The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Tips and tricks

Tips & Tricks


 * Holding the Block button while casting spells will almost double your casting speed


 * Finish the Mages Guild Recommendation Quests to gain access to spell creation and item enchantment at the Arcane University.
 * Finish all the Mages Guild quests to gain a container which will duplicate most ingredients for free.


 * At level 2 you can do the Azura's Shrine Daedric quest which will give a reuseable Grand Soul Gem
 * See Daedric Quests


 * Want to take screenshots within Oblivion on the PC? In your \Documents and Settings\[User]\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion directory is the file oblivion.ini.  To enable screenshots, first create a backup of oblivion.ini (just in case) and then open it in a text editor, eg notepad.  Find the text bAllowScreenShot=0 and change it to bAllowScreenShot=1. then save the file.  Now you can take screenshots by pressing the printscreen key.  The screenshots will be stored in your main Oblivion directory.
 * By hitting the tilde (~) key before hitting PrntScrn you can clear the gui from your screenshot
 * Screenshots will not work with AA (anti aliasing) enabled