Oblivion:Endurance

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Endurance is the governing attribute for Block, Armorer, and Heavy Armor. It affects:

• Fatigue = Endurance + Agility +Strength + Willpower (NPCs and player)
• Base health = Endurance × 2 (player only)
• Health increase on leveling = Endurance ÷ 10 (player only)

If the player's Endurance is increased while leveling, the player's health will increase both because the base health has increased and because of the health increase on leveling. In other words, base health is recalculated at each level-up after applying any Endurance gains.

Contents 1 Character Creation 2 Health Gains 3 Notes 4 See Also

[edit] Character Creation

• The Races page provides a table summarizing the initial endurance for each race and gender.

• Initial +10 endurance bonuses are possible by selecting either Lady or Warrior as birthsign.

• The following standard classes have endurance as a class attribute (initial +5 bonus):
  • Acrobat, Pilgrim, Scout, Sorcerer, Spellsword, and Warrior

• Or any custom class can select endurance as one of the custom class' two attributes.

[edit] Health Gains

The health gain each time you level is dependent upon the current value of your endurance; this increase is not retroactive without using a mod such as retroactive health. Therefore to get maximum health you need to raise your endurance to 100 as quickly as possible. To illustrate, the following table compares the health for five characters who all reach 100 endurance by level 20.

Level	Case 1			Case 2			Case 3			Case 4			Case 5
	Endur.	Health		Endur.	Health		Endur.	Health		Endur.	Health		Endur.	Health
1	30	60		30	60		60	120		60	120		60	120
2	35	73		30	63		65	136		60	126		60	126
3	40	87		30	66		70	153		60	132		60	132
4	45	101		30	69		75	170		60	138		60	138
5	50	116		30	72		80	188		60	144		60	144
6	55	131		30	75		85	206		60	150		60	150
7	60	147		35	88		90	225		60	156		60	156
8	65	163		40	102		95	244		65	172		60	162
9	70	180		45	116		100	264		70	189		60	168
10	75	197		50	131		100	274		75	206		60	174
11	80	215		55	146		100	284		80	224		60	180
12	85	233		60	162		100	294		85	242		60	186
13	90	252		65	178		100	304		90	261		65	202
14	95	271		70	195		100	314		95	280		70	219
15	100	291		75	212		100	324		100	300		75	236
16	100	301		80	230		100	334		100	310		80	254
17	100	311		85	248		100	344		100	320		85	272
18	100	321		90	267		100	354		100	330		90	291
19	100	331		95	286		100	364		100	340		95	310
20	100	341		100	306		100	374		100	350		100	330

The minimum Endurance you can start with is 30 and the maximum is 65. Between these two characters, there will be a 37 point difference in maximum health as long as both max out their Endurance as soon as possible.

[edit] Notes

• Any Fortify Endurance effect will also provide a health increase (equal to two times the endurance boost).
• Conversely, Damage Endurance or Drain Endurance effects cast upon the player will decrease the player's health. In the case of Damage Endurance, this is substantially more expensive than directly casting a Damage Health spell. On the other hand, Drain Endurance is effectively cheaper than Drain Health (although obtaining access to the Drain Endurance effect is very difficult, and draining Endurance only amounts to a temporary decrease in health).
• However, using a Damage Endurance or Drain Endurance effect upon NPCs does not decrease their health.
• Fortifying endurance to values greater than 100 continues to increase the player's health and fatigue.
• If you have installed the Knights of the Nine official mod and completed its questline, you can permanently gain extra health on each level up with Mara's Blessing (obtained by praying at Sir Casimir's tomb). The blessing only needs to be activated before the player sleeps to level up.

[edit] See Also

• Increasing Attributes: Tips on how to increase endurance