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Best Warrior Build

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Warrior Build Guide

This is a guide on the best Warrior build in The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered. Find out the best build for the Warrior class, the best identity and birthsign for the Warrior, and how to play as a Warrior!

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Best Warrior Build

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Skill Priority Attribute Priority
Best Weapon Types Best Identity Best Birthsign

Skill Priority for Warrior

Blade SkillBlade
(Priority)		 Armorer SkillArmorer
(Priority)		 Athletics SkillAthletics
Block SkillBlock Heavy Armor SkillHeavy Armor
(Passive)		 -

The Warrior is a pretty straightforward class to build. Your primary damage skill will be the Blade skill since most of the best weapons in Oblivion are Blades. However, if you want to pivot to non-Bladed weapons, you can prioritize leveling Blunt or Hand-to-Hand, instead.

Next on your grocery list of skill priorities is the Armorer skill. As you play and get enchanted gear, you'll start feeling the strain of having to keep up with repairs. A higher level of Armorer should help with your troubles.

Aside from those two, you can focus on leveling up Athletics, Block, and Heavy Armor (in no particular order) so that you can sprint more often, reduce wear and tear when blocking, and improve damage negation, respectively.

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Attribute Priority for Warrior

Attributes

Each level up in Oblivion will grant you 12 Virtues to distribute between 3 chosen Attributes. As a Warrior, focus on going +5 Endurance and +5 Strength during each level up in the early game.

For Warriors, you'll want to focus on increasing Strength for more damage, then alternate between Endurance (for more HP), Willpower (for more Fatigue / Stamina), and Agility (for better Fatigue regen).

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Best Weapon Types for Warrior

Primary Blade and Shield
Alternative Claymore

The best weapon type for the Warrior will be Blades (Longswords or Claymores) since majority of the best weapons in Oblivion are one-handed blades (Goldbrand, the Ebony Blade, and Umbra). While you can definitely lean into Blunt weapons, there won't be as many endgame options compared to Blades.

Note: Make sure you identify if your one-handed blade is a Short or Longsword. Shortsword damage scales with Agility, while Longsword damage scales with Strength.

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Best Identity for Warrior

Best Race Best Origin
Orc Orc Stronghold Orc

If you're looking to min-max your Warrior build, then the Stronghold Orc is the best identity to choose because of its high starting Strength, Endurance, and Willpower.

On top of that, you get a cool +25% Magic Resistance as well as a starting 15 Armorer Skill that allows you to blow past the Level 25 skill milestone once you choose the Warrior class in character creation.

However, players who want to play more as a human can choose to settle for a Nord (gets good STR and END) or a Breton (for its absurdly high 50% Magic Resistance).

Best Races to Play

Best Birthsign for Warrior

Best Birthsign Description
The Lord The Lord Those born under the sign of The Lord are more resistant to physical and magic damage.
・ Shield: Increases Armor Rating by 15.
・ Resist Magic: Increases magic resistance by 15%.

Funnily enough, the best Birthsign for Warrior isn't the Warrior but The Lord since you get more mileage out of the bonus armor rating and magic resistance as you progress through the game.

However, for those wanting an easier early game, you're better off getting the Warrior for its +10 Endurance and +10 Strength; an equivalent of 2 level ups as soon as you start the game.

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Warrior Class Info

Attributes and Specialization

Specialization Favored Attributes
Combat Strength
Endurance

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Warrior Major Skills

Skill Unlocks
Armorer Image Armorer Base: You cannot repair magic items.
Lv. 25: You can now repair magic items.
Lv. 50: Your Repair Hammers last twice as long.
Lv. 75: You can repair items beyond their maximum durability. Improved weapons deal more damage, improved armors protects more.
Lv. 100: Your Repair Hammers never break. One hammer lasts a lifetime.
Athletics Image Athletics Base: Your Fatigue regenerates more slowly when running.
Lv. 25: Your Fatigue regenerates at a normal rate when running.
Lv. 50: Sprinting consumes slightly less Fatigue.
Lv. 75: Sprinting consumes a lot less Fatigue.
Lv. 100: Sprinting no longer consumes Fatigue.
Blade Image Blade Base: You have no particular perk.
Lv. 25: Your Power Attacks deal more damage, and Blade weapons are more durable.
Lv. 50: Your Power Attacks apply Weakness to Normal Weapon to your opponent.
Lv. 75: Your Regular Attacks have a slight chance to make your opponents bleed, dealing damage over time.
Lv. 100: The Weakness to Normal Weapon applied by your Power Attack is even stronger.
Block Image Block Base: Your shield or weapon loses durability when you block an attack.
Lv. 25: Your shield or weapon no longer loses durability when you block an attack.
Lv. 50: Blocking an attack consumes slightly less Fatigue.
Lv. 75: Blocking an attack consumes even less Fatigue. You can perform a Shield Bash while blocking with a shield.
Lv. 100: Blocking an attack consumes almost no Fatigue. Your Shield Bash deals much more damage.
Blunt Image Blunt Base: You have no particular perk.
Lv. 25: Your Power Attacks deal more damage, and Blunt weapons are more durable.
Lv. 50: Your Power Attacks temporarily grant you Shield.
Lv. 75: Your Regular Attacks have a slight chance to silence your opponents.
Lv. 100: The Shield granted by your Power Attacks is even stronger.
Hand-to-Hand Image Hand-to-Hand Base: Your attacks additionally deal Fatigue damage. You do not recoil armed opponents when blocking their attacks.
Lv. 25: Your Power Attacks deal more damage and you recoil armed opponents when blocking.
Lv. 50: Your Power Attacks have a chance to disarm your opponents. Your attacks can hit creatures immune to physical damage.
Lv. 75: Your attacks deal more Fatigue damage.
Lv. 100: Your attacks deal even more Fatigue damage.
Heavy Armor Image Heavy Armor Base: Heavy Armor you wear degrades much faster.
Lv. 25: Heavy Armor you wear degrades at a normal rate.
Lv. 50: Heavy Armor you wear degrades much more slowly.
Lv. 75: Heavy Armor you wear no longer encumbers you as much.
Lv. 100: Heavy Armor you wear no longer encumbers you at all.

Major skills receive a starting bonus of an initial +20 levels and they increase more rapidly.

List of All Skills

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Rogue Class IconRogue - -
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1 Anonymous Anonymous 3 months

Don't take the Lord birth sign. There is a bug that causes armor to deteriorate at an accelerated rate because of any +shield enhancement.

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