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Level Up Quickly in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered — Complete Guide

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is rightfully considered one of the best RPGs of all time, thanks to its unique role-playing system. Character development is achieved by improving the skills that the hero actively uses. In this guide, we will explain in detail how to quickly level up and wisely distribute attribute points.

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How the Character Development System Works

The game features eight attributes that affect the hero's characteristics:

Strength: Blunt Weapons, Hand-to-Hand, Blades.
Intelligence: Alchemy, Conjuration, Mysticism.
Willpower: Alteration, Destruction, Restoration.
Agility: Archery, Lockpicking, Stealth.
Speed: Acrobatics, Light Armor, Athletics.
Endurance: Block, Armorer, Heavy Armor.
Personality: Illusion, Speechcraft, Mercantile.
Luck: Indirectly affects all skills.

The game also features "Major Skills" and "Minor Skills," which, depending on their parameters, make up the character class.

List of Major Skills

Blades — increases damage from swords and daggers, improves critical hit chance.
Blocking — reduces damage received when blocking.
Heavy Armor — reduces movement penalties in heavy armor, increases protection.
Alteration — increases the duration of protective spells.
Destruction — enhances combat spells, reduces mana costs.
Illusion — increases the duration and strength of illusion effects.
Restoration — improves healing and protective spells.

List of Minor Skills

Armorer — allows for better equipment repair.
Athletics — increases running and swimming speed.
Blunt Weapons — enhances the effectiveness of maces, axes, and other blunt weapons.
Hand-to-Hand — strengthens unarmed attacks, allows for stunning opponents.
Alchemy — allows for the creation of stronger potions.
Conjuration — improves summoned creatures and weapons.
Mysticism — enhances teleportation and magic absorption spells.
Acrobatics — increases jump height, reduces fall damage.
Light Armor — reduces armor noise, enhances the protective properties of light armor.
Marksmanship — increases accuracy and damage when shooting with bows.
Mercantile — affects the success of transactions.
Lockpicking — eases the picking of locks and traps.
Stealth — reduces visibility during thefts and stealth movement.
Speechcraft — improves relations with NPCs, reduces prices with merchants.

How to Level Up a Skill

To level up a skill, it needs to be actively used. For example, to increase lockpicking, you need to pick locks. To increase heavy armor, you need to wear armor and take damage. This is how the development of all skills in the game occurs.

How to Quickly Level Up

Leveling up occurs through skill development, resulting in the character gaining points that can be invested in attribute development. It is thanks to attributes that the hero's development speed is accelerated. For example, if after leveling up you invest points in Willpower, the speed of mastering and the effectiveness of the "Illusion" skill will increase.

To advance to the next level, you need to increase the level of any skill 10 times. For example: Speechcraft 1, Blades 3, Heavy Armor 1, Blocking 2, Athletics 3. Then you need to sleep in any bed, after which you can distribute attribute points.

Note: attributes that have already been improved receive more points. For example, if you developed strength using blades, then the bonus will be added to strength. In this case, if you decide to invest points in intelligence, you will only be able to add one point.

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Vladyslav Shamshurov

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Professional activity in game journalism began in 2017 with writing guides and articles. In 2020, joined the VGTimes team as a staff writer. Since 2022, has held the position of section editor for "Guides", while continuing to work as a contributing author.

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