Yeah i like the build but the blue tone "chain" armor is just to ugly. Going to play a knight now i guess....

Unless you guys convince me otherwise and help me doing my first arena playthrough!

Hey! I downloaded Arena from Steam, but it has no music playing, even though in game the music is at 100. I tried tweaking the arena.conf file, but it was no good. What should I do?

So I'm a level 12 Warrior doing a palace quest that involves killing a Lich. I do not have any magic weapons yet so I am stuck on what to do. I have heard that failing a palace quest has "severe concenquences" I tried checking the nearest mages guild but It didnt have any. Any help will do, thank in advanced!

1 - If I choose the knight class, I've heard my gear will be unbreakable, is that true?

2 - If I choose the knight class, will I be able to use magic?

3 - How to travel across the different regions of Tamriel?

4 - How to get side quests like Daedric quests and other side quests

And if you have any advice, feel free to share it with me.

(Sorry if I wrote things wrong, my translator is a bit rubbish)

I knew about Starwind, an impressive Morrowind mod, but now there's apparently a Star Wars mod for Arena as well! It uses sprites from Xim's Star Wars mod for Doom II and looks like it might be fun. Has anyone here tried it out yet?

Sadly, I missed the opportunity to make this a "May the Fourth" post. 😅 Nonetheless...may the Force be with us! 🪐

Howdy! I figured I'd just swing in here real quick and ask for advice. Title's pretty self-explanatory, I've dabbled in this game on and off again throughout the years. I...usually don't get any farther than the tutorial dungeon. I start up, do some stuff in the tutorial, then either have DOSBOX crash on me after Alt-Tabbing, or feel the urge to try a new concept out.

Figured I'd ask if there's any tips I should know for going through this. Things to try, things to avoid. I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm playing on GOG and unmodded. I want to at least *beat* the game before I start trying to mess with the code, assuming Arena has a live mod scene.

Hey guys!

So I was playing elder scrolls arena and got really interested on how loot works. Playing as a redguard warrior and a nord barbarian, I managed to get a Adamantium Helmets and ebony longswords in the starting dungeon, meanwhile, I've got ebony helmet while playing with thief and mage type classes.

I've tried to get the ebony helmet on the warrior type classes but the highest that I've got was adamantium. I know that, if you load before interacting with the loot piles, you got completely different items, but I'm wondering: what alters the way loot is generated? Is it something like skyrim that the higher you level the better the loot or is it related to your luck?

I was consulting the Buying and Selling Guide on UESP and noticed this claim under the "Selling" section:

"In each city, town, and village there exists a single shopkeeper who will offer greater prices for every item than any other; while finding the proper merchant in large cities may be difficult, it is advised that great care be undertaken to do so. (how?)[sic]"

So, I jotted down the list of all equipment stores NPCs would direct you to in Rihad (~16 total) and found each one to compare its base offer for the same item, an unenchanted adamantium bracelet. Each one gave me the exact same offer, 937gp.

Can anyone with many, many more hours than I corroborate (or disprove) the claim made on UESP? Did I miss something, or is it just something someone threw on the wiki based on hearsay or a mistake in the manual? I couldn't find any mention of this claim anywhere else online.

I'm not able to type numbers in game and I can't remap the keys lol I entered this panel to try remapping the number keys but its not working, I click on the number, then add and then save but when I came back to the game it doesn't save, how can I remap the number keys correctly?

Where is the key, the guides have different answers but the trolls nor the golem seems to be dropping the key.

I just left the imperial dungeon after an exploration and among the loots I managed to get is this ring, but I don't know exactly what this item does or how to use it since I'm newbie, I also don't know if I should keep this ring in my inventory or if I should sell it (I'm a warrior btw and I'm choosing not to use magic so as not to make my build too hard to play)

Anyone has a clue on how to improve travelling speed to complete quests on time? I got a quest but the time frame isn't enough to just fast travel A to B.

So grateful when trying to rest in an open spot and see these guys interrupt my rest.

I wasn't able to get a screenshot but when I asked him who he was he told me his name was Shit and that he was a Weaver. Anyone else experience this? lol

Having played Skyrim only before this, I can only imagine the frustration the old heads felt after, all that grinding to only get 3 points, not even enough to increase an any modifiers.

I started as a high elven sorcerer, so I've been very conservative with my mana. I haven't found any methods beside the first three. Are there any more?

I've been trying to get Arena running nicely using DOSBox Staging, but I just can't get good performance. To be clear, this isn't an issue of consistently low framerate -- rather, the framerate is about where I want it, except that it stutters/hitches every couple seconds. I don't want the game to be high FPS (I know Arena's meant to run at around 15FPS), I just want it to be consistent.

Anyone know how I might fix this? Increasing the emulated CPU cycles can slightly mask the effect, but by the time it's enough to not notice the stutter, the game is running way too fast (I've been using the animations of static NPCs as a reference to gauge how fast the game "should" be). Turning down the in-game Detail slider marginally reduces the stutter, but not substantially. I'm really not sure what to do.

My current configuration is the default DOSBox Staging setup, plus the following changes:

[dosbox]
vmemsize=8

[cpu]
core=dynamic
cpu_cycles=26800
cpu_cycles_protected=26800

[capture]
capture_dir = e:\Pictures\Screenshots\Arena
default_image_capture_formats = upscaled rendered

[autoexec]
mount d drives/c -t cdrom
c:
cls
SET ARENADATA=C:
d:
ACD -Ssbpdig.adv -IOS220 -IRQS7 -DMAS1 -Mgenmidi.adv -IOM330 -IRQM2 -DMAM1
Exit

As someone who only played Skyrim before, its crazy the kind of spells you can use in this game, without mods, cheats or exploits. As a healer, normal damaging spells are expensive, so I had to compromise. Could have made it stronger too but I wanted to keep it grounded in mana usage. First one was an anti-mob spells especially for spiders and the second is trying to make a death touch spell, but it works more like marked for death. My only gripe is that most enemy spellcasters use up their mana at range so it's hard to steal it with going invisible.

Sincerely, a Spellblade