All Attributes in Oblivion Remastered and how they work

Wondering what Attributes do in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? In Oblivion Remastered, Attributes function as your character's main stats. They influence your maximum health, magicka regeneration rate, running speed, and more. Needless to say, Attributes are important, and it's necessary to understand them to create an effective build as you tackle all of the challenges across Cyrodiil and the Planes of Oblivion.

This quick guide will provide everything you need to know on all of the Attributes in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

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All Attributes in Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered contains the following eight Attributes:

• Strength: Improves the damage dealt with longswords, claymores, maces, war axes, battle-axes, warhammers, and your bare hands. Each strength point also increases maximum encumbrance (carrying capacity) by 5 and improves maximum health, though not as much as endurance.
• Intelligence: Improves your maximum magicka.
• Willpower: Improves your magicka regeneration rate and maximum fatigue.
• Agility: Improves damage dealt with daggers, shortswords, and bows. Also increases maximum fatigue (though not as much as willpower) and fatigue regeneration rate.
• Speed: Affects movement speed (walking, running, sprinting, swimming).
• Endurance: Greatly improves maximum health and determines how much your HP improves when you level up (works retroactively, so worry not about 'missing out' on health). Also improves your health regeneration rate.
• Personality: Improves how likable you are. NPCs are more inclined to help you, enemies are less inclined to attack you, and yields are more readily accepted. Personality also helps you negotiate better deals with merchants.
• Luck: Improves all your skills when Luck is at 50 or higher (this is also the starting value for Luck). This means you can suffer from negative Luck by using a 'drain attribute' spell, for example. Luck also influences 'secret events' such as your winning chances when gambling in the Arena.

As they're strongly affected by Attributes, it's also vital to understand your character's three resource bars: HP, magicka, and fatigue. HP, the red bar, is your maximum health. It depletes whenever you take damage, resulting in death if it's reduced to zero. Magicka, the blue bar, is consumed whenever you cast a spell. The amount of magicka consumed varies per spell, with stronger spells usually requiring more magicka. Fatigue, the green bar, determines how much physical action you can take before you become exhausted. This is also referred to as stamina.

And that's a wrap on the basics behind Attributes in The Elder Scrolls IV: Remastered. For more on building a character and learning how these Attributes change, be sure to peruse our guides on the best class, best race, and the best birthsign in this expansive RPG.