None of the traditional values such as strength or agility exist in Skyrim. If you wanted to be a badass knight for example, you would be inclined to make blade weapons one of your major skills, as the more you use a major skill (blade weapons in this case), the more you'd level up and become stronger.īut in Skyrim, you aren't pigeonholed into specific roles. This was how you'd create your themed character. I could slay a hundred monsters, walk a thousand miles, and cast a million fire spells, but would still remain at level one because I didn't get a good night's rest.īut in order to level up, you had to train the major skills you chose at the start. It makes the revelation of receiving magic equipment much more thrilling as you decide to whether to keep magic items or break them apart to learn their secrets.ģ) Leveling – If there's one thing I didn't like about leveling up in Oblivion, it's that I had to go to sleep to feel the affects of leveling up. The new process just makes more sense as enchanting a weapon and casting a spell must be two entirely different things the process of learning is much more involving. So in order to make a fire sword, you must find an existing weapon that applies fire damage (even a dagger works), break it apart to learn the enchantment, and only then will you be able to apply the fire effect to weapons.

In Skyrim, you must instead break apart existing enchanted items to learn how the enchantment works. If you knew how to use a flame spell for example, you could enchant a sword to apply fire damage on hit. In Oblivion, simply knowing the specific spell effect allowed you to enchant an item with a similar effect.

Spells like that in Oblivion let you plow through the opposition like it was nothing.Ģ) Enchanting – Enchanting jumps off the same general idea as magic Skyrim offers new ideas that just make sense when you think about it. You also can no longer make crazy, game-breaking spells such as a 100 damage to health spell over a period of one second. In Oblivion, you'd have to buy a newer, stronger fireball spell to keep up, but in Skyrim, your fireball spell grows stronger as you use it.Īlso, the ability to craft unique spells doesn't return from Oblivion, so you can no longer strip apart spells to see them as they really are and mix up new spells. There are only a set number of spells but they become progressively stronger as you use them. Magic was more about the parts that made up spells rather than the spell itself. This magic could be cast either to be on touch, as a projectile, or on yourself. If I wanted to generalize Oblivion's magic, you can cast an effect that either damages the enemy or changes their behavior. Magic in Oblivion felt generic in some aspects a simple series of effects or consequences that are the result of a specific rule or action. 1) Magic – The one thing that feels infinitely better compared to Oblivion is the magic system as a whole.

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