Oblivion talk:Skills

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Contents 1 Skill Boosts 2 Max Level 3 Multiple Skill-point Losses 4 Removing Enchantments 5 Quickly Raise Your Alchemy 6 Vampire skills 7 Governing? 8 Idk 9 Drain Skill training 10 Save some time 11 NPC compliments 12 Mysterious fist...

[edit] Skill Boosts

• There are a couple places where you can raise your skills by watching two combatants fight.
• Some quest rewards and easter eggs also provide skill boosts.

Is there a page where all this quests and places listed? --Den 03:29, 14 September 2006 (EDT)

There is now. Probably incomplete, though. --TheRealLurlock 11:25, 14 September 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Max Level

Just as an interesting note: I managed a permanent Blade of 103 by not doing the Origin of the Gray Prince quest until I was already a Master of Blade. Not that it helps at all, but it's a fun conversation piece. Korvac 16:52, 5 November 2006 (EST)

That's odd, I got one of 136, by saving all my skill books, and it has an effect on my damage done.. -Anonymous —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.248.201.231 (talk • contribs) on 9 October 2008.

You have a mod installed that alters the levelling system, am I right? -Xmlninja 19:09, 9 October 2008 (EDT)

Must have. Skill books don't have any effect once your skills reach level 100 either. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 01:27, 10 October 2008 (EDT)

Sorry, I meant 116(20 0f it was items), but I'm not using any mods as I have the 360 version. I used the herma mora book, and all the blade skill books I could find, and some quest rewards. - Anonymous —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.248.201.231 (talk • contribs) on 10 October 2008.

That sounds more like it. +10 from Hermaeus Mora, +3 from the Gray Prince, +2 from the Scales of PJ... but I dunno where you're getting the last point. Do tell! –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 14:27, 10 October 2008 (EDT)

I just checked my skills page, says I got 2 from Night Mother's Blessing, 3 from Grey price training. The other must have been from reading a skill book like Fire and Darkness. - Anonymous —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.248.201.231 (talk • contribs) on 10 October 2008.

I feel like an idiot, reason I do more damage is that my weapons are at 125% condition, not ridiculous blade score. -Anonymous —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.248.201.231 (talk • contribs) on 10 October 2008.

Ah! That's okay. It happens to all of us at some point :) –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 16:18, 10 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Multiple Skill-point Losses

It seems that when you have a really high bounty (like from killing an innocent), the loss of skill points for staying in jail is more than just one. I lost 10 (no, that's not a typo) skill points for killing someone and then staying in jail. I can't be 100% sure that a high bounty was the cause of the multiple skill-point losses, though. Can anybody else confirm for certain that that's what causes it? --Robin Hood 20:06, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

It's the high bounty. Skill points affected = Bounty / 100 (with a max of 10) as far as I can tell. It IS one point per day spent as the article states, but the length of your sentence is increased by your bounty. --Deathbane27 20:33, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

Is it possible to gain extra levels by intentionally having a skill nerfed in this manner? Say one of my main skills is decresed by 10. Couldn't i go out and practice it to level up? I'll test it once i get my character up to his max level, but 'til then, can anyone else provide some insight? -Scxe

I've never done that, but given that your skill is 'permanently' lowered (as opposed to being lowered by a drain/damage effect that can be removed), I would imagine that this would work. --Gaebrial 03:50, 22 February 2008 (EST)

[edit] Removing Enchantments

Okay I know this may not be the right place but I just found Fin-Gleam and I already enchanted my Raistlin Majere character's Red Silk Robes and Red Silk Hood and I want to remove the enchantments. Is that even possible? 70.49.204.73 00:01, 10 January 2008 (EST)

Sorry, no. You could always give yourself another copy of the unenchanted item by using the console if you're on the PC. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 05:14, 10 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Quickly Raise Your Alchemy

to quickly raise alchemy duplicate rat meat and bread and make detect life i went from 60-100 in 10 minutes —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bobjim (talk • contribs).

It's easier just to make potions from food, as they are easy to get hold of.-Volthawk 07:44, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Vampire skills

After I became a vampire on my Kahjiit character, I noticed that I was now a master in sneak. I don't think that I was before. I'm pretty sure I was an expert. Now it reads that I am a master in sneak. Does this mean that while a vampire my sneak won't skill up anymore and that skills gained by vampirism are considered base skills and not magical effects, or was I actually a master before vampirism? I'm a bit confused on this. I plan on curing my vampirism eventually, but I don't want the sneaking in the dark brotherhood quests to go to waste and since I'm on 360 I can't ever become a vampire again. I'm not really sure what to do. --Mole126^Talk 19:55, 04 March 2008 (EST)

If you are still trying to figure this out, you should check the article on Free Skill Boosts. Yes, the vampirism skill boosts effectively change your base statistics. Without curing your vampirism you can feed, which will reduce the skill boosts to +5. Otherwise, you need to wait until you cure your vampirism. --Nephele^Talk 01:31, 20 April 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Governing?

I have had oblivion for the most part of a year, and I STILL cant figure out what a governed skill means. Thanks, Jetty78.145.89.208 05:46, 8 December 2008 (EST)

Look at this-Volthawk 07:47, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Idk

all my strength and willpower skills were at 100 but there down to the 20's and i cant level them back up should i jus glitch them or is there a right way??????????????

[edit] Drain Skill training

can you drain a master skill just before reading a skill book in order to get the skill boost, just like with trainers, or not? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.115.162.85 (talk • contribs) on 13 June 2009.

Not. --Timenn < talk > 16:21, 13 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Save some time

i found that while increasing any magic based skill, if you hold block with some kind of wepon or your fists drawn you can cast spells quicker... you simply cast the spell repeatedly while doing this... i think it just cuts the animation so that the spell can be activated again. the time difference may not seem like much at start, but when you need to level up 80 levels in illusion restoration destruction etc... it is a great glitch. and this does work on the 360, since even though you cannot repeatedly cast spells, it does hovever stop the spell animation short. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.197.42.119 (talk • contribs) on 5 August 2009.

We know, thanks. It's already described here. –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 07:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] NPC compliments

What determines which 70+-point skills are complimented by NPCs? I assumed it was random, but despite having Master in 12 skills and Expert in 5, NPCs nowadays seem to only compliment my Sneak and Restoration prowess (and have NEVER complimented me about any other magic skill, or Light Armor, or Hand-to-Hand, or Security)...is there any determining factor besides just the skill level? Shashakiro 00:05, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like a Construction Set answer, but from what I have seen, it seems that at each encounter the dialogue options are chosen by random. So each time you walk up to them, the check on the dialogue chooses the Sneak etc. However, I don't know why it would be only those two. –Elliot ^talk 00:20, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mysterious fist...

Sorry if this is glaringly obvious and I'm missing something, but what does the fist mean in the Skills menu? For example, on some of them (say for example the Strength skill was highlighted) you'd get the little slidy menu saying you're at Journeyman or whatever and what Strength means, but in the bottom right-hand corner of this sometimes there's a little fist with a number by it, like 2 or 5 or something. What does this mean? Spikelovesmetal 12:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

It shows you the amount of damage you will do when you attack with your fists (Hand-to-hand). --Gaebrial 08:30, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Ahh, that makes a lot more sense, thanks! Spikelovesmetal 10:24, 17 September 2009 (UTC)