r/oblivion • u/Lil_Melon87 Dar-Ma's Hero • 14h ago

Remaster Discussion Strange Mercantile glitch? The stat increased with EVERY transaction.

This has happened to me before with a previous character, I believe both times with Gunder in Skingrad.

I try and sell him something for a price he won't accept. I set the price back down... then EVERY transaction after that increases my Mercantile skill, regardless of the item price. You can hear my stat increase each time, and the message above telling me to rest.

The FIRST time this happened, I thought I was just imagining the skill increase sound, but now I see it's actually happening. I'm wondering if anyone else experience this or can replicate it? Again, both times, I believe it was with Gunder, so try with him.

Oh, and this is the Nintendo Switch 2 version, if that matters.

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u/Lil_Melon87 Dar-Ma's Hero 14h ago

Here's some screenshots of my stats to show the increase. The first one was a random one I took earlier, the second just after the video. As you can see, Mercantile is the outlier, the one stat that just shot up.

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u/1997Hawke 14h ago

I’ve had a similar thing occur, but that was usually because I was selling really expensive items - which increases your skill quicker.

Unfortunately, I don’t actually know the cause behind it. Having it increase with every transaction is strange.

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u/Lil_Melon87 Dar-Ma's Hero 14h ago

Yeah, I understand the mechanic in the remaster. But you can see in the video, it's increasing even with each CHEAP item.

So yeah, not sure if it's Gunder specific, or perhaps there's something else about my character/inventory that's triggering this.

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u/1997Hawke 13h ago

I think I remember mine levelling to this degree when selling to Gunder, but can’t remember if it was only him.

I looked up him, his store, and mercantile, on the wiki, and there’s not any known bugs about it.