High athletics and high health, and get naked! Get naked I say! oh yes, i had an entire army of dremoras and Clanfears chasing me, not one hit me! Just do them stretches before entering and sprint, SPRINT I SAY!

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

i'll try that next time...

I highly suggest it. Ive closed around 15 gates doing this so far.

I've heard people talk about racing to the Sigil Stone without fighting, but I've never tried it myself. I probably will, at some point. I suppose it could be kind of fun in its own way. You could look at it as a kind of high-stakes marathon run.

Haha. Makes me want to create a character who uses that method of "fighting".

Get naked and RUN!!!!!

He would have to be a Nord

or 100% chameleon and 100+ sneak

Must have been Sir Jack Alope

"Fast as fast can be, can't catch me"

It's the only way I can close some gates (at level 14). I can fight dremora, but if a clannfear attacks I'm done for. Smartest thing to do is run.

I used to hate Oblivion gates. But then it hit me: combat is a bad situation in real life. It takes willpower to go in, it svcks when you're in it, and it feels good to be out of it-sound like Oblivion gates? no offense Bethesda.

So I guess that's one way to tolerate them

I have a character who has closed ten Oblivion Gates, and finished the Mages Guild recommendations, without ever killing anything or anyone. Speed, stealth, invisibility when needed, and paralyze them when there's no other choice. No weapons, no armor, no problem.

The spawns in my game's Oblivion realms are so messed up. At level 5 I am running into rooms with like 3 Dremoras, maybe 2 scamps and sometimes a clannfear thrown in. WTF

This has caused me to TCL straight to the sigil stone if I die after 3 tries trying to clear such rooms.

(Unofficial Patches, no mods)

Hah, naked nord reference! :3

That sounds about normal for the sigil stone chamber at the top, at level 5. Dremora come in all levels. If you were to sneak into the upper chamber, you'd find two enemies on the platform at the the top of the "stairs," and two more guarding the sigil stone on the red "membrane floor." This, plus any who have followed you up from below.

And don't forget that those dremora have the ability to summon creatures, which is probably where the extra scamps are coming from.

I still do. Now, my game is spawning them everywhere.

I suppose, eventually, I'll start taking them out if I get bored, but in truth, I'd rather just ignore them and just go on my merry way.

I just turned level 7, so I'm in no mood to go running naked in a gate. I'll leave the naked stuff to the Scamps.

Now, off to Anvil to finish up my mage guild recommendations so I can finally start making some useful weapons (even if I can't repair them yet).

Pics or it didn't happen!

just kidding. I believe you.

Just curious, but when do most people start closing gates? ASAP, or leveling up for the better loot?

I think I'll wait this time.

ASAP for me. I do not like the way gates permanently despoil the beautiful landscape of Cyrodiil. So I get them over with as quickly as possible. I also don't like the way the gates are shoved into our faces. I almost feel "bullied" into closing them: "Do it now! Now! Do it now!" That's another reason why I like to get them out of the way quickly.

Without getting too spoilerish... Many of my characters follow the Main Quest through the Kvatch business, to get that out of the way at low level (it's hard to keep your Kvatch allies alive at high level.) They then "ignore" You-Know-Who at the encampment, and go on to attend to other business until higher level.

Done that way, the MQ can be delayed indefinitely, without any more gates opening until you're ready to deal with them. It's relatively easy to justify this for most characters, given that the ordeal at Kvatch is tough enough to make characters reassess their abilities, and it can appear that the immediate danger is over.

Eve: I've had three characters start the MQ, in all three cases it wasn't about getting the MQ out of the way ASAP, nor was it about getting the best loot. We just went to Kvatch when it felt most appropriate. Igodah Go^Pe and The Grey Wizard (2 past characters of mine) became head of the Mage's Guild first before going to Kvatch.

There's so many other things to do in this game. Even when I was new to it, I didn't see any immediate reason to go to Kvatch. I figured I would see some of the game's guild quests and side quests first before taking on the main quest.

It's like going to a restaurant. I usually start with appetizers first, before moving on to the Main Course.

After reading glargg and Renee's posts I am embarrassed to realize that I didn't word my post very clearly. What I meant to say was: once I start the main quest I try to finish it ASAP. But in practice I do what Renee does, which is: "a lot of other things first." I've done the main quest more often than Pseron (who has only done it once) but less often than many other people.

Interesting. I've started the MQ 3x. The first time, it initially scared the heck out of me (seriously it freaked me out) and I hated what happened to nice, placid Cyrodiil. I hated all the gates that kept popping up every where.

Second time I did the quest, I was more mentally prepared for it, but still not look really enjoying it. That game got affected by the A-bomb, though, right before my elf was in the final tower (clock ticking down). She literally got stuck in the tower, and could not open a door.

Third time I tried the MQ, I enjoyed it more fully. We didn't close every gate, but if a gate was near civilization, the Grey Wizard would take the time to close it. I enjoyed the challenge of employing different strategies with each gate, and The Grey Wizard enjoyed the ego boosts he received from NPCs who praised him. Sigil stones were like icing on the cake.

I am actually considering doing the MQ a fourth time. I already have a set of ideas for my next character. It'll be kind of different this time, because this MQ will be on Xbox, so I'm sure some of the DLC I haven't discovered yet will eventually come into play while my new character's exploring her world.

My Nord started the MQ right away, but hasn't finished it yet. She will, eventually.

She is on the "allies for Bruma" part...

My Altmer is the Hero of Kvatch and he will be champion of Cyrodiil, but not in the game, because he will go about it in a different way and I don't think I can play through it in the game.

My Dunmer mercenary is a problem... Because he's not the Hero of Kvatch. He has not brought an amulet to someone etc... But he did close a few Oblivion gates, according to his Skyrim self. And they don't open until at a certain point in the main quest...

I don't want to start a new character until I've retired one of the three, but I do have an idea for a crazy naked Nord mage, who runs rather than fights... Thanks to this thread!

Yeah me too. I'm gonna have a naked Wood Elf with a mohawk.



I'm gonna play Guns 'n' Roses whenever we enter a new Oblivion gate.



ha ha just kidding.

How did you handle