Oblivion weapons!

I nabbed an Elven Longbow from some random vampire leader in some random dungeon. It was almost like "WHO ARE YOU!? What are you doing here? Why have you slain all my vampiric brethren!?" and all I could think of was "I was passing by and decided to drop in..."

I just learned soul trap, which isn't all that impressive, but im a ninja with mysticism not favoured and finally I can begin collecting souls! Although now ive gotta go do the mage quests so I can put them to use.

Vegeta wrote:

Yeah I don't mind spending the lock picks as security is going up and there's a nice bit of loot in it, will try that so this evening. I opend a very hard chest the other day and there was nothing in it but crap

Lock picking... gah! Just cant do it by myself! Have to resort to the auto picker.

Vegeta wrote:

What level are you at man, elven longbow, I'd kill for one and I will

12 I think. I was one less when I got the bow. I was freaked out when he got me near death with 3 or four hits.

The one decent weapon drop that I know of regardless of level is Umbra. It's a mission you get given by the Clavicus Vile shrine, you have to be at a high level to be given the quest in the first place....BUT you don't need to start the quest in order to get the weapon (I was at level 15 and wasn't high enough, not sure what you needed). Anyway, head to Vandisel, it's a ruin that can be reached by taking a left as you walk off the imperial bridge and keep heading along the coast, it's about 100 feet in from the water, maybe a mile down the road (It's the second one you'll see AFAIR). Watchout for the traps and you will eventually find a single humanoid on a lower floor, she is INCREDIBLY hard to beat toe-to-toe soooooo sneak down and hop onto the broken pillar (If you do it right you actually hop into the broken section) then pepper her with arrows until she's toast. You will need a lot of ammo (Took about 60 Elven arrows from an Elven bow as Master Marksman (I think my rating was 10dmg per shot). She drops an excellent unique sword and armour (ie. they are not random'd and relative to level). (Also remember your blade damage will be relative to your Blade skill so it will increase as you do, still it's a good 50% above any other sword I can use at the same level).

I use the Akavri Dai-Katana (2 handed) i got when i joined the Blades. You get all their gear free. Most of it has no value but is pretty decent like the armour.. but the swords are worth a lot of money.. I then enchanted it:

to be honest, i spent about 5 days (thats real time here, not game time) trying to find flowers to get back intot he mages guild tht i lost track of everything else i was doing.

i do however now have an exceedingly complete mapo of the world with pretty much every dungeon and ruin on it
but it means that ive got to level 11 without doing much of any quests except the fighters ones.

no idea how to join the blades, havent murdered anyone yet, and have only just got the mages staff, and have only just closed the first gate at kvatch. havent even found jeoffrey yet.

less fluffying around eamo, get some quests done!

by the way, you do start to get some kick arse weapons and armour as you go higher.

but does anyone have any spoilers as to how to get plenty of cash? i seem to be constantly on zero!

koneko wrote:

Umbra is great, definitely get that. I use it in combination with my mage staff, means I'm constantly topped up on magic on my weapons (mmm souls).

Indeedy. I didn't bother keeping magical weapons for quite a while as they just needed too much maintenance. But Umbra+Azura's star = unlimited magical resupply .

Azura's Star is
I posted details here (on where to get it):
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=51145645&postcount=29

Umbra is

Vegeta wrote:

I'm currently using sufferthorn, which is an elven dagger with some nice enchantments, not as powerful as the longswords but can swing it loads before fatigue reaches zero

Your lack of dedication to the way of the bow is upsetting young assassin...

you know, i was going to post and ask some questions, but i got a pdf copy of the hints and tips manual.
why dont i just read that eh?


at 700 meg, its certainly a large download!