To level up fast in Oblivion, especially in the Oblivion Remastered version, follow these key strategies:
Efficient Leveling Basics
- Use your Major Skills frequently, as they contribute the most experience toward leveling. Minor Skills also contribute but at a slower rate.
- After gaining enough skill XP, you must sleep to actually level up. The length of sleep doesn't matter; even a short rest works.
- Each level-up grants 12 Virtue Points to distribute among attributes, with a maximum of +5 per attribute, allowing flexible character growth tailored to your playstyle
Fast Skill Training Tips
- Acrobatics: Jump repeatedly in a confined space with low headroom (e.g., in the Mage's Guild in Bruma) to quickly raise Acrobatics. Using a fortified fatigue spell helps by increasing stamina, letting you jump more before resting to recover fatigue.
- Magic Skills: Cast your own custom spells repeatedly to raise magic-related skills quickly.
- Combat Skills: Use the corresponding weapons or armor to train those skills naturally by fighting or practicing.
- Rest often to level up once your XP bar is full, speeding progression
Advanced Tips
- If you've maxed out all major skills and want to continue leveling attributes, you can serve jail time. This increases your Health based on Endurance and allows further attribute increases but randomly lowers some skills and can downgrade master-level skills to expert. This method is risky but can squeeze out extra growth when you hit the skill cap
- The new leveling system removes the old penalty for leveling "wrong," so you can use your favorite skills without fear of making enemies too strong. This encourages organic progression rather than strict planning
By combining frequent skill use, strategic resting, and optionally using the jail time method if you want to push beyond the normal limits, you can level up quickly and efficiently in Oblivion.
