Oblivion talk:Invisibility

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Anyone else find this effect extremely overpowered? I was playing around this weekend and had avoided doing the Arena because I was playing a spellcaster, but finally decided to give it a try. When I ran into some trouble with one of the matches, I quickly discovered that invisibility combined with conjuration was a simple and unbeatable strategy... just conjure something then cast invisibility (or drink an invis potion) and wait until everyone is dead. My opponents would occasionally look around for me but they never found me... I think I could slide the difficulty all the way to max and still win any fight this way... am I missing something? Do any enemies have detect life?--Vilhazarog 11:33, 5 March 2007 (EST)

True, paired with summoned creatures invisibility would be pretty effective. But the fact that the effect goes away the moment you do anything does place limits on its usefulness... stealing an item, opening a door, looting a dead body, etc. As for detect life, vampires do have detect life and seem to use it pretty regularly; I don't know of other enemies who generally have the ability, however. --Nephele 16:29, 5 March 2007 (EST)

Once I had enough Willpower to regenerate the cost of a medium-duration invisibility spell before it ran out, oblivion gates became a snap. Cast invisibility, run to the next door, go into sneak, go through door, re-cast, stop sneaking, run to next door, repeat as necessary, grab sigil stone - done. Of course, if I had played it that way from the start, I'd have walked past a lot of the great magical loot that I use all the time. So I'd say that Invisibility can be a huge help, provided you have reached the point where you can cast it comfortably and no longer need to cut it short very often for looting. -- JustTheBast 17:07, 5 March 2007 (EST)

Well, come on. If you had a sword that killed anything in one hit, you'd say it was overpowered, no? I feel like that's what I discovered. In JustTheBast's example I'd summon a Frost Atronach or clannfear, open the door, cast invis, wait until the Atronach clears out the room, loot everything and everyone, then repeat. If you get tight on magic points you've got invis potions and restore magic potions for backup, these are easy to come by if you're an expert in alchemy.... I dunno, playing as a pure mage altmer, I just don't have any issue with casting invisibility at will. Anyway, the easy fix is for me to just not allow myself to go invis if I have a summons out... otherwise there will be no challenge... and I haven't even finished a single guild quest line yet! --Vilhazarog 22:18, 6 March 2007 (EST)

I really don't think this is something that's overpowered; rather, it's just playing smart. Besides, you don't need to be invisible to close Oblivion gates easily. Even a very weak, low leveled character can run right past everything to the top of the tower and grab the Sigil Stone. --Mike | Contrib 02:30, 4 August 2008 (EDT)

I can close an Oblivion Gate in 5 minutes with no risk. I'd say that was overpowered (not that I mind - I find the planes of Oblivion extremely dull, so getting through them fast is good for me). --217.116.246.5 07:35, 29 October 2007 (EDT)