Treasure-Hunting Tips
- 1 of 14: This is a list of great treasures and superbly useful items that you can get early in the game.
- 2 of 14: In Vivec's Temple canton, enter the Hall of Justice and find the door to the Ordinator Barracks. In there, you can find several containers with weak or no locks on them that you can raid while standing where no one can see you. Several of those containers have valuable Indoril armor in them, which will be extremely useful to wear for anyone who specializes in the Medium Armor skill. Also, each piece of Indoril armor is very valuable, and can be sold for lots of money.
- 3 of 14: Also in Vivec, it's very easy for even beginner characters to raid Great House Redoran's lower vault.
- 4 of 14: Next, travel to Caldera and steal the orcish armor from a crate on the top floor of Ghorak Manor. It's not as good as Indoril armor, but you'll get a cuirass and greaves that you can wear with your Indoril stuff from Vivec (or you can sell it, too, if you're not a medium armor user).
- 5 of 14: Getting the Amulet of Shadows should be another very early goal, since it can aid you tremendously in your stealing and looting efforts. See the Gnisis area misc. quest entitled "The Lady's Ring" for all the amulet-obtaining details.
- 6 of 14: Another terrific misc. quest item you should get ASAP is the Boots of Blinding Speed, since they can make travel on foot and by Levitation spell *much* faster.
- 7 of 14: Need a really cool robe to wear? Then find Senise Thindo in Tel Aruhn's Tower Living Quarters and taunt her into attacking you so you can kill her legally and take the wondrous Robe of the Drake's Pride.
- 8 of 14: A certain vampire has a really great ring to go along with that robe. Find and kill Marara in the Drethan Ancestral Tomb at location 7 on the Ald Daedroth map and wear her ring to get your total Reflect percentage up to 45.
- 9 of 14: Once you're level 11, you should get yourself some Ekash scrolls and finish raiding Vivec's Great House vaults (see earlier hint). For more info on getting Ekash scrolls, see the Advanced Lock-Opening Tips.
- 10 of 14: Another great place you can loot as soon as you have some Ekash scrolls is Tel Fyr, which is south of the town of Tel Aruhn. Make sure you have at least two Ekash scrolls as well as something you can cast Levitate with repeatedly.
- 11 of 14: To get a pair of great heavy-armor gauntlets that constantly fortify your Strength and Dexterity by 20, go to the Ilunibi cave (location 7 on the Ald'ruhn Map) and get the Fists of Randagulf from the Soul's Rattle section of the cave. (Note that they're hiding behind an open treasure bin.) You'll probably want these great gloves for their constant attribute increases even if the Heavy Armor skill isn't a specialty of yours.
- 12 of 14: Once you're fairly high-level, you can get some cool Daedric gear by using the Daedric Item List (though note that Daedric armor is heavy armor). You can also sometimes get random Daedric-quality stuff from Dremoras and Golden Saints. You can find them hanging around both outside and inside the many Daedric shrines in the game. A cool note is that the random, level-dependent Daedra guardians at shrines regenerate whenever you leave the area and reenter (as long as you dispose of their corpses). You could kill all the guardians outside a shrine, enter the shrine and kill all the ones inside, go back outside and kill the next batch that appears out there, etc.
- 13 of 14: You wanna know what the very best weapon in the entire game is? It's the enchanted Daedric dagger called the Black Hands Dagger. You get it by finishing Eno Hlaalu's special duties for the Morag Tong faction. It's the best because of its incredible Absorb Health effect. After just one slash from it, most enemies will go down in under 30 seconds. Also, while their health is being drained, yours is being replenished! So go find Hlaalu and finish his quests ASAP! (In the meantime, you could enchant a comparable weapon using my Enchanting Tips.)
- 14 of 14: Be sure to always read all of the non-quest questions and the "Notes and Extras" section for each region you visit. Lots of good stuff not mentioned here will be there. (If you have the Tribunal and/or Bloodmoon expansion games installed, check the general tips in their separate UHS hint files for more great treasure tips.)
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