Summary
Oblivion Remasteredhas given us all an excuse to return to Cyrodiil and re-experience just how weird the guild system is. There are no restrictions on how many you can join, so you can work your way up in every faction in the region without consequence. Fans aresplit on whether this is a good idea, but at least it saves you a replay if you only want to make the one character.
However, just because you can join them all as a single character, that doesn’t mean that players are actually doing that, and they certainly aren’t completing the guild questlines at the same rate. Looking at achievement stats, it seems that the Fighters Guild is the least popular questline, whereas the Mages Guild is finding it very easy to recruit.
We’re Dodging The Fighters Guild, But Loving The Arena
Oblivion Remastered has an achievement for joining every faction, and further achievements for advancing through their respective quests. This means that we can see which guild is attracting the most members, and which one has the highest completion rate.
However, after joining the Fighters Guild, it seems that members aren’t overly enthusiastic about climbing through the ranks. Over on Steam, just 4.9 percent of players have reached the highest rank, which isjust 0.6 percent more than the completion rate of the main story. On PlayStation, these feats are neck and neck.
As for the most completed questline, that goes to the Arena, and by quite a large margin. Then, it’s the Dark Brotherhood, the Mages Guild, the Thieves Guild, and the Fighters Guild in that order.
So, from this, we can see that players blast through the Arena and Dark Brotherhood quests once they start them, even if it takes a while to join the latter’s case. On the other hand, perhaps players are joining the Fighters Guild for some early coin, and then ditching them in favour of the other factions.
At the very least, every single one of these factions ismore popular than starting the Shivering Isles expansion. So, if you’re looking for something else to get on with while you avoid the main story, that’s another great questline.
