In the sprawling world of Oblivion Remastered, some skills transcend being mere tools for survival; they function more like golden tickets to achieving god-like power and absolute command over the province of Tamriel. These aren’t your standard abilities; they represent exploitative potentials so potent that they allow players to utterly trivializes challenges and craft character builds that scoff in the face of danger.
What elevates a skill to being “overpowered”? It’s not simply about raw strength, but about the capacity to bend or outright break the game’s underlying mechanics. These are the skills that enable players to design builds so incredibly effective they might make even Mehrunes Dagon pause and reconsider his invasion plans. They stand out for their ability to crack the game wide open, offering unparalleled versatility and sheer power that can transform even the most difficult quests into effortless victory laps.
Here are the 8 most overpowered skills in Oblivion Remastered, ranked by their potential for game-breaking dominance:
8. Mysticism
- Governing Attribute: Intelligence
- Unique Advantage: Soul Trap, Reflect Spell, Spell Absorption
At first glance, Mysticism might not scream “overpowered,” but it offers a unique brand of power centered around manipulating magical energies and capturing souls. Imagine facing a powerful Lich preparing to unleash a devastating spell; with high Mysticism, you could casually absorb their magical fury or, even better, reflect it back upon them using Spell Absorption and Reflect Spell.
Mysticism’s exploitative charm extends deeply into the crafting systems. The Soul Trap spell is the absolute bedrock of any serious enchanter’s repertoire, allowing you to capture the essence of fallen foes to recharge your enchanted gear. This skill isn’t about flashy offensive spells; it’s about outsmarting and outlasting Tamriel’s toughest magical threats. Pair it with custom enchanted items, and its power becomes game-changing, offering endless charges and enabling endless chaos.
7. Alteration
- Governing Attribute: Willpower
- Unique Advantage: Feather spells, Open
The Alteration skill is akin to possessing a master key capable of bypassing nearly any physical barrier in Tamriel. This school of magic is dedicated to manipulating the physical world, and it provides some truly game-breaking applications. Spells like “Open Hard Lock” simply instruct even the most complex locks to politely open themselves, effectively rendering the entire Security skill obsolete and saving players valuable skill points.
Alteration also offers immense defensive power. Shield spells, especially the Master-level “Aegis,” can boost your armor rating to such absurd heights that physical attacks from most enemies become little more than irritating nudges. Water Walking turns impassable rivers into convenient highways, and Burden spells can slow dangerous foes to a crawl. And we can’t forget the iconic “Feather” spells. The classic RPG problem of being overburdened while collecting loot is completely waved away by Alteration, allowing players to hoard virtually every valuable item they find without suffering movement penalties.
6. Restoration
- Governing Attribute: Willpower
- Unique Advantage: Fortify Attribute/Skill spells, Absorb Health
Restoration magic, often seen just as healing, conceals a surprisingly overpowered core in Oblivion Remastered. While the ability to instantly recover from wounds using healing spells is undoubtedly powerful, where Restoration truly ascends to overpowered status is its capacity to Fortify attributes and skills. With clever spellcrafting, players can design “Fortify” spells that temporarily boost their stats to frankly superhuman levels.
Need to carry a dragon’s entire hoard back to town? Cast a Fortify Strength spell. Running low on Magicka during a tough fight? Blast yourself with Fortify Magicka. This capability allows players to effectively bypass skill requirements, wield powerful gear they otherwise couldn’t, or instantly compensate for weaknesses in their build on the fly. The “Absorb Health” spells are another potent trick, simultaneously dealing damage to enemies and healing the caster, turning almost any one-on-one fight into a guaranteed victory.
5. Conjuration
- Governing Attribute: Intelligence
- Unique Advantage: Summon Daedra, Bound Weapons/Armor
Why face the dangers of Tamriel alone when Conjuration allows you to summon your own personal crew? That’s the core appeal of this magic school, and in Oblivion Remastered, it’s a direct path to serious power. The primary game-breaking aspect of Conjuration lies in a simple fact: the power and stats of summoned creatures often don’t scale with the game’s difficulty slider in the same way enemies do. This means that while enemies may become tougher on higher difficulties, your summoned Daedra Lord or Storm Atronach remains just as devastatingly effective as ever, effectively providing an ally that defies difficulty scaling.
Conjuration also grants access to Bound Weapons and Armor. These are Daedric-quality items – among the best in the game – that weigh absolutely nothing and can be summoned into existence or dismissed at will. This provides even the most physically weak mage character with access to top-tier offensive and defensive gear without needing any Strength investment, allowing mage builds to be unexpectedly formidable in melee combat.
4. Destruction
- Governing Attribute: Willpower
- Unique Advantage: Elemental spells, Weakness stacking
When your goal is raw, unadulterated offensive power, Destruction magic reigns supreme in Oblivion Remastered. This school is entirely dedicated to dishing out damage, and with a bit of understanding of its mechanics, it can trivializes even the toughest encounters. It’s also incredibly versatile, allowing players to utilize different elemental types – fire against undead, shock against mages, etc.
The true game-breaking potential emerges from understanding how weakness spells interact. By hitting an enemy first with a “Weakness to Magic” spell, then a “Weakness to Element” spell (matching your chosen elemental damage type), and finally unleashing your main elemental spell, the damage you deal doesn’t just add up – it multiplies exponentially, leading to absurd damage numbers. High-level custom spells like powerful area-of-effect blasts can clear entire rooms of enemies with a single cast. Forget fighting fair; Destruction is about making enemies explode with overwhelming, stacked magical force.
3. Sneak
- Governing Attribute: Agility
- Unique Advantage: Sneak Attack multipliers, Ignore Armor perk
For players who prefer a more subtle, yet incredibly lethal, path to domination, there is the Sneak skill. The core of Sneak’s power lies in its massive damage multipliers applied to attacks delivered while undetected. Even at the Apprentice level, a sneak attack with a melee weapon grants a 6x damage bonus! This transforms even a simple dagger into a weapon of mass destruction capable of instantly killing most standard enemies before they even realize you’re there.
The truly game-breaking potential of Sneak fully unfolds as players reach Master level, gaining the perk that allows sneak attacks to completely ignore an opponent’s armor. This skill isn’t just about maximizing damage; it’s also about control. Being able to effortlessly slip past enemies unnoticed means you dictate every single potential engagement, allowing you to choose when and how to strike, or bypass threats entirely. It’s the art of the one-hit wonder combined with total environmental control.
2. Alchemy
- Governing Attribute: Intelligence
- Unique Advantage: Potent Custom Potions, Fortify effects
The Alchemy skill might seem mundane, but it allows players to combine seemingly ordinary ingredients into concoctions with effects so potent they can completely shatter the game’s balance and difficulty curves. Want to become virtually unkillable? Simply brew some super-healing potions that restore your health faster than any enemy or environmental hazard can deplete it.
The true overpowered nature of Alchemy lies in its incredible versatility and the ability to stack multiple effects or create custom-tailored solutions for any problem the game presents. Need to take down a seemingly invincible enemy? How about a custom poison that simultaneously paralyzes them, drains their health over time, and makes them dramatically more vulnerable to magical damage, all delivered with a single hit? Furthermore, leveling Alchemy can be surprisingly quick and easy, especially by mass-producing simple potions, allowing players to tap into this immense game-breaking power relatively early in their playthrough.
1. Illusion
- Governing Attribute: Personality
- Unique Advantage: Invisibility, Chameleon (100%), Frenzy
The skill that arguably redefines true power and dominance in Tamriel is Illusion. This school of magic is the ultimate toolkit for manipulating perceptions and bending the will of others to your own desires, offering some of the most absurdly overpowered abilities available in Oblivion Remastered. The combination of Invisibility and Chameleon spells is legendary for a reason. While Invisibility spells break upon taking actions, achieving a 100% Chameleon effect through spells and enchanted gear renders the player effectively and permanently undetectable by nearly all enemies, even while interacting with the environment or attacking.
But the mind-bending madness of Illusion doesn’t stop there. Faced with a room full of angry, powerful Daedra? A well-placed Frenzy spell can turn them violently against each other, creating utter chaos while you watch safely from the shadows (or while completely undetectable). For players who seek to completely dominate virtually any scenario not through force, but through perfect undetectability, psychological manipulation, and mind control, Illusion is the unrivaled champion. Its capacity to bypass entire challenges and turn enemies against each other makes it gloriously, arguably hilariously, overpowered.
