Oblivion talk:Guard Uniforms

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Contents 1 Acquiring uniforms 2 Imperial Palace Cuirass 3 Heavy/Light? 4 outright murder for 40g bounty... 5 Why isn't it playable? 6 Pretty suspicious? 7 Legion armor 8 Leyawiin...

[edit] Acquiring uniforms

Wouldn't another way to do this (perhaps much more easily) be to cast a frenzy spell on one of the guards? You just need to be able to cast enough a high enough level frenzy spell (since the guards are generally a few levels higher than your character), but then you should be able to get a pretty good fight going that should end up with at least one dead guard. --Nephele 23:34, 22 September 2006 (EDT)

You also might be able to find some on shelves in the guard barracks, or pick-pocket them off the guards while they're sleeping. If you're sneaky enough, nobody has to die for you to have a uniform. (And watching the guards patrolling the city in their skivvies is pretty funny, too. The guards are apparently too cheap to buy new uniforms when you steal them.) --TheRealLurlock 00:15, 23 September 2006 (EDT)

Another way that I did it was to get "Nisters boots" at Best Goods and Guarantees located in Leyawiin. They cost a little, but they are good for water breathing. I went to Bravil (or anyplace that might have a harbor or bridge directly over water). I threw "Flare" one time at a guard to get his attention, which gave me a 40 gold fine. I got him to follow me into the water and got him under the a dock from a port and he drowned and there he stayed under the dock. I swam to the top and went straight to a guard, and I paid my fine for assualt. Went back and took the guards uniform. I did this at level 2. A little to do but easy and I did'nt have to go to jail. -- Jaydub328 21:15, 8 October 2006 (EDT)

You don't say (specifically, at any rate) how to obtain Imperial Legion armor, which is, of course, heavy plate armor, as opposed to the light chain armor worn by most city guards, and thus may be of more practical use to some players. This isn't mentioned on the relevant quest page, so perhaps it doesn't happen for all players, but, when my character was preparing (after the closing of the Oblivion Gate) to take back Kvatch castle and rescue the Count, three Imperial Legion troupers (two soldiers and an archer) turned up to help. As a "good" character, it really wasn't entirely through self interest that I endeavoured to keep the whole group (seven or maybe eight in all, I think) of Kvatch and Legion guards alive with convalescent spells during the subsequent action. In fact, I was very proud that I got them all (apart from the single character that had to die for the story to continue) through to the final battle in the Count's inner quarters. I had, however, been casting envious eyes on the Legionaires' armor and weapons, and so finally allowed myself to give into temptation and let them fend for themselves in the final battle. The result of this was that two Legionaires and two Kvatch guards died, and I was able to loot their armor and weapons. Unfortunately (for me) it wasn't the Legionaire archer, whose equipment I had particularly envied, who died, and he, along with a couple of Kvatch guards, are still stuck forlornly, wandering without purpose, in the limbo of the destroyed city (I almost feel like I should put him out of his misery >;->). --Armod 195.92.67.75 17:07, 27 February 2007 (EST)

[edit] Imperial Palace Cuirass

The only already dead guards are the two outside the entrance, but they dont have the cuirass on them, are there other guards? ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.222.253.166 (talk • contribs).}

There are other guards inside the council chambers but they don't have the cuirass either - you can't pick one up, I'm afraid. --Rpeh^Talk 00:44, 6 August 2007 (EDT)

I'm playing on the Xbox but was wondering if you use the PC console to add it to your inventory, can you equip the palace armor? -- LordDagon 11:17, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

As far as i know, you can add it but when you look in your inventory it won't be there Volanaro 10:15, 22 February 2008 (EST)

If there are, in fact, no guards encountered during "The Ultimate Heist" who actually carry this armor, should the page be amended to correct this? Does anyone know if the same is true of "Light the Dragonfires"? Or if the absence of this armor is due to the patch? I'd edit it myself but I fell my knowledge is incomplete, because I've already done "Dragonfires" and didn't think to look for armor. -- ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.136.8.97 (talk • contribs).}

The IP Guards inside the Council chambers wear the Palace Cuirass during Light The Dragonfires. During the Ultimate Heist, I think the guards that patrol the Palace upstairs also wear this specific cuirass, but I'm not sure. Someone with access to the CS should check this. -- LordDagon 11:17, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Heavy/Light?

Should whether the armor is heavy or light be listed? ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.31.41.57 (talk • contribs).}

Yes. Done. Thanks! --Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 16:57, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

[edit] outright murder for 40g bounty...

im doing this right now and it is quite easy (im lvl 18) just make you mages staff (mine is 80pts shock) and zap the guards3-4 times and poison them...they die and you only get charged for assault...

[edit] Why isn't it playable?

I'm just wondering, does anyone know why Watch armor isn't lootable or playable?--68.184.37.210 22:42, 21 December 2007 (EST)

Because there's a flag set in the construction set that says it is not "playable." As for why the developers made that choice, you're unlikely to get a a definitive answer unless you ask a developer. But it's safe to assume that the developers didn't want the player using the watch armor. --Nephele^Talk 01:13, 8 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Pretty suspicious?

If you aquire a guards uniform and you decide to parade around the city I think it's pretty lame that the guards in that city don't find it strange than an Argonian walks around in guard armor, just after one of their fellow-guards decided to die. In Morrowind you had the Indoril armor that made the Ordinators flip and I kind of hoped that Oblivion would allow me to kill guards this way too:(

[edit] Legion armor

Isnt there some legion armor in the armory of the prison district? Overlord878 19:27, 29 May 2008 (EDT)

There's a shield and two helmets. All the other armor is steel. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 01:02, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Leyawiin...

I have noticed that the Leyawin uniform is not in the How to obtain it area. Is this because of laziness?

1. Simply kill the gaurd, grab the armor (and shield if you want it) and either pay off your bounty or serve time.
2. There should be a dead Leyawin gaurd and horse nearby a Oblivion gate (sometimes the gaurd does not appear, may be me only though). Not the gate for the Allies for Bruma quest. The one by the East city gate.
3. Around the Oblivion gate that the count's son goes into (Allies for Bruma quest) there are 4 or 5 Leyawin gaurds that are killing any deadra that come out. Some of them may die.

I figure if you are going to give hints on how to obtain the city uniforms then you should at least include all of them, eh? --W27Y 11:08, 21 July 2008 (EDT)

If you would like to make suggestions, please do not start off by insulting every editor on the site with accusations of laziness. Your suggestions are nothing more than what is already covered in the General Tips section of the article. Repeating that same information ten times is not laziness, but rather a belief that redundancy does not help readers and accomplishes nothing except making the page longer. --Nephele^Talk 11:18, 21 July 2008 (EDT)

First of all, I apologize for making it seem like I was insulting anybody. That is not what I intended. I know that people work very hard on this Wiki and I appreciate and respect that. It was bad wording on my part. Like I said: I apologize. I did not mean to insult anyone, I understand laziness was probably a bad word to use.

Second, there is a different way to get the uniform so it is not all that redundant (dead gaurd by the Oblivion gate on the East of Leyawin). Maybe I missed something (or a lot of something knowing me) and I apologize for that too. I am sure though there is someone wondering how to get the Leyawin uniform blood free (not killing or stealing) so I wanted to present a way or 2 how.

I apologize for offending anyone. I was simply suggesting a few ways to get the uniform from Leyawin. If not posting anything else is what it takes then so be it, I am fine with that if I am jut going to cause problems by trying to be helpful. --W27Y 11:39, 21 July 2008 (EDT)