I think I found a bug....while trying to join the Thieves Guild, I wanted to travel back to the waterfront to take the diary and so on....BUT, it said that i couldnt fast travel since the guards were after me....it was odd becuase they werent! They were even talking to me. SO, I committed a crime and THEN they were after me...I paid the fine and all was well....I then could fast travel....has this happened to anyone else?

I'm just puzzled because my speed is way reduced (down to like 4 without my speed boosting equipment) and is red, yet when i look at my active effects nothing is listed as affecting me negatively. I've only been infected with one disease (vampirism) and i am very unencumbered (like carrying 87 weight out of 250 possible). I'm also only wearing light armor. *sigh* This is a bit aggravating since speed is kind of helpful as a thief.

someone could of hit you with a weapon that lowers your stats. If you go to a temple alter and 'activate' it, it will lift the curse off your stats.

I had the same problem with my wisdom. It was lowered, but I had no disease. I just went to the temple alter, and it fixed it though.

there are enchanted weapons that will do that im pretty sure. OR sometimes a long stay in the prison will lower your stats.

Which mission?
And yes, I agree that of the guilds I'm in so far and have done quests for (DB, Mage, Thief, Fighters), the DB was the most fun. Esp the mission.

Please do. It's a good bandit cave for some loot, but the bottom level is driving me nuts.

I just stumbled on this cave on my way to Anvil. I'll be damned if it's going to get the best of me.

Also, has anyone else been having a hard time finding a good helmet? I wear light armor and the best I've found is chainmail (not counting special echanted items like the DB hood). I have full sets of mythril and elven armor except for the helmet. I haven't run across either one.

Where did you locate the mythril and elven armor? I need some.

I found the elven helmet last night, but can't for the life of me remember where I found it. It was in a town... I'll think on it.

I've just been finding pieces on people I've killed for missions in caves. I haven't seen them for sale anywhere. Just go into random caves and ruins you find and you'll get a set as long as your level is high enough for that type of armor. I think elven armor starts to appear at level 15.

Played the game a bunch the past two days. Using a tip I found on the Elder Scrolls board, I turned off the Pre-render frames option on my graphics card and now I average around 30 FPS outside and 60-70 inside (it's cool when you're reading a book or something to see your FPS shoot up to over 1000!). The 7900GT chews through this game amazingly well. Well worth the $315 I paid for it.

I decided that I didn't want to sit around and wait for the stupid shops to open, so I started out on the main quest. I found a cave and managed to level up to level 2, then went to Kvatch. I was able to close the oblivion gate pretty easily, but the battle for Kvatch kicked my ass. All the soldiers with me died extremely quickly, and I was left to battle the super Scamps on my own... something not easy to do when you've used up all your health potions I had to reload several times, and wait for my mana to completely recharge before taking on the next scamp, so that I could cast healing spells on myself. Then in the middle of the battle, my main sword broke and I had no repair hammers. The whole thing was extremely frustrating and took far too long. I need to deliver Martin, and then head back to Imperial city and pick up supplies and maybe learn how to fight a little better... I'm still stuck in the Morrowind style.

While Oblivion is beautiful, I'm not 100% sure I like it better than Morrowind. The interface is not nearly as easy to use as Morrowind's... mostly because it had to be compatible with the 360. I wish I could just bring up my screen, see what I've got equiped, where I am on the map and what my stats are all at the same time without having to click 5x.

From Gamerankings:

"On 3/20 the Xbox 360 received a new game from 2K Games titled Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion. Since then 21 sites and magazines have reviewed it including GameDreamZ, MS Xbox World, Deeko and Team Fremont. Together their reviews have resulted in an average ratio of 95.0%. That ratio has resulted in this title becoming the 15th best game of all time and the 1st best game on the Xbox 360."

Holy cow.

Does anyone know the other 15?? Id be curious.

From the same site:

All-Time Top 20

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64 97.8%
2. Soul Calibur DC 96.7%
3. Tekken 3 PS 96.4%
4. Metroid Prime GC 96.2%
5. GoldenEye 007 N64 96.2%
6. Resident Evil 4 PS2 96.0%
7. Resident Evil 4 GC 96.0%
8. NFL 2K1 DC 95.7%
9. Halo: Combat Evolved XBOX 95.7%
10. Half-Life 2 PC 95.6%
11. Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence PS2 95.6%
12. Halo 2 XBOX 95.3%
13. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion X360 95.0%
14. Grand Theft Auto III PS2 95.0%
15. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker GC 94.9%
16. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2 94.9%
17. Half-Life PC 94.8%
18. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty PS2 94.8%
19. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City PC 94.7%
20. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic XBOX 94.7%

Not sure why it's #13 here, but #15 on the front page blurb.

^ Cool...thanks!

Some of them look tied...im sure thats it.

I've gotten some of my magical skills up pretty high.
Today, I was doing a quest and one of the people I had to kill had a Ebony Sword.
Nice little sword, worth 4k on its own. I enchanted it with a grand soul gem I had on hand. I gave it a nice new name, Sword of Life Stealing

It does damage health 20 points for 6 seconds on strike and absorb health 10 points for 4 seconds on strike. I can't wait to try it out.

Damn, that does sound nice....whats your level right now? Im still just at 9

Great I finally got all the ingredients for the witch to cure me of being a vampire and every time I go to give them to her she keeps attacking me. I give up am just going to star all over. 1wks of game play down the drain ugh

I feel your pain. I'm starting over as well after deleting my save.

Maybe you need to feed first? Also, aren't there spells that can calm people down?

I think I might be level 22.

Damn...how many hours do you think it takes you to level?

Currently, im about 20-22 hours into it and at level 9.

Vampire here, they won't let me pray at a temple for a cure. Any vamp temples?