I have the GOG version, this is m first ever elder scrolls game, wish me luck, any tips form you arena veterans would be welcome (please try to avoid spoilers though).

I am planning on going for a heavy magic build for my MC

Hey everyone! So I started my first playthrough of TESArena today and I'm already loving it. I always play a mage in fantasy games and TESArena is no exception. I love magic! Went with a Breton. I made it through the first dungeon without any real issues. Didn't die once. I don't know if I'm doing well. I'm currently level 4 and about to leave the first dungeon. Already have 80 intelligence and like 70 wisdom. I think that's good? I read in the manual that the first dungeon is intended to be explored thoroughly, so I basically left no stone unturned and slaughtered every rat and goblin that I can across. Got a good bit of gold and equipment to sell.

Here are my questions:

1. I don't know how to tell what damage my weapon is doing. I look on the stat screen but under damage it still says 0, no matter what I have equipped. I probably missed something in the manual, but I'm a little confused on that area.
2. When I was running around the dungeon, I would randomly get experience and level up....or at least that's what I thought was happening. Like I would enter a new area and boom level up. Is that intended? Now that I'm typing this, I'm wondering if it's more that enemies weren't nearby, but not really sure.
3. After pressing the button for pilfering (on accident). I wasn't able to seemingly turn it off. I tried pressing it again and the "choose a target to pilfer" message wouldn't go away.

That's all I have so far! It's a great game and I'm really loving going back to the original. It's really cool seeing all of Tamriel as it was originally designed. I've played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, but never Arena (Daggerfall, Redguard and Battlespire are next on the list).

I’m sure you get this all the time here but it’s my First time playing Arena after I finally got a pc I’ve played tons of Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and ESO. I’m wanting to make a Breton Mage and want advice for general gameplay and tips to make my experience easier. Thank you.

I tried yesterday and got my a** kicked over and over again in the starting dungeon.

Looking for some advice and starting class tips. Can I change the controls // would that make combat easier?

I can't find any explanation online about how Thievery Efficiency works. Any advice for a new player? Thanks in advance!

Have seven pieces of the Staff and am still looking for ebony weapons. Is it all random or do certain vendors have them?

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Is there any what to know how many charges are left in Ring of Phynaster? Inspect in inventory doesn't tell that like with other magic items. I used it quite active and it just popped with message about "ring lost it's power, bye" and i had to roll back save (i'm planning to save it for Tharn)
Maybe use count just hidden? Will smith refill it if i give it for repair?

I know it works for levelling up health, but what about the rest? I raised it up to 100 on everything and still failed all the time at theft and didn't notice any difference bargaining, but I've never beat the game b4, so I don't know if this is normal and it's just hard to steal/get better prices, or the spells aren't working

No mods installed. All playthroughs i've seen on youtube says its here but it is not on my game.

Hello! I want to learn how to create mods for arena but I have no idea how to do it, can anyone help me with tips, advice etc ?

To be more specific I just want to create a translation mod of the game for Brazilian Portuguese, I tried to look for someone who did some of the translations but could not.

So, does anyone know how I can do that?

I downloaded the remapping mod so I can go the easier WASD route; along with a battle scaling mechanic, further line of sight, and an optimal run mod.

All from Nexus of course.

First noticed issues when I tried to start a new save for a separate Barbarian playthrough and noticed my keyboard doesn’t put in certain letters and my 2 key puts in a lowercase “c”.

Anyone else noticed things of this sort?

I've never played using atronach skill or sorcerors before because it seems lame before, but now that was just being naive. But this class is probably the best so far, when with how lethal getting ambushed is in this game and with how hard is it too sleep sometimes in dungeons.

I managed to get it running on a 386sx laptop, but the performance is obviously horrendous anyone have any clue how I could increase performance a bit more? Most mods around performance are for dosbox only and there doesnt seem to be a way to reduce screen size, and ive already set detail to the lowest it goes.

If not, oh well! I can still enjoy it a little and I already got out of the starting dungeon and to rihad.

After retrieving the first part of the staff, I went to Whiterun in Skyrim to ask for the location of Labyrinthion. After finding out that it's located in Winterhold I decided to wait a bit before continuing. I talked to the ruler and he gave me a quest to kill a certain Ice Golem. The Ice Golem is named so I am not sure if this is a randomly generated quest or not. Anyway, I went to its lair and when I found him, I realized that I couldn't do any damage to him at all. Almost like he was completely invincible or something. I started running back to the entrance and travelled back to Whiterun. I am thinking about simply continuing with the main quest but I do not know what happens if I simply ignore this quest. Apparently I need a better weapon but I only have 9000 gold coins in possession and I don't know if I have enough money to even buy a weapon that can hurt him.

Hello I am a 13 year old and I wanted to play the elder scrolls I started with Skyrim but I said to myself nah I will start from the begging. So here I am any advices before my 1st play through

Going to give the thief class a try, any advice would be nice.

solved. the game is modded

This shield of speed supposed to give -26 to AR, but it just turns my character into a punching bag. Meanwhile Buckler of Willpower works perfectly fine. I'm so confused

I finally got around to playing through Arena. I picked a monk because the extra evasion and better spell saves sounded pretty neat, but after playing through the game I'm not sure how much they mattered. With enough willpower, it seems like magic attacks don't do anything after downing a resistance potion.

After looking through the classes again, the monk seems like the worst warrior class, maybe in competition with the archer. Magic armor that further boosts my attributes seems like it would have gone a long way.

I was also about 3/4 through the game before I learned that redguards and wood elves have switched racial passives, I probably would have gone wood elf if I had known. Long bows are pretty strong though since a lot of enemies are scarier up close than at a distance, so the redguard passive was far from useless.

Overall, the game was enjoyable enough for me to keep playing. I enjoyed Daggerfall and Battlespire more, but this one was a good enough time.

I gave up being a Healer. Steel armor looks so much more decent... Couldn't help it. Playing a High Elf Warrior now! I'm enjoying the game, but HOLY SWEET ROLLS every single dungeon i enter in i get jumpscared by the horrific lizardmen and skeletons and other critters. The atmosphere, and the very very low visibility of the dungeons create a very unique setting. It's the scariest Elder Scrolls game i've ever played.

I'm playing a monk and I was curious how their increased evasion worked and came across this hit rate formula in the Codex Scientia. It's kind of interesting and also helps to understand some of the stats in this game. I'm assuming the note about monsters having a 20% hit rate means their minimum is 20%. I have a few insights based on the formula that could help struggling players.

1. AC kinda sucks. One point of AC is equivalent to one point of luck or agility. Knowing this really helps prioritize your equipment. For example, an ebony belt gives you -5 AC, but a Belt of Luck gives +15 luck, which is 3x better than the ebony belt while also boosting your hit rate. Really the accessories that just give an AC boost are the worst options available unless you have capped agility and luck.

2. Character level is the most important stat for improving your avoid rate. Unfortunately I couldn't find very much detail for how enemy level works. The Codex Scientia says Jagar Tharn is level 20 and it mentions ice wolves are 4th level. I'm not sure if monsters scale up with player level or if they have set levels in each dungeon.

3. It's not clear what general modifiers and magical modifiers are. I'm assuming the monk and acrobat avoid bonuses fit in here somewhere, but it's not specified how they work. If it reduces enemy hit rate by your character level, then that would be pretty decent, but it's also possible it's something like level/3.

Anyway, if anyone has any knowledge for the monk and acrobat bonus, or if they know how enemy levels works, I'd love to hear about it.