Best Skills To Level First In Oblivion Remastered

Summary

The Athletics skill is crucial for speed and movement, especially early on in Oblivion Remastered.
Alchemy is important for creating potions and leveling up.
Security is vital for lockpicking and useful for every character.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is an RPG game with a detailed leveling and customization system. Players can use fourteen Minor Skills and seven Major Skills to build unique characters, and maxing out all of them is one of the game's most significant benchmarks.

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By Shane Black

It's up to each individual as to which Skills are the most important overall, but there are some that players should focus on first, and this sometimes depends on the choices of Class along with some finer details. These Skills govern certain traits and features that are crucial to every build and make it easier and more fun for players to level and explore.

7 Athletics

How Fast The Character Runs, Swims, And Sprints

Travel, explore, and escape through those early levels.

Magic users, thieves, assassins, and fighters of all kinds benefit from increased speed and movement, especially early in the game before the player has a mount or starts to fast travel. Athletics is the skill that determines a character's ability to run faster, jump higher, and swim better. Closely related is Acrobatics, which improves Speed along with the jumping ability.

It's also an easy skill to level up, which makes it similar to physical training in real life. The more running, jumping, sprinting, and swimming a player does, the better they get at it. As such, players are advised to avoid spending too much time gawking at the sights in the Imperial City. Instead, they should get out there and do some activities to level up this crucial skill.

6 Alchemy

Creating Better Potions With Higher-Quaity Products

An important skill for any adventurer.

No matter what the specific build, every Oblivion Remastered character should level Alchemy. This is a skill that requires tools to use, so it's more complicated to level compared to physical skills like Athletics. Players have to find a Novice Mortar and Pestle first. Then, they have to gather certain ingredients and use the Mortar and Pestle to combine them.

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By Kristy Ambrose

Every time the player crafts any kind of potion, they raise their Alchemy level, and they can use more complicated tools and recipes as their skill improves. Poisons and concoctions with negative effects can also be deadly weapons, and even simple melee fighting builds can use potions that restore traits like Strength and Endurance.

5 Security

The Ability To Use Lockpicks

Important for Rogue builds, but every character needs this skill.

The Lockpicking mini-game in Oblivion is notoriously difficult, and the running joke is that everyone just levels up to 10 as quickly as possible to do the Skeleton Key quest. Until then, however, players can improve their lockpicking skills by raising their Security level, which can only be done by picking locks.

Joining the Mages or Fighters Guild helps in this regard because there are several locked display cases in the main hall that players can use for practice without breaking any laws. The better a player's Security skill, the fewer pins will drop when a lockpick breaks, and once they max out at Mastery level, the pins never drop.

4 Blade

Melee Range, Slashing, And Piercing

Crucial for physical DPS.

There are several Skills related to different fighting styles and weapons in Oblivion Remastered. For those who choose to fight with a Blade weapon, which covers a vast and diverse array of choices in Oblivion Remastered, this Skill might be just as important as Athletics.

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By Eduardo Ariedo

As the Blade skill levels from Novice to Mastery, characters will gain more abilities to compromise an enemy's equipment and weapons. Weakness to Normal Weapon is a debuff that characters can apply at the Apprentice level, and Experts have a chance to blind their opponents. Players should level the Block ability if this Fighter uses a Shield, or they can focus on Blunt if they also use weapons like maces.

3 Speechcraft

Persuade, Coerce, And Convince

It is useful to get valuable information from a variety of sources.

Speechcraft doesn't only improve the character's ability to persuade others, but it also makes the Bribery part less expensive when all else fails. This perk only unlocks when the player reaches Expert level at 75, but in the meantime, the Apprentice perk of improving their disposition is also useful.

There are certain times in the game when using Speechcraft is the easiest or perhaps the only way to move forward in a quest or acquire a specific item. It's related to the Knight class, which has the Personality attribute, and Speechcraft is one of its governing skills.

2 Sneak

Not only for thievery but also for sniping and spying.

The Sneak ability is about more than just picking locks or slipping past the guards. Even as a Novice, the character gets a buff to their damage when attacking from an obscure position, especially when using daggers. This makes it feel more like a Rogue or Thief skill, but sooner or later, everyone needs to be covert.

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By Matthew Whitehurst

An Apprentice Sneak has deadlier surprise attacks, Journeymen make less noise, and Masters can creep through lit areas without being seen. The Thief class has the closest connections to this Skill with the Agility attribute, which also affects ranged weapon damage and other attributes like Acrobatics.

1 Mercantile

Get Better Prices When Buying And Selling

Related to other "public relations" abilities and attributes, like Speechcraft.

Every time a character sells something, they improve their Mercantile skill, even if it wasn't a good deal or if the item was of a low quality. The Novice level of Mercantile is a bit rough, giving a reduced cash return if an item for sale is in poor condition or needs to be repaired. However, this is an RPG, so it's not difficult to find a wonderful variety of junk and treasure to buy and sell.

Players with a higher Mercantile skill can buy or sell a wider variety of goods to almost any vendor, unlike Novices, who can only sell goods from specific categories. For those who also prioritize Armorer, those at the Expert level can fix up broken equipment to be worth even more than the original value.

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