, BUT, for some reason the debt dude is on the second floor of this outdoor fort and the orc is too fucking stupid to just walk up some stairs and get him, AND i'm frozen b/c this is supposed to be a cutscene, so i'm sitting here watching this orc run around like a fucking mongoloid, hoping the debt guy will fall down and die so i can go ahead and bitch slap this orc back to orc-land.


*sigh*

6/2/2006 2:43:45 AM

Quote :

"bitch slap this orc back to orc-land. "

hehehe.

6/2/2006 10:25:10 AM

How do I get a full set of glass armor?

6/2/2006 11:13:02 AM

well the orc mission i was just talking about pretty much gave me a full set of glass armor.

go to the leyawind Bruma Bravil mages guild, that's where I overheard the conversation that started this quest, you might have to be a certain level or something tho



[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 12:16 PM. Reason : could they have made the names of cities any more confusing?? BRUMA, BRAVIL, ANVIL, ]

6/2/2006 12:09:37 PM

wow my assassin just got raped in the asshole trying to close the kvatch gate. guess I'll do a few fighters guild quests or somethin

feel like a chicken with its head cut off running around tryin2not die.

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 12:49 PM. Reason : what's a good level to try to close the gate on and how would I go about doing so?]

6/2/2006 12:46:41 PM

Quote :

"How do I get a full set of glass armor?"

kill someone wearing full glass? the higher you get the easier it should be to find. my lvl 34 warrior is attacked by full glass bandits all the time.

6/2/2006 12:48:07 PM

^^ can be done at level 1 with a tank-ish character.

Quote :

"this is fucking ridiculous, so this orc tells me to go get this axe and he'll let this guy that's in debt go, so i go and turns out the axe story is a trick, so i'm being hunted by these guys as a Hostel like thing, pay to kill, so I kill all these bitches that tried to kill me and I come out the den, what I find? the orc killing the debt guy, so even though i beat the bitch's game, he's killing the dude anyway, so then he kills me so i load up the autosave of exiting the den, BUT, for some reason the debt dude is on the second floor of this outdoor fort and the orc is too fucking stupid to just walk up some stairs and get him, AND i'm frozen b/c this is supposed to be a cutscene, so i'm sitting here watching this orc run around like a fucking mongoloid, hoping the debt guy will fall down and die so i can go ahead and bitch slap this orc back to orc-land. *sigh*"

Open up the console and type "movetoqt" that'll kick you out of that and it'll progress normall. You may have to select the guy you were trying to save and in the console type "kill." He's supposed to die, when he dies the cutscene ends and you'll be unstuck.

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 12:56 PM. Reason : ]

6/2/2006 12:53:37 PM

well damn that makes me feel pretty noobish, considering I'm the head of the thieves guild, dark brotherhood, and arena grand champ

6/2/2006 12:55:28 PM

ahh, well it does scale to your level. it's possible you're actually too HIGH level to do it easily...

6/2/2006 12:56:35 PM

ah, that's good to know

6/2/2006 12:57:10 PM

the higher you go the harder it is for theif like characters. warriors have it easiest and mages do alright.

6/2/2006 1:31:48 PM

this game is too long

6/2/2006 1:45:24 PM

DAMN YOU GAMES THAT ARE WORTH THE MONEY I PAY FOR THEM!!!!!!

6/2/2006 1:48:28 PM

does anyone elses' framerate suffer the longer you play the game?

My shit will start chugging if I play the game for 2 straight hours to the point that I notice it. I save the game, exit to windows, and load it back up and shit is fine again.

6/2/2006 3:09:10 PM

I mean, lots of apps do that. They start grabbing at system resources (especially main memory) and sometimes they don't bother to give the resources back when they're done with them... or they'll give back some resources, but other stuff gets overlooked.

6/2/2006 4:25:53 PM

Okay, here's a weird thing. I did the Thieves Guild quest, and I won the competition, so I got in. Then, I guess I didn't realize I needed to talk to homeslice about getting missions, so there isn't any quest info about the Thieves Guild. Now he doesn't show up at the waterfront, the beggars won't talk to me about Thieves Guild stuff no matter how high their disposition is, and Methredel or whatever her name is, doesn't have the "pay off my bounty" option when I talk to her. In my profile, though, it lists me as being a Thieves Guild Pickpocket. I don't get it.

Anyway, the real problem is that I keep running out of lockpicks because I'm bad a lockpicking, and I can't find a reliable source of them, so I want to find homeslice again so I can buy up a stock of them.

6/5/2006 9:28:15 AM

well i assume you are going at the right time (midnight -> mornin). my friend had it bug up where he never returned so hopefully you just were doing it wrong. otherwise you are teh screwed.

6/5/2006 9:32:44 AM

Quote :

"well the orc mission i was just talking about pretty much gave me a full set of glass armor. go to the leyawind Bruma Bravil mages guild, that's where I overheard the conversation that started this quest, you might have to be a certain level or something tho"

That's definitely level-based...I did it much earlier and didn't get anything like glass off of him.

6/5/2006 9:37:36 AM

I'VE CLOSED ALL THE OBLIVION GATES BUT I CANT WIN.

how the fuck do you add more than one enchantment to a weapon?

6/5/2006 10:28:18 AM

well before you do missions you gotta fence some goods to ongar in bruma, but Armand should be showing up at the waterfront every midnight anyway..... just steal some stuff and sell it to Ongar

6/5/2006 10:31:01 AM

Quote :

"Anyway, the real problem is that I keep running out of lockpicks because I'm bad a lockpicking, and I can't find a reliable source of them, so I want to find homeslice again so I can buy up a stock of them. "

You sound like you could use the skeleton key...


http://www.ezinearticles.com/?How-to-get-the-Skeleton-Key-in-Oblivion-for-Xbox-360&id=177303

6/5/2006 10:34:12 AM

if u need lockpicks, there is a dude that hangs out outside the imperial city walls by the chestnut handy stables that sells em.

6/5/2006 10:49:55 AM

Quote :

"Anyway, the real problem is that I keep running out of lockpicks because I'm bad a lockpicking, and I can't find a reliable source of them, so I want to find homeslice again so I can buy up a stock of them."

all the thieves guild fences have 100 of them every day. buy 100 one day, come back and buy 100 more the next day

6/5/2006 10:51:17 AM

Lockpicking is ridiculously easy.

Just pay attention to the tumblers and you can master it in a few minutes.

6/5/2006 10:53:02 AM

i just press X a lot

6/5/2006 10:53:40 AM

I know the trick to it, it's just that I'm a tard and I have bad reaction time. Also, I'm playing the PC version, if that makes a difference.

Anyway, thanks for the info on where to get lockpicks. I kept getting them like 2 or 3 at a time, and that wouldn't really get me through a dungeon reliably. If I had 100, that would last me a while.

6/5/2006 11:27:15 AM

I can't pick a lock to save my life.

I wish you could just beat the doors down.

6/5/2006 11:28:22 AM

It gets easy as shit once your get the skeleton key from that quest.......unbreakable and raises your security 40 points.

6/5/2006 11:31:41 AM

yeah, I never understood why I couldn't just bust a tiny chest open if I didn't have any lockpicks. It took me way too long to figure out how to pick locks. I guess I misread the instructions, but I thought the idea was to push all the tumblers up, then click. Took me a while to figure out that you can push one tumbler up, click to lock it in place, then work on the next tumbler.

Damnit, this game is too fun. It should be illegal.

6/5/2006 11:32:01 AM

^ everytime I try that my lockpick breaks.

6/5/2006 11:34:00 AM

timing timing timing
pay attention at how the speed of the tumbler changes as you mess with it mroe than once.....look for when it goes up slower and time yourself accordingly.

6/5/2006 11:35:35 AM

really? Maybe the x-box version is different. it's a timing thing. The big hint I found online is that the speed that the tumbler goes up indicates how long it will stay up. keep pushing it up until you see it go up kinda slowly, then you can lock it into place pretty easily. It takes some practice, but you should start to get it.

6/5/2006 11:36:52 AM

yea, if it goers up slow that means its going to stay at the top a little longer.

6/5/2006 11:37:35 AM

Quote :

"I know the trick to it, it's just that I'm a tard and I have bad reaction time. Also, I'm playing the PC version, if that makes a difference."

I've got the PC version too, and it isn't any different.

Just play with the tumblers for awhile. Watch them without clicking just to see how they move, and you'll get a feel for the timing.

6/5/2006 1:45:36 PM

eh, i've been using the skeleton key...it's surprisingly easy to get

6/5/2006 4:23:00 PM

shrug, the longer you do it the easier it gets. i used to really suck at it, but after playing my theif 19 lvls i was able to do it with my warrior and mage with few problems. generally if it comes down fast one time the next one will be slow. it isnt 100%, but if you are having a hard time it is a decent way to predict.

6/5/2006 5:00:44 PM