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Discover multiple ways to boost your carry weight in Oblivion Remastered and prevent over-encumbrance during exploration.
In Oblivion Remastered, managing your carry weight (encumbrance limit) is essential for exploring, looting, and staying mobile in combat. Exceeding your character’s carry weight can lead to the dreaded over-encumbered effect, which leaves you rooted to the spot. Since there are enemies that can reduce the strength stat temporarily with their attacks, getting over-encumbered in Oblivion Remastered can be a death sentence during combat.
To avoid this, players should maintain spare carrying capacity, which is easier to do when the encumbrance limit is higher. Thankfully, there are a few reliable ways to boost how much gear your character can hold.
All Methods to Increase Carry Weight in Oblivion Remastered
Strength
The Strength attribute is directly linked to carry weight, as each point in strength equals a five-point increase to the encumbrance limit. Starting with a class that focuses on Strength, such as Warrior or Barbarian, also gives you a head start. However, speccing into Strength every time you level up is only advisable for strength-focused classes. Rings, amulets, and armor with Strength bonuses are especially useful in this regard.
Feather Effect
The Feather Effect is caused by a feather spell or a feather potion and reduces the weight of items in the inventory, thereby lowering encumbrance. The spells are part of Alteration magic and can stack in their effect. However, the feather effect eventually wears off, making it a temporary fix unless you can cast it repeatedly every few minutes. The Feather enchantment is a hard-to-obtain but permanent solution to increasing carry weight by reducing encumbrance.
Heavy Armor and Light Armor Skill
Increasing the Heavy Armor and Light Armor skills through training or taking damage will lower the encumbrance caused by wearing the respective armor type. You can speed level these skills by standing still and taking damage from weak enemies like rats while healing yourself intermittently.
Fortify Strength
Fortify Strength enchantments and spells are far more effective than their feather counterparts when it comes to increasing carry weight. Items enchanted with Fortify Strength, either found in the world or created at an enchanting altar, directly improve your carry weight by increasing strength. Fortify Strength potions can provide an effective short-term solution for over-encumbrance. Every point in Fortify Strength increases the carry weight five times more than a point in the Feather effect.
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