I have a way to get some new powers just visit a rune across old bridge near the imperial city. You'll see a bandit near the rune.

Anybody kill Umbra yet .

Don't think so.... and the powers are temporary...but cool nonetheless...

Well, now i'm Champion of the Arena and got the Elixir Of Exploration. For anyone that hasn't done the Nirnroot quest yet and want spoilers, i'll PM the effects of the elixir to you. Just ask to be PMed if you want 'em.

Also, went to try and close the Oblivion Gate, but decided to wait until it got a little tougher, because all there was were man-sized scamps and Clannfear Runts, which look like red Protoceratops on 2 legs. Also, I didn't go because all my abilties were defunct (The Blessed Word: Turn Undead, Mara's Gift: Restore 200 points of Health, Woad: A good Shield Power and Nordic Frost (In the Arena I call it 'The Hand Of Ice'), which does a whole hell of a lot of damage with an cold touch.

Lv12 now, BTW. Got 66 and 65 in Strength and Endurance respectively, I think, because i'm a Nord warrior

Also, deciding to join the Mages Guild because i'm good at Destruction and Alchemy.....

^If you think it's too easy or too hard, you can change the difficulty, press Start, go to Options>Gameplay and just change the slider.

I just got myself a bounty of around 25,000+, by killing everyone in Chorrol, it was hilarious, for a moment there was a civillians vs. guard battle going on.

Next, the Imperial City.

I was playin' last night and quick travelled somewhere (which I almost never do) and when the map loaded I could see line and distortion everywhere... I saved the game on a new file and reloaded and the same thing happened...this happen to anyone else?

I didn't keep the file, I deleted it and went back to the one save like 15 minutes before... too bad though because I had found some good armour and items. What difficulty do you guys have it on?...mines a little over half.....

^I think that might be related to what I said earlier with the information becoming too fragmented, maybe if you shut down your Xbox, and turned it on again while holding A, it may have helped.

I usually have the difficult on the Default setting, but if something becomes too difficult and I just want to get it over with, or if something is too easy that it becomes boring; I'll change it slightly.


[Spoiler]
If anyone wants a really powerful sword (Umbra- Strength: 16, Weight: 0) and armour set (Full Ivory), go to Imperial City Waterfront, and swim across the lake exactly South-West; you'll come across a small dungeon. Enter it and explore, you'll come across an NPC called Umbra. If you manage to kill her, loot her. If you can't kill her, try and get her to attack you without hitting her (Rage spell), and make her chase you back to the Imperial City, where a guard will kill her.
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Your probably right about that actually... I'll try it tonight.... I only lost some glass armor anyways though. Would you believe this.... I went to play Halo 2 for a few minutes the other night and I forgot how.... and I use to play this game like it was my religion.... I had to switch back to default controls (I always used legacy and hated default).... and I kept pressing Y to jump instead of A.... yeah...it was a little embarrassing....

That sword sounds nice.... maybe I'll go a lookin' tonight....

That one quest at the waterfront was totally awsome! It was so easy and you got all those cool weapons and everything .

haha I got the Champian of the arena to, (those three argonian prisoners were real b****'s to kill) shame the champian was a dissapointing fight...

I had to re-start because my save just wouldnt load so now im a drunmer lvl 3

Unlucky. I just beat the Grand Champion, but when I went to sleep after, the Dark Brotherhood DIDN'T come. SO THERE! Also, it's rather shocking what happens once you beat the Champion and your next matches come up. It sounds easy, but is harder than it sounds. The Raiment of Valor is very good, too

Also, I WILL HAAAAVVVVEEEE to lower that difficulty down for Oblivion. I'm Lv13 now and have some good strength/endurance (70 and 68 respectively) so the Clannfear and Flame Atronachs have that too, and it's far too much. I get very close to dieing after weakening a Clannfear about half

Leliel, LOL. Unlucky! But I personally found the Argonians not too bad. The Champion match, now THAT was a B**CH. In the end, I killed the warrior and the mage, then let Porkchop handle the archer while regenerated behind a large pillar And he won it for me

And Raptor, YOU NAUGHTY PERSON! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! But I recommend going for the IC LAST. The most guards and most civilians staying in there homes. Go for Kvatch, there's about 5 people there and no guards.

BTW, to everyone who's a Grand Champion, which fighter name did you pick? I picked Dragonheart, I was about to pick Sir Slaughter but changed my mind

I am the Black Arrow, I'm level 28 right now, just beat the Grand Champion....then chose to fight three Minatour Lords all at once(and beat them).... you haven't seen them you say?.... just wait

^How do you level so fast?!

@Moose, if you want to join the Dark Brotherhood, I think that you need to sleep in a bed in your own house after unfairly killing someone, for the scout to come and speak to you.

Did you kill the Gray Prince in a battle, or did he let you kill him?

1.Don't own a house, sleep in Guilds

2.Don't want to join Dark Brotherhood, just proving wrong another member who said he beat Agronak and the dark Brotherhood came.

3. I only chose the 1 bear

he let me was boring though


and yeah, how do you level up so fast!? tell me your secrets

^Yeah, it was boring. I felt pretty guilty, too...

...until I claimed my rightful place as Grand Champion.

I explained the leveling a few posts back actually, it all depends on your style of playing the game really. I met umbra.... cool sword....she had ebony armor when I met her.... couldn't do crap all to her though..... I put the difficulty to the easiest just for fun to see how the sword and armor is.... didn't save it though...didn't fell right about beating her in 2 hits...

^Raptor, which Arena Fighting Name did you pick?

Me-Dragonheart
Dando Kast-The Black Arrow
Raptor-???

But where do you get the EXP? Going in to dungeons, doing miniquests etc.?

For the arena I chose the name 'Crimson Blade'.

Just walking around doing different things...... you have to be careful of what you pick for your major skills or you'll never level up....

I didn't do the side quest for the grey prince, because i knew in advance that he wouldn't fight, so I had a good little duel with him when I was about lvl 12, i'm lvl31 now. Just finished main quest last night, did the mages guild before that, now i'll do the fighters or theives, i'll save the brotherhood for last.

^Wow. How many hours have you worked up so far?

^BY THE NINE DIVINES CIRAXIS! (LOL)

Anyway, yesterday I did close the Oblivion Gate and break the siege of Kvatch Castle......But only after lowering the difficulty. But i'm not ashamed, because I know that if I didn't 1 Clannfear could've taken me out on the spot. And there was about 6 chasing me from the castle gates.

Also, I tried to look for the dungeon with Umbra in it, but couldn't find it. Is it an Ayleid Ruin with a name like Vinasel, perhaps?

^lol, I just save regularly (every 3 min or so), so when I die I can just load back quickly. Oh, and remember to use the 'Wait' function (press the 'Back' button), to restore your Health, Magicka & Fatigue.


***SPOILER***
Yeah, it's called 'Fort Vindasel'
To find Umbra, fast travel to Imperial City Waterfront and head along to where the 'House for sale is', among all of the other shacks. Once you're there, swim directly South-West, and you'll find it as soon as you get to the other side.

Has anyone found the 'Ring of Retribution'?.... it deflects 8% damage back .... and has anyone *possible spoiler*



















.....entered a dream?

To be honest guys, i only play a few hours a night. I played morrowind heavily, so maybe that helps. I'm not power gaming either, i've lvled up normally, doing quests and smacking bandits and goblins. I'm addicted to mountain climbing too, i see a distant peak, and i'm like "man, i wonder what the view is like" so i go up there. i really enjoy this game, and i think i should have taken it slower because it seems as if i've done so much so fast, but i really haven't even done half the game.

I'm in the exact same boat actually.... now I usually have to turn down the difficulty just to get through simple things.

haha I did today, only had trouble with one of the tasks.


does anyone know where "Harcane Grove" is? I want the unicorn... it has a 45 attack and a 29 speed (shadowmere has 33 speed - you get that soon after you advance to 'silencer' in the dark brotherhood)

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Also, I completed the mage guild, yay~ I'm now archmage. soon I hope to advance to level 10 and find the skeleton key (its unbreakable and adds 40 to your security - but you have to be level 10 to do the quest - so 7 more levels for me...)

next guild will be the Fighters guild, after I buy some lockpicks to get those green daggers in the locked box in the mages HQ...

^I wrote about getting the skeleton key a few pages back.

I have Shadowmere; it's awesome, fast and defends itself well.

I've never entered a dream, I wasn't aware that you could. How do you do it?

^Yeah, you do you enter a dream?

BTW, Leliel, you completed the Mages Guild at Lv3?

And I think green weapons are either Glass or Orcish if i'm not mistaken....

haha yeah, im arch-mage. difficulty's in the centre, it just takes so long to level up

hmmm I think i'll go buy some lockpicks and take those daggers...

***SPOILER/CHEAT***

I just figured out a way to clone items. To do it all you need is a bow of any kind, and two types of arrows.

1. Equip the bow and one set of arrows, pull back your bow and when the arrow is drawn, press B.

2. Go to your inventory and find your other set of arrows, press A twice.

3. Now look for the item you want to clone, drop it.

4. Return to the game, and the arrow should fire itself, and your item will be cloned.

(The amount of times the item is cloned is equal to the amount of the second type of arrow that you equip. So if you equip 50 steel arrows, 50 clones will be made.)

It doesn't work with all items, but most do work.

has anyone received the skull of corruption yet? its a great deal of fun.

^I haven't, what does it do?

it makes an evil clone of who ever you cast it on, the clone doesn't play nice, it attacks its clone on sight. tons of fun

haha where do you get it from?

OH MY GOD..... I just found a 'Ring of Vitality'... it give 100% resistance to disease, poison and paralysis!

Entering the dream is part of a quest you get after completing one of the Mage Guild recommendations.

..and this Harcane Grove place seems very interesting....time for some searchin'

And I got 'The Grand Ring Of Retribution' from the Mythic Dawn, and I thought THAT was good (9% damage inflicted on you on the last hit gets inflicted onto the attacker every second no matter if they're still attacking or not, constant effect) <Basically, better than Leliel's Ring Of Retribution and I also got the 'Grand Necklace Of Seawalking' from the Mythic Dawn, which allows you to always walk on water! No water-walking potions for me, thanks!

Also, that skull sounds pretty neat! Where do you get it?

BTW, I just figured i'd ask this, which race, birthsign, class and major skills are everyone?

Race: Nord

Birthsign: Mara's Gift (Very Powerful Restoration Spell)

Class: (Custom Class) Hero, Combat Class

Major Skills:

Athletics: Around 62
Blade: 74
Heavy Armour: 76
Destruction: 37
Alchemy: 43
Security: 31
Speechcraft: 37

Race: Imperial
Birthsign: The Thief
Class: (Custom) Adventurer
Level: 16

Major Skills:
Hand to hand: 38
Heavy armour: 77
Conjuration: 64
Acrobatics: 52
Marksman: 40
Sneak: 48
Speechcraft: 47

Skull of Corruption sounds funky fresh, Dynamite!

Also, I believe those daggers are replica's, not real glass daggers.

I have a sword named "Long sword of the Dynamo", which looks just like a glass sword.

Phew, I did alot in that stint on the 360. I did 2 Fighter Guold contracts, 1 advancing me to Swordsman and another getting me a glass longsword from a gang of thieves (Yeah, these Bosmers were loaded, silver, elvish, glass, etc.), so now I have a Glass Longsword and a Dremora Kynreeve Shield. Also, I killed Umbra, toned down the difficulty quite a bit though, because damn, I lowered it to about a quarter and she still nearly killed me! So now I have all Ebony Armour, except I have a Steel Helmet, I didn't like the look of the Ebony helmet, so I sold it and kept my Steel one.

On a sidenote, has anyone seen a Dwarven Helmet? You'll either think they look evil and rough, or completely awkward and hilarious!

Level 15 now, located Shrine Of Dagon, but I can't do the Chorrol Mages Guild recommedation. I go to Cloud Top and look everywhere around that little fort, but can't find squat. Can anyone help me?

you'll find the book next to a charred body next to a pillar. just follow your marker, it will lead you right there.

Race: Dunmer
Birthsign: The Mage
Class: BattleMage
Level: 4

(I'll add onto this when i get home, not sure what my statistics are)


oh, and those glass daggers were replicas I still went out and fought a load of guards with it, died veryyyy quickly as 5 or 6 came out of no where....

OK, I am royally puzzled. I have done 6 out of 6 recommendations, but when I go to the University and ask that guy (Can't remember his name, begins with 'G' I think) He says, "you haven't got the nessecary recommendations from the right people yet". Can anyone give an explanation?

are you sure you've completed all required quests? like the book one, where you have to take it back from the lady and give it to the kahjiit (I really have to take note of there names....)

just backtrack and see if you've actually completly done them. if not you probally found a bug =\

Oh, there's alot more bugs where that came from.....

Check the forums out: http://www.portalforums.net/viewforum.php?...da12d22e5bd7911

Race: Breton
Birth Sign : Steed
Lvl: 32

Major Skills:

Athletics 60
Blade 70
Destruction 76
Restoration 72
Acrobatics 66
Light Armor 100
Markmanship 69

I also found some very very sweet things today... I found a 'Mundane Ring' that reflects 35% of magic away from me and resists magica 50%... then the Ring of Thieves.... fortify sneak 15 points, security 10 and gives me a constant effect of detect life at 25 feet..... found a sweet weapon called Oblivions Embrace.... it gives 75% weakness to fire for 10 seconds and 1 point of fire damage as well (that combined with blazing spear and the game is a breeze)..... which brings me to the best...my Ring of Perfection....fortifies all attributes by 10

Edit

I forgot about my ring of Vitality...100% resistance to disease, poison and paralysis...

I'm level 40 now.

^ What do your stats look like?