Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Cheats

Click Here to bookmark the PS3 Index Page

 Easy Imperial Arena:
Get a bow or some decent spells. Make sure you have at least 30 in Acrobatics. As soon as the gate drops, run to your right, to where the right gate meets the fence. Jump onto the stone piece that juts out. Then, jump again to get on top of the little piece sticking out above it. Once on top, turn and fire on your helpless victims. When you have to fight mages or archers, stay on the ground and strafe behind the four central pillars for easy kills.

 Easy Alchemy level:
Steal a mortar and pestle. Steal a lot of food items and turn them into potions. It should not take too long before you reach the Master Of Alchemy level.
User Cheat by DoneForTheNight

 Easy Sneak level:
A very easy way to increase your Sneak skill is to find someone who is sleeping. Find a wall that they are near, then run against the wall while sneaking. As long as no one can see you, your skill will go increase until the person wakes. If this happens, wait until night and allow them go back to sleep.

When you have the option to join the Thieves Guild by meeting Armand Christope at the Imperial Water Front garden around 11 p.m., accept his task. He will offer you the option to buy lockpicks. Do not buy any. Go into sneak mode and get behind him. Not only will you get the lockpicks from him, you can also repeatedly pickpocket him to build up your Sneak skill. He will just tell you to go ahead, and that he does not need it anyway.

Whenever you get in jail, go into sneak mode. Move around for awhile and your Sneak level will rise.

Join the Dark Brotherhood. When you recieve your first quest to kill Rufio, enter his room and go into sneak mode. Rufio sleeps for 20 hours a day. Walk around in his room or use a rubber band to hold the Analog-stick so that you are running directly into the wall to gain very easy Sneak levels.

 Easy experience:
When you are doing the arena and are about to fight the Grand Champion, do his side quest first so that during the fight he does not try. When you are about to actually fight him, go into game options and set the difficulty to "Very Hard". This give everyone you fight more health. When you are attacking the Grand Champion, you can get a lot more free hits in without worrying about him trying to fight back. This works even better if you are using a very weak weapon. It is not about how much damage you do that increases your levels, but how much you attack.

 Easy money:
A quick way to make money without going to the trouble of stealing or fighting for it is to join a guild. When you join a guild you will have access to a number of guild halls all over Tamriel. It seems that the guild has no problem sharing their wealth. You can pick up nearly any item in the various guilds without making it a crime, and without labeling your items as stolen. By doing this you can just loot the guild halls and sell them to the closest merchant for an easy profit. It is not very ethical but quite effective.

When you defeat Caminalda on the Anvil Recommendation quest for the mages guild, search her body for gold and her room key for the inn. Use her room key on the upper door in the inn. You will find a treasure chest in the back of the room. Open the unlocked chest to get all of the gold that is inside.

 Unlimited arrows:
For an unlimited source of iron arrows, go to the Bloodworks in the arena. One of the gladiators is practicing with his bow on a target. Stand close by. When there are five to ten arrows in the target, take them before he does. He will just continue shooting when you move out of the way. This is an unlimited source of iron arrows, which can be sold to almost any merchant and therefore also makes an unlimited source of gold.
User Cheat by Sleepsalot

 Easy Ebony and Umbra Sword:
Go to the Arena and get a few claymores. Then, go directly south of the Imperial Waterfront to a place called the Old Bridge. Move west and follow the road until you reach a ruin that starts with a "V". Go inside and get past the minor creatures. You will find a girl. This is Umbra. There is one broken pillar in the room. Use the bench next to it to jump on top of it, then stand at the edge. Use a ranged attack to have her start attacking you. Then, take out the claymore and just start hitting her. She has a lot of health and does a lot of damage -- do not fall off the pillar. If all goes well you will have full Ebony and an incredible sword without getting touched.

 Unicorn:
The Unicorn and be found northeast of Inn Of Ill Omen and east of Mingo Cave at a place called Harcane's Grove. It is protected by four Minotaurs. The easiest way to reac it is to move west/southwest from Fort Variela, which is on the coast of the upper Niben River. By doing this, you will see the Unicorn before the Minotaur sees you.

Once you find the Unicorn and have gotten away, it will not accept you as its owner (may only happen if you already have a horse). Do not draw a weapon before it. It is strong and will kill you.

 Vampires:
There is a broken down fort that is the base for some relatively weak vampires directly south of Chorrol. The fort is called Fort Carmala, and it is located near Hackdirt, very close to northeast of Weatherleah. To reach it, if you have not done the Hackdirt or Weatherleah quests, go to Chorrol. Leave from the south gate and move directly south. If you reach the city of Hackdirt, you are near it. Look for a group of white rocky ruins. The door to the cave is among the ruins.

 Becoming a vampire:
Before you become a vampire, it is recomended that you become a member of the Mages Guild, access to the Arcane University, and either a member of the Dark Brotherhood or started the Order of Virtuous Blood quest.

Dark Brotherhood Story: Become a member of the Dark Brotherhood by killing an innocent person, going to sleep in an inn, traveling to the Inn of Ill Omen, and killing Rufio. Travel to the Sanctuary and talk to Vicente and finish all of his contracts. He will then ask if you wish to become a vampire. Say "Yes", then sleep on the slab. When you wake up, sleep again for twenty four hours three times. You are now a full-fledged vampire.
User Cheat by penny

Order Of Virtuous Blood Story: It is not required to begin the quest, but if you do the vampires will be easier to kill. If you have not, travel along the river just to the east of Imperial City until you find a cave. Go in and you should find lots of vampires. Attack one and let it hit you a few times. Kill it, then go back to Imperial City. Get a room in an inn and sleep for twenty four hours three times. You are now a full-fledged vampire.

 Benefits and weaknesses of being a vampire:
Vampires get a boost in many of their stats and abilities, not just Strength. The increase in abilities of a vampire is not determined by how much he sleeps, but by how much he goes without feeding. Not exactly, but for about each day one goes without feeding your character will get a 5 point increase to his vampire stats and skills. To receive these increases, the vampire player must to sleep or wait. The game will notify you of these stat boosts. If the vampire is well fed, light will not harm him, but he will have 25% weakness to fire. After the first stat boost (which boosts vampire stats from 5 to 10) he will loose this weakness to fire. Select the magic tab, then the last of the five tabs in the magic section, to see all the current effects on his character. The first thing is a "vampire meter" that has a percentage of how much one is a vampire (25% increments, starting at 25% up to 100%, in four stages). Depending on how high that percentage is, the sun will do more or less damage to you, from Sun Damage 1 all the way to 8. Furthermore, the time of the day is also important for sun damage. At dusk and dawn the damage dealt is very small, even to a 100% vampire. On the other hand noon is a very dangerous time for a full vampire as he will have just enough time to run from one house on one side of the street to the other (depending on how much life one has). The stats that being a vampire increases are: Vampire Stats, Strength, Speed, Willpower, Sneak, Mysticism, Illusion, Hand to Hand, Destruction, Athletics, Acrobatics, and Resist Normal Weapons. Depending on which stage of the vampire you are in, you will get from 5 to 20 points in each of these stats. (25% vampire = 5 points) (25% vampire = base vampire, fully fed). Other special stats or skills get added depending on the vampire level. Vampire Skills that are always present are: Hunter's Sight (Nighteye and Detect Life), Resist Disease 100%, and Resist Paralysis 100%.

Vampire 25%
Weakness to Fire: 20
+5 to all of the vampire stats

Vamipre 50%
Vampiric Seduction (charm on touch)
+10 to all of the vampire stats

Vampire 75%
Reign of Terror (fear)
+15 to all of the vampire stats

Vampire 100%
Embrace of Shadows (Invisibility + Night Eye)
+20 to all of the vampire stats
REMEMBER: Most people and merchants will not talk to you in this form

 Feeding as a vampire:
If you have a good Sneak skill you can feed from a sleeping person without waking them.

 Cure for vampiricy:
This is why you need to be allowed in the University. Go in and talk to the mage. He will tell you to talk to a man in Skingrad. Do as he says and run errands for whoever you need to talk to. Eventually you will be allowed to get rid of your vampiricy.

 Nord: Easy kills:
If you selected a Nord as your race, choose The Lover as you star pattern. This makes it extremely eay to kill someone. First, get them down a bit in health. Then use The Lover's star pattern ability to stun them. while they are stunned, hit them with Nordic Frost. This will kill almost all enemies and works well as a finisher.

 Making Black Soul Gems:
You need an empty Grand Soul Gem and a Soultrap spell. Take these to any of the four Necromancer lairs. There will be an altar which will only be active one day of the week. You may need to wait up to six game days. Place your gem on the altar when it is active and cast Soul Trap on it. You will now have a Black Soul Gem. These are used for capturing the souls of NPCs. One is also required for one of the Daedric Quests as a tribute to the shrine.

 Good armor:
At the beginning of the game after the King's convoy is attacked, quickly take the dead guard's katana and armor. This will make slaughtering rats and defeat trolls a lot easier.

 Skeleton Key:
Once you are level 10, you can do the Weird Shrines. This shrine gives you a lockpick key that never breaks and sets your Security to "Expert". To get it, you must go to Leyawiin south of Imperial City. Then, travel north using the right road (that does not lead to Bravil). You will find a shrine called Nocturne, where there will be some people praying. Go up and activate the shrine. The statue will talk about some thieves who stole her eye. From here you should be able to get it on your own. However if you are having some trouble, go back to Leyawiin and talk to the guard. He will tell you about Webaa-Na. You may have have encountered him before if you did the quest to become a knight-errant. Talk to both Webaa-Na and his friend. They will admit nothing. Walk away and in a little while they will start talking about trolls or something. They will stop because you are in the room. Hide and listen to them talk about it. Once you have heard them talking, they will tell you the location of the eye. It is in a cave. Go to the cave, retrieve the eye, and go back to the Nocturne Shrine. You will get the Skeleton Key, which greatly helps lockpicking because it does not break.

 Enemy and item levels:
Every enemy outside the cities and some inside will level as you level. For example, if your at level 10 and are fighting Boars outside the city, when you reach level 15 you will be fighting a Troll. The same goes for missions such the Forlorn Watchman. If you do the quest at level 10, you will fight Ghosts on the ship. If you do it at level 20, you will fight Wraiths. Do not waste time trying to level up just to beat one opponent in a quest because they could be set to always be three levels above you. This same style of progression also works with armor and weapons:

Armor
Fur/Iron: Level 1
Leather/Steel: Level 13
Chain/Dwarven: Level 16
Mithril/Orchish: Level 110
Elven/Ebony: Level 115
Glass/Daedric: Level 120

Weapons
Iron: Level 11
Steel: Level 12
Silver: Level 14
Dwarven: Level 16
Elven: Level 19
Glass: Level 112
Ebony: Level 116
Daedric: Level 120

REMEMBER: The armor and weapons usually do not appear at traders until you are two levels above them, sometimes longer. Also, any "secret" weapons such as the Umbra and the NPCs with them or wearing the "secret" armor are level locked. They will not get any more difficult because usually their levels are already about 22 t o30. However, as you become better with a blade (in the Umbra's case), the better the attack will be.

 Easy house:
Go to the city of Anvil and make your way to the inn. Inside is a man whose name starts with a "B". He is selling his grandfather's old manor. You can purchase it if you have 5,000 gold, which is very cheap considering that most houses are 15,000 gold and are not as good. The house (at first) is ugly and haunted. However, after completing the quick quest the house will be fixed up without any additional payment.

 Launch items from chair:
Take a large item and set it on a chair. Then, sit in the chair. You will launch the item across the room. Try this watermelons.

Thieves Guild Diary:
In the beginning of the Thieves Guild you need to steal a diary try killing her with your sword in the room where she finds the diary, and she when she is unconscious. As she was getting up I pickpocketed her and got the diary. 
User Cheat by parker92673

Increase Sneak Skill:
If you want to improve your sneak skills you follow a guard during his nite shifts (thats wat the oblivion guide says) and that should increase your sneak skill....
User Cheat by justchillin

Getting Lock Picks:
Join the thieves guild and talk to any of the Fences. They have 100 picks at a clip. They restock often as well. (Nocturnal Shrine in particular)
User Cheat by thepassenger