The Oblivion Thread vol. II

[Harovan]

They told you, that you're welcome to take anything you need from their armory, so it's not stealing. Although I'd be cautious with 2-handers, depends a lot on your build. I used 2 handers on my thief and found them pretty clumsy and slow to swing. I can swing my shortsword 4-5 times per second if I have my opponent cornered and do 3 damage each time. The twohander hits for 5, but at most twice per second. So after a short trial period I went back to my shortsword, or at most the 1-handed katana.

[Silver14]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Can everyone create those custom items, or do you have to be in a guild of some sorts or do a quest to be able?

To create items useing the Sigil stones from Oblivion gates all you have to do is click on them in your inventory. It doesn't matter where you are.

To create items without sigil stones you have to get access to the Arcane University vai the Mages guild. Then you can create items similar to Morrowind useing Soul Gems and your known spell effects. I usually just buy filled soul gems to create items with. It does cost some gold depending on how powerful an item you are makeing.

[Harovan]

Well since I have 2 of them in my inventory I will do it at once. To save them does not seem to make sense due to the scaling - and much more of them will come by eventually, anyway.

I didn't play Morrowind and don't know what was possible there.

[bonscott]

Hmmmm, sigal stones. Perhaps I need to get off my duff and start working on the main quest!

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
They told you, that you're welcome to take anything you need from their armory, so it's not stealing. Although I'd be cautious with 2-handers, depends a lot on your build. I used 2 handers on my thief and found them pretty clumsy and slow to swing. I can swing my shortsword 4-5 times per second if I have my opponent cornered and do 3 damage each time. The twohander hits for 5, but at most twice per second. So after a short trial period I went back to my shortsword, or at most the 1-handed katana.

I like the idea of weilding a two hander better

I am not thinking about damage

although a one hander is needed with allies (I hit allies too often with a two hander)

JM

[Harovan]

On a sidenote, on the official forum I see a lot of screenshots, which display characters from front and side. But all I can do is screenshots from behind. Is there a way to rotate the avatar for screenies?

[Quillan]

Press and hold the middle mouse button for a second or two, and you'll enter "vanity mode". From there you can rotate the camera to the angle you want, but you have to keep holding the middle button the entire time.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Restarted my character and still think I didn't wuite get it right.

Should have picked more major skills that I will never use like hand-to-hand instead of Armorer, but other than that I'm getting good results.

Majors are: Blade, Block, Heavy armor, Armorer, Restoration, Destruction, and Conjuration.

The good thing is I have minors that I can practice to get maxes in intell and willpower, also improving those minor skills. Minor dectect life and a low level armor spell that I can just sit and cast over again after I level to get the +5's that I need on leveling.

Anyway going to Kvatch at level 2 will be much easier now.

[Quillan]

Guys, do any of you have a mirror location for those LOD mods? I can't download a thing from TESsource now. Everything I try stalls out nearly instantly, even at 4 am.

[bonscott]

Check out www.tweakguides.com
In the Oblivion guide there is a section on mods and patches. They give links to the threads on the LOD mods at the Elder Scolls forums. Some of them have mirrors listed in the first post.

[Quillan]

Ah, I didn't think to check the forum threads. Thanks!

[Kinjiru]

'bout time for Vol III is it not?

[Quillan]

Vol I went to 500 posts.

[Apocalypse]

Yeah...500 is the point where MarkG says the forum slows down.

[Solver]

Actually it's the old software that would slow down, so closing threads at 500 is more of a tradition .