What can you do as a free member?

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and unlock all our premium features and tools to enhance your gaming experience.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save articles to your watchlist and get notified when they're updated with new information.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save your favorite games for quick access later, synced across all your devices.

Member benefits illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you'll receive instant notifications when someone replies to your posts.

Comment rating feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can make use of convenient features in the comments section, such as rating and sorting comments.

Premium archive feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can access Premium articles that are exclusively available to members.

Site Interface

Guest
Free Member
Article Watchlist
Game Bookmarks
Cross-device Sync
Light/Dark Theme Toggle
User Profiles
Direct Feedback
Comment Rating

Game Tools

Guest
Free Member
Interactive Map Access
Interactive Map Pins
Interactive Map Comments
Interactive Map Pins Cross-Device
Check List
Event Choice Checker
Deck Builder Cross-Device
Message Board Notification
Message Board Cross-Device
Build Planner
Stat Calculator
Diagnostic Tool
Weapon/Armor Wishlist

Want more information?Learn more

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered

Stats Explained

Add to Watchlist

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion - Stats Explained

Attribute and Skill Stats determine the overall effectiveness of your character when battling or progressing The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered. Learn more about attribute and skill stats, and how you can increase them in the game.

Stat Explained

Attribute Stats

Attributes

Attribute Stat Meaning
Strength ・Affects DMG when using Longswords, Claymores, Maces, War-Axes, Battle-Axes, Warhammers, and bare hands.
・Dictates how much you can carry
・Slightly increases max Health
Intelligence ・Determines your max Magicka
Willpower ・Determines how quickly you regen Magicka
・Greatly increases your max Fatigue (Green Bar)
Agility ・Affects DMG when using Daggers, Shortswords, and Bows
・Slight increase to max Fatigue (Green Bar)
・Determines how fast you regen Fatigue (Green Bar)
Speed ・Determines how fast you move
Endurance ・Greatly increases your max Health
・Determines how fast you regen Health out of combat
Personality ・Affects how much people like you, leading to better info-gathering and trade deals
Luck ・Affects the final level of all your Skills
・Luck above 50 brings good events
・Luck below 50 brings bad events

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered has eight primary attributes that determine the level of your skills and abilities.

These attributes will have a value ranging from 0 to 100, but the 100 value can be exceeded by using enchantments or other positive effects.

Skill Stats

Skills

The skills in the game are divided into 2 main sections, which would be Major and Minor Skills. These skills will be decided by your class, forming the foundation of what will be your strengths and weaknesses.

Major skills are more closely related to your class, which makes them easier to increase when trying to gain experience. These skills are 20 levels higher by default, given that they're primary skills in your class.

Minor skills are not really correlated to your class, which makes them less of a priority. They start at a lower level by default, and they are also slower to increase.

Each skill has 5 ranks, with each rank providing an additional buff once you've leveled up a particular skill to a designated rank. These ranks are Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert and Master.

Combat Skills

Skill Stat Meaning
Blade Affects how much damage you deal with Daggers, Shortswords, Longswords, and Claymores.
Blunt Affects how much damage you deal with War Axes, Maces, Battle-Axes, and Warhammers.
Hand-to-Hand Affects how much Health and Fatigue Damage you deal with your bare hands.
Block Determines your effectiveness when blocking an attack with a shield or weapon.
Armorer Affects how well you can repair your weapons and armor.
Heavy Armor Affects the durability and protection stats of worn Heavy Armor.
Athletics Affects how quickly you run, swim, and sprint.

Combat skills will revolve around the effectiveness of your weaponry and armor, helping you hone your battle skills to a razor edge that can help cripple your enemies during combat.

Magic Skills

Skill Stat Meaning
Destruction Reduces the Magicka cost when casting Destruction spells. Higher levels allow you to cast better Destruction spells.
Restoration Reduces the Magicka cost when casting Restoration spells. Higher levels allow you to cast better Restoration spells.
Conjuration Reduces the Magicka cost when casting Conjuration spells. Higher levels allow you to cast better Conjuration spells.
Illusion Reduces the Magicka cost when casting Illusion spells. Higher levels allow you to cast better Illusion spells.
Alteration Reduces the Magicka cost when casting Alteration spells. Higher levels allow you to cast better Alteration spells.
Mysticism Reduces the Magicka cost when casting Mysticism spells. Higher levels allow you to cast better Mysticism spells.
Alchemy Determines the effectiveness of created potions and helps you identify ingredient effects.

Magic Skills will provide you with abilities and buffs that can make you an effective spellcaster during combat or outside of it. Enemies will cower to your magical strength as you display your expertise in Magicka.

Stealth Skills

Skill Stat Meaning
Marksman Affects how much damage you deal with Bows.
Sneak Affects your ability to deal extra damage when undetected, pick pockets, and move unseen and unheard.
Light Armor Affects the durability and protection stats of worn Light Armor.
Acrobatics Affects your ability to jump higher and avoid falling damage.
Security Affects the difficulty of lockpicking.
Mercantile Allows you to get better deals when buying or selling gold.
Speechcraft Affects your ability to persuade listeners to like and trust you.

Stealth Skills will enable you to live in the shadows, sneakily passing through enemies like wind and slipping past locked doors to acquire treasure. Make use of your agility to blend with the crowd and fight in secret.

How to Increase Stats

Level Up Your Character and Distribute Virtues to Attributes

Virtues

Leveling up in the game will enable you to acquire Virtues which you can distribute to your Attributes.

Each virtue provides an increase of 1 point when given to an Attribute, with the exception of Luck which requires 4 to raise it by 1 point.

Alter Attribute Stats Using Items

You can also try altering your Attributes using magic, potions, enchanted items, or diseases. The alterations will be based on the methods you've chosen to alter your Attribute stats.

Oblivion Remastered Related Guides

Tips and Tricks Partial

Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Gameplay Guides
How to Drop Items What Items to Drop and Keep
Leveling System Explained Lockpicking Explained
How to Do the Item Duplication Glitch Where to Store Items
How to Cure Vampirism How to Change Time of Day
How to Get Fin Gleam How to Persuade
Where to Get Lockpicks How to Steal Without Getting Caught
Enchanting Explained How to Learn Spells
How to Use Blood Fountains How to Get and Use Sigil Stones
How to Run List of All Fences and Locations
How to Cure Diseases How to Increase Magicka
How to Claim Deluxe Items How to Recharge Weapons
Varon Vamori Location List of All Ayleid Wells and Locations
Shivering Isles Location How to Get Daedric Armor
How to Pay Off Bounty How to Repent
List of All Zero Weight Items Where to Buy Spells
Where to Find the Unicorn How to Yield
Glossary Guides
Willpower Explained Stats Explained
FAQs
Can You Dual Wield? Should You Become a Vampire?
Should You Keep Books? Should You Wait to Level Up?
Should You Sell Gemstones? -
Settings Guides
List of Controls How to Change POV
How to Increase FOV -

Author

    Please participate in our site
    improvement survey
    12/2025
    Would you assist in
    improving Game8's site?
    ×
    This survey will take about 1 minute.
    Your answers will help us to improve our website.
    We are listening to our users' valuable opinions and discussing how to act on them.
    The information collected through this survey will be used for the purpose of improving our services. In addition, the information will only be disclosed a part of a statistic in a format that will not allow identification of personal information.
    Begin Survey

    All rights reserved

    Guide Index