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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for PS3 Hints and Tips

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Duplicate Items
Equip a bow and any set of arrows, then draw your bow back. While it is drawn back, go to the inventory screen. Select the arrows that you are using, then go to the item to be duplicated. Drop the item, then leave the equipment screen and resume the game. The item that you dropped will be duplicated. You can pick up all the duplicates and use or sell them. The amount of copies of an item you make depends on how many arrows you have equipped. For example, 10 arrows allows 10 copies. This works with most, but not all, items and weapons. Note: Do not try to duplicate more than 250 copies of an item or the game may freeze.
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Infinite Health
Use the "Duplicate items" trick on a potion of strong health. Repeat the duplication to get the desired amount of potions. Open the inventory screen and go to the strong potion of health, then assign a hotkey to that potion. When you are low on health, just press the hotkey to use a potion. When running low on health potions, repeat the duplication process.
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Infinite Recharge
Use the "Duplicate items" trick on a Soul Gem. Pick them all up. When an item is on low charge you can recharge it back to full without wasting money on Soul Gems or having to bother with soul trapping.
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Infinite Gold
Go to the Talos Plaza District of Imperial City and find a house owned by a man named Dorian (Dorian's House) in the southeast section of the district. Break into his house and find him. When he tells you to leave, kill him. Do not press X to loot him and take all. Instead, take each item individually, finishing with the gold, which will not run out once it hits 8 pieces. Just keep selecting the gold he is carrying and take it. Do this repeatedly, and the number of gold pieces remaining will freeze when it gets down to 8 gold pieces. It will not go any lower, but will just keep giving you as much gold as desired. Note: After you break in and he tells you to get out, talk to him. Go to "Persuade" and bribe him a lot. After that, kill him. He will now have more money to loot, which makes it easier to get more faster.
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More Easy Gold
Use the "Duplicate items" trick inside a store. Make sure the item you duplicate is worth a lot of gold. Sell all but one of the item that was duplicated, then repeat the process as many times as desired. It is possible to make up to 50,000 gold in a few minutes.
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Infinite Arrows
Go to the Bloodworks in the arena and find the gladiator that is practicing with his bow on a target. Stand close by him and when there are five to ten arrows in the target, take them before he does. He will just continue shooting when you move out of the way. This is an unlimited source of iron arrows, which can be sold to almost any merchant and therefore also makes an unlimited source of gold. Go outside of the Inn Of Ill Omen where the man is practicing his archery. He is using steel arrows. Go in front of him and pick up the arrows. He will not hit you and just wait until you move out of his way. You will not get into trouble with the guards. Repeat this as many times as desired.
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Easy Acrobatics Skill
While moving around on foot, just keep jumping instead of walking to your desired location to easily increase your Acrobatics skill.
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Easy Alchemy Skill
Steal a mortar and pestle. Steal a lot of food items and turn them into potions. It should not take too long to reach the Master level. Use the "Duplicate items" trick to duplicate two different types of food (such as apples and lettuce or other fruits). Try to get over 100 of each food. Then, use a mortar and pestle to create potions from the food. Repeatedly make potions as quick as possible with the duplicated food. When you run out of food to make the potions, just duplicate some more and repeat the process. It is possible to get your Alchemy skill to Master in ten minutes or less.
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Easy Alteration Skill
To get quickly increase your Alteration skill, make sure you have these spells: Open Average Lock, Open Easy Lock, and Open Very Easy Lock. Then, find a chest that you would normally need a key or have to lockpick. Use the opposite spell of the chest. For example, if the chest requires the easy spell, use the very easy spell on it. Make sure you have some Magicka potions or you can just wait an hour every time you exhaust your Magicka supply. In a short period of time you will have leveled your Alteration skill dramatically.
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Easy Armor Skill
There is a woman named Arvena Thelas in the town of Anvil who has four rats in her basement (the same as the first Fighter's Guild quest). If your level is high enough that rats do not cause you significant damage, you can break into her house, annoy the rats by punching them (or casting drain fatigue spells if your punch is too strong), then letting all four rats attack you while occasionally casting a heal spell. This is also useful for raising your Block skill, and is much easier than repeatedly causing summoned monsters to attack you.
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Easy Athletics Skill
Get an enchanted amulet, ring, or other item you can enchant with Water Breathing. Make sure it is a constant effect. Equip the item with Water Breathing, then jump in some water. Swim to the bottom, then hold [Up] to keep swimming into the floor. Your Athletics skill will greatly increase in just five minutes.
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Easy Conjuration Skill
Near the town of Bruna, go east, then southeast. If you reach The Red Ruby Cave you went too far. You will need to go back west slightly. You should see a shrine, that once activated, will give you Conjuration points as well as a temporary bound weapon and/or greaves. You can keep activating the shrine every 24 hours. Wait in front of it for 24 hours, then activate it again. Repeat this as many times as desired.
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Easy Ebony And Umbra Sword
Go to the Arena and get a few claymores. Then, go directly south of the Imperial Waterfront to a place called the Old Bridge. Move west and follow the road until you reach a ruin that starts with a "V". Go inside and get past the minor creatures. You will find a girl named Umbra. There is one broken pillar in the room. Use the bench next to it to jump on top of it, then stand at the edge. Use a ranged attack to have her start attacking you. Then, take out the claymore and just start hitting her. She has a lot of health and does a lot of damage -- do not fall off the pillar. If done correctly, you will have full Ebony and a great sword without getting touched.
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Easy Lockpicking
While unlocking a door, press Up on a key, then immediately pause the game afterwards. Look at the tab you raised up. If it is mostly up and about to reach the top, resume the game and do it again. If it is mostly half-way or mostly down, resume the game and immediately press X. You should have that tab done. Continue on with the next tab. This might require a few attempts, but after you have done it once it should be easy.
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Easy Stealing
Get the Gray Fox's mask and put it on. Steal something and wait for the guards to tell you, "Oh, you are the Gray Fox. I'm going to kill you" (or something similar). Select "Resist Arrest". Then, go to your inventory and take off the mask. Exit the menu, then yield to the guard by holding Block and pressing X to talk to him at the same time. He should walk away. You will not have a bounty, and you will still have the stolen item.
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Easy Kills With Nord Race
Select the Nord as your race and choose The Lover as you star pattern. Get an enemy down a little bit in health, then use The Lover's star pattern ability to stun them. While they are stunned, hit them with Nordic Frost. This will kill almost all enemies and works well as a finisher.
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Saving Lockpicks
When you go on a mission for the Thieves Guild, it is much easier to steal keys for all the doors from immobile guards or the owner(s) of the place you are robbing after you have leveled up your Sneak skill with the "Easy Sneak level" trick. After you steal the keys you can open nearly every door for the building you are in.
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Making Stolen Items Authentic
When you steal items, most of the merchants will not buy them. Use the following trick to authenticate them. Get in the jail and escape. Take your items authenticated or pay for your days in jail and you will have the items authenticated again.
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Making Black Soul Gems
Take an empty Grand Soul Gem and a Soultrap spell to any of the four Necromancer lairs. There will be an altar which will only be active one day of the week. You may need to wait up to six game days. Place your Gem on the altar when it is active and cast Soultrap on it to make a Black Soul Gem. These are used for capturing the souls of NPCs. One is also required for one of the Daedric Quests as a tribute to the shrine.
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Good Cheap House
Go to the city of Anvil, then go to the inn. Inside is a man whose name starts with a "B". He is selling his grandfather's old manor. You can purchase it for 5,000 gold, which is very cheap considering that most houses are 15,000 gold and are not as good. The house (at first) is ugly and haunted. However, after completing the quick quest the house will be fixed up without any additional payment.
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Good Weapon
Fill a Black Soul Gem with a Human Soul. Take a weapon that is not already enchanted and give it fire, frost, or shock damage. Then, give a weakness to whatever damage you just gave it. When you swing it the first time, it will do the fire, frost, or shock damage, then give a weakness to it. The second swing will do a lot more damage.
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Good Armor
At the beginning of the game after the King's convoy is attacked, quickly take the dead guard's katana and armor. This will make defeating the rats and trolls much easier.
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Getting Desired Sigil Stones
While in Sigillum Sanguis (the Sigil Keep at the top of an Oblivion Citadel), save the game while standing in front of the Sigil Stone, before grabbing it. If you do not get the desired effects from the stone, load from the point before you grabbed it and try again. The Sigil Stone you get is chosen at random upon removing it.
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Feeding As A Vampire
If you have a good Sneak skill you can feed from a sleeping person without waking them.
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Cure For Vampiricy
You must first have access to Arcane University. Go in and talk to the mage and he will tell you to talk to a man in Skingrad. Do as he says and run errands for whoever you need to talk to. Eventually you will be allowed to get rid of your vampiricy.
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Different Weapons In "Taking Care Of Lex" Quest
While doing the ''Taking Care Of Lex" quest for the Thieves Guild, you must scald the paper with Lex's seal. Just beside the desk where the seal is, you will see a chest. If you come in the door directly behind the chest, you will get an Elven longsword, Glass longsword, Orcish helmet, and a Mythril shield. If you come in from the door upstairs, you will get an Elven longsword and Dwarven greaves. If you come in the exact entrance, you will not be able to open the chest.
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Easy Kills In "Purifictation" Quest
While doing the "The Purification" quest for the Dark Brotherhood, use the following trick to easily kill some of the members in the santuary such as Ocheeva and Vincent. First, get your Disposition with them as high as possible, then sneak attack them with a dagger. Before they have a time to retaliate, propose a yeild. You can attack and yeild repetedly until they are killed.
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Floating Paintbrushes
There are paintbrushes stored in random containers at various locations. If you take one out and drop it, it will not fall. It will just float in the location you were looking at when you dropped it. You can drop them in sets of two or more and use them as steps to reach high places. You can also use them as barriers between you and enemies.
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Duplicate Items
First, you need to have more than one type of scroll, such as flare, hailstorm, etc. Go into you items and select that scroll twice(hit X twice). Then, go to the weapon/item you want duplicated and drop it. you will have as many duplicates of the item as the number of scrolls you had. Note:this cheat may not work for all items, but it does work with the majority of them. Also, do not duplicate too many at a time, as your frame rate will be so slow, you'd be better off restarting the system. I'd draw the limit at 40 duplicates at one time, but even then you will experience some lag.
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Good Training And Item Carrying
When you get the horse from the Dark Brotherhood, you can use it to get your exp. up. This can help with your Marksman, Hand to Hand, Blade, Destruction, and also help you carry more stuff. Just knock the horse out and search it. Put your stuff in there and he will carry it for you. Just knock him out again to get them back. (Note: after you knock him out once or twice, he will walk away.)
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Super Glitch In Imperial City
Go to the imperial city and find some paint brushes and duplicate them. Then use them in the market district to jump on the roofs of the stores. Get near to a wall on top of the store and drop the paint brushes until you get to the wall, then jump over it(better have a lot of health and acrobatics if you want to live). you will notice that the walls have disappeared when you turn around. You can't walk through where the walls were but you can shoot through them and the enemies can't hit you. And if you look around the outside area it will all look different. The water in the river is gone and some of the area is also gone. And sometimes you will walk under the ground. The only way to undo this glitch is to either fast travel or go into a door.
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Easy Way To Become A Vampire
All you need to do is travel to Skingrad go to the count's chamber and get into a fight with him until you get a disease called Porphyric Hemophelia.
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Easy Way To Travel Over Hills
If you have a horse (any horse will do) you can go over hills buy going strait up the hill as far as you can go then start going left and right while still going forward and you will go up the hill no matter how steep.
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