I'm at level 41 on X-Box and am having a hard time getting people to train me. Where can I get a list of master trainers?
Thanks

You might have seen http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion before but if you haven't it is like the most useful elder scrolls information site ever. Just a warning if you look up quests on it you might ruin lots of surprises and cool things for yourself so use it somewhat cautiously. This is the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Master_Training page with all of the master trainers (from that website)

the master blade trainer is at the faregyll inn, blunt is at aerins camp, alchemy is sinderion at the west weald inn, he is the altmer who can synthesize a potion of exploration out of nirnroots for you

Master Trainers usually have a quest before they'll train you, and you can only start that quest by being given it by the Advanced trainer. It's probably more important to know who those are, as they'll direct you to the Master level person when you get the quest. Same page at the wiki lists them all.

BIG POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD


http://uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Trainers

NOTE: It's actually critically important that you talk to the advanced trainers in your skills of interest first. You won't even have the option of training under the Master until you get a reference from his apprentice. This applies to any and all skills in the game. Most Masters will ask you to complete a task for them. Some are simple but others will really test your abilities.

Also note that on the x-box 360 version, even with all the patches, if you have Knights Of The Nine installed there's a serious problem with the Restoration trainer. The people who refer you to her possibly die during the normal events of that quest line. If both of them end up dead, there's no dialogue option in their replacements' conversation options which refers you to her. In essence, you're out of luck if both of the advanced trainers die and you want Master training in the arts of Restoration.

Edit: I just read the article again. Both of them die no matter what during the KOTN questline. If you pass the point where you receive the Sword of Pelinal, it's too late to get the reference for the Master trainer. I don't know what to tell you if you've installed this plugin and have already beaten it. If you wanted Restoration training you're simply out of luck. It's a gross oversight that Bethesda never patched. PC players have the Unofficial patch which fixes it by giving the dialogue option to the two new Advanced trainers, but X box players never got that.

question here: how helpful really is getting training from 99-100? I mean, even Restoration that levels slowly, I managed to get my mage to reach during an oblivion gate stuff (using absorb health as offensive spell helped a lot), it did not take that long.

also, as u probably cannot just come to master say "hi, im a 99, make me 100 pls", sou'll have to quest, fight, etc... meaning u'll probably get chances to raise that attribute to 99,5 or something.

master trainers takes you from level 70 to 100 where it's hardest to train for yourself.
You have 5 training sessions for each level up, why not use them. Granted some skill are more useful to get trainers for than others. Has anybody ever used the alchemy master trainer?
Secondary weapon skills can be pretty hard to train, yes hand to hand or a mace is nice against minor enemies and save charges on your enchanted weapon but again hard at high levels.
And yes the purpose of trainers is mainly to get the x5 multipliers, you might want to train magic skills to get access to high level spells even if not primary a mage but here you can make training spells.

I knew the first, but not the latter, thx for clarifying.

Many reasons to use trainers. One is that they have a quest at Master level, so if you're trying to do all the quests, you need to do those. Another is to use up the surplus gold after you bought all the houses etc. Then some of the skills are just so slow to increase that you need trainers to get your skill balance back. Some players will RP the need for training at all the mastery breakpoints (25,50,75,100) to make sense of the new ability it confers, otherwise there's no source for that new knowledge. And there's always "why not, it's part of the game?"