Oblivion Remastered: Luck Explained

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has a lot of attributes that are straightforward in how they work, but Luck isn’t among those straightforward attributes. Even the description of Luck when you look at it in your attributes menu doesn’t make what it does any clearer, since it essentially just tells you that it impacts everything.

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When the in-game description says that Luck has an effect on pretty much everything, it’s not kidding. In the original version of the game, not having enough Luck acts like a debuff, too. So, when your Luck is below a certain number, it increases your chances of negative outcomes regarding features that take Luck into account. However, it was believed that Luck didn’t work properly in the original game, which makes it difficult to compare changes between the purpose of Luck in the original and how it actually functions in the remaster.

What Luck Does in Oblivion

The short version is that Luck impacts anything that has a probability. It’s easiest to understand it when you look at features like betting or using repair hammers. Luck increases your odds of winning a bet or that a repair hammer won’t break when you use it. However, it’s not the only factor that determines if an event such as a repair hammer breaking will happen, since your Armorer skill also impacts how likely that is to happen.

Is Luck Worth Leveling?

It depends. Luck impacts all your skills and aspects that rely on probability, like whether an item effect triggers or not. So, leveling it means that you get overall benefits to your skills, even if it’s not a huge increase with each level you put into Luck. You can also pick up a boost to your Luck through other features, like birthsigns, depending on which one you pick. It boils down to preference, especially with the way that leveling works in the remaster, which now makes it more feasible—and even beneficial—to level up Luck, which wasn’t the case in the original, considering Luck didn’t work as intended at that time.

Luck is probably the most confusing attribute, and it doesn’t help that it has such a broad effect on skills. However, if you avoided leveling Luck because you played the original game, and it didn’t have much impact at that time, then you might want to consider leveling it in the remastered version of Oblivion, if only to discover whether you prefer to have more Luck or not.

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