Oblivion: Help Me Decide

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#1 scarymovie5
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I am going through my first playthrough and have been taking my time. So far I am about to complete the Fighter's Guild. I have enjoyed it for the most part but am trying to figure out what to do next. I am thinking I will do either the Dark Brotherhood or the Mage's Guild. Which one would you suggest? Does one of them have a better story or better gameplay? I am just a level 4 archer with the warrior birthsign so far by the way. Thanks in advance.

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#2 Cherokee_Jack
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The Dark Brotherhood has the best guild quests in the game. However, it will kind of throw you off if you're playing a good character, because you'll be doing some pretty evil ****. If you don't care about keeping in character or anything, then go ahead and do them.
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#3 scarymovie5
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I don't care about being bad or good. I will do them both eventually.
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#4 Cherokee_Jack
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I don't care about being bad or good. I will do them both eventually.scarymovie5
Then I'd say do the Dark Brotherhood. I found the Mage's Guild ones kind of boring.
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#5 TaxAndDeath
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Yeah the Dark Brotherhood has awesome quests, some of the best in the game only better quest I can think of is in the shivering isle content

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#6 BloodFreezer456
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The dark brotherhood has the most fun and best storyline and quests,the mages guild puts you through some amazing adventures(with lots of loot)

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#7 jad206
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i would say do darkbrotherhood and theives guild together you need to steel things and sell to fence and you can steel stuff on some darkbrotherhood missions
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#8 gow117
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Do the dark brotherhood quests, theyre too much fun.
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#9 Making_Pudding
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The Dark Brotherhood has the most epic, fun, and rewarding questline of any guild. I would say it's just as epic as the main storyline.
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#10 Colin1192
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Like everyone has said the Dark Brotherhood questline is great

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#11 LieutenantFeist
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dark brotherhood is the cooles quest line..do that one

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#12 Colin1192
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And you get Shadowmere out of it. A horse that is fast and never dies

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#13 gow117
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And you get Shadowmere out of it. A horse that is fast and never dies

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mine got away in the 1st gameplay :( had to replace it for a cowy one :(
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#14 jrabbit99
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i would say save the Dark Brotherhood for last, it might ruin your character. And you should be part of the Thieves Guild beforehand, to get rid of any bounty that's on your head
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#15 Colin1192
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[QUOTE="Colin1192"]

And you get Shadowmere out of it. A horse that is fast and never dies

gow117

mine got away in the 1st gameplay :( had to replace it for a cowy one :(

If Shadowmere runs away all you have to do is go to Fort Farragut and Shadowmere will be waiting there for you

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#16 scarymovie5
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So I'm thinking I'll do the Theives Guild first?
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#17 chaoscougar1
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So I'm thinking I'll do the Theives Guild first?scarymovie5
depends...how high is your sneak? and do u have a high light armour skill with half decent armour?
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#18 scarymovie5
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[QUOTE="scarymovie5"]So I'm thinking I'll do the Theives Guild first?chaoscougar1
depends...how high is your sneak? and do u have a high light armour skill with half decent armour?

Not very high, and not really.

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#19 chaoscougar1
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[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"][QUOTE="scarymovie5"]So I'm thinking I'll do the Theives Guild first?scarymovie5

depends...how high is your sneak? and do u have a high light armour skill with half decent armour?

Not very high, and not really.

then you might battle a little bit with the thieves guild because A LOT of it relies on not being caught/seen, sneak is a definite must and light armour decreases noise
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#20 Colin1192
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Alot of the quests for the thieves Guild you have to do sneaking so wait until your sneak is higher. Its also good if you can see in the dark so that you dont need a torch and you'll be harder to detect

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#21 tktomo01
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The Dark Brotherhood is really fun, I'd go with that.
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#22 scarymovie5
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Well I was thinking that by doing the Theives Guild, I could get my sneak up and my light armor isn't horrible.
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#23 k2theswiss
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drak bother hood u get a cool dagger. maga guild is long oo umm i suggest u look at this website before doing quest because their is sometimes u wont get some items because of your lvl and their is no going back http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion
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#24 k2theswiss
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oo if u didnt do fighter guild yet first quest u have to go downstairs and kill rats u could just stand their with armour on and get your lvl up in heavy and light lol
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#25 Desperados11
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the dark brotherhood questline is epic

I think I'm gonna start a new char to play that again :D

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#26 Darth_JO
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if I were you I would make a new character like an assassin class and then do the dark brotherhood because a lot of the quests require stealth and the same with with mages guild just make a new character

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#27 deactivated-60a353d568bd7
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Meh. They're both really good - my character was 'good' so the DB questline wasn't as appealing as the Mage's. I did both though... and then Knights of the Nine so he could purge his sins on the pilgrimage :P
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#28 URSpaztic
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Dark Brotherhood FTW!!!

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#29 swatbob88
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it should be noted that if you're playing as a good character, you can do the dark brotherhood quest and get infamy points and then have the points erased by completing your pilgrimage in the knights of the nine (if you have it.)

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#30 Dawq902
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I am also going through my 1st playthrough on Oblivion right now. I first beat the Arena then beat the Mages Guild and am nearing the end of the Fighters Guild. One of my friends told me you have to kill a mages guild member during the Dark Brotherhood quest so I am saving that and the theives guild for last.

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#31 rgc
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DARK BROTHERHOOD