Oblivion Blog

I haven’t posted an update in a while, so here you go:

After playing for a good week with a Stealth based character, I decided to start over with a more magic heavy character. Playing my first character had been fun, but I realized a few shortcomings. For example, I had originally taken Alchemy and Sneak as major skills. However, both of these skills level up so quickly during regular gameplay that they were responsible for many quick level gains, while my actual offensive and defensive capabilities fell behind. Plus, using fireballs to blow up enemies is just too damn gratifying to resist.

My second character combines the various schools of magic as well as blunt weapon skill (I was getting tired of always using blades). It took a lot longer to level up so far, but that’s a good thing, as my skills have been growing more consistently and I’ve been getting slightly better attribute bonuses (although I’m still not powergaming in order to fully maximize these).

I’m at level 9 now and have started on the main quest several levels ago. I won’t go into too many details in order to avoid spoilers, but I’ve cleared the first Oblivion gate, rescued Martin, and dropped him off at the Blades. I’m very happy with my new character so far. He can defend himself in melee, but really shines when combining melee with magic by summoning creatures to distract enemies, using destructive magic, and more. I haven’t quite gotten into the more subtle arts of magic yet (such as Illusion or Mysticism), which seem to get really cool at later levels. I’m hoping that will change once I get access to a spellmaker to create some practice spells.