In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, attributes are the core statistics that define your character's capabilities and influence many aspects of gameplay. There are eight basic attributes:
- Strength
- Intelligence
- Willpower
- Agility
- Speed
- Endurance
- Personality
- Luck
What Attributes Do
- Strength : Increases melee damage with certain weapons and bare hands, raises maximum carrying capacity (encumbrance), and slightly increases maximum health.
- Intelligence : Increases maximum magicka (magical energy).
- Willpower : Improves magicka regeneration rate and maximum fatigue (stamina).
- Agility : Increases damage with ranged and light weapons, affects fatigue and fatigue regeneration.
- Speed : Affects movement speed including walking, running, sprinting, and swimming.
- Endurance : Greatly improves maximum health, affects health regeneration and how much health you gain when leveling up.
- Personality : Influences how NPCs react to you, improving speechcraft, mercantile deals, and reducing hostility.
- Luck : Affects all skills and various hidden game mechanics, such as lockpicking success and disease resistance; values above 50 provide positive effects, below 50 cause negative effects.
Attribute Effects on Gameplay
- Attributes govern three related skills each (except Luck, which governs none but affects all skills indirectly).
- They determine your character's maximum health, magicka, fatigue, carrying capacity, damage output, movement speed, and social interactions.
- Attributes have a base value and a current value, which can be temporarily modified by spells, enchantments, or effects.
- When you level up, you can permanently increase the base values of three attributes, which improves related skills and stats.
- Derived attributes like Health, Magicka, Fatigue, and Encumbrance depend on these basic attributes and can also be affected directly by magic or items.
In summary, attributes in Oblivion shape your character's fundamental strengths and weaknesses, influencing combat effectiveness, magical ability, stamina, social skills, and overall survivability
