Ive been playing oblivion for years but i never really came across the answers to these...

Good skill and attribute combo's, especially for a glass cannon (im not even sure if it is a mage, archer or rogue type class)

When should you stop leveling (too low, too boring. Too high, too hard) Ive mostly been getting my people high, ive got a 42, 40, 42 and a 50 plus a load of 1-20s i gave up on

What things are there to do that you find fun? (im getting kind of bored when i play it, dont include main quest or guilds ive completed all of them about 10 times)

Help would be appriciated, thanks!

Skill and attribute combo's are completely up to you. For a glass cannon, low endurance and strength are all I'd recommend without knowing more about your character.

I tend to stop levelling around level 20.

I roleplay extensively. For example, Helena Aurelie and I spent the majority of yesterday picking flowers and watching the sunset. Sometimes we merely go for walks in the woods, stopping off at an pools of water for a brief swim. Others we embark on quests I propose for her.

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So if you stop leveling about 20 do you just let the skill points pile up and just not sleep?

Also, by the good skill and attribute combos, i was just wondering if there were any particularly good characters you have come across in your time playing?

No, actually. To limit levelling, you can pick three majors to use and four to ignore. By the time these skills are at 100, you should be at level 20. Then you can continue playing without worrying about levelling.

So far in Oblivion, my favourite character is Helena, my Breton Healer. Her favoured attributes are Intelligence and Willpower (a must for my Mages). The three major skills she uses are Illusion, Conjuration and Restoration.
However, she's hard to play. She's weak and has very low health, not to mention weakness to magic. She's in trouble if she gets hit. But she has a brilliant personality and I love travelling with her.

Count Lauriel's advice is superb and I play very much the same way, even limiting my glass cannon to level 20 via several 'never use' major skills.

Level 20 gets you all quests, top sigil stones and alchemy gear, top level basic weapons and armor and almost every monster in the game. I don't care about leveled quest rewards so I stop at 20. Leveled quest rewards top out, depending on the item at 25 or 30. If you truly want all those top leveled items, you can simply cap your char at 30. Your foes will have more hitpoints at 30 than 20 of course. If you love the perfect amber/madness gear from the SI (I don't), you might consider level 23 as a cap.

Fun things to do? Listen carefully to your character. Mine is currently simply savoring Cyrodiil as she and her mare, Superian, slowly travel along the southern border after visiting her friend Mazoga near Leyawiin. She is headed for Anvil to visit her dear friend Alawen, then pay her respects to the kind Count and Countess of Anvil that have always been nice to her. Especially after she reuinited them.

Make up your own quests. Why not track down and eliminate all those Mythic Dawn sleeper agents for example. Pretend that if you bring their souls in a black gem to the High Council, there is a large bounty for each.

If you want to be able to fight the lich in Lost Boy Cavern, you have to be level 23 when you enter. Unless you mod the game of course.

Glass Cannon (my take):

Altmer
Apprentice
Stealth
Agility, Speed
Illusion
Sneak
Marksmen
Conjuration
Destruction
Athletics
Alchemy

Mods! There are so many mods, I'm just starting to get the hang of installing them. I'm going to try re-playing the game using Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, some survival mods requiring eating/drinking/sleeping, and a few other big mods, including updated graphics/textures, better magic, maybe some quest mods as well.

Also, I don't know if you have Knights of the Nine, but I recently installed it and found it to be pretty detailed. And during my most recent playthrough I went back and did some of the smaller quests I had avoided, like Glarthir's quest.

You don't even need to be 25. A good example to justify that, say, the spell drinker amulet is always at 26 absorption. How can it be weaker one day than the next? You can cap at 20 and drop the one given in the quest for example. Disable it and then use the console for the max level one. Why not? Of course this doesn't work on the ps3 or 360.

Its not a achetype class, it is basically any class that has low HP but a very high attacking skill.


Dont worry about it, just adjust the in game slider to match the experience you want at any given time and stop agonizing over leveling.


Roleplay and get creative.


Help would be appriciated, thanks!