In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, each of the eight main Attributes affects your character's abilities, resource bars, and combat effectiveness in specific ways:
- Strength : Increases damage dealt with heavy melee weapons (longswords, claymores, maces, war axes, battle-axes, warhammers) and unarmed attacks. Also increases maximum carrying capacity (encumbrance) by 5 per point and slightly raises maximum health
- Intelligence : Increases maximum magicka, allowing you to cast more and more powerful spells
- Willpower : Increases magicka regeneration rate and greatly increases maximum fatigue (stamina), enabling more physical actions before exhaustion
- Agility : Increases damage with light weapons (daggers, shortswords) and bows, slightly raises maximum fatigue, and improves fatigue regeneration rate
- Speed : Increases overall movement speed, affecting walking, running, sprinting, and swimming
- Endurance : Greatly increases maximum health and health regeneration rate. Also determines how much your health increases when you level up, with retroactive effect
- Personality : Improves how likable you are to NPCs, making them more inclined to help you, less inclined to attack, and more likely to accept your offers. Also improves merchant negotiation and speechcraft
- Luck : Slightly affects all skills and attributes when at 50 or higher (starting value), influencing overall effectiveness and secret events like gambling outcomes. Luck can be temporarily increased or decreased by spells
These Attributes also influence your three core resource bars:
- Health (HP) : Affected mainly by Endurance and Strength; when reduced to zero, your character dies.
- Magicka : Determined by Intelligence and Willpower; consumed when casting spells.
- Fatigue (Stamina) : Influenced by Willpower and Agility; governs how much physical activity you can perform before becoming exhausted
In summary, Attributes shape your character's combat style, survivability, magic capability, and social interactions, making them fundamental to character building and gameplay strategy in Oblivion
