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Knight Build Guide

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

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Skill Priority Attribute Priority
Best Weapon Types Best Identity Best Birthsign

Skill Priority for Knight

Blade SkillBlade
(Priority)		 Illusion SkillIllusion
(Spell List)		 Armorer SkillArmorer
(Priority)
Athletics SkillAthletics Heavy Armor SkillHeavy Armor
(Passive)		 -

The Knight is a charismatic soldier class that uses their mastery with the Blade and Illusion magic to kill, charm, or command their enemies on the battlefield.

When starting as a Knight, prioritize raising your Blade and Armorer skills while exploring so that you have an easier time fighting and repairing your enchanted gear during the mid- to endgame. You can safely ignore Heavy Armor and Athletics since both will level up passively.

Next, attain a mastery of Illusion spells since they're pretty handy inside and outside of combat. At higher levels, you'll start being able to force enemies to do your bidding, silence their magic, cause them to flee in terror, or simply paralyze them in place.

Note: While Speechcraft is included as one of your major skills, it isn't really that important to level up since you can just use Illusion spells to sway conversations in your favor, anyway.

List of All Skills

Attribute Priority for Knight

Attributes

Attribute Spread 1 +5 Strength
+1 Luck (uses 4 points)
+3 to END, INT, WILL
Attribute Spread 2 +5 STR
+5 Willpower or Endurance
+2 INT, AGI, or SPEED

Attribute point distribution during each level up will be a bit more spread compared to other classes. Since you'll want a mastery of multiple skills, it could potentially be worth it to invest in Luck during the early stages of the game.

To break down the 12 Virtues per level during early game, you can opt to go with the scheme of +5 Strength, +1 Luck (uses 4 points), then +3 to either Endurance, Intelligence, or Willpower as shown in the table above.

Stats Explained

Best Weapon Types for Knight

Primary Longsword and Shield
Alternative Claymore

Meta-wise, it'll always be best to go with the tried and tested, Longsword and Shield combo. Especially since Oblivion is known for having many of its best weapons fall under the one-handed swords weapon type.

However, if you truly want to roleplay as a knight in full plate armor, then the two-handed Claymore is a decent alternative especially since it also benefits from the perks of your Blade skill.

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Best Identity for Knight

Best Race Best Origin
Imperial Imperial Colovia Imperial

Naturally, as a charismatic knight, you'll want to play as a race with high combat and personality attributes. The Colovia Imperial identity is the best in this regard, allowing you to start with 50 Personality and a balanced 40 in Strength, Intelligence, Willpower, and Endurance.

Plus, the Imperial racial bonuses play into the strengths of the Knight class, allowing you to start with 15 Heavy Armor and Personality before you even choose a class to play as.

Best Races to Play

Best Birthsign for Knight

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%.

Unfortunately, nothing truly comes close to the benefits of The Lord birthsign since it offers amazing physical and magic damage resist for free at level 1.

However, newer players can swap The Lord out for any of the following since these birthsigns makes it easier to choose which attributes to increase during the early game:

  • The Thief: Grants +10 Luck, +10 Agility, and +10 Speed at level 1. The Luck boost alone is amazing since +10 Luck is equivalent to 40 level ups already.
  • The Lady: Grants +10 Willpower and +10 Endurance at level 1. Allows you to focus on leveling other attributes during early game while giving you a headstart on reaching max Endurance.
  • The Warrior: The beginner friendly choice since most early game combat will just be swinging a weapon, anyway. +10 Strength and +10 Endurance is a good set of attributes to start with for more damage, carry weight, and HP at level 1.

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Knight Class Info

Attributes and Specialization

Specialization Favored Attributes
Combat Strength
Personality

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Knight Major Skills

Skill Unlocks
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.
Illusion Image Illusion Base: You can only cast Novice level Illusion spells.
Lv. 25: You can cast Apprentice level Illusion spells.
Lv. 50: You can cast Journeyman level Illusion spells.
Lv. 75: You can cast Expert level Illusion spells.
Lv. 100: You can cast all Illusion spells.
Speechcraft Image Speechcraft Base: You have no particular perk.
Lv. 25: Disposition decreases more slowly over time when trying to persuade a character.
Lv. 50: You can rotate once for free when trying to persuade a character.
Lv. 75: Bribes cost much less.
Lv. 100: Disposition no longer decreases over time when trying to persuade a character. Disposition is also less impacted by the most disliked action.

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

List of All Skills

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Warrior Class IconWarrior Barbarian Class IconBarbarian Crusader Class IconCrusader
Knight Class IconKnight Archer Class IconArcher Scout Class IconScout
Rogue Class IconRogue - -
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Battlemage Class IconMage Sorcerer Class IconSorcerer Battlemage Class IconBattlemage
Healer Class IconHealer Spellsword Class IconSpellsword Witchhunter Class IconWitchhunter
Nightblade Class IconNightblade - -
Stealth Classes
Thief Class IconThief Agent Class IconAgent Acrobat Class IconAcrobat
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Bard Class IconBard - -

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