THE ELDER SCROLLS OF OBLIVION TIPS AND TRICKS

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Good cheap house
Go to the city of Anvil, then go to the inn. Inside is a man whose name starts with a "B". He is selling his grandfather's old manor. You can purchase it for 5,000 gold, which is very cheap considering that most houses are 15,000 gold and are not as good. The house (at first) is ugly and haunted. However, after completing the quick quest the house will be fixed up without any additional payment.

 

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Good weapon
Fill a Black Soul Gem with a Human Soul. Take a weapon that is not already enchanted and give it fire, frost, or shock damage. Then, give a weakness to whatever damage you just gave it. When you swing it the first time, it will do the fire, frost, or shock damage, then give a weakness to it. The second swing will do a lot more damage.

 

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Infinate recharge
Use the "Duplicate items" trick on a Soul Gem. Pick them all up. When an item is on low charge you can recharge it back to full without wasting money on Soul Gems or having to bother with soul trapping.

 

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Infinite arrows
Go to the Bloodworks in the arena and find the gladiator that is practicing with his bow on a target. Stand close by him and when there are five to ten arrows in the target, take them before he does. He will just continue shooting when you move out of the way. This is an unlimited source of iron arrows, which can be sold to almost any merchant and therefore also makes an unlimited source of gold.

Go outside of the Inn Of Ill Omen where the man is practicing his archery. He is using steel arrows. Go in front of him and pick up the arrows. He will not hit you and just wait until you move out of his way. You will not get into trouble with the guards. Repeat this as many times as desired.

Go to Bazur gro-Gharz's house in Cheydinhal. He sleeps about 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. Kill him while he is sleeping, then check his body. To get unlimited arrows you must take the arrows first, then keep taking them in quantities of twenty. The game should glitch and you will get as many arrows as desired.

 

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Infinite gold
Go to the Talos Plaza District of Imperial City and find a house owned by a man named Dorian (Dorian's House) in the southeast section of the district. Break into his house and find him. When he tells you to leave, kill him. Do not press X to loot him and take all. Instead, take each item individually, finishing with the gold, which will not run out once it hits 8 pieces. Just keep selecting the gold he is carrying and keep pressing A as usual. Do this repeatedly, and the number of gold pieces remaining will freeze when it gets down to 8 gold pieces. It will not go any lower, but will just keep giving you as much gold as desired. Note: After you break in and he tells you to get out, talk to him. Go to "Persuade" and bribe him a lot. After that, kill him. He will now have more money to loot, which makes it easier to get more faster.
Note: To get infinite gold from Dorian easier, use the following trick. First, bribe him until you cannot do so anymore. Then, hit him with your weakest weapon, preferably your fists. Then, quickly hold Block and press A to yield to him. Because he is your friend, he will stop fighting. Then, talk to him again. His relationship will have dropped because you hit him, allowing you to bribe him more. Make sure you do not hit him too much or he will run away. Once his health gets low, the guards will probably charge you. After spending your time or paying them, go back to his house. His health will still be low from your attacks. Wait exactly 24 hours and his health will be reset. Repeat the entire process to get the desired amount of gold. Once you select the money from his pocket it will not go away, leaving you with unlimited money.

Go to the Talos Plaza District of Imperial City and find Dorian in his house. Talk to him and select the Speechcraft icon to learn that he likes Boast and Coerce and dislikes Admire and Joke. Instead of making him like you, make him hate you. Bribe him until around 60, then make him hate you. Keep repeating this as long as desired. Note: The more you do this, the quicker it will be to increase your money. Kill him but do not let him run, etc. or he will contact the guards. Search him and take all his possessions except for his money. Exit the search screen and re-enter it. Then, keep pressing A on his money to retake it without it disappearing.

This trick requires a horse and an expensive weapon, the more expensive the better. Get on your horse and fast travel to Kvatch. Once there, equip your most expensive weapon and travel until you find a little camp with citizens around on the road to Kvatch. Talk to the female Orc merchant while on your horse and sell her your equipped sword. The message "You cannot unequip this item" will appear, but it will still give you the money. You can do this as many times as desired for 200 GP each time. This only works with your equipped sword; any other items will be sold as usual.

Become a vampire, then seek the Mages Guild help in Arcane University. You will be sent to Skingard to talk to the count. The count will tell you who to seek out in order to get the cure. Complete this quest, and after giving the Counts' wife the potion, he will want to wait a day before he will talk to you again. After that day, when you talk to him he will reward you with 500 gold. However, you can keep talking to him and selecting "Reward" each time. You will be given 500 gold each time you talk to him, even if you leave and come back. Repeat this as many times as desired to get an unlimited amount of gold. Note: When you do go back make sure you select his room lock and bribe him fully so that the guards do not get called. Also, complete this task before the mage's second or third task because after that the Count of Skingard will not talk to you.


When a woman approaches you in the Imperial City and asks you to see a man, go to this house. He will tell you that he and his group are vampire hunters. Follow the Virtuous Order quest line and you will find out the man you are hunting is not a vampire. Do not kill him. Talk to him and he will say that the man that sent you is actually the vampire. Go to the bookstore. The man will tell you about a cave. Travel there and kill all the vampires and take their vampire dust. Once you have killed the main vampire, return to the Imperial City. You will be rewarded with a ring, but he will also tell you that the order will compensate you for every vampire that you kill. All you need for proof is vampire dust. Use the "Duplicate items" trick on the vampire dust to get as many as desired. Keep talking to the man about vampires and he will keep rewarding you as long as you have enough vampire dust. This results in 250 gold for each vampire dust you have.

Use the "Duplicate items" trick inside a store. Make sure the item you duplicate is worth a lot of gold. Sell all but one of the item that was duplicated, then repeat the process as many times as desired. It is possible to make up to 50,000 gold in a few minutes.


This trick requires a Black Bow, a Bow, and two different kinds of Bows (for example Steel and Iron). Also, the "Knight Of The White Stallion" quest must have been successfully completed by talking to the male in the castle of Leyawijn. After completing the quest, you can sell your Black Bow to the male in the castle of Leyawijn. He is one of the court. Every bow will give you 100 gold. Save your game because if you hit the male by accident the guards will attack you. Stand next to the male so that you can speak with him. Use the "Duplicate items" trick to duplicate your bow next to the male (when he is sitting in his throne). Pick up all the duplicated bows. When he says that you are over numbered you can continue picking up more bows. After picking up every bow, throw one on the ground (to make sure you do not sell all of your bows). Speak with the male and sell your bows. When you choose one time for yes, you can continue by pressing A. It is possible to sell 125 bows for 12,500 gold in five minutes.

 

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Infinite health
Use the "Duplicate items" trick on a potion of strong health. Repeat the duplication to get the desired amount of potions. Open the inventory screen and go to the strong potion of health. Hold Y and quick link it to one of the Analog-stick directions. When you are low on health, just tap the hotkey direction to use a potion. When running low on health potions, repeat the duplication process.

 

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Keeping quest items after theft
If you steal a quest item, for example the Ahdarji's Heirloom (a ring of a countess), and get caught, you will lose all the stolen items except for the quest item because quest items cannot be taken out of your inventory except to further the quest.

 

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Knock man off roof
Go to Anvil light house; it can be fast traveled. A man named Ulfgar Fog-Eye should be waiting at the top. If he is not there, wait a few hours. You can knock him unconscious off the roof over the Iron Gate surrounding the area. He will only fight you the first time you attack him and knock him unconscious. After that, he will let you beat him unconscious. During the first fight he will run away when he is near unconsciousness. However after you defeat him, he will not try to escape again. He is pretty easy to defeat in the first fight and is good training because he does not fight back after he is first knocked unconscious. This may require a few attempts, but try to get him close to the gate just before the finishing blow, where he is knocked a few feet back. He will not call the guards unless during the first fight, when he attempts to retreat, you allow him go outside the lighthouse.

 

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Launch items from chair
Take a large item and set it on a chair. Then, sit in the chair and you will launch the item across the room. Try this with watermelons.

 

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Leave level boundary
Use the following trick to get outside the boundary in FrostFire Glade. When you do the "Tears Of The Savior" (finding Garridans Tears) quest, go to where you must put the refined frost salts on the door (in the cave). Go through the door and to your right. Go up the steep slope on the left side of the tree sitting in between two rocks. Keep tapping Y on the left side of the second rock (on the left side of the tree). Once you move a certain distance you will stop jumping. However if you quickly pull Away then Forward again (you may have to do this multiple times) you will eventually jump and do a little slide and go further up the slope, Do this multiple times while adjusting your character accordingly. You will eventually slide through a gap between the big rock and two little stones. You will then be outside the level. Be careful about dropping down the second level of the outside map, as you will not fall, but if you walk forward to quickly it is a 90 degree downward angle. Try walking sideways slowly and you will eventually get down as if you are walking on a slant.

 

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Main quest glitch
This trick requires ten to fifteen paintbrushes, which can be found anywhere in the game, particularly in boxes, shelves, etc. You can use this glitch even if you have not started the main quest yet. Once you get the paintbrushes, go in front of the Temple Of The One in the Imperial City Temple District. Climb your way to the top using the "Floating paintbrushes" trick. Once you are close to the top, jump on the roof. You will go through, landing inside The Temple Of The One. You can see everybody else but they cannot see you. Walk close to where the door would be if you were inside it normally. You will see the top half of the same door you are in front of. Select it to enter the real interior of The Temple Of The One. Notice the hole in the ceiling where the light comes down. You will see a red sky. Walk outside and and two Oblivion Gates will be opened. Your quest will be updated, stating that Dagon is here and that you should talk to Martin. Go inside both of the Oblivion Gates and get the Sigil Stones. Later you will end up crossing over Dagon. Kill him then talk to Martin in the Cloud Ruler temple.

 

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Making Black Soul Gems
Take an empty Grand Soul Gem and a Soultrap spell to any of the four Necromancer lairs. There will be an altar which will only be active one day of the week. You may need to wait up to six game days. Place your Gem on the altar when it is active and cast Soultrap on it to make a Black Soul Gem. These are used for capturing the souls of NPCs. One is also required for one of the Daedric Quests as a tribute to the shrine.

 

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Making stolen items authentic
When you steal items, most of the merchants will not buy them. Use the following trick to authenticate them. Get in the jail and escape. Take your items authenticated or pay for your days in jail and you will have the items authenticated again.

 

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Nocternal's Cown
Successfully complete all quests in the Thieves Guild and the Gray Fox will give you the promotion of Guild Master, and the Nocternal's Cown. Nocternal's Cown will let you see living things as energy even through walls. Note: When you equip Nocternal's Cown, you are the Gray Fox -- when guards see you they will try to arrest you. Nocternal's Cown also lets you carry more items and increases your Sneaking skill.

 

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Permanent enchantment
Use the following trick for duplication or a permanent enchantment. You can duplicate a drop-able item, and if that item is equipable with constant effect enchantments you can make them permanent. However, the item once made permanent cannot be re-equipped, but each enchanted item is different. You can use the "Duplicate items" trick to make as many as desired, then sell them. Use the "Duplicate items" trick with a bow an arrows to duplicate the items to make permanent. Equip one of the items you want to make permanent. There must be an unequipped version still in your inventory for this to work. Use the "Duplicate items" trick again; however, drop the unequipped version of the item you have equipped and want to make permanent. The equipped one and the others will drop and you will never be able to equip that item again, but if you check your stats the items bonuses will be permanent. You can duplicate anything that can be dropped, including Grand Soul Gems with Grand Souls captured.



This trick only works with wearable items. Take any wearable item with a magical enchantment that you wish to make permanent and use the "Duplicate items" trick to duplicate it twice so that you have two of that item. Pick up the item and equip one. While you are wearing that item, duplicate the one you are not wearing by at least four. Note: The number of arrows used determines how many copies are made. Both items will drop on the ground in stacks of two. You will now no longer be wearing that item, but will still have its effects. Note: These effects are permanent. Do not attempt this with any item with an effect you may want to remove later, such as Water Walking, Night Eye, etc.

 

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Reducing pauses The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
The game uses the hard drive extensively to cache (copy and reuse) game data. This is done to optimize all loading the game does. It has been found in rare cases on some Xbox 360s that the cached data can get overly fragmented. This happens if the game takes a long time to load anything from menus, dialogue, sounds, objects, levels, and more. To solve this problem, reset your Xbox 360 and hold A as the game is booting. If any button is held while the game is loading, it will clear its hard drive cache and create a new one. Once you see the Bethesda Softworks logo video, the game is already loaded, and the cache should have been cleared. Note: This does not effect your game in any way other than loading. You will not lose any saved data.

 

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Saving lockpicks
When you go on a mission for the Theives Guild, it is much easier to steal keys for all the doors from immobile gaurds or the owner(s) of the place you are robbing after you have leveled up your Sneak skill with the "Easy Sneak level" trick. After you steal the keys you can open nearly every door for the building you are in.

 

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Secret treasure
Buy the house in Skingrad, then go to the top floor and look for the room with the deer mantle. Jump on top of the mantle, then jump again onto the loft design in the back corner. You will find an old note that has a riddle on it which leads to a treasure.

 

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Shadowmere
You can buy various types of horses. You can also get a free Paint Horse just after the beggining of the game at Weynon Priory. This is the weakest and slowest type of horse. Do not buy any other horse because they can be expensive when you are starting out. You can get Shadowmere, the best horse in the game, for free. You can get him after completing the Dark Brotherhood quest "The Purification", which is the first quest you get when you start working for Lachance. Just kill an innocent person (preferably a beggar if you are not part of the Thieves Guild) and sleep so that you may begin the Dark Brotherhood quests. After a few you will get Shadowmere. He is very fast and has a good amount of HP. Shadowmere is black/purple, wears a skull on his forehead, has a bloody handprint on the sides of his sadle, and red eyes that glow occasionally at night. He also helps you in battle if you fight near him. Best of all, he cannot die or run away. He is considered an important character and will just fall unconcious if defeated then will rise again in a few seconds to join the fray. If you happen to lose him, you can go to Fort Farragut and he will be there waiting for you.

 

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Skeleton Key
Once you reach level 10, you can do the Weird Shrines. This shrine gives you a lockpick key that never breaks and sets your Security to "Expert". To get it, you must go to Leyawiin south of Imperial City. Then, travel north using the right road (that does not lead to Bravil). Find the shrine called Nocturne, where there will be some people praying. Go up and activate the shrine. The statue will talk about some thieves who stole her eye. Go back to Leyawiin and talk to the guard. He will tell you about Webaa-Na. You may have have encountered him before if you did the quest to become a knight-errant. Talk to both Webaa-Na and his friend. They will admit nothing. Walk away and in a little while they will start talking about trolls or something. They will stop because you are in the room. Hide and listen to them talk about it. Once you have heard them talking, they will tell you the location of the eye. It is in a cave. Go to the cave, retrieve the eye, and go back to the Nocturne Shrine. You will get the Skeleton Key, which greatly helps lockpicking because it does not break.