Anyone else playing Morrowind at the moment? How's your playthrough going?
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Anyone else playing Morrowind at the moment? How's your playthrough going?
no I am considering playing Fallout 2
No, I'm not, but I never ever scroll past a Morrowind thread without joining in.
I was a while ago. I soul trap glitched my stats up to god level.
sorta, have 65 hour playthrough I started about a year ago that I've put on pause for other games, do plan to go back and finish at some point....finished the mage guild quest line and knocking out fighter's guild before going to do dlc then finish main quest
i'm playing attronach nord battlemage, it's pretty hard. already asked for tips here, but still. i really have to cheese everything to make it fun
Ancestral ghost
Based, I'm an orc atronach battlemage.
The beginning was rough as frick but once you get rolling, there's no stopping.
Is destruction worth a shit in Morrowind? I feel like I recall that it's not.
Because spells in Morrowind have prohibitely high Magicka (mana) costs and Magicka only regenerates while resting, most spells, while not outright terrible, are just worse than physical damage except in rare cases, like against enemies with very high armor rating such as the assassins from tribunal. In the endgame you can just spam Magicka potions nonstop to cast whatever you want, but melee builds can achieve similar or better results with fewer consumables in most practical scenarios.
You can start making pots from the outset and should be since the game explicitly encourages it.
Sure you can, but mages need pots just to keep up with warriors not using any consumables. Which is why melee builds are generally the strongest, they're simple and effective.
Also, Frost Salts are pretty expensive in the beginning, so you'd need at least some degree of metagaming to afford a constant supply. And you need at least a Master's quality alchemy set or your potions will be absolute garbage.
Warriors need consumables just as much. You're fricked without fatigue.
Galbedir in Balmora's Mages Guild sells an Amulet of Stamia for 5 gold. Best item in the game for low level characters and can serve your stamina needs mostly on its own, with some potions from the Fighters Guild supply chests in emergencies.
tbh any time I look at character build discussions online they seem to slant heavily into mage territory. Even if you aren't tossing fireballs around stuff like stat fortification, levitation, and other utility spells get brought up all the time. Conjuration helps fuel the enchant skill, summons help, etc. I read a post comment the other day where someone was walking about their custom spell that summoned every piece of bound armor at once so they could just walk around in Daedric equipment at 0 weight. Another person was talking about how to exploit conjuration spells to get multiples of the same summon (since different duration spells don't count).
You can do a lot of bullshit as a wizard.
I'm aware of what you can do as a wizard. You're flexible, but Magicka costs are almost crippling. The myth that mages are broken/OP comes from people either using gamebreaking exploits or comparing mages with infinite consumables to warriors without consumables. For regular gameplay, you're almost always better off with enchanted items over spells, as their charges regenerate over time and Enchant skill actually lowers charge cost, unlike Magicka costs of spells which only go up.
The most "optimal" use of Destruction is one-shotting bosses like Almalexia with a spell sequence and AoE scenarios or enemies with extremely high armor rating. Enemies below 500 or even ~700 HP are barely worth the casttime (let alone Magicka) because endgame weapons are so powerful.
I actually just started playing last night. Can't get MGE's resolution options to work properly though and I'm not sure how to run the game in admin mode via MWSE because I'm pretty sure that's the trick.
change the user settings on your PC so that you ARE admin. simple
What the frick. Yeah, now that you put it like that it sounds real obvious. Thanks dude. Not sure why I didn't think of that.
Did my yearly playthrough in February. Hlaalu/Morag Tong, pretty fun.
I was earlier. just got into morrowind rebirth and loving it. too bad there arent up to date patches with tamriel rebuilt.
I finished a Breton magic user run a few months ago. It was my first time doing the Tel'vanni content and I loved it.
Best house.
I gave it a shot a few years ago but the game crashed a few minutes after the opening and I never booted it up again
It stops 10 hours in every time cause the game is fricking boring
I understand. It was fun for its time. It was basically Skyrim before Skyrim.
It's still better than Skyrim.
Is speech the most powerful skill with the least amount of time sink?
>intentionally make npcs in the bank vaults in vivec hate you
>intimidate/threaten so they attack you
>they immediately get stomped by the guards
>100,000s worth of items are now yours for the taking
Doesn't taunting get harder the less a character likes you? There's like a bell curve where it's more likely ton work around 50 disposition IIRC.
Tbh I don't remember the exact technique I used (been over a year since I've played) but once i found how easy it is to sweep the bank vaults with this method I never went back.
I think you're right though. Spend 10gp to bribe to get them to like you then threaten them
It might get harder but you can just mash that motherfricker who cares
It works best at 50 disposition and it's success chance gets lower the further away you go. Always keep a character's disposition between 40-60 with bribes before every taunt. If you're below 20-30 it's practically guaranteed to fail unless you have extremely high skill.
I just used sneak and telekinesis to clean out the vaults iirc, but your method is also based.
I'm curious how people originally played morrowind, because having never played it before it was incredibly easy for me to obtain mid-game armor/weapon and half a million gp in the first few hours without even really trying (alchemy and stealing, but still...). In oblivion / skyrim it's still a little time sink before you can start really exploiting the economy
Idk about gp but I don't think gear in Morrowind has ever been all that difficult to get.
>2nd best light armor in the base game is Chitin; it's plentiful and absolutely dirt cheap
>you can easily skip iron armor, and the difference between steel and Dwemer is pretty mild compared to tripling your AR with ebony
>bound weapons lmao
Morrowind is way less concerned with time gating stuff the way Oblivion and Skyrim did it. It's more like New Vegas where some guys just have good shit, and there are reasons in-game why that's the case.
Nothing wrong with that, though it is tempting to go straight for the easy to get OP shit once you start struggling a little
>Nothing wrong with that
You're goddamn fricking right there's nothing wrong with it. It's the only way that open world design actually makes sense.
Would it be a better decision to have higher level items guarded by powerful enemies instead of just sitting in an easy to get to chest on the side of the road like some items?
No.
I really prefer it that way tbh. Even when I was younger playing Skyrim on my PS3 I would get really annoyed whenever I found a new tier of material and it just completely replaced whatever I was rolling with at the time, especially if I'd gotten attached to a particular weapon or liked the look of my own gear.
Also all the neat unique weapons that are hard stuck at Dwarven tier or whatever and will likely be useless by the time you find them. And frick leveled rewards too.
No, Mercantile is. Speechcraft is one of the worst skills in the game. Admire is almost guaranteed to fail unless you have at least 40-50 skill and high Personality, and even then it is very unreliable and can easily nuke someone's disposition down to 0 with just two or three consecutive unlucky rolls, and you won't be able to get it back up because it has reduced chance the lower disposition gets. Bribes, which depend on Mercantile (but still increase Speechcraft when used), are by far the superior choice to increase disposition, while short duration Fortify Personality effects with moderate Restoration or Enchant skill are also okay. Initiating fights is easier with Frenzy Humanoid through Illusion/Enchant, in particular when you can't talk to NPCs like for all Morag Tong quests. The only worthwile thing you'll get out of Speechcraft is access to a unique mechanic that no other skill can provide, which is the ability to permanently lower fight rating through intimidation.
Meanwhile, with a modest Mercantile skill of 30-40, 10 gold bribes work on 90% of all NPCs in the game, on top of getting great prices even for "fixed" prices you can't barter like training/enchanting. Also very fast and easy to level.
>they immediately get stomped by the guards
Guards don't attack other NPCs, they only fight creatures and the player.
>Speechcraft is one of the worst skills in the game.
Skill issue.
Not my fault you're bad.
I've just started a Dunmer mage playthrough with a few anti-cheese mods. Even vanilla+ is extremely fun.
>unlocking chests with magic doesn't count as a crime
Is this intended? Or at least correct? I'm playing with modded birthsigns and the Tower sign has extra opening spells. Used one on the lighthouse chest in Seyda Neen to test it out, was surprised when the lady there didn't attack me. Looting stuff did make her angry though.
>Tower sign
Pleb alert.
It has powers to unlock stuff up to level 80 once per day (with the mod) and Beggar's Nose looks fun.
>play game
>become OP
>lose interest
rinse and repeat
I remember in the 2000's a lot of people said that Morrowind's map is bigger than Oblivion's. Is this still true?
No, I'm not gay, nor trans, nor amerigolem
currently deciding on whether to do a MW replay or NV replay, it's been about 2 years for both
On my current character I'm trying to get all skills to 100 without NPC trainers. Enchanted an Ebony Staff with Disintegrate Armor on self, so every time I fight something, it bricks my own armor so I can level my Armorer skill.
I'm playing multiplayer through TES3MP
it's way more fun than I imagined it will be
Should I play Tamriel Rebuilt? Are there questlines worth doing?
>2024
>he's still using morrowind.exe and not openMW
I played Morrowind for a little bit but I couldn't really get into it, so I played New Vegas and that was really fun
but now I'm stuck with nothing again
I tried kingdom come deliverance but the combat doesn't interest me too much to spend the hours in-game to "get good"
and I already have like 2k hours in skyrim...
what do bois? do I just wabbajack a random skyrimshit up?
Play Morrowind or kys, I guess
but the combat animations...
i like to feel cool still while playing vidya
why isn't there a morrowind with souls combat AAAAAA
Would a pacifist run be possible? Charming the enemies until you're best friends with everyone ranging from thieves to vampires? Replayed and finished Morrowind multiple times throughout the years, but never tried this, could be fun. Obviously for a lot of quests you'd have to kill a whole bunch of NPCs like it or not, but generally speaking just leaving as many NPCs "breathing" as humanly possible - doable for a playthrough or a pain in the ass and not worth the time? Would the personality/reputation buffs stay after, dunno, casting calm and reloading a cell or would everyone forget you were all buddy-buddy five minutes ago and turn aggro?
PS. I can't stop stealing. Seyda Neen always gets hit the hardest.
Dead FOTY boomer slop.