Meet The (Elder Scrolls) Classes!

[tiredinnuendo]

Ah, Oblivion, where you could be a warrior, or a mage, or a thief. Or a mage-thief. Or a thief-warrior. Or the ultimate warrior-mage-thief.

So many choices.

- J

Yes, we know, you hate Oblivion. I should probably alter my first post to ask what classes you pick in The Elder Scrolls.

Well, if you're going to distill a valid point down to my dislike of Oblivion, you make me sound awfully repetitive. But redundant or not, my point stands. There are seven classes in Oblivion. Three if you don't count hybrids.

That said, I like "Mage" because I try to keep my characters pure. I focus my mage mostly in the areas of indirect attacks (heavy summoning and illusion), with a little destruction for when things get rough. I will be the first to admit that FighterMageThief is the most effective class though. And the most common at end-game.

It was actually somewhat difficult to not have my character get good at stuff that I didn't want him good at, and I had to console cheat his skills back down more than once, because he kept getting too athletic (or whatever).

- J

 

[propertyofcobra]

Always custom classes. And very often, CRAZY custom classes.
Screw being a mage, thief or warrior. I'm going to be an archer who only ever uses arrows that at one point or other have been thrust into my own body!

 

[Razzle Bathbone]

If you're not creating your own custom character class in an Elder Scrolls game, you're missing the point of Elder Scrolls.

(Except Arena. That one didn't have custom classes.)

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Well my favourite class in Morrowind was Sorcerer, and I always rolled a Dark Elf. I usually just went for House Telvanni and the East Empire Company simply because of the storage space, but on more than one occasion I detered from that. For example I, for a laugh, made a Dremora (Custom race, get over it) into the Patriarch of the Temple. And on more than one occasion I made a Bosmer Barbarian, more specifically one named Cider, who enjoy Sujamma and pulping the skulls of Orcs three feet taller than him. And it was hard to become master of everything in Morrowind simply because there were so many skills. Furthermore they needed more guilds in Oblivion, and blah blah blah nostalgic crap.

But I don't want to make this into a hate speech about everything today and how the past was so much better (even though it was), and would like to finally come to the point of this dillusional rant and rave. I like to make Characters who's Races and Classes don't suit, the stealthy Orc Thief, the mystical Nord Mage, and the almighty Bosmer Barbarian. Ahh Cider, your love of alcohol and skull pummeling brought back fond family memories <3 Also I would like to say that I respect some of your individuality in this subject, I've seen no common run of the mill characters, such as the Green Murderess Woof Elf, although I am disappointed with how anti-thief some of you are. I too loathe the piss easy minigame for Lockpicking but seriously, Spells are not the answer!!

Well, that's all the ingorance I can spew for today, I hope you don't take my Oblivion bashing purism too much to heart, because at heart I'm a big cynic and I don't really like anyone that much and those I do like are either anarchists or punk rock stars who I stare at in magazines for hours at end- I'm starting to sound slightly insane aren't I?

 

[BlueMage]

My basic play style seems to be Agent - but I've also played magic-oriented characters. Never been a fan of summoning spells, so never really got into the Conjuration stuff.

 

[DaDude9211]

Male Nord or Orc
Custom with: Strength and Endurance for the main attributes.
Just increase Endurance every level and try to get a 5X multiplier on it until it's maxed. Endurance is overpowered in vanilla Oblivion. Trust me. In late game, there is only one enemy that you can really die from if you don't mess up. Which is your shadow during the a quest in SI. Took my 15 minutes of epic fighting to kill myself. Currently, I noticed that against melee-only enemies, all I need to do is put my shield up and back up into a corner. With my passive damage reflection and my shield bash (from having a high shield skill), I can kill about 3 skeletal champions before die.

Having said that... "Ah, Oblivion, where you could be a warrior, or a mage, or a thief. Or a mage-thief. Or a thief-warrior. Or the ultimate warrior-mage-thief. So many choices."

First off, in your scheme you forgot warrior-mage. Secondly you over-tunnel yourself. There are 4 basic types of warriors: archers, blunt weapons users, blade users, and bruisers (H2H). In mages, there are 7 different schools of magic users: summoners, destruction mages, mystics, illusionist, restorationist, alchemists and alternationists. You can be a stealthy or not. There are two armor types: light and heavy. You may be a shield user or not. Lastly, you may be a merchant or not. These are 11 different options, all combinable, which alone gives ridiculously large options, you can double that with armor choice (ignoring using both at once), double again for merchant or not, double again for stealth or not, and double again for shield or not.. That's (warrior/mage combonations)16. With 11 different warrior/mage options, even if we don't combine them that's 176 different characters that can be made. If you think I'm being to loose with what defines a different part of a character, you still have to take into effect that there are multiple races, which puts different character options well over a thousand.

 

[PurpleRain]

I wish it was as cool as making a sneaky theif or what not. But the games so unbalanced you could be a fighter and become the arch mage of the mages guild. With that said I enjoy being a powerful mage only because it makes the game funner.

Locked in jail? No probs with the new and improved invisablity and unlock door spells. No man can hold you!

 

[The Potato Lord]

I start off with a custom Warrior because it enhances your damage soakability then master everything else. Oblivion is fun but too easy if you have the time for it.

 

[Sib]

When i have no specific aim for my character and just let him develop based on how im feeling ill usually end up with heavy armour, blades, block, one or 2 of the magic trees, a passive skill and armourer. If i remember rightly.

 

[Jessiah]

When I started I rolled what I typically roll: Dark Elf built for stabbing from the shadows. Stealth characters never seem to fail in Oblivion, especially once you get all that chameleon enchanted gear. Once you can start sneak attacking people in broad daylight by hitting their faces the game is pretty much over. No time for magic, other than some healing here and there. But let's face it, Oblivion is purely fun.

Granted, I did make an orc female that ran around with a two handed hammer in honor of one of my dear friends who looks somewhat like Princess Fiona, from Shrek, in Ogre form. Her class name is Piano Teacher, as that is what my friend is presently doing for a job, and the description is short and simple: "REAGAN SMASH!"

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Having said that... "Ah, Oblivion, where you could be a warrior, or a mage, or a thief. Or a mage-thief. Or a thief-warrior. Or the ultimate warrior-mage-thief. So many choices."

First off, in your scheme you forgot warrior-mage..... etc

Yeah, it didn't flow well with that in there. Too many "ors". I figured the intellectuals that make up this board could both manage to fill in the missing "class", and also be of a high enough stock to not nitpick in lieu of facing the real argument.

As to the rest of your... thing, I'm glad that you see it that way. If it makes the game fun for you, awesome. The fact is that after a few levels, your starting race is just a skin. A different outfit. No one ever tried to kidnap me and sell me into slavery for playing a beast-race. No one ever asked my Dunmer his feelings about the Morrowind man-gods. The skills bleed together, and no matter what your intention, you'll either end up using most of them (fightermagethief) or deliberately slowing yourself down or ignoring options just so that you don't accidentally mess up your character. As to being a merchant... yeah.... you open a shop and let me know who buys stuff. The fact is that Oblivion has one class - "Adventurer with Unlimited Potential in all Areas".

But really, statements like this have gone beyond "playful jab" and moved into the realm of out and out threadjack, which isn't my aim. If you'd really like to discuss the subject, feel free to crack a new thread, or PM me.

- J

 

[i am not god]

when i first started i played for a few days then deleted that character, and then created a warrior-mage that could (in theory) use all the spells, completed main quest and shivering isles and am now part way through knights of the nine an its going good

 

[Shatners Bassoon]

The fact is that Oblivion has one class - "Adventurer with Unlimited Potential in all Areas".

Amen Brother.

 

[ilves7]

"REAGAN SMASH!"

Oh that's just Reagan. Don't worry, he'll tire himself out soon

 

[AngryMan]

Personally, I'm all about being a warrior who relies on the nasty pre-emptive strike. That means a combination of light and heavy armour, poisoned sneak attack archery to get the fight started, and then good old fashioned sword-and-shield work.