Please don't feel afraid to drop any tips for Morrowind you may have! This is my first time playing and I'm trying to re-create that 2002 launch "feel" as best as I can. I've been working on this video for almost a month now so I'm open to any feedback in terms of video structure, narration, or whatnot
Well, one tip I can say, you probably should use Mark and Recall, Divine Intervention and Almsivi Intervention, these spells lets you teleport around the map, Mark lets u mark a location and Recall lets u teleport back there, so u can set it anywhere that needs backtracking like the Urshilaku camp or Caius' house, Divine/Almsivi teleports u to the nearest Imperial Cult Shrine/Tribunal temple, which usually means the closest city, u need mysticism to use these spells. Alternatively u can enchant items with these spells instead. u can find some of these spells in Balmora, I believe the Temple or Mages Guild sells them, I cant recall where u can get Divine Intervention though.
@@lamedrawings Good to know. So in this game is the spell school required for the % chance I have to cast a spell? Like, at the moment, would my Argonian fail to cast those spells more often then not? I have a lot of gold so I can train stuff if I need to.
@@FrostbreakYT all skills in morrowind work with % the higher your skill the less chance it will fail thats why you couldnt cast your night eye a work around for this is enchanting cuz spells from enchanted items dont use your skills to be casted, to enchant an item tho u can have an npc do it by paying him u dont need to do it yourself
@@cryper_130 okay maybe I'll look into enchanting an item with nighteye. That seems to be pretty important as I can't see SHIT in this game 90% of the time (I also want the footage to look good too).
@@FrostbreakYT U can find enchanters in most Mages guild, you'll need a soul gem (With a soul trapped inside), gold, an item to enchant (weapons, rings, amulets, clothing etc), and you need to know the spell u want to enchant the items with. You can buy soul gems with souls in them but they are usually very pricy, soul trap the spell can be bought in balmora mages guild too I believe. I dont dabble much in enchanting unless its for constant effects so Idk much about cast on effects enchantments.
Usually when youtubers do their first impression of morrowind it's like 4 hours of raw content edited down a bit. Pretty insane you got 16 hours into less than 30 minutes with great pacing, music, and live clips too. I've played TES3 many times but (as with all your content) it's always interesting to watch a fresh perspective :)
@@FrostbreakYT Well judging by the footage and the journal, u were supposed to break someone out of prison, the giant floating rock at Vivec, and they'll tell u to travel to Holamayan via a boat from Ebonheart, but u didnt mentioned doing that and instead travelled to Holamayan and got the books there, skipping the whole rescue sequence it seems, unless u cut that part out?
@@lamedrawings NOPE definitely did not do that!! LOL okay welp... do you have any idea who would normally set me on that quest? Sounds somewhat important xD
the door at the island opened cuz its Azuras shrine so it only opens at dawn and dusk also love the vids keep it up it fun to see someone tackle this game without any prior info on it i miss my first time playing it
17:41 The answer was in the text here : you had to go see Dadd- I mean Caius Cosades. Those books will be relevant, it's just that they will come much later in the main quest. As for the secret entrance... it's also part of the main quest and you will be told exactly how to enter the dissident priests' base. By googling this place, you achieved CHIM and broke mundus, you weren't supposed to have access to it this early
Yeah another commenter said I missed a huge chunk of the story in vivec. We'll see what morrowind's story holds for me and my wacky out of sequence attempt at it xD
I dont know exactly cuz has been some time since i played it but talking to some npcs from the main story they say something about azura (a daedric princess) being related to the dessident priests, so the door just opens in a especific time of the day, i think its the dawn, when tha azura star can be seen in the sky
The NPC you see on the boat in the beginning, Jiub. He is in Skyrim as well. He's a ghost in the Cairn portion of the Vampire/Dawnguard and you end up collecting torn pages of his diary about his travels as a trader. Also. Look for the Scamp vendor in Caldera. You'll thank me later.
Interesting... I'm playing a VR run of Skyrim right now and I'll keep an eye out. I guess I never noticed his name but that's a pretty cool callback. I will check out that vendor too :)
He's technically in oblivion too. He dies in the battle of kvatch. You can find his head or something iirc. But yeah, good old Saint jiub, got rid of all them cliff racers and made sainthood.
@@kermerc.s.a.5765 interesting - this sent me down a bit of a r/teslore rabbithole. basically, some say he died in Morrowind; some say in Kvatch, and point to a similarly scarred head there to prove it - but apparently that's just a suggestive, commonly used asset. I do like the idea, and imagine it was intended to spark such debates.
The fun part of Morrowind for me is the travel. Mark, Recall, Mages Guild, Interventions, and Stilt Striders make travel very immersive and organic. Once you master travel, you can get around just as fast as Skyrim's fast travel. It's so rewarding.
Takes a bit for a newcomer to get the hang of it. Getting the intervention spells or amulets and then mark and recall and knowing all the boat, striders and mages guild portals is a treat.
@@FrostbreakYT those scrolls of icarian flight might look like instant death spells, but a little potion of slowfall and suddenly you've got a very effective "fast travel" option.
On my first play it happened to me with kwama forager that spawns between Seyda Neen and Pelagiad. I thought it is just some entry level worm mob... no challenge I thought. Little did I knew that I will miss literally every hit but that bugger will hit all of them. I ran all the way to Balmora (that little bugger still in pursuit) where I've seen my first Argonian (Hul). I thought Balmora is some open world dungeon and poor Hul is a monster. Since I was about to die to a worm, I decided it will be less shameful to die to a lizard monster than a worm and I swung my sword at poor Hul... I missed AGAIN and that was the end of me :D Ah sweet memories.
I love it. Skyrim players often say the Nords are racist. Then they play Morrowind. Welcome to Morrowind, Outlander, where everyone hates you and your responses don't matter.
"Morrowind launched when my mother launched me out of her womb." Why you gotta go making me feel old like that? I was too young to play Morrowind when it came out, but still.
So some tips. 1: Treat Morrowind like a TTRPG, your characters skills and condition (fatigue mainly) are MUCH more important than your skill as a player. 2: Spells can fail dependant on your skills, enchanted items cannot. Getting a couple small enchanted items (restore fatigue, restore strength etc) will make things much nicer. 3: The boats at costal towns are fast travel options. 4: The entire journey to Holamayan was done out of order, that place is where you go later in the main quest. 5: Sheath your weapon when you talk to NPC's, it lowers their disposition otherwise. 6: Everyone is mean to you because your disposition with them is low, having more personality and fame points (gotten from quests) will increase NPC's starting dispostion. 7: Merchants will give you better prices if they like you. 8: Beast races can wear open helmets but not closed helmets. Fortunately for light armor this includes the glass helmet. Also seeing you complete the Vassir-Didanat Ebony Mine quest without any prior knowledge was amazing, the fact you found the best outcome (you can report its location to three different NPCs) was even better.
A couple useful tips in general that you should be keeping in mind. 1. Fast travel exists, but it isnt point and click on a map. Finding scrolls or enchanted items of 'mark' and 'recall' will allow you to instantly travel to one specific place of your choosing. I always keep my mark in a mages guild so that i can access the guild travel services. This will allow you to immediately get to any major city, and in tandem with the silt striders and boating services you are never more than 5 minutes away from any city on the map. Then its just a short walk to any other point. Really game changing once you're a master of this system and it'll make you wish oblivion and skyrim kept this idea because it feels so good. Intervention scrolls and enchantments are useful too, they can take you to temples or outposts - temples being more useful - but really if you ignored this portion you would be fine. You have to know which location you're closest to and that can be annoying to figure out. 2. Training. The bulk of your cash should be spent at trainers. If you find a trainer who doubles as a merchant you can train a few levels and then sell some expensive loot to get your money back. Caius can point you to many decent low cost trainers, as well as the fighters guild has good ones. Your class doesn't do well with most magic in the game, but a few thousand gold invested in training one school of magic will quickly change that and you be able to reliably heal, cast mark or recall, or even levitate whenever you need it. A boost in your spear skill will help with your accuracy too. 3. The combat feels funny, but becomes fun when your charater gets decent with their weapon. You use spears and you may have noticed you frequently are chopping with it instead of stabbing. To stab (which will do much more damage) you need be moving forward or backwards when you begin your swing. In addition, holding the attack button for a moment will make the strike more poweful. Quick strikes mean you hit more times, but they deal little damage. Longer held strikes will take longer to get hits in, but they will hit for much more damage. Spears also have very long reach - more than you think, so take advantage of that. Train your spear skill to 60 or higher and you'll be fine. 4. Enchantments are the most powerful things in this game. In oblivion and skyrim you have to recharge enchanted items with soul gems, but not in morrowind. Enchanted items naturally recharge over time (even just using the wait function). An enchantment with levitate means you will always be able to fly whenever you want to. A spear with fire damage means you'll always have boosted damage when you begin a fight and that damage enchantment regens after you rest to heal. Some items arent worth keeping and should just be sold, but keep in mind that the way to become overpowered in this game is purely through enchantments. 5. Have fun! I love that you chose an acrobat argonian. Its probably one of the most difficult playthroughs you'll have - but it will absolutely force you to get creative, which i think is the most fun way to play this game. People will give you tips about the mudcrab trader or creeper - you can ignore those, it will turn the game into a grind fest if you're not careful. Just play however you want and enjoy the environment, that where this game excels. As you go deeper into the story you'll get the divine disease and this was the turning point for me in terms of the story, i got real invested at that point. The quests feel less good once you get azuras ring, so just take your time to have fun in between story quests at that point. The temple quests are great - theres the three dunmer houses you can play through which are a bit of fun too. I would recommend getting the ring and then taking side paths to keep the fun up rather than grind out hortator and nerevarine quests because they become very travel heavy. Good luck, i really hope you do a part 2!
Title of the video should be: "Frostbreak makes you feel old for 27 minutes and 4 seconds". Very funny and interesting to see someone attempt a game from my childhood regardless. Carry on my young ward!
That assassin you encounter when you rest is from the Tribunal DLC to start it. It's a bug (or just not programmed correctly) that he shows up before you are ready for him, which is like level 20+. I've managed to beat him at level 1 though it was difficult.
From what I remember the original trigger when Tribunal came out was level 6. Which was clearly too early. They may have fixed that, but patch distribution was much spottier then.
Few tips from someone that started morrowind a few weeks ago: 1. Turn on "always use best attack" in the options menu 2. Get some restore fatigue potions. If you are at 50% fatigue, that's your normal hit chance, your hit chance increase by 25% with full fatigue, but decrease by 25% at zero fatigue. You can steal some alchemy tools from plenty of locations, like the fancy alchemy shop in Balmora if you learn how to stealth, and you can buy cheap Crab Meat and Small Kwarma eggs for fatigue pots from Ajira in the Balmora mages guild (might have to join them first, idk). Also there are ways to make some merchants stock more of their restocking items for easier mass production of potions 3. Learn the Mark/Recall spells, as well as Almsivi/Divine intervention, or get some scrolls/potions/enchanted items with those effects, makes travel so much easier 4. 21:14 there is fast travel to and from Gnaar Mok, check the boat, there's a whole fast travel system you missed, also the mages guild guides can teleport you to some places too
Always use best attack seems kinda hot or miss. I've noticed that with certain weapons it doesn't choose the most powerful attack. It seems to take an average of quick attacks v held attacks, instead of just using the strongest held attack.
As someone who has played since it was released, I never use restore fatigue potions. 1. Buy a cheap restore fatigue spell. 2. Find someone who has spell making option. 3. Create a spell that restores a few points of fatigue for as long of a time as you are able to cast. 4. Once you level your restoration magic skill you can increase the point value and duration to the point where you never have to worry about fatigue.
Of all the dozens of times I’ve been told to play morrowind (I’m also a skyrim baby) and of all the videos I’ve watched telling me it’s the best and the other games suck, THIS VIDEO is what has convinced me I want to play it. It looks like an absolute struggle to play. You aren’t sugarcoating the roughness or pretending it isn’t dated, you’re giving a raw experience of someone who has never touched it before, and that experience looks fascinating. Maybe it’s all the hours I’ve sunk into Kenshi, but the idea of struggling through all this for the sake of eventually and enjoying it is making me very excited to give it a shot. Great video as always, if the community doesn’t pull together to reach the like goal I will unleash my own corpus disease upon the world.
Thank you! I'm glad my suffering has inspired you xD As I said at the end of the video; it's almost like Morrowind is "immersive by force": forcing you to pay attention to text, combat, and progression. The being said... it's a very unique experience. Someone notified me I skipped a big chunk of the main story in Vivec and Morrowind was totally cool with that and let me progress my own way. I doubt I'm super deep into the story; but the struggle is slowly being worth it!
@@FrostbreakYT Yea Morrowind has a lot of freedom that newer games dont allow you to have, like nobody is stopping you from just killing the essential NPCs, you can just straight up softlock the main story and doom the world if you wanted to. Kinda like FO:New Vegas except that game has one essential NPC to guarantee the story progression. Morrowind sort of has that too, a backdoor to continue the story, but you can kill that guy too lol
we all had the same issues initially its a hard game to get into. -redguards have high resistance to diseases which are a menace in this game, also have the highest long blade skill which are pretty common weapons in the game, so redugards are agood pick -male characters are stronger, female characters have higher personality, characters will treat you better if they like you more and they like you more i you have higher personality or you are of the same race. -Always carry cure common disease and blight disease potions or scrolls with you, if you get a disease use divine intervention to teleport to the nearest temple and pray the disease away with a donation at an altar. Also carry restore strength and endurance potions with you because dungeons have bonewalkers that destroy those attributes and you cant move. -Dont try to be proficient at everything pick 1-2 weapon skills and 1-2 armor skills, even weak armor or no armor is better than heavy armor if you are more skilled at it, as a monk pick unarmored skill and you take less damage without an armor and enemy attacks miss. Most quests give you weapons that you cant use due to low skill. So pick and choose your quests. -you can play as a monk and do temple quests about making potions gathering money for the poor, doing exorcisms, role play your character dont try to do every bit of content, leave that for later playthroughs, no one finished morrowind on their first character and the 5th playthrough is the best because you know where all the powerful items are and what rewards you get for the quests so you only do the stuff that matters. -any skill at 30 or lower will miss so make sure before starting the game to make the correct character so your main skill is as higher as possible so the earliest levels wont be a grind, like i said redguard and long blades. The leveling up is harder early one because you keep missing and your spells fail to cast. Once you are 50 the game is easy because most of your attacks work. -assuming you play open mw make sure you have checked the option to grey out questions you have asked, asked about everything, if you find it hard to read there is another font that makes it easier or even a mod that gives voice to most characters with ai. Read the journal for directions, check the roadsigns for directions on where you are heading, use the interactive map on your phone for gps as you play the game. The map someone made on reddit is good too as it shows the major and some minor locations. -use graphical herbalism mod so when you pick a plant it disappears instead of staying there like an empty chest. There is another mod that is like fallout 4 loot menu. If you find the magic or stamina regeneration to be too slow use mods. If you have low stamina your attacks will miss and people will treat you worse as you talk while catching your breath, you are tired. Use another mod to disable dark brotherhood attacks until after you finish the main quest and move to the expansion which takes place after the main quest ending, this is where the dark brotherhood assasins come from. -increase and decrease the price of things you sell and buy with the button next to the price, this is how you increase your mercantile skill. Alchemy is overpowered. The telvani are wizards harry, they dont use stairs in their mushroom towers, so when you visit them get a levitation spell. The informant in vivec is in the sewers. Magical enemies cant be harmed without a magical weapon. Reduce difficulty if the game is too hard and increase if its too easy, take your time, ironically this game is better now that the internet exists so you can look up things like dark souls and stardew valley.
It's as "dated" as any other game from 2003, but people act like game design that doesn't hand hold is intrinsically dated. The experience of finding your way around is wholly unique and makes it way more engaging than the other games in the series. I say this as someone who only started playing Morrowind a month ago. Morrowind is dated in that its graphical fidelity gets in the way of navigating the player through graphics and level design, the systems are very easily broken (which is FUN), the UI is rough especially with the quest journal not being laid out well (on Xbox), and there's not a lot of polish on quite a few things, but it also has really good game design that got thrown out in the name of accessibility that also gets tarnished as "dated." There's nothing intrinsically modern about getting rid of dice rolls beyond video games being made to appeal to the broadest casual audience, for example, but the combat is described as "dated" and juxtaposed with later entries when both Oblivion and Skyrim have incredibly dated feeling combat.
@@martyfromnebraska1045nah. Oblivion and Skyrims combat aren't dated. They work perfectly fine and skyrim still has some of the best bow play in any rpg. Sneaking up behind someone and assassinating them with their cool cutscenes doesn't feel outdated at all. Morrowinds combat is terrible tho lol and I love morrowind.
To find Holamayan, you were supposed to speak to a dissident in Ebon Heart and they take you there by boat. It is also hinted that it will only open during Azura's blessing or something like that (which means it's open at Dusk and Dawn). Use Divine Intervention and ALMSIVI intervention spells/scrolls (a NPC should have mentionned that, probably Arrille in Seyda Neen), as well as travel services from mage's guild, boats and sil striders to move quickly on the map. Mark and Recall are also extremely useful. Edit: Stamina will influence ANY action you do, including chance of casting a spell successfully, repairing your items, trading and such)
Summary of QoL enhancing, spoiler free gameplay tips from someone who now prefers Morrowind to Skyrim after playing it for the first time this year: Learn Mark and Recall. You can even find/buy/enchant rings to do it with 100 percent success rate and no magika cost. Lets you fast travel to specific points at any time, even during combat or in an interior dungeon. Utilize the enchanting system. Constant effect enchants are broken. With exquisite clothing, exquisite jewelry, and a daedric tower shield you can add crazy constant effect restore health, fortify attribute (speed, strength, and intelligence being my favorites), restore fatigue, etc. Have exquisite belts with constant effect night eye, levitate, water breathing, etc you can switch between so you never need a light source or to cast simple spells. CE levitate 1 will get you anywhere 10x faster with some fortify speed enchanted jewelry on. When you buy enchants if you don’t make them yourselves, bring a bunch of hordes gear to sell off. That NPC will have like 50k+ gold they can give you depending on the enchants you buy. Constant effect slowfall 1 enchant is very cheap and permanently negates fall damage. To travel with a bit more flavor, get a hefty jump (acrobatics) enchant, doesn’t have to be constant effect. You saw exhibit A from the scrolls you used. For max enchant slots, you can wear a belt, a skirt, and pants all at the same time. A lockpicking enchant negates the need of the security skill and lockpicks become free gold Search caldera for a cool merchant that’s amazing Alchemy is super broken and can be abused to break the game. Not recommended for immersive role playing, but if you want to dick around and break the game once you think you’re about done with it it could give you a few more hours of fun. Best of luck, love your content.
If you can get your speed up in the 200s and use a constant effect levitate 1, in conjunction with learning how to strategically use mark and recall (easy use case is right by a quest giver you’ll need to lug on back to) you will almost completely eliminate the traversal time sink problem you mention in the video. For infinite enchant capabilities, look up azuras star. If you’re getting to the point where lugging it everywhere is hurting your gameplay experience and you may quit, fold and look up that one thing honestly.
Thank you so much for this extensive breakdown. I'm going to make note of these and put them on my tips list I've been making from all these comments :)
@@FrostbreakYTWorth noting on top of mark and recall spells to compress your travel you should get items that cast divine intervention and almsivi intervention, they will teleport you to the nearest imperial/ashlander shrine accordingly.
I'm not sure if it was base game or some patch or with the unofficial morrowind patch, but using 1 slowfall does negate fall dmg in one version, but not in another version
I saw this yesterday and forgot to comment how this seems like one of those videos that blow up to 100k views in a week. Congratulations, did a great job on this video and I can't wait for pt. 2 (hopefully)
Thanks! Not sure it'll get that high but thank you for the optimism! If the video reaches as many views as I have subscribers, I consider that a success :)
Small tip: If an NPC tells you to go to a place, and they don't tell you where it is, 90% of the time you just need to click a bit more and then they will give you directions. Always click on the name of the place they told you to go or anything that seems related.
So, the reason that Holamayan opened for you was because it was either dawn or dusk. The temple is sealed by Azura (the Daedric prince of dawn and dusk) until those hours, then the shield opens to allow you inside. You were doing that part of the MQ WAY earlier than it was supposed to be done, which was why Nibani Maesa wouldn't allow you to go any further.
I’ve watched a lot of first impression play throughs, and honestly you best captured my experience and inner monalogues of first playing this game many years ago. Picking a beast race and kinda jank class, using weapons I wasn’t all that proficient in, not managing stamina, not make best use of fast travel options outside of silt striders, and generally have a bad and frustrating time with mechanics and quest navigation. But at a certain point, it just clicks, or at least gets better enough to really start enjoying your time, and eventually becoming a living god. Thanks for brining me back and hope you continue on!
I prefer reading in games, because it doesn't give you unskippable scenes and you can both take the time you need to read and choose to if you want to just get out of the encounter. besides, usually voiced stuff also lacks vital information you get from reading the quest afterwards (skyrim has this) so you have to read anyway, so why not just read from the start. Thats why older games are more fun because you don't just feel the need to skip everything thats just way too slow.
That's true about lack of information. It's not exactly logical to have a voice actor read out every single possible line of dialogue. I do enjoy that in Morrowind. I can ask any NPC almost anything and they'll almost always have an answer for me. A random guy on the street can offer me directions or rumors etc; where in Skyrim the player doesn't have that flexibility.
morrowind doesn’t have fast travel, so make sure you get the spells, mark and recall, if you place down a mark somewhere you can then use recall to teleport back to the mark you placed, it comes in handy for skipping some fights and encounters, you can also pay the mage’s guild to teleport you to different guild locations around the map but it’s expensive to do so, also you can pay someone at one of the mage’s guild halls to make custom spells for you to use
Right. So there's those spells and striders, mages guild, and boats for quicktravel? I just learned about the mages guild today can't believe I missed that.
@@FrostbreakYT also, if you chose an orc, their berserker rage ability is stupid broken when it comes to bartering, I’ve seen people play morrowind and get like effects that last for 1445 seconds for one gold, I don’t know how far you’re willing to break morrowind but it gives you ample opportunities for overpowered stuff and builds
@@featgorgon3985 That is not specific for the orc per se just reflects how broken the Stamina system can get. As berserker buffs your stamina beyond what you have on a baseline and so it effects EVERYTHING. I did not know this but my pretty broken character could jump from Vivec strider to Vivec palace (the place where he sits?) stairs..... in ONE jump. Yea kinda absurd having someone want to kill you and you just jump a mountain or two to make that peasant go away.
Tips: Get the spells Mark, Recall, Divine intervention, and almsivi intervention. This will make traveling so much easier, also mages guild has a teleportation npc to take you to other cities.
What captured me was: 1. getting lost on my way to Balmora since I decided to save money and go on foot 2. walking around at night with a blue paper lantern and the soft glow it gave at night while the silt strider howled immersed me Morrowind was the first game that defined "open world" for me and the fact that a huge amount of the world was hand-crafted and not procedurally generated like Daggerfall impressed me.
I always felt Morrowind found it's way into a lot of people's minds as amazing because of how diagetic it was. We all started that same way, lost, confused, irritated, but the more time we put in and the more we learned the in-game world and systems the more we could master it. Your literal knowledge turns the Nevarine into an absolute powerhouse in the same way their growth and enlightenment happens in game as Vvardenfel's 'chosen one,' and it's all framed as something that's meant to happen outside the context of the game based on you, the player. The characters 'Chim' is your grown knowledge, your discovered ability to break the systems, the way in which you can crack this game right open and go to a near deity in its gameplay the way the character is supposed to be. Even the save system is off-handedly referenced as just an ability that your character has the power to do and it's one of the first examples of that gaming ideology well done and as an interesting twist. I think that stuck with a lot of us, and it hasn't been quite captured again in the way Morrowind was able to do it.
A tip for your travels... Morrowind has a very "realistic" travel system. There's a really good youtube video called "An Example of Fast Travel Done Right" that explains it really well. Basically there are 3 main modes of travel and there's a network that connect most of the major cities. It's kinda like if you play Skyrim using the carriages at the major cities only cooler.
In Caldera, there is a mansion that is home to a group of orks. Inside the mansion is a scamp named Creeper. He is a merchant that will buy weapons, armor, and some potions for full price no matter how low your mercantile skill is. He has 5,000 gold to spend and will replenish his gold after 24 in game hours. Out of the two in game merchants with plenty of gold that will buy your gear at full price, he is the most easily accessible. Otherwise there is a talking mudcrab near a dwemer ruin on an island south of Suran with 10,000 gold who will buy almost anything.
Here's a very big tip, teleporting is your friend in this game. There are multiple ways of doing this. 1. There are spells, potions and enchanted items named or have the spell Mark and Recall. Use Mark to place a teleport point and use Recall to instantly teleport to that point. You can buy the potions at the alchemist in the wealthy part of Balmora. 2. There are spells and scrolls called Almsivi and Divine Intervention. When you use an Almsivi Intervention scroll or spell, you will teleport to the closest Dunmer temple, and Divine Intervention will get you to the closest Imperial Cult shrine, the shrine may be in an Imperial fort. You can buy and loot the scrolls in dungeons and in various shops. 3. In Mage's Guild buildings, you can use the services of a Guild Guide. For a fee they will teleport you to another Guide in a hall. And the temple that randomly opened up, it only opens during the hours of Dawn and Dusk, it's a big part of Azura's (the Daedra that gave you the prophecy/dream at the beginning) identity and theme.
I got 3 tips. 1. In the beginning find that corpse. Take the money. Read the scroll. Go back to socius. You'll have a new question. Then go to the dead guy's GF in the Tower. Talk to her. Finish the quest. And you'll get 500 g. 2. There are weapons in some of the tree stumps. One right near the Tower over the boulder is an axe. 3. Train. Talk, talk is cheap. Fatigue stat helps with everything as does luck. Lastly, have fun. Explore. It's a big enough open world to silt strider on, float on a boat or jump across. Remember a levitate potion or slow fall. And boost speed for quicker travel.
A couple of tips: If you do the first chain of quests for the Ald'ruhn mages guild, you get amulets of Almsivi and Divine intervention as reward, you can use then to teleport back to cities, beside Vivec's Temple theres a shrine that grants you a Levitation effect that lasts for a day, you can use it to quickly navigate trough Vivec, you just have to buy a cheap levitation potion from the Priestess that hangs around in front of the temple outside, and offer it to the shrine, you can do it everyday, Also there are 3 Treasuries on Vivec you can Heist.
come on, you CLEARLY don't read the dialogue even though you say you do. because besides SOME directions, the quests are all described perfectly in dialogue, including the magic doors like the one at holomayan. also addhiranirr in the sewers says that the agent she hides from is in the same canton...
I played through Morrowind for the first time this year, absolutely loved it. It will be essential for you to get the boots of blinding speed for QoL. Edit: oops you mentioned them in the video, forgot you were argonian. Rip in peace. DEFINITELY learn mark and recall.
Oh, the guy who’s attacking you is a dark brotherhood assassin. DLC is endgame, so most Morrowind veterans recommend to play with dark brotherhood delay mod on, they won’t come for you so soon
@@FrostbreakYT Late game, you can recreate BOBS effect with enchanted clothing and jewelry. Do a constant effect speed buff. To really min max it, you can set the range from 1-30 for example, and equip/unequip the clothing until you get a buff of 30 speed, move onto next piece of gear. BOBS are nice because you could just do that with strength, constant restore health, etc and be practically invincible and carry thousands of pounds. Basically, enchanting or paying for enchants is essential if you want to get rid of tedious bits of the game. Also, last spoiler free tip, explore caldera real well, especially if there’s a lot of orc dudes around. Best merchant in game.
I think it's worth mentioning that all-reading, no-voice acting was obviously THE NORM for most RPGs up until honestly fairly recently. I know I'm showing my age, but I still find all-voice-acted games a bit tedious because imho it slows conversations and exposition TO A CRAWL. I can read so much faster than a voice actor can talk. Or at least I could as a kid, when this game came out, lol.
Acrobatics is actually pretty good to take on your primary skills. It’s an easy way to level up strength and get +5 every level. strength is important because it affects your carry weight and how hard you hit.
Yes, as I understand it spears use both strength and endurance? Not sure about that but I thought someone else commented that today. It's like the only weapon in the game that's scaled off 2 different attributes. And WOW i love jumping super high. Such a cool concept that as you get better at athletics... you ACTUALLY get better (not just reduce the stamina cost for actions). Loving that.
@@FrostbreakYT IIRC you want to level Endurance. It affects hit points (I think 1/10 of current value each level?) But it doesn't back date gains! So if you have 35 End you get 3.5 points, when you hit 40 you get 4 points, but *only from then on*. So it's a good idea to maximize Endurance early. I'm not sure how that works with your build though; it may limit your max level. I remember becoming a vampire and being able to jump over fortress walls due to really high stats.
@@tyrfing777 Endurance contributes 1 HP on level up for every 10 points you have in it, and it rounds down. So if you have an endurance of 39 you only get 3 HP on level up.
@@FrostbreakYT Spear is "governed" by Endurance, meaning you get the multiplier for endurance when you levelled the Spear skill before reaching a new character level. Strength determines how hard you hit with any Weapon and Agility play a slight role for your hit chance.
Great video! Keep it up man, Morrowind might be harder, but it's also more rewarding PS: everyone here is giving you advice but no one's told you the true secret: get the manual (it's online for free), MW came with a manual that explained the fundamentals of the game, that's why the intro/character creation/tutorial is so short, you're supposed to have the manual by your side and check there wheen you need help. It will introduce you to the game and your options, without being gamebreaking nor giving you any information you're not supposed to have.
Outstanding video. Thanks for giving this wonderful game a shot. Your experience mirrors mine almost exactly. Being only a year older than the game itself, it was certainly quite the adjustment for me. I even quit playing several times for months. Then, one day, it just clicked, and now I play Morrowind and Oblivion more than anything else. Looking forward to watching your other videos and future content. Keep up the great work.
Welcome to the Morrowind club, great video. Travel is one of the hardest parts in the game until you learn all of the fast travel options. The main ones are Silt striders, Boats, and Guild Guides in the Mage's Guilds. Magic options include Mark and Recall spells, divine intervention, and almsivi intervention. You will still need to walk a lot of places so you will need to boost speed too. You can raise speed slowly as you level up but you can also boost it with magic. The Restoration skill governs spells that boost attributes and some spells can raise speed. In the Mage's guild and some other places you can use the spellmaking feature to craft specific spell effects. If you know a fortify attribute spell you can make something like fortify speed +50 for 20 seconds. You may need to start with a worse spell if your restoration skill is low but restoration will level up as you use it. Good luck on the rest of the game.
You’ve inspired me. I got Morrowind a while back for free when Bethesda was giving it away, but never got around to playing it. But, hearing you play really lit a fire in me. So thanks for that, let’s see if I can actually make it through the whole thing.
Just keep in mind it is always a rough game for new players, so have some patience if it is initally very frustrating. The beginning is quite difficult if you build a character wrong, use the wrong equipmen for your build, etc. My number one advice in this game (after building a decent character) is to use a substantial amount of your gold on training skills. There are a lot of trainers in Morrowind and there is no cap to how many times you can train per level. Also, just because someone gives you a quest does not mean you are strong enough to complete it yet. Often I've had to put things off til later. The big thing is really try to immerse yourself in the world and act in a somewhat realistic manner. If it seems like it'd be dangerous or risky for your character to do x, y, or z, it probably is and you could face a rough encounter very easily. Also, if you like magic in games, Morrowind has possibly the most satisfying mage experience in any game. Just an insane amount of options. If you do play magic, Telvanni is a really fun faction to join with some very interesting rules of conduct.
Not gonna lie I cheated a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT in this game and I don't feel guilty. That being said I love the world, atmosphere, and Main Plot of Morrowind a lot but can never play it as intended.
Also most books in Skyrim are carry overs from Morrowind and Oblivion so a lot of cool stuff to read in here which makes your time in Skyrim quicker cause you already read it in other games
You know what's interesting? I haven't really come across that many lore books in Morrowind so far. Besides libraries and stuff I haven't found many in the wild but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
Morrowind was my favorite elder scrolls game growing up. Got a copy from a woman I was dating and jumped into it blind, only knowing it was like 'Lord of the Rings.' Some parts were frustrating, and I definitely wish I knew about the game breaking ways to cheese the game, but I fell in LOVE with it. Skyrim has too much emphasis on the destination, not the JOURNEY.
If you don't think the journey means anything in oblivion or skyrim then you are either lying or fast travel everywhere. There are plenty of things that can happen when you travel on foot or horseback.
Regarding the map, when I was first playing this back in the day on xbox, I used the hand-drawn map that came with the game to solve one of the puzzles. Later on in the main quest you have to find a cave and you're only given some riddles/clues to find it. So without looking up a guide or anything, I pulled out the map and looked around to find where the secret cave might be, found one that looked promising, and it turned out to be the right one. It was one of the most satisfying gaming moments for me. I see people complain nowadays about that exact quest all the time, but you really should just try looking at the map that came with the game, it's great!
Loved the video! For me the best way to travel in the game was to enchant an item with a very high level jump spell and another item with a short snowfall spell. You use the jump spell, jump and then use snowfall right before you land. This way you can cover great distances in a very small amount of time. All you need is a bit of gold to pay an enchanter. Other spells like mark and recall or almsivi intervention and divine intervention are also very useful for travel. Also, in the early game I find that using conjured weapons is really nice because they increase the attribute associated with that type of weapon.
Unlocking fast travel as early as you can is a big time saver. A few boats around the coast, stilt striders and all of the teleportation pylons take time to find or unlock but once you get them everything else gets easier. Use the map and learn the mark and recall spells to speed up item return missions. Keeping a notebook helped and so did some of the baked in exploits. (Thank you Todd.) Sunder and Keening hotkey swapping will change you life. I still have my GOTY strategy guide too... that's how I found out the monastery only opens as dawn and dusk. lol.
I played Oblivion first, then Skyrim, then Morrowind. Morrowind for me has taken my heart as my favorite game for sure. It can for sure be frustrating when the game gives you bad or few directions, in the base game there was a quest that gave wrong directions actually, but a lack of quest markers imo makes it a much more worth while rpg. The dungeons aren't hyper expansive for the most part but it gives you an actual reason to be searching the places and finding things. You'll want either a good jump spell or a levitation spell/potion while you explore and to make sure you look up as there's a lot of verticality in Morrowind. Lots of caves and ruins have hidden alcoves you can only access through high jump or levitation. You'll have to visit a Telvanni tower at some point in the main quest where you will need levitation or high jump to get to the NPC. In the theme of solving issues with a spell/potion the magic system is insanity, I love it. Potions are insane and the easiest way to actually break the game. There are so many useful potions and it's always super useful to keep specifically on you: Restore Strength, Cure Disease, Cure Blight Disease, and Rising Force. Scrolls can be super powerful if you're not spellcasting, don't be afraid to use them there's tons.
I didn't know potions were so important for movement. Caius JUST gave me some for that place you mentioned because everyone is wizards and don't use stairs or whatever (which is kinda cool). I have found a few of those hidden alcoves/ledges because my acrobatics is super high!
@FrostbreakYT yeah I think you're heading towards Divayth Fyre, a Telvanni wizard. Yeah the Telvanni are too wizardy for stairs. If you start leveling Alteration you can get spells for the movement so you wouldn't need potions but if you have no intention to delve into wizardry potions and scrolls just for movement are incredibly useful and important. Divine Intervention, Almsivi Intervention, Mark and Recall are all incredibly good spells for traveling around the world and returning to places if you know what you're doing as well, they can be found as scrolls, spells, and on some enchanted necklaces.
I will say: a lot of the fun for Morrowind for me was just going around, and as you did, just discovering stuff along the way. I would read road signs, read books, talk with people, explore little points of interest, look at the artworks, look at architecture, the nature, etc. and really treat it as exploring a foreign country. I fully agree, the combat is not this game's strong suit - but that does go for all Elder Scrolls games, imho.
Morrowind tips: Always keep the green bar full. You can do this with potions, scrolls, spells, enchanted items(restore fatigue 50pts for 1 sec on self). You can even eat food items if your alchemy is high enough(40 or more). To make potions, drop an alchemy tool on your character. To make enchanted items, drop a filled soul gem on your character. Press F1 for a hotkey menu. Great for drinking potions, or switching spells or weapons. Use the light effect to see in the dark. Light potions are particularly effective, but items and spells work too. Make a jump spell 1-25pts for 1 second. It's cheap, unreliable and useful. Especially good as an enchantment. You can enchant weapons with restore health or fatigue on self, on striking. If you're into stealing, try telekinesis. Sneak doesn't work until you have it at 40 or so. Also the only skill you can't level by legitimate means. Well, you can, but it would take hours of extremely boring grinding. Bribe merchants with 10 gold. You can get most NPC's to 100 by spamming them with 10 gold. This will also level speechcraft. Always haggle the price when trading. Set the price about 20% in your favor and then mash the trade button until you get a deal.
probably someone has told you already but here is a big timesaver tip: join mages guild -> there are people who can teleport you to another city for a small fee which is awesome but it gets better -> travel to vivec mages guild with a port, find a female mage in yellow robes -> buy mark and recall spell -> now with mark you can set a point anywhere in the world and then you can cast recall to port there. i recommend using mark next to the balmora teleport person where the beds are. you can sleep there, you can store stuff on the table and on the ground to have your personal little space with a bank with items :D and you have access to travel to any bigger city
Morrowind is my all time favorite game so its great to see people enjoying it. For a tips: 1: since your character is not a magic user magic scrolls and enchanted items can be very powerful tools. 2: your fatigue affects EVERYTHING from chance of hitting with attack and casting a spell to how good prices you get from merchants. 3: think morrowind as a digital version of a tabletop rpg, that way some of the oddities might make more sense.
Cool video. I played a lot of Morrowind as a teen. A good way to "fast travel" is to employ the mages guild to teleport you to another mages guild for a small payment. Also using ship travel when along the coast will get you to almost any backwater village.
Also the door was open based on the time of day...... The game doesnt tell you but ya if you had simply waited till dusk or whatever it would've opened
First up: Find the book The Pilgrims Path so you have some of the city markers on your map Fast Travelling in Morrowind: 1. Every Mages guild has a Person that teleports you to another City with a mages guild 2. Joining the mages guild lets you access a chest with free stuff, such as a scroll of Almsivi and Divine intervention. You can use those to quickly relocate to Temple shrines and Imperial shrines 3. You already used Silt striders so you know those 4. You can also use Boats. There are LOTS of ports all around morrowind. 5. Mark and recall. You can either find enchanted items which have those spells, You can learn those spells but you need 15 ish mysticism to cast them reliably but you can also buy potions from nelcarya of white havens or whatever her name is in balmora that have those exact effects. I usually drop my mark close to urshilaku camp to not having to run there every 2nd quest or so and just drink a recall potion 6. There is also a quest in the caldera mages guild that gives you hints on the propylon indeces but they are usually in dangerous places so be prepared for some adventuring. Then you can use the propylon chambers with the correct indeces to jump quickly between Ancient Dunmer Strongholds Some additional tips: - Silt strider from Balmora to aldruhn and from there silt strider to maar gan and then walk to urshilaku from there. - A quick way to gnar mok for instance: Balmora to Vivec by siltstrider, then walk to the boat next to the silt strider and take boat services to ebonheart and then over to Gnar mok. - You will need to go to divyath fyr to cure your corprus. Easiest is the mages guild teleport to sadrith mora and swim from there - If you want to have the dark brotherhood stop attacking you, talk to a guard about them and then go to ebonheart and talk to this one guy standing outside of the main fortress (you get directed there by the guards) - The quest with the dissident priests is kinda bugged at this stage in your main quest. you actually have to go there a little later in the main quest and then you can give the old woman in urshilaku the books. The game is ancient.. sorry :D The Temple opens in the Dusk and Dawn hours (5-6 am and 5-6 pm). Thats why it was suddenly open. The dissident priests are some kind of related to the teachings of The Daedric Lord Azura (The Lord of Dusk and Dawn). When you progress the main quest, you get sent there and you can use a boat from ebonheart but you need to have the necessary quest for it. She then tells you that the temple opens at these specific hours. - Try going to enchanters (one is in the mages guild) and buy useful scrolls. Scroll of windwalker, scroll of the wind, Divine intervention, almsivi intervention are all good scrolls for quick fast travelling around and also moving faster. The movement speed in Morrowind is atrocious. I usually try to level up speed up to a 100 as fast as possible to avoid this walking simulation. Divine intervention and almsivi intervention are super cheap and the enchanter in the balmora mages guild upstairs restocks them once you close the shopping inventory window - Go to settings and find the Setting "use strongest attack" and turn it to yes. You can left click spam that way with every weapon and always have the strongest attack (jab for Spear for instance, Slash for claymores, Chop for Katanas etc) - Also always carry Restore Strength potions. Trust me.
Wow thank you for this write up! Didn't know about the mages guild or boats until I got some comments on this video so that'll be a lifesaver. I will talk to one of the guards right away about the DB; that is getting annoying. Yes, I've been told I did the main quest out of order hopefully I didn't break anything! Holy crap yeah I need the restore strength. Got stuck in a cave cuz someone set my strength to ZERO and I couldn't move (I think there's a clip of it somewhere in the video). Never again xD
@@FrostbreakYT for sure. i played this game too much in my life, glad i could help! the mainquest should still work just fine! dont worry about it. The guy draining your strength is a "greater bonewalker". thats the only enemy that does it though.
@@FrostbreakYT I pretty sure you didn't brake anything and even if, there is a well hidden and VERY costly alternative route to the main quest. You will soon encounter the last living dwarf and he is the only real essential NPC. You can kill every other NPC and still complete the main quest if you are willing to dive deep into dwemer lore and pay a heavy, non-monetary, price.
Keep going with this. This and oblivion are amazing. I had to scrub my first play through as I didn’t understand the leveling system yet but created an op character my second run through. For that reason I give the edge to morrowind because it gives you so many more options for how to play. Also not having arrows and map markers made this game so much fun and rewarding to solve.
A few more notes: Fortifying over 100 works great in this game, as opposed to Oblivion, so go ahead and enchant everything you can with constant effect fortify strength. There's a trick where you can get more bang for your buck if you enchant with a strength range, and keep re-equipping the item until you get something in the upper half of the range. You can also layer clothing in Morrowind, which means you can wear greaves, an armor chestpiece, a robe, trousers, a skirt, and a shirt all at once. Use that to your advantage. The more expensive an item is, the higher value enchant it can hold (enchanting points), this applies to clothing. With armor, things are tricker, as I found out, sometimes better armor may have lower enchanting points. The more expensive clothes you wear, the better some NPCs react to you, and you can always bribe them to increase disposition. You can soultrap summoned creatures, so get a hold of a summon golden saint spell, enchant it as on-use on some item so that you don't need to level up conjuration, and trap their souls to get grand soul gems with grand souls for constant effect enchanting. You can get Azura's star, which is like in the later 2 elder scrolls games, basically a reusable grand soul gem. You need grand souls for constant effect enchants, it won't work with lower tiers, but you can still use lower tiers for on-strike and on-cast enchants.
My first Elder Scrolls Game was Skyrim, Morrowind is like 10 days older than me. I played it for the first time last year, and I consider it my favourite game of the series, together with Oblivion :) The beginning was harsh, like you experienced it yourself, but it really grew on me. It's old and dusty, but under that dust is a charm that forever lured me in. The game is far from perfect, but it's so much fun to me nonetheless.
On my first and only playthrough earlier this year, I enchanted an expensive amulet with a constant effect of 1 pt Levitate, and basically used that as my TBC 60% flying mount. I even had the thing hotkeyed, and also another amulet with constant effect fortify speed, so I could switch between the flying and running amulets at the touch of a button. Edit: I also had constant effect nighteye enchanted on my shoulder pads, because I could only fit a few points on each one. Another neat trick is having a c.e. ring which restores fatigue and another c.e. ring which restores health. These two rings make you near immortal and you can basically do power attacks all the time. Then I saw a youtube video telling me to enchant my weapon with +100 strength on self, on strike, for a few seconds. That was crossing over into godmode territory. As for the dissident priests, there's a whole storyline with that librarian that you mentioned, who sends you to the priests' hidden temple and tells you that the door opens automatically at specific hours of the day. I think that you need to read the books and the letters before you can turn the quest in, but I'm not sure what might be wrong in your case.
"Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages." ~ Hannibal Lecter (1991) You'll find any information that you need for a quest inside of your journal, through talking to NPCs who are in a good mood with you (70+) or through reading books and notes. Remember, we've all been there where you are right now (for me it is 21 years ago) and still I take my time with every single playthrough (since back than allmost once every year, about 80 to 110 hrs. per playthrough). It ain't hard. Being confused or overwhelmed with the first time is absolutely normal, when you never played a game like this.
I recommend buying the spells: "Mark" and "Recall". Also, the spells: "Divine Intervention" and "Almsivi Intervention". Or scrolls if you can't cast them. They could also be on jewelry if you're lucky. These, alongside silt striders and mage guilds should help with traversing.
I liked what you said about the game requiring the player's full attention. That is absolutely true - you cannot watch a video on a second screen, or listen to music, humming the lyrics as you skip through an NPC's dialogue. You need to pay attention, immerse yourself in the world and think about it. The quests (if you can even call them quests) are not marked on your map, but the NPCs are giving you information. They talk like real people living in that world, they are giving you directions in a way that is familiar to them. They will reference towns or villages, landmarks like shoreline, bridge, river, big rock etc., they will send you north, southwest or whatever. You said in your breakdown that you spent X hours walking, Y hours searching and Z hours actually playing. Wrong! You have been playing all the time. Immerse yourself in it, real life doesn't have a quest marker either. Part of the experience is getting ready for a major quest: you visit a couple of shops in town, get a supply of arrows and healing potions and magic scrolls, leave your heavy loot in a safe place, and only afterwards you venture forth, prepared. Also note that the Silt Strider is not the only fast travel option. Vvardenfell is an island; you can fast travel using a ship along the coast between many settlements around it. Also the Mages' Guild can teleport you between their guild halls for a fee. And finally, you can teleport yourself to various Shrines and Temples with a simple spell or even to a place of your choosing when you mark it first with another spell. There is no fast travel in the sense in which it has been implemented in later titles, but there are many ways of getting across the land speedily. Only this time you have to do the work first. The worldbuilding is amazing if you start focusing on it. Morrowing is an Imperial Province, but it is ruled locally by the Great Houses. Their capital cities are Balmora, Ald'ruhn, and Sadrith Mora. Each Great House has their own style of architecture, and same goes for the Tribunal Temple, the Imperial Legion garrisons, and the Imperial settlements, so you can tell at a glance in whose territory you are at any given moment. The major cities usually follow a very sensible real world structure - there is the upper-class part of town with the seat of the Great House, usually you can find the upscale merchants there, as well as the Guildhalls, local noblemen, and maybe the more respectable inn. Then there is the lower-class part where the poorer residents live, you can find there a small trader or two and some sort of shabbier pub. In the major cities the Temple usually stays apart from all this. On the contrary, in the smaller towns where the Great Houses do not have any real presence the Temple tends to be more in the center. Some towns have the Imperial Legion forts adjacent, but they are on the outskirts, as they have been constructed after the Imperial occupation. I am taking my time explaining all this to demonstrate that the game was made back when people cared about these things. It is a fantasy setting, but it is crafted with real world medieval realism in mind. If you start thinking about it this way, you will find that it becomes much easier getting around and handling your quests and shopping and everything. If you are looking for a nobleman, he will not be living in the slums. If you are looking for someone with a latin-sounding name, he will not be a Dark Elf but an Imperial most likely. The variety of clothing styles also matters, Dark Elf from the Ashlander tribes will be dressed differently that a Dark Elf who lives in town. If you will rank up in one of the Imperial factions, their local competition will not like you very much. If a settlement is along the coastline, chances are that there will be a dock from which you can book passage. And so on, so forth, it really pays to immerse yourself in. And talk to everyone. You can always study your Journal later, it has a sort of search funcion, so you can for example select "Sixth House" and you will find everything that everyone has said about the topic. It is very helpful. P. S. I played it back in the day and I did not have the paper map because it was a craced copy of the game, still managed, don't give up mate!
Tips? Ok! 1. Try some magic as well. It works a bit differently than Skyrim, but is fun a lot. Skyrim's magic is simple. Morrowind's is creative. 2. House of Telvanni is such a fun and has amazing quests. Imagine that sometimes you need to levitate to get into a shroom to speak with someone. But they don't take outlanders unless you are a Dunmer. 3. Levitation si a great way how to travel. Combine with Boots of Lighting Speed and nowhere is too far. 4. Conjuration is awesome. Any kind of it. Makes game more comfy to have skeleton who loves you by your side. 5. Visit Solstheim and Mournhold. 5,5. Cauis Cosades is a junkie. 6. Try various joinable organizations. There are many (more than in Skyrim). 7. Read cauciously, not necessarily a lot. Never miss blue topics in text when it comes to quests. Any. 7,5. You've never opened the door of the Temple of Incarnate. They open at dawn and close at dusk. The Temple is dedicated to Azura. Get it? 8. Don't get too many quests at once. You will forget half of them even exist. 9. Practice Acrobacy to higher your hit chance with weapons. 9,5. Go say hi to Neloth. Remember the mage in Skyrim who lives in the shroom on Solstheim? In Morrowind, he was born already. 10. Search for the only existing dwemer in the NIrn (World). 11. Learn and understand well your inventory interface. Read about effects applied on you. Hover over all icons and other things in menu. When you understand your menu, life is way easier. 12. Argonian is challenging in Morrowind. Try other races as well and find the one for you. I love Dunmers and their culture in Morrowind. 13. Sometimes the world tells the best stories. Look around you and perceive. 14. Remember that you actually play game that has DnD in its blood. 14. Find fun in the difficulty of the game. 15. Roleplay a bit. Give your character life. In Morrowind your character is with you for a long time.
I tried the Skyrim Mod Enderal Forgotten Stories and am having an amazing time. After Fallout London I wanted to see Skyrim's version of the community creating their own story and just as with Fallout London I'm extremely impressed. For one thing it runs much better than Fallout London due to it being older and having patches but the story and characters are far more compelling than Skyrim imo.
Did one playthrough of Morrowind, I remember making 3 enchanted items that carried me through the entire game, something to levitate at high speed an insta kill damage health bolt weapon and a skeleton key, cheesing the system into achieving godhood was fun.
the point of the guy that falls down from the sky is to teach you that you aren't supposed to walk around. he drops a jump spell, hinting that you there is no limit to how fast or high you can move. the devs made the magic system for you to exploit. at the mages' guild you can create spells, you can create 1 second spells with high values, like jump, and you can also create 1 mana cost spells for training. there are also NPCs that will train your skills for a fee. Protip: enchanted items regenerate charge over time, higher enchanting skill = less charge per use to a maximum of 1 charge per cast. Press f1 to bring up the quick keys, you can assign items or spells to the number keys on the keyboard
"Smooth-brain Skybaby tries Morrowind" is the best genre of video and I'm hyped for part 2 My tips: Learn the telekinesis spell Learn the fast travel systems (including the spells mark, recall, and both interventions) Learn more about The Temple Pick a house to store your stuff in, you can just leave things laying on the floor to keep it all in one spot (I use Dura Gra-Bol's house) Explore spellcrafting Not all mudcrabs are hostile Not all scamps are hostile
NYET NO TIPS You get to spend 200 hours figuring it all out the hardest ways possible like the rest of us did (lol). 1. Keep some real world paper and pen/pencil to take notes. Morrowind made me do this in 2004, and I've kept the habit with video games ever since (the latest version is writing down crafting recipes from Starfield because the tagging system is not ideal). 2. The main quest is a slow burn. Do it in pieces/sprints. Do some of it, and then take an exploration/side quest break. 3. Don't get too hung up on min/max'ing your stats/level ups. I think everyone focuses on this and it's silly. Play how you want and the stats/skills will eventually catch up. 4. Mage's Guild Guides will teleport you for a small fee. Why walk when you can ride? Use the silt striders. Find the propylon indexes for the Dunmer Strongholds and use those to teleport. Divine Intervention and Almsivi Intervention teleport you to nearby Imperial Shrines and Temple Shrines respectively. Mark and Recall (spell, scrolls, or potions) are very useful for going as deep as you want in a quest/dungeon and then teleporting to your base/house/person who gave you the quest. 5. Enjoy yourself. And you're a good man doing this without mods (I used to be a mod evangelist but I've grown to hate them and I'm a vanilla purist now).
What you talked of finding the Dissident priest was meant for you to ask Cosades, then he tells you to rescue a Dissident priest from the flying boulder in Vivec and she told you how to get to the temple that was closed and she told you when it opens
There are some things you can do, to make the experience go more smoothly. Get at least a bit into Alchemy - basic restore fatique potion is life saver, get at least mortar and pestle and each household has literally sacks of ingredients for it. Alteration school of magic has some amazingly useful spells- water walking, water breathing, levitation.. jumping and slowfall spells alone make travelling much easier. Make one jump spell with longer duration and smaller hops for shorter walks, one lasting two seconds and as strong as you manage to cast, for long jumps (just like that dead fellow did), best made from high places. Make Slowfall spell with strenght of 1 to nullify fall damage and one around 30, so your mile long jump can have more graceful landing. Just don't cast it too late:) To be able to make your own spells, you have to join the mages guild and buy the spells with the effects you want first. They also offer teleportation between guild buildings, which in itself is reason enough to join. Mark and Recall spells are must- cast Mark anywhere and Recall will teleport you back there, great for returning to quest givers and such. And both Intervention spells will teleport you to the nearest temple, either Imperial or Aldmery one. These four spells are also commonly found as scrolls and on enchanted items, if you don't want to join mages guild or train any magic.
I am seven minutes into the video, so if you figure it out later I apologize. Iirc the default mode is walking, if you press caps lock you can switch between walking and running. You can cut travelling times way down by using the intervention spells, divine drops you at the imperial shrine closest to your location and almsivi does the same but at the closest tribunal temple. There are also the "Mark" and "Recall" spells, you can "Mark" at a certain location and "Recall" will return you to that exact position. Casting spells also has that rng factor, so if you are not skilled at using a certain school of magic or if your stamina is low, your chance of casting successfully will be reduced. The Holamayan monastery only opens at the correct time (I think dawn and dusk?).
Oh, that's so fresh to see your favorite game from diffrent angle. Thank you for doing this, pal, great job!!! Can't wait for part 2,3 and 4..... and 5 and 6 for dlc's... am i asking too much? maybe .. c:
Hey bro, fantastic video! Sick that you stuck with it, it's a beautiful game and you were right on the money--the most fun part is *not* doing the main quest. No shame on the map either, most of us back in the day had a fold-out paper game map that game with the game which was super useful so we'll call it even. As for travel, there are a lot of options! I'd look into Intervention scrolls, great way to escape from a bad situation and usually get back on the fast travel network. FYI, the Holomayan puzzle is just that it opens up at a certain time of day--luckily you were there around the right time! Looking forward to episode 2! Edit: made this comment with like two minutes left on the video and you brought up the map. Woops.
Thank you for the comment! I may even try to buy one online or something to put up on my wall for the "real" feel; I think that'll be cool. Glad you enjoyed and thank you for the tips :)
Tip for casting spells: use enchanted items instead of casting a spell. Since you only have alteration as a minor skill and no others, you will fail at casting often, but using enchanted items never fails (unless the charge is used up, but it regenerates over time). Buy an item, or pay for an enchantment, with a spell effect you need, such as night eye/light like you tried to cast in this video. That way you will always be able to cast an important spell whenever you need it. Some useful spell effects: teleportation spells, restore fatigue/health, fortify strength (carry weight, better than feather), fortify agility/weapon skill (hit chance), telekinesis (open traps), damage (not drain) strength (better than burden), jump/fortify acrobatics (fast way to move around, with 1 pt slow fall to prevent fall damage), fortify personality 100 for 1 sec (use right before talking with someone), absorb health (doesn't damage you when reflected), drain health 100 points for 1 sec (instant kill enemies with less than 100 hp), restore strength (for greater bonewalkers, trust me).
For travel, spell make a jump spell, pretty fast forward acceleration. Magnitude 50+ (the highest you can cast). Duration 1s, jump after casting. If uses to much mana, rest for mana regen, keep jump. Vivec to balmora just a handful of jumps. Also lower mag jumps (20 or so) are great for traversing city’s, especially vivec
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Please don't feel afraid to drop any tips for Morrowind you may have! This is my first time playing and I'm trying to re-create that 2002 launch "feel" as best as I can. I've been working on this video for almost a month now so I'm open to any feedback in terms of video structure, narration, or whatnot
Well, one tip I can say, you probably should use Mark and Recall, Divine Intervention and Almsivi Intervention, these spells lets you teleport around the map, Mark lets u mark a location and Recall lets u teleport back there, so u can set it anywhere that needs backtracking like the Urshilaku camp or Caius' house, Divine/Almsivi teleports u to the nearest Imperial Cult Shrine/Tribunal temple, which usually means the closest city, u need mysticism to use these spells. Alternatively u can enchant items with these spells instead.
u can find some of these spells in Balmora, I believe the Temple or Mages Guild sells them, I cant recall where u can get Divine Intervention though.
@@lamedrawings Good to know. So in this game is the spell school required for the % chance I have to cast a spell? Like, at the moment, would my Argonian fail to cast those spells more often then not? I have a lot of gold so I can train stuff if I need to.
@@FrostbreakYT all skills in morrowind work with % the higher your skill the less chance it will fail thats why you couldnt cast your night eye a work around for this is enchanting cuz spells from enchanted items dont use your skills to be casted, to enchant an item tho u can have an npc do it by paying him u dont need to do it yourself
@@cryper_130 okay maybe I'll look into enchanting an item with nighteye. That seems to be pretty important as I can't see SHIT in this game 90% of the time (I also want the footage to look good too).
@@FrostbreakYT U can find enchanters in most Mages guild, you'll need a soul gem (With a soul trapped inside), gold, an item to enchant (weapons, rings, amulets, clothing etc), and you need to know the spell u want to enchant the items with.
You can buy soul gems with souls in them but they are usually very pricy, soul trap the spell can be bought in balmora mages guild too I believe. I dont dabble much in enchanting unless its for constant effects so Idk much about cast on effects enchantments.
Usually when youtubers do their first impression of morrowind it's like 4 hours of raw content edited down a bit. Pretty insane you got 16 hours into less than 30 minutes with great pacing, music, and live clips too. I've played TES3 many times but (as with all your content) it's always interesting to watch a fresh perspective :)
Thank you!
Because unlike those wannabes he is a true youtuber.
My guy picked an argonian at the start, thats hardcore bro, as an argonian main, I welcome you to the no shoe club
No shoes or full helmets... tough out here for the lizards
@@FrostbreakYT I've genuinely never seen someone new to Morrowind managing to sequence break the story like u did, its honestly impressive.
@@lamedrawings Really?? What did I do 😅🤣
@@FrostbreakYT Well judging by the footage and the journal, u were supposed to break someone out of prison, the giant floating rock at Vivec, and they'll tell u to travel to Holamayan via a boat from Ebonheart, but u didnt mentioned doing that and instead travelled to Holamayan and got the books there, skipping the whole rescue sequence it seems, unless u cut that part out?
@@lamedrawings NOPE definitely did not do that!! LOL okay welp... do you have any idea who would normally set me on that quest? Sounds somewhat important xD
Morrowind is literally how I learned to navigate using a physical map. I still have the original map, framed and well-loved up in my house.
I want a physical map. Too my my "era" is gaming is all digital with no "real" ownership of titles :(
the door at the island opened cuz its Azuras shrine so it only opens at dawn and dusk also love the vids keep it up it fun to see someone tackle this game without any prior info on it i miss my first time playing it
AHHHH okay. So you're saying I just got lucky it was open? If I got there in the morning I could've been wandering around for a while xD
Was looking for this comment when he came to this part in teh video.
17:41 The answer was in the text here : you had to go see Dadd- I mean Caius Cosades. Those books will be relevant, it's just that they will come much later in the main quest. As for the secret entrance... it's also part of the main quest and you will be told exactly how to enter the dissident priests' base. By googling this place, you achieved CHIM and broke mundus, you weren't supposed to have access to it this early
Yeah another commenter said I missed a huge chunk of the story in vivec. We'll see what morrowind's story holds for me and my wacky out of sequence attempt at it xD
I dont know exactly cuz has been some time since i played it but talking to some npcs from the main story they say something about azura (a daedric princess) being related to the dessident priests, so the door just opens in a especific time of the day, i think its the dawn, when tha azura star can be seen in the sky
@@GabrielAlmeida-ym7bp Dawn and dusk. 6 am and 6 pm.
The NPC you see on the boat in the beginning, Jiub. He is in Skyrim as well.
He's a ghost in the Cairn portion of the Vampire/Dawnguard and you end up collecting torn pages of his diary about his travels as a trader.
Also. Look for the Scamp vendor in Caldera. You'll thank me later.
Interesting... I'm playing a VR run of Skyrim right now and I'll keep an eye out. I guess I never noticed his name but that's a pretty cool callback. I will check out that vendor too :)
@@FrostbreakYT Jiub has some insane lore lmao.
He's technically in oblivion too. He dies in the battle of kvatch. You can find his head or something iirc. But yeah, good old Saint jiub, got rid of all them cliff racers and made sainthood.
@@kermerc.s.a.5765 interesting - this sent me down a bit of a r/teslore rabbithole. basically, some say he died in Morrowind; some say in Kvatch, and point to a similarly scarred head there to prove it - but apparently that's just a suggestive, commonly used asset. I do like the idea, and imagine it was intended to spark such debates.
CREEPER IS CHEESE!!!
The fun part of Morrowind for me is the travel. Mark, Recall, Mages Guild, Interventions, and Stilt Striders make travel very immersive and organic. Once you master travel, you can get around just as fast as Skyrim's fast travel. It's so rewarding.
Yes, from these comments I have a lot more options for travel than I previously thought...
Takes a bit for a newcomer to get the hang of it. Getting the intervention spells or amulets and then mark and recall and knowing all the boat, striders and mages guild portals is a treat.
@@FrostbreakYT those scrolls of icarian flight might look like instant death spells, but a little potion of slowfall and suddenly you've got a very effective "fast travel" option.
Yeah buy some mark and recall potions if you cant cast the spells. You can just recall teleport back to Balmora.
Don't forget the Propylon chambers as well
Last time i tried to play morrowind, i was chased all around by a mudcrab all the way from seyda neen to vivic city
Yeah they don't seem to have aggro ranges lol. I was chased by guards from Balmora to Caldera
On my first play it happened to me with kwama forager that spawns between Seyda Neen and Pelagiad. I thought it is just some entry level worm mob... no challenge I thought. Little did I knew that I will miss literally every hit but that bugger will hit all of them. I ran all the way to Balmora (that little bugger still in pursuit) where I've seen my first Argonian (Hul). I thought Balmora is some open world dungeon and poor Hul is a monster. Since I was about to die to a worm, I decided it will be less shameful to die to a lizard monster than a worm and I swung my sword at poor Hul... I missed AGAIN and that was the end of me :D Ah sweet memories.
on my first playthrough i accidentally attacked a gaurd and i ran from vivec city to ald-ruhn
"why is everyone so mean to me?"
me: (joyously) it's morrowind!
hehe :)
I love it. Skyrim players often say the Nords are racist. Then they play Morrowind.
Welcome to Morrowind, Outlander, where everyone hates you and your responses don't matter.
"Why is everyone so mean to me?"
What a grand and intoxicating innocence!
also he never put away his weapon >.<
How friendly would you greet a stranger who is holding a weapon ready to strike?
you can turn on "always use best attack" and it will make it so even if youre standing still you can stab with the spear instead of doing a chop
Lifesaver! Thank you!!
Also remember that skills level with hit counts so if you want to level lets say speed and go h2h on mudcrab that best attack option can be turned off
Pleb option, different attacks requiring you to move correctly is more engaging
@@SneedFeedAndSeedyes because morrowind is famous for its engaging and riveting combat
@@SneedFeedAndSeed I prefer using every attack my self. I did start with the best attack option as other had told me
"Morrowind launched when my mother launched me out of her womb."
Why you gotta go making me feel old like that? I was too young to play Morrowind when it came out, but still.
You think you feel old hearing that? I was already a few years out of college when this came out!
"You might want to ask Caius................."
Very good to know thank you for that. That makes total sense about the weapon xD
So some tips.
1: Treat Morrowind like a TTRPG, your characters skills and condition (fatigue mainly) are MUCH more important than your skill as a player.
2: Spells can fail dependant on your skills, enchanted items cannot. Getting a couple small enchanted items (restore fatigue, restore strength etc) will make things much nicer.
3: The boats at costal towns are fast travel options.
4: The entire journey to Holamayan was done out of order, that place is where you go later in the main quest.
5: Sheath your weapon when you talk to NPC's, it lowers their disposition otherwise.
6: Everyone is mean to you because your disposition with them is low, having more personality and fame points (gotten from quests) will increase NPC's starting dispostion.
7: Merchants will give you better prices if they like you.
8: Beast races can wear open helmets but not closed helmets. Fortunately for light armor this includes the glass helmet.
Also seeing you complete the Vassir-Didanat Ebony Mine quest without any prior knowledge was amazing, the fact you found the best outcome (you can report its location to three different NPCs) was even better.
A couple useful tips in general that you should be keeping in mind.
1. Fast travel exists, but it isnt point and click on a map. Finding scrolls or enchanted items of 'mark' and 'recall' will allow you to instantly travel to one specific place of your choosing. I always keep my mark in a mages guild so that i can access the guild travel services. This will allow you to immediately get to any major city, and in tandem with the silt striders and boating services you are never more than 5 minutes away from any city on the map. Then its just a short walk to any other point. Really game changing once you're a master of this system and it'll make you wish oblivion and skyrim kept this idea because it feels so good. Intervention scrolls and enchantments are useful too, they can take you to temples or outposts - temples being more useful - but really if you ignored this portion you would be fine. You have to know which location you're closest to and that can be annoying to figure out.
2. Training. The bulk of your cash should be spent at trainers. If you find a trainer who doubles as a merchant you can train a few levels and then sell some expensive loot to get your money back. Caius can point you to many decent low cost trainers, as well as the fighters guild has good ones. Your class doesn't do well with most magic in the game, but a few thousand gold invested in training one school of magic will quickly change that and you be able to reliably heal, cast mark or recall, or even levitate whenever you need it. A boost in your spear skill will help with your accuracy too.
3. The combat feels funny, but becomes fun when your charater gets decent with their weapon. You use spears and you may have noticed you frequently are chopping with it instead of stabbing. To stab (which will do much more damage) you need be moving forward or backwards when you begin your swing. In addition, holding the attack button for a moment will make the strike more poweful. Quick strikes mean you hit more times, but they deal little damage. Longer held strikes will take longer to get hits in, but they will hit for much more damage. Spears also have very long reach - more than you think, so take advantage of that. Train your spear skill to 60 or higher and you'll be fine.
4. Enchantments are the most powerful things in this game. In oblivion and skyrim you have to recharge enchanted items with soul gems, but not in morrowind. Enchanted items naturally recharge over time (even just using the wait function). An enchantment with levitate means you will always be able to fly whenever you want to. A spear with fire damage means you'll always have boosted damage when you begin a fight and that damage enchantment regens after you rest to heal. Some items arent worth keeping and should just be sold, but keep in mind that the way to become overpowered in this game is purely through enchantments.
5. Have fun! I love that you chose an acrobat argonian. Its probably one of the most difficult playthroughs you'll have - but it will absolutely force you to get creative, which i think is the most fun way to play this game. People will give you tips about the mudcrab trader or creeper - you can ignore those, it will turn the game into a grind fest if you're not careful. Just play however you want and enjoy the environment, that where this game excels. As you go deeper into the story you'll get the divine disease and this was the turning point for me in terms of the story, i got real invested at that point. The quests feel less good once you get azuras ring, so just take your time to have fun in between story quests at that point. The temple quests are great - theres the three dunmer houses you can play through which are a bit of fun too. I would recommend getting the ring and then taking side paths to keep the fun up rather than grind out hortator and nerevarine quests because they become very travel heavy.
Good luck, i really hope you do a part 2!
the map is 100% valid! i still have my dads original, with handwritten questing notes to boot!
Good! Then I will allow myself the handicap of also using a map :)
Title of the video should be: "Frostbreak makes you feel old for 27 minutes and 4 seconds". Very funny and interesting to see someone attempt a game from my childhood regardless. Carry on my young ward!
That assassin you encounter when you rest is from the Tribunal DLC to start it. It's a bug (or just not programmed correctly) that he shows up before you are ready for him, which is like level 20+. I've managed to beat him at level 1 though it was difficult.
Yeah clearly they're a bit overpowered for when they started showing up. Got lucky with that one kill though and my powerlevel skyrocketed.
That’s why I avoid the DLC copy at any cost.
Vanilla forvee
From what I remember the original trigger when Tribunal came out was level 6.
Which was clearly too early. They may have fixed that, but patch distribution was much spottier then.
Level 20 is a bit crazy. I'd say level 10 is when they should start attacking. They're not that hard to kill either.
On console ports they're programmed correctly to spawn only at level 5/6 and higher
Few tips from someone that started morrowind a few weeks ago:
1. Turn on "always use best attack" in the options menu
2. Get some restore fatigue potions. If you are at 50% fatigue, that's your normal hit chance, your hit chance increase by 25% with full fatigue, but decrease by 25% at zero fatigue. You can steal some alchemy tools from plenty of locations, like the fancy alchemy shop in Balmora if you learn how to stealth, and you can buy cheap Crab Meat and Small Kwarma eggs for fatigue pots from Ajira in the Balmora mages guild (might have to join them first, idk). Also there are ways to make some merchants stock more of their restocking items for easier mass production of potions
3. Learn the Mark/Recall spells, as well as Almsivi/Divine intervention, or get some scrolls/potions/enchanted items with those effects, makes travel so much easier
4. 21:14 there is fast travel to and from Gnaar Mok, check the boat, there's a whole fast travel system you missed, also the mages guild guides can teleport you to some places too
Caldera’s mages guild got some good alchemy gear to steal
Always use best attack seems kinda hot or miss. I've noticed that with certain weapons it doesn't choose the most powerful attack. It seems to take an average of quick attacks v held attacks, instead of just using the strongest held attack.
As someone who has played since it was released, I never use restore fatigue potions.
1. Buy a cheap restore fatigue spell.
2. Find someone who has spell making option.
3. Create a spell that restores a few points of fatigue for as long of a time as you are able to cast.
4. Once you level your restoration magic skill you can increase the point value and duration to the point where you never have to worry about fatigue.
Of all the dozens of times I’ve been told to play morrowind (I’m also a skyrim baby) and of all the videos I’ve watched telling me it’s the best and the other games suck, THIS VIDEO is what has convinced me I want to play it. It looks like an absolute struggle to play. You aren’t sugarcoating the roughness or pretending it isn’t dated, you’re giving a raw experience of someone who has never touched it before, and that experience looks fascinating. Maybe it’s all the hours I’ve sunk into Kenshi, but the idea of struggling through all this for the sake of eventually and enjoying it is making me very excited to give it a shot.
Great video as always, if the community doesn’t pull together to reach the like goal I will unleash my own corpus disease upon the world.
Thank you! I'm glad my suffering has inspired you xD
As I said at the end of the video; it's almost like Morrowind is "immersive by force": forcing you to pay attention to text, combat, and progression. The being said... it's a very unique experience. Someone notified me I skipped a big chunk of the main story in Vivec and Morrowind was totally cool with that and let me progress my own way. I doubt I'm super deep into the story; but the struggle is slowly being worth it!
@@FrostbreakYT Yea Morrowind has a lot of freedom that newer games dont allow you to have, like nobody is stopping you from just killing the essential NPCs, you can just straight up softlock the main story and doom the world if you wanted to. Kinda like FO:New Vegas except that game has one essential NPC to guarantee the story progression.
Morrowind sort of has that too, a backdoor to continue the story, but you can kill that guy too lol
we all had the same issues initially its a hard game to get into.
-redguards have high resistance to diseases which are a menace in this game, also have the highest long blade skill which are pretty common weapons in the game, so redugards are agood pick
-male characters are stronger, female characters have higher personality, characters will treat you better if they like you more and they like you more i you have higher personality or you are of the same race.
-Always carry cure common disease and blight disease potions or scrolls with you, if you get a disease use divine intervention to teleport to the nearest temple and pray the disease away with a donation at an altar. Also carry restore strength and endurance potions with you because dungeons have bonewalkers that destroy those attributes and you cant move.
-Dont try to be proficient at everything pick 1-2 weapon skills and 1-2 armor skills, even weak armor or no armor is better than heavy armor if you are more skilled at it, as a monk pick unarmored skill and you take less damage without an armor and enemy attacks miss. Most quests give you weapons that you cant use due to low skill. So pick and choose your quests.
-you can play as a monk and do temple quests about making potions gathering money for the poor, doing exorcisms, role play your character dont try to do every bit of content, leave that for later playthroughs, no one finished morrowind on their first character and the 5th playthrough is the best because you know where all the powerful items are and what rewards you get for the quests so you only do the stuff that matters.
-any skill at 30 or lower will miss so make sure before starting the game to make the correct character so your main skill is as higher as possible so the earliest levels wont be a grind, like i said redguard and long blades. The leveling up is harder early one because you keep missing and your spells fail to cast. Once you are 50 the game is easy because most of your attacks work.
-assuming you play open mw make sure you have checked the option to grey out questions you have asked, asked about everything, if you find it hard to read there is another font that makes it easier or even a mod that gives voice to most characters with ai. Read the journal for directions, check the roadsigns for directions on where you are heading, use the interactive map on your phone for gps as you play the game. The map someone made on reddit is good too as it shows the major and some minor locations.
-use graphical herbalism mod so when you pick a plant it disappears instead of staying there like an empty chest. There is another mod that is like fallout 4 loot menu. If you find the magic or stamina regeneration to be too slow use mods. If you have low stamina your attacks will miss and people will treat you worse as you talk while catching your breath, you are tired. Use another mod to disable dark brotherhood attacks until after you finish the main quest and move to the expansion which takes place after the main quest ending, this is where the dark brotherhood assasins come from.
-increase and decrease the price of things you sell and buy with the button next to the price, this is how you increase your mercantile skill. Alchemy is overpowered. The telvani are wizards harry, they dont use stairs in their mushroom towers, so when you visit them get a levitation spell. The informant in vivec is in the sewers. Magical enemies cant be harmed without a magical weapon.
Reduce difficulty if the game is too hard and increase if its too easy, take your time, ironically this game is better now that the internet exists so you can look up things like dark souls and stardew valley.
It's as "dated" as any other game from 2003, but people act like game design that doesn't hand hold is intrinsically dated.
The experience of finding your way around is wholly unique and makes it way more engaging than the other games in the series. I say this as someone who only started playing Morrowind a month ago. Morrowind is dated in that its graphical fidelity gets in the way of navigating the player through graphics and level design, the systems are very easily broken (which is FUN), the UI is rough especially with the quest journal not being laid out well (on Xbox), and there's not a lot of polish on quite a few things, but it also has really good game design that got thrown out in the name of accessibility that also gets tarnished as "dated."
There's nothing intrinsically modern about getting rid of dice rolls beyond video games being made to appeal to the broadest casual audience, for example, but the combat is described as "dated" and juxtaposed with later entries when both Oblivion and Skyrim have incredibly dated feeling combat.
@@martyfromnebraska1045nah. Oblivion and Skyrims combat aren't dated. They work perfectly fine and skyrim still has some of the best bow play in any rpg. Sneaking up behind someone and assassinating them with their cool cutscenes doesn't feel outdated at all. Morrowinds combat is terrible tho lol and I love morrowind.
To find Holamayan, you were supposed to speak to a dissident in Ebon Heart and they take you there by boat. It is also hinted that it will only open during Azura's blessing or something like that (which means it's open at Dusk and Dawn).
Use Divine Intervention and ALMSIVI intervention spells/scrolls (a NPC should have mentionned that, probably Arrille in Seyda Neen), as well as travel services from mage's guild, boats and sil striders to move quickly on the map. Mark and Recall are also extremely useful.
Edit: Stamina will influence ANY action you do, including chance of casting a spell successfully, repairing your items, trading and such)
right - both stamina and luck affect everything
Summary of QoL enhancing, spoiler free gameplay tips from someone who now prefers Morrowind to Skyrim after playing it for the first time this year:
Learn Mark and Recall. You can even find/buy/enchant rings to do it with 100 percent success rate and no magika cost. Lets you fast travel to specific points at any time, even during combat or in an interior dungeon.
Utilize the enchanting system. Constant effect enchants are broken. With exquisite clothing, exquisite jewelry, and a daedric tower shield you can add crazy constant effect restore health, fortify attribute (speed, strength, and intelligence being my favorites), restore fatigue, etc.
Have exquisite belts with constant effect night eye, levitate, water breathing, etc you can switch between so you never need a light source or to cast simple spells. CE levitate 1 will get you anywhere 10x faster with some fortify speed enchanted jewelry on.
When you buy enchants if you don’t make them yourselves, bring a bunch of hordes gear to sell off. That NPC will have like 50k+ gold they can give you depending on the enchants you buy.
Constant effect slowfall 1 enchant is very cheap and permanently negates fall damage.
To travel with a bit more flavor, get a hefty jump (acrobatics) enchant, doesn’t have to be constant effect. You saw exhibit A from the scrolls you used.
For max enchant slots, you can wear a belt, a skirt, and pants all at the same time.
A lockpicking enchant negates the need of the security skill and lockpicks become free gold
Search caldera for a cool merchant that’s amazing
Alchemy is super broken and can be abused to break the game. Not recommended for immersive role playing, but if you want to dick around and break the game once you think you’re about done with it it could give you a few more hours of fun.
Best of luck, love your content.
If you can get your speed up in the 200s and use a constant effect levitate 1, in conjunction with learning how to strategically use mark and recall (easy use case is right by a quest giver you’ll need to lug on back to) you will almost completely eliminate the traversal time sink problem you mention in the video. For infinite enchant capabilities, look up azuras star. If you’re getting to the point where lugging it everywhere is hurting your gameplay experience and you may quit, fold and look up that one thing honestly.
Thank you so much for this extensive breakdown. I'm going to make note of these and put them on my tips list I've been making from all these comments :)
@@FrostbreakYTWorth noting on top of mark and recall spells to compress your travel you should get items that cast divine intervention and almsivi intervention, they will teleport you to the nearest imperial/ashlander shrine accordingly.
I'm not sure if it was base game or some patch or with the unofficial morrowind patch, but using 1 slowfall does negate fall dmg in one version, but not in another version
@@bart3736 There's an even better merchant near Mzahnch. He's what I use mark/recall for.
If you're thinking about Morrowind in your sleep, it might be the Sixth House mind control setting in
I saw this yesterday and forgot to comment how this seems like one of those videos that blow up to 100k views in a week. Congratulations, did a great job on this video and I can't wait for pt. 2 (hopefully)
Thanks! Not sure it'll get that high but thank you for the optimism! If the video reaches as many views as I have subscribers, I consider that a success :)
Small tip: If an NPC tells you to go to a place, and they don't tell you where it is, 90% of the time you just need to click a bit more and then they will give you directions. Always click on the name of the place they told you to go or anything that seems related.
So, the reason that Holamayan opened for you was because it was either dawn or dusk. The temple is sealed by Azura (the Daedric prince of dawn and dusk) until those hours, then the shield opens to allow you inside. You were doing that part of the MQ WAY earlier than it was supposed to be done, which was why Nibani Maesa wouldn't allow you to go any further.
I’ve watched a lot of first impression play throughs, and honestly you best captured my experience and inner monalogues of first playing this game many years ago. Picking a beast race and kinda jank class, using weapons I wasn’t all that proficient in, not managing stamina, not make best use of fast travel options outside of silt striders, and generally have a bad and frustrating time with mechanics and quest navigation. But at a certain point, it just clicks, or at least gets better enough to really start enjoying your time, and eventually becoming a living god. Thanks for brining me back and hope you continue on!
Once you go morrowind, you never go out 😎
I already feel like building a mage would be so much easier than whatever I'm doing. I'll do another run later I'm sure.
@@FrostbreakYThand to hand is really fun
Nice vid, I look forward to seeing the rest! Keep it up!
Thank you
I prefer reading in games, because it doesn't give you unskippable scenes and you can both take the time you need to read and choose to if you want to just get out of the encounter. besides, usually voiced stuff also lacks vital information you get from reading the quest afterwards (skyrim has this) so you have to read anyway, so why not just read from the start.
Thats why older games are more fun because you don't just feel the need to skip everything thats just way too slow.
That's true about lack of information. It's not exactly logical to have a voice actor read out every single possible line of dialogue.
I do enjoy that in Morrowind. I can ask any NPC almost anything and they'll almost always have an answer for me. A random guy on the street can offer me directions or rumors etc; where in Skyrim the player doesn't have that flexibility.
morrowind doesn’t have fast travel, so make sure you get the spells, mark and recall, if you place down a mark somewhere you can then use recall to teleport back to the mark you placed, it comes in handy for skipping some fights and encounters, you can also pay the mage’s guild to teleport you to different guild locations around the map but it’s expensive to do so, also you can pay someone at one of the mage’s guild halls to make custom spells for you to use
Right. So there's those spells and striders, mages guild, and boats for quicktravel? I just learned about the mages guild today can't believe I missed that.
@@FrostbreakYT also, if you chose an orc, their berserker rage ability is stupid broken when it comes to bartering, I’ve seen people play morrowind and get like effects that last for 1445 seconds for one gold, I don’t know how far you’re willing to break morrowind but it gives you ample opportunities for overpowered stuff and builds
@@featgorgon3985 That is not specific for the orc per se just reflects how broken the Stamina system can get. As berserker buffs your stamina beyond what you have on a baseline and so it effects EVERYTHING.
I did not know this but my pretty broken character could jump from Vivec strider to Vivec palace (the place where he sits?) stairs..... in ONE jump. Yea kinda absurd having someone want to kill you and you just jump a mountain or two to make that peasant go away.
Tips: Get the spells Mark, Recall, Divine intervention, and almsivi intervention. This will make traveling so much easier, also mages guild has a teleportation npc to take you to other cities.
Mages guild can teleport? Is it a spell or something I pay for like the Silt Strider? I will make note of those spells! Thank you!!
Just have to pay them, the one in balmora is in the basement in the back room.
@@FrostbreakYT You pay a Mages Guild member, yeah, they can teleport you to other Mages Guild.
Remember to keep you stamina full when you enter a fight, if you don't you won't be hitting anything
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What captured me was:
1. getting lost on my way to Balmora since I decided to save money and go on foot
2. walking around at night with a blue paper lantern and the soft glow it gave at night while the silt strider howled immersed me
Morrowind was the first game that defined "open world" for me and the fact that a huge amount of the world was hand-crafted and not procedurally generated like Daggerfall impressed me.
Ur content is so refreshing i just found you not so long ago. Nice work keep it up.
Much appreciated! :)
Dude, I know TH-cam hasn’t been easy for you but you make good videos I saw this notification and I was like “oh hell yeah” lol
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching :)
Love your videos man keep up the good work!
Thanks! Will do!
LOVE your videos man! Glad to see another upload! ❤
Thanks for tuning in :D
I always felt Morrowind found it's way into a lot of people's minds as amazing because of how diagetic it was. We all started that same way, lost, confused, irritated, but the more time we put in and the more we learned the in-game world and systems the more we could master it. Your literal knowledge turns the Nevarine into an absolute powerhouse in the same way their growth and enlightenment happens in game as Vvardenfel's 'chosen one,' and it's all framed as something that's meant to happen outside the context of the game based on you, the player. The characters 'Chim' is your grown knowledge, your discovered ability to break the systems, the way in which you can crack this game right open and go to a near deity in its gameplay the way the character is supposed to be. Even the save system is off-handedly referenced as just an ability that your character has the power to do and it's one of the first examples of that gaming ideology well done and as an interesting twist. I think that stuck with a lot of us, and it hasn't been quite captured again in the way Morrowind was able to do it.
Absolutely need to see more of you suffering and enjoying what this game has to offer. Along with oblivion
Sounds like a plan xD
dont forget to use the reach of your spear to your advantage
The only time I feel like I can is when I stagger them. A lot of the time they just rush me and get super close
@@FrostbreakYT backstep when you can, you will have advantage
A tip for your travels... Morrowind has a very "realistic" travel system. There's a really good youtube video called "An Example of Fast Travel Done Right" that explains it really well. Basically there are 3 main modes of travel and there's a network that connect most of the major cities. It's kinda like if you play Skyrim using the carriages at the major cities only cooler.
In Caldera, there is a mansion that is home to a group of orks. Inside the mansion is a scamp named Creeper. He is a merchant that will buy weapons, armor, and some potions for full price no matter how low your mercantile skill is. He has 5,000 gold to spend and will replenish his gold after 24 in game hours. Out of the two in game merchants with plenty of gold that will buy your gear at full price, he is the most easily accessible. Otherwise there is a talking mudcrab near a dwemer ruin on an island south of Suran with 10,000 gold who will buy almost anything.
Here's a very big tip, teleporting is your friend in this game. There are multiple ways of doing this.
1. There are spells, potions and enchanted items named or have the spell Mark and Recall. Use Mark to place a teleport point and use Recall to instantly teleport to that point. You can buy the potions at the alchemist in the wealthy part of Balmora.
2. There are spells and scrolls called Almsivi and Divine Intervention. When you use an Almsivi Intervention scroll or spell, you will teleport to the closest Dunmer temple, and Divine Intervention will get you to the closest Imperial Cult shrine, the shrine may be in an Imperial fort. You can buy and loot the scrolls in dungeons and in various shops.
3. In Mage's Guild buildings, you can use the services of a Guild Guide. For a fee they will teleport you to another Guide in a hall.
And the temple that randomly opened up, it only opens during the hours of Dawn and Dusk, it's a big part of Azura's (the Daedra that gave you the prophecy/dream at the beginning) identity and theme.
I got 3 tips.
1. In the beginning find that corpse. Take the money. Read the scroll. Go back to socius. You'll have a new question. Then go to the dead guy's GF in the Tower. Talk to her. Finish the quest. And you'll get 500 g.
2. There are weapons in some of the tree stumps. One right near the Tower over the boulder is an axe.
3. Train. Talk, talk is cheap. Fatigue stat helps with everything as does luck.
Lastly, have fun. Explore. It's a big enough open world to silt strider on, float on a boat or jump across. Remember a levitate potion or slow fall. And boost speed for quicker travel.
A couple of tips: If you do the first chain of quests for the Ald'ruhn mages guild, you get amulets of Almsivi and Divine intervention as reward, you can use then to teleport back to cities, beside Vivec's Temple theres a shrine that grants you a Levitation effect that lasts for a day, you can use it to quickly navigate trough Vivec, you just have to buy a cheap levitation potion from the Priestess that hangs around in front of the temple outside, and offer it to the shrine, you can do it everyday, Also there are 3 Treasuries on Vivec you can Heist.
The amulets have free tp's tied to them or it's just temporary? If it's a permanent TP I might do that guild quest line!
@@FrostbreakYT it's free, the charges of the amulets regenerate faster than we can waste then, so you can use for the entirety of the playthrough.
come on, you CLEARLY don't read the dialogue even though you say you do. because besides SOME directions, the quests are all described perfectly in dialogue, including the magic doors like the one at holomayan. also addhiranirr in the sewers says that the agent she hides from is in the same canton...
I played through Morrowind for the first time this year, absolutely loved it. It will be essential for you to get the boots of blinding speed for QoL. Edit: oops you mentioned them in the video, forgot you were argonian. Rip in peace.
DEFINITELY learn mark and recall.
Once you get BoBS, you can cast levitate 1 for 45 secs and fly around the map like you’re in Minecraft creative
Oh, the guy who’s attacking you is a dark brotherhood assassin. DLC is endgame, so most Morrowind veterans recommend to play with dark brotherhood delay mod on, they won’t come for you so soon
Got it! Thanks for the tips I'll look for those spells. Yeah... too bad I can't wear boots :(
@@FrostbreakYT Late game, you can recreate BOBS effect with enchanted clothing and jewelry. Do a constant effect speed buff. To really min max it, you can set the range from 1-30 for example, and equip/unequip the clothing until you get a buff of 30 speed, move onto next piece of gear. BOBS are nice because you could just do that with strength, constant restore health, etc and be practically invincible and carry thousands of pounds.
Basically, enchanting or paying for enchants is essential if you want to get rid of tedious bits of the game.
Also, last spoiler free tip, explore caldera real well, especially if there’s a lot of orc dudes around. Best merchant in game.
I think it's worth mentioning that all-reading, no-voice acting was obviously THE NORM for most RPGs up until honestly fairly recently. I know I'm showing my age, but I still find all-voice-acted games a bit tedious because imho it slows conversations and exposition TO A CRAWL. I can read so much faster than a voice actor can talk. Or at least I could as a kid, when this game came out, lol.
Acrobatics is actually pretty good to take on your primary skills. It’s an easy way to level up strength and get
+5 every level. strength is important because it affects your carry weight and how hard you hit.
Yes, as I understand it spears use both strength and endurance? Not sure about that but I thought someone else commented that today. It's like the only weapon in the game that's scaled off 2 different attributes. And WOW i love jumping super high. Such a cool concept that as you get better at athletics... you ACTUALLY get better (not just reduce the stamina cost for actions). Loving that.
@@FrostbreakYT IIRC you want to level Endurance. It affects hit points (I think 1/10 of current value each level?) But it doesn't back date gains!
So if you have 35 End you get 3.5 points, when you hit 40 you get 4 points, but *only from then on*. So it's a good idea to maximize Endurance early. I'm not sure how that works with your build though; it may limit your max level.
I remember becoming a vampire and being able to jump over fortress walls due to really high stats.
@@tyrfing777
Endurance contributes 1 HP on level up for every 10 points you have in it, and it rounds down.
So if you have an endurance of 39 you only get 3 HP on level up.
@@FrostbreakYT Spear is "governed" by Endurance, meaning you get the multiplier for endurance when you levelled the Spear skill before reaching a new character level. Strength determines how hard you hit with any Weapon and Agility play a slight role for your hit chance.
Great video! Keep it up man, Morrowind might be harder, but it's also more rewarding
PS: everyone here is giving you advice but no one's told you the true secret: get the manual (it's online for free), MW came with a manual that explained the fundamentals of the game, that's why the intro/character creation/tutorial is so short, you're supposed to have the manual by your side and check there wheen you need help. It will introduce you to the game and your options, without being gamebreaking nor giving you any information you're not supposed to have.
Thank you so much! I will checkout the manual I think my steam download came with it as a digital extra!
Nice to hear! It's also available as a PDF online, just Google "Morrowind manual" and you will find it easily
I definitely want more of this. Press on, good sir!
Outstanding video. Thanks for giving this wonderful game a shot. Your experience mirrors mine almost exactly. Being only a year older than the game itself, it was certainly quite the adjustment for me. I even quit playing several times for months. Then, one day, it just clicked, and now I play Morrowind and Oblivion more than anything else. Looking forward to watching your other videos and future content. Keep up the great work.
Thank so much! Glad you found my experience relatable and I hope to also continue playing this game long after this series :)
Welcome to the Morrowind club, great video. Travel is one of the hardest parts in the game until you learn all of the fast travel options. The main ones are Silt striders, Boats, and Guild Guides in the Mage's Guilds. Magic options include Mark and Recall spells, divine intervention, and almsivi intervention. You will still need to walk a lot of places so you will need to boost speed too. You can raise speed slowly as you level up but you can also boost it with magic. The Restoration skill governs spells that boost attributes and some spells can raise speed. In the Mage's guild and some other places you can use the spellmaking feature to craft specific spell effects. If you know a fortify attribute spell you can make something like fortify speed +50 for 20 seconds. You may need to start with a worse spell if your restoration skill is low but restoration will level up as you use it. Good luck on the rest of the game.
You’ve inspired me. I got Morrowind a while back for free when Bethesda was giving it away, but never got around to playing it. But, hearing you play really lit a fire in me. So thanks for that, let’s see if I can actually make it through the whole thing.
Just keep in mind it is always a rough game for new players, so have some patience if it is initally very frustrating. The beginning is quite difficult if you build a character wrong, use the wrong equipmen for your build, etc. My number one advice in this game (after building a decent character) is to use a substantial amount of your gold on training skills. There are a lot of trainers in Morrowind and there is no cap to how many times you can train per level. Also, just because someone gives you a quest does not mean you are strong enough to complete it yet. Often I've had to put things off til later.
The big thing is really try to immerse yourself in the world and act in a somewhat realistic manner. If it seems like it'd be dangerous or risky for your character to do x, y, or z, it probably is and you could face a rough encounter very easily.
Also, if you like magic in games, Morrowind has possibly the most satisfying mage experience in any game. Just an insane amount of options. If you do play magic, Telvanni is a really fun faction to join with some very interesting rules of conduct.
Not gonna lie I cheated a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT in this game and I don't feel guilty. That being said I love the world, atmosphere, and Main Plot of Morrowind a lot but can never play it as intended.
Also most books in Skyrim are carry overs from Morrowind and Oblivion so a lot of cool stuff to read in here which makes your time in Skyrim quicker cause you already read it in other games
You know what's interesting? I haven't really come across that many lore books in Morrowind so far. Besides libraries and stuff I haven't found many in the wild but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
Morrowind was my favorite elder scrolls game growing up. Got a copy from a woman I was dating and jumped into it blind, only knowing it was like 'Lord of the Rings.' Some parts were frustrating, and I definitely wish I knew about the game breaking ways to cheese the game, but I fell in LOVE with it. Skyrim has too much emphasis on the destination, not the JOURNEY.
If you don't think the journey means anything in oblivion or skyrim then you are either lying or fast travel everywhere. There are plenty of things that can happen when you travel on foot or horseback.
best tip i can give: play around with the magic/spellmaking and alchemy, thats where the real fun is.
Cheat code speeed so that i can zoom across the map which means normal speed in oblivion and Skyrim
Honestly. The movement in this game is a tad grueling.
Morrowind is painful 😂 it was my second elder scrolls game after oblivion, the true mellinial OG
It's growing on me... but yeah I had to take a couple breaks xD
Regarding the map, when I was first playing this back in the day on xbox, I used the hand-drawn map that came with the game to solve one of the puzzles. Later on in the main quest you have to find a cave and you're only given some riddles/clues to find it. So without looking up a guide or anything, I pulled out the map and looked around to find where the secret cave might be, found one that looked promising, and it turned out to be the right one. It was one of the most satisfying gaming moments for me.
I see people complain nowadays about that exact quest all the time, but you really should just try looking at the map that came with the game, it's great!
Loved the video! For me the best way to travel in the game was to enchant an item with a very high level jump spell and another item with a short snowfall spell. You use the jump spell, jump and then use snowfall right before you land. This way you can cover great distances in a very small amount of time. All you need is a bit of gold to pay an enchanter. Other spells like mark and recall or almsivi intervention and divine intervention are also very useful for travel. Also, in the early game I find that using conjured weapons is really nice because they increase the attribute associated with that type of weapon.
So Morrowind: Do Skooma and run fast or something. Idk never played that game XD
I had skooma at one point but people refused to speak with me. Somehow they could see it in my pockets.
Unlocking fast travel as early as you can is a big time saver. A few boats around the coast, stilt striders and all of the teleportation pylons take time to find or unlock but once you get them everything else gets easier. Use the map and learn the mark and recall spells to speed up item return missions. Keeping a notebook helped and so did some of the baked in exploits. (Thank you Todd.) Sunder and Keening hotkey swapping will change you life. I still have my GOTY strategy guide too... that's how I found out the monastery only opens as dawn and dusk. lol.
I played Oblivion first, then Skyrim, then Morrowind. Morrowind for me has taken my heart as my favorite game for sure. It can for sure be frustrating when the game gives you bad or few directions, in the base game there was a quest that gave wrong directions actually, but a lack of quest markers imo makes it a much more worth while rpg. The dungeons aren't hyper expansive for the most part but it gives you an actual reason to be searching the places and finding things.
You'll want either a good jump spell or a levitation spell/potion while you explore and to make sure you look up as there's a lot of verticality in Morrowind. Lots of caves and ruins have hidden alcoves you can only access through high jump or levitation. You'll have to visit a Telvanni tower at some point in the main quest where you will need levitation or high jump to get to the NPC.
In the theme of solving issues with a spell/potion the magic system is insanity, I love it. Potions are insane and the easiest way to actually break the game. There are so many useful potions and it's always super useful to keep specifically on you: Restore Strength, Cure Disease, Cure Blight Disease, and Rising Force. Scrolls can be super powerful if you're not spellcasting, don't be afraid to use them there's tons.
I didn't know potions were so important for movement. Caius JUST gave me some for that place you mentioned because everyone is wizards and don't use stairs or whatever (which is kinda cool). I have found a few of those hidden alcoves/ledges because my acrobatics is super high!
@FrostbreakYT yeah I think you're heading towards Divayth Fyre, a Telvanni wizard. Yeah the Telvanni are too wizardy for stairs. If you start leveling Alteration you can get spells for the movement so you wouldn't need potions but if you have no intention to delve into wizardry potions and scrolls just for movement are incredibly useful and important. Divine Intervention, Almsivi Intervention, Mark and Recall are all incredibly good spells for traveling around the world and returning to places if you know what you're doing as well, they can be found as scrolls, spells, and on some enchanted necklaces.
I will say: a lot of the fun for Morrowind for me was just going around, and as you did, just discovering stuff along the way. I would read road signs, read books, talk with people, explore little points of interest, look at the artworks, look at architecture, the nature, etc. and really treat it as exploring a foreign country. I fully agree, the combat is not this game's strong suit - but that does go for all Elder Scrolls games, imho.
Morrowind tips: Always keep the green bar full. You can do this with potions, scrolls, spells, enchanted items(restore fatigue 50pts for 1 sec on self). You can even eat food items if your alchemy is high enough(40 or more).
To make potions, drop an alchemy tool on your character. To make enchanted items, drop a filled soul gem on your character.
Press F1 for a hotkey menu. Great for drinking potions, or switching spells or weapons.
Use the light effect to see in the dark. Light potions are particularly effective, but items and spells work too.
Make a jump spell 1-25pts for 1 second. It's cheap, unreliable and useful. Especially good as an enchantment.
You can enchant weapons with restore health or fatigue on self, on striking.
If you're into stealing, try telekinesis.
Sneak doesn't work until you have it at 40 or so. Also the only skill you can't level by legitimate means. Well, you can, but it would take hours of extremely boring grinding.
Bribe merchants with 10 gold. You can get most NPC's to 100 by spamming them with 10 gold. This will also level speechcraft. Always haggle the price when trading. Set the price about 20% in your favor and then mash the trade button until you get a deal.
probably someone has told you already but here is a big timesaver tip: join mages guild -> there are people who can teleport you to another city for a small fee which is awesome but it gets better -> travel to vivec mages guild with a port, find a female mage in yellow robes -> buy mark and recall spell -> now with mark you can set a point anywhere in the world and then you can cast recall to port there. i recommend using mark next to the balmora teleport person where the beds are. you can sleep there, you can store stuff on the table and on the ground to have your personal little space with a bank with items :D and you have access to travel to any bigger city
Morrowind is my all time favorite game so its great to see people enjoying it.
For a tips:
1: since your character is not a magic user magic scrolls and enchanted items can be very powerful tools.
2: your fatigue affects EVERYTHING from chance of hitting with attack and casting a spell to how good prices you get from merchants.
3: think morrowind as a digital version of a tabletop rpg, that way some of the oddities might make more sense.
Cool video. I played a lot of Morrowind as a teen. A good way to "fast travel" is to employ the mages guild to teleport you to another mages guild for a small payment. Also using ship travel when along the coast will get you to almost any backwater village.
Also the door was open based on the time of day...... The game doesnt tell you but ya if you had simply waited till dusk or whatever it would've opened
You walked around the Island enough that the time of day was correct for the door to open
Haha that's funny. I guess I got lucky then because if I arrived in the morning I would've got stuck xD
The game does tell you… it’s part of the main quest.
You need to pay close attention in Morrowind.
The thumbnail made me think this was a Zanny video at first hahaha
Zanny was my battlefront 2 childhood. Definitely took some inspiration for the simplicity / comedy of his thumbnails :)
First up: Find the book The Pilgrims Path so you have some of the city markers on your map
Fast Travelling in Morrowind:
1. Every Mages guild has a Person that teleports you to another City with a mages guild
2. Joining the mages guild lets you access a chest with free stuff, such as a scroll of Almsivi and Divine intervention. You can use those to quickly relocate to Temple shrines and Imperial shrines
3. You already used Silt striders so you know those
4. You can also use Boats. There are LOTS of ports all around morrowind.
5. Mark and recall. You can either find enchanted items which have those spells, You can learn those spells but you need 15 ish mysticism to cast them reliably but you can also buy potions from nelcarya of white havens or whatever her name is in balmora that have those exact effects. I usually drop my mark close to urshilaku camp to not having to run there every 2nd quest or so and just drink a recall potion
6. There is also a quest in the caldera mages guild that gives you hints on the propylon indeces but they are usually in dangerous places so be prepared for some adventuring. Then you can use the propylon chambers with the correct indeces to jump quickly between Ancient Dunmer Strongholds
Some additional tips:
- Silt strider from Balmora to aldruhn and from there silt strider to maar gan and then walk to urshilaku from there.
- A quick way to gnar mok for instance: Balmora to Vivec by siltstrider, then walk to the boat next to the silt strider and take boat services to ebonheart and then over to Gnar mok.
- You will need to go to divyath fyr to cure your corprus. Easiest is the mages guild teleport to sadrith mora and swim from there
- If you want to have the dark brotherhood stop attacking you, talk to a guard about them and then go to ebonheart and talk to this one guy standing outside of the main fortress (you get directed there by the guards)
- The quest with the dissident priests is kinda bugged at this stage in your main quest. you actually have to go there a little later in the main quest and then you can give the old woman in urshilaku the books. The game is ancient.. sorry :D
The Temple opens in the Dusk and Dawn hours (5-6 am and 5-6 pm). Thats why it was suddenly open. The dissident priests are some kind of related to the teachings of The Daedric Lord Azura (The Lord of Dusk and Dawn). When you progress the main quest, you get sent there and you can use a boat from ebonheart but you need to have the necessary quest for it. She then tells you that the temple opens at these specific hours.
- Try going to enchanters (one is in the mages guild) and buy useful scrolls. Scroll of windwalker, scroll of the wind, Divine intervention, almsivi intervention are all good scrolls for quick fast travelling around and also moving faster. The movement speed in Morrowind is atrocious. I usually try to level up speed up to a 100 as fast as possible to avoid this walking simulation. Divine intervention and almsivi intervention are super cheap and the enchanter in the balmora mages guild upstairs restocks them once you close the shopping inventory window
- Go to settings and find the Setting "use strongest attack" and turn it to yes. You can left click spam that way with every weapon and always have the strongest attack (jab for Spear for instance, Slash for claymores, Chop for Katanas etc)
- Also always carry Restore Strength potions. Trust me.
Wow thank you for this write up! Didn't know about the mages guild or boats until I got some comments on this video so that'll be a lifesaver. I will talk to one of the guards right away about the DB; that is getting annoying. Yes, I've been told I did the main quest out of order hopefully I didn't break anything! Holy crap yeah I need the restore strength. Got stuck in a cave cuz someone set my strength to ZERO and I couldn't move (I think there's a clip of it somewhere in the video). Never again xD
@@FrostbreakYT for sure. i played this game too much in my life, glad i could help!
the mainquest should still work just fine! dont worry about it.
The guy draining your strength is a "greater bonewalker". thats the only enemy that does it though.
@@FrostbreakYT I pretty sure you didn't brake anything and even if, there is a well hidden and VERY costly alternative route to the main quest. You will soon encounter the last living dwarf and he is the only real essential NPC. You can kill every other NPC and still complete the main quest if you are willing to dive deep into dwemer lore and pay a heavy, non-monetary, price.
Keep going with this. This and oblivion are amazing. I had to scrub my first play through as I didn’t understand the leveling system yet but created an op character my second run through. For that reason I give the edge to morrowind because it gives you so many more options for how to play. Also not having arrows and map markers made this game so much fun and rewarding to solve.
A few more notes: Fortifying over 100 works great in this game, as opposed to Oblivion, so go ahead and enchant everything you can with constant effect fortify strength. There's a trick where you can get more bang for your buck if you enchant with a strength range, and keep re-equipping the item until you get something in the upper half of the range. You can also layer clothing in Morrowind, which means you can wear greaves, an armor chestpiece, a robe, trousers, a skirt, and a shirt all at once. Use that to your advantage. The more expensive an item is, the higher value enchant it can hold (enchanting points), this applies to clothing. With armor, things are tricker, as I found out, sometimes better armor may have lower enchanting points. The more expensive clothes you wear, the better some NPCs react to you, and you can always bribe them to increase disposition. You can soultrap summoned creatures, so get a hold of a summon golden saint spell, enchant it as on-use on some item so that you don't need to level up conjuration, and trap their souls to get grand soul gems with grand souls for constant effect enchanting. You can get Azura's star, which is like in the later 2 elder scrolls games, basically a reusable grand soul gem. You need grand souls for constant effect enchants, it won't work with lower tiers, but you can still use lower tiers for on-strike and on-cast enchants.
My first Elder Scrolls Game was Skyrim, Morrowind is like 10 days older than me. I played it for the first time last year, and I consider it my favourite game of the series, together with Oblivion :) The beginning was harsh, like you experienced it yourself, but it really grew on me. It's old and dusty, but under that dust is a charm that forever lured me in. The game is far from perfect, but it's so much fun to me nonetheless.
On my first and only playthrough earlier this year, I enchanted an expensive amulet with a constant effect of 1 pt Levitate, and basically used that as my TBC 60% flying mount. I even had the thing hotkeyed, and also another amulet with constant effect fortify speed, so I could switch between the flying and running amulets at the touch of a button. Edit: I also had constant effect nighteye enchanted on my shoulder pads, because I could only fit a few points on each one. Another neat trick is having a c.e. ring which restores fatigue and another c.e. ring which restores health. These two rings make you near immortal and you can basically do power attacks all the time. Then I saw a youtube video telling me to enchant my weapon with +100 strength on self, on strike, for a few seconds. That was crossing over into godmode territory. As for the dissident priests, there's a whole storyline with that librarian that you mentioned, who sends you to the priests' hidden temple and tells you that the door opens automatically at specific hours of the day. I think that you need to read the books and the letters before you can turn the quest in, but I'm not sure what might be wrong in your case.
"Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages." ~ Hannibal Lecter (1991)
You'll find any information that you need for a quest inside of your journal, through talking to NPCs who are in a good mood with you (70+) or through reading books and notes. Remember, we've all been there where you are right now (for me it is 21 years ago) and still I take my time with every single playthrough (since back than allmost once every year, about 80 to 110 hrs. per playthrough). It ain't hard. Being confused or overwhelmed with the first time is absolutely normal, when you never played a game like this.
I recommend buying the spells: "Mark" and "Recall".
Also, the spells: "Divine Intervention" and "Almsivi Intervention". Or scrolls if you can't cast them. They could also be on jewelry if you're lucky.
These, alongside silt striders and mage guilds should help with traversing.
You could swallow a baseball bat. -bennet foddy.
I liked what you said about the game requiring the player's full attention. That is absolutely true - you cannot watch a video on a second screen, or listen to music, humming the lyrics as you skip through an NPC's dialogue. You need to pay attention, immerse yourself in the world and think about it. The quests (if you can even call them quests) are not marked on your map, but the NPCs are giving you information. They talk like real people living in that world, they are giving you directions in a way that is familiar to them. They will reference towns or villages, landmarks like shoreline, bridge, river, big rock etc., they will send you north, southwest or whatever. You said in your breakdown that you spent X hours walking, Y hours searching and Z hours actually playing. Wrong! You have been playing all the time. Immerse yourself in it, real life doesn't have a quest marker either. Part of the experience is getting ready for a major quest: you visit a couple of shops in town, get a supply of arrows and healing potions and magic scrolls, leave your heavy loot in a safe place, and only afterwards you venture forth, prepared. Also note that the Silt Strider is not the only fast travel option. Vvardenfell is an island; you can fast travel using a ship along the coast between many settlements around it. Also the Mages' Guild can teleport you between their guild halls for a fee. And finally, you can teleport yourself to various Shrines and Temples with a simple spell or even to a place of your choosing when you mark it first with another spell. There is no fast travel in the sense in which it has been implemented in later titles, but there are many ways of getting across the land speedily. Only this time you have to do the work first.
The worldbuilding is amazing if you start focusing on it. Morrowing is an Imperial Province, but it is ruled locally by the Great Houses. Their capital cities are Balmora, Ald'ruhn, and Sadrith Mora. Each Great House has their own style of architecture, and same goes for the Tribunal Temple, the Imperial Legion garrisons, and the Imperial settlements, so you can tell at a glance in whose territory you are at any given moment. The major cities usually follow a very sensible real world structure - there is the upper-class part of town with the seat of the Great House, usually you can find the upscale merchants there, as well as the Guildhalls, local noblemen, and maybe the more respectable inn. Then there is the lower-class part where the poorer residents live, you can find there a small trader or two and some sort of shabbier pub. In the major cities the Temple usually stays apart from all this. On the contrary, in the smaller towns where the Great Houses do not have any real presence the Temple tends to be more in the center. Some towns have the Imperial Legion forts adjacent, but they are on the outskirts, as they have been constructed after the Imperial occupation.
I am taking my time explaining all this to demonstrate that the game was made back when people cared about these things. It is a fantasy setting, but it is crafted with real world medieval realism in mind. If you start thinking about it this way, you will find that it becomes much easier getting around and handling your quests and shopping and everything. If you are looking for a nobleman, he will not be living in the slums. If you are looking for someone with a latin-sounding name, he will not be a Dark Elf but an Imperial most likely. The variety of clothing styles also matters, Dark Elf from the Ashlander tribes will be dressed differently that a Dark Elf who lives in town. If you will rank up in one of the Imperial factions, their local competition will not like you very much. If a settlement is along the coastline, chances are that there will be a dock from which you can book passage. And so on, so forth, it really pays to immerse yourself in. And talk to everyone. You can always study your Journal later, it has a sort of search funcion, so you can for example select "Sixth House" and you will find everything that everyone has said about the topic. It is very helpful.
P. S. I played it back in the day and I did not have the paper map because it was a craced copy of the game, still managed, don't give up mate!
damn you have inspired me to go start a new mw playthrough. great video! i really hope you give it another shot.
I've already started the next episode! Probably going to be around a month before it comes out but slowly and surely!
Tips? Ok!
1. Try some magic as well. It works a bit differently than Skyrim, but is fun a lot. Skyrim's magic is simple. Morrowind's is creative.
2. House of Telvanni is such a fun and has amazing quests. Imagine that sometimes you need to levitate to get into a shroom to speak with someone. But they don't take outlanders unless you are a Dunmer.
3. Levitation si a great way how to travel. Combine with Boots of Lighting Speed and nowhere is too far.
4. Conjuration is awesome. Any kind of it. Makes game more comfy to have skeleton who loves you by your side.
5. Visit Solstheim and Mournhold.
5,5. Cauis Cosades is a junkie.
6. Try various joinable organizations. There are many (more than in Skyrim).
7. Read cauciously, not necessarily a lot. Never miss blue topics in text when it comes to quests. Any.
7,5. You've never opened the door of the Temple of Incarnate. They open at dawn and close at dusk. The Temple is dedicated to Azura. Get it?
8. Don't get too many quests at once. You will forget half of them even exist.
9. Practice Acrobacy to higher your hit chance with weapons.
9,5. Go say hi to Neloth. Remember the mage in Skyrim who lives in the shroom on Solstheim? In Morrowind, he was born already.
10. Search for the only existing dwemer in the NIrn (World).
11. Learn and understand well your inventory interface. Read about effects applied on you. Hover over all icons and other things in menu. When you understand your menu, life is way easier.
12. Argonian is challenging in Morrowind. Try other races as well and find the one for you. I love Dunmers and their culture in Morrowind.
13. Sometimes the world tells the best stories. Look around you and perceive.
14. Remember that you actually play game that has DnD in its blood.
14. Find fun in the difficulty of the game.
15. Roleplay a bit. Give your character life. In Morrowind your character is with you for a long time.
I tried the Skyrim Mod Enderal Forgotten Stories and am having an amazing time. After Fallout London I wanted to see Skyrim's version of the community creating their own story and just as with Fallout London I'm extremely impressed. For one thing it runs much better than Fallout London due to it being older and having patches but the story and characters are far more compelling than Skyrim imo.
Yo that intro music goes FRICKIN HAAAAAARD!
MAG - my fav game on the ps3 :)
Did one playthrough of Morrowind, I remember making 3 enchanted items that carried me through the entire game, something to levitate at high speed an insta kill damage health bolt weapon and a skeleton key, cheesing the system into achieving godhood was fun.
the point of the guy that falls down from the sky is to teach you that you aren't supposed to walk around. he drops a jump spell, hinting that you there is no limit to how fast or high you can move. the devs made the magic system for you to exploit. at the mages' guild you can create spells, you can create 1 second spells with high values, like jump, and you can also create 1 mana cost spells for training. there are also NPCs that will train your skills for a fee. Protip: enchanted items regenerate charge over time, higher enchanting skill = less charge per use to a maximum of 1 charge per cast. Press f1 to bring up the quick keys, you can assign items or spells to the number keys on the keyboard
"Smooth-brain Skybaby tries Morrowind" is the best genre of video and I'm hyped for part 2
My tips: Learn the telekinesis spell
Learn the fast travel systems (including the spells mark, recall, and both interventions)
Learn more about The Temple
Pick a house to store your stuff in, you can just leave things laying on the floor to keep it all in one spot (I use Dura Gra-Bol's house)
Explore spellcrafting
Not all mudcrabs are hostile
Not all scamps are hostile
NYET
NO TIPS
You get to spend 200 hours figuring it all out the hardest ways possible like the rest of us did (lol).
1. Keep some real world paper and pen/pencil to take notes. Morrowind made me do this in 2004, and I've kept the habit with video games ever since (the latest version is writing down crafting recipes from Starfield because the tagging system is not ideal).
2. The main quest is a slow burn. Do it in pieces/sprints. Do some of it, and then take an exploration/side quest break.
3. Don't get too hung up on min/max'ing your stats/level ups. I think everyone focuses on this and it's silly. Play how you want and the stats/skills will eventually catch up.
4. Mage's Guild Guides will teleport you for a small fee. Why walk when you can ride? Use the silt striders. Find the propylon indexes for the Dunmer Strongholds and use those to teleport. Divine Intervention and Almsivi Intervention teleport you to nearby Imperial Shrines and Temple Shrines respectively. Mark and Recall (spell, scrolls, or potions) are very useful for going as deep as you want in a quest/dungeon and then teleporting to your base/house/person who gave you the quest.
5. Enjoy yourself. And you're a good man doing this without mods (I used to be a mod evangelist but I've grown to hate them and I'm a vanilla purist now).
Pro tip: collect lamps and leave them on the Mudcrab Merchant’s island to make him easier to find.
What you talked of finding the Dissident priest was meant for you to ask Cosades, then he tells you to rescue a Dissident priest from the flying boulder in Vivec and she told you how to get to the temple that was closed and she told you when it opens
Interesting. I did eventually go back to Caius for questing (obviously) but he didn't bring that up. Did I bypass that mission then?
@@FrostbreakYT it seems like it, the point of rescuing her was getting the books that you got
yeah; as the main quest-giver, you have to pay particular attention to Caius' dialogue.
The quest journal tells you to talk to Caius Cosades.
Excited to see you face Dagoth Ur, the hottest fellow in Morrowind
COME NERAVAR COME (that's the meme line I always here)
@@FrostbreakYTyou could use dagoth wave music when you meet him. Its a great fan parody song with his lines
There are some things you can do, to make the experience go more smoothly. Get at least a bit into Alchemy - basic restore fatique potion is life saver, get at least mortar and pestle and each household has literally sacks of ingredients for it.
Alteration school of magic has some amazingly useful spells- water walking, water breathing, levitation.. jumping and slowfall spells alone make travelling much easier. Make one jump spell with longer duration and smaller hops for shorter walks, one lasting two seconds and as strong as you manage to cast, for long jumps (just like that dead fellow did), best made from high places. Make Slowfall spell with strenght of 1 to nullify fall damage and one around 30, so your mile long jump can have more graceful landing. Just don't cast it too late:)
To be able to make your own spells, you have to join the mages guild and buy the spells with the effects you want first. They also offer teleportation between guild buildings, which in itself is reason enough to join.
Mark and Recall spells are must- cast Mark anywhere and Recall will teleport you back there, great for returning to quest givers and such. And both Intervention spells will teleport you to the nearest temple, either Imperial or Aldmery one. These four spells are also commonly found as scrolls and on enchanted items, if you don't want to join mages guild or train any magic.
I am seven minutes into the video, so if you figure it out later I apologize.
Iirc the default mode is walking, if you press caps lock you can switch between walking and running.
You can cut travelling times way down by using the intervention spells, divine drops you at the imperial shrine closest to your location and almsivi does the same but at the closest tribunal temple.
There are also the "Mark" and "Recall" spells, you can "Mark" at a certain location and "Recall" will return you to that exact position.
Casting spells also has that rng factor, so if you are not skilled at using a certain school of magic or if your stamina is low, your chance of casting successfully will be reduced.
The Holamayan monastery only opens at the correct time (I think dawn and dusk?).
The fact many content creators were not even bon yet when Morrowind came out makes me feel old. Time, man. Great game. Great vid.
Thank you! Sorry for the reality check :'(
Oh, that's so fresh to see your favorite game from diffrent angle. Thank you for doing this, pal, great job!!! Can't wait for part 2,3 and 4..... and 5 and 6 for dlc's... am i asking too much? maybe .. c:
Hey bro, fantastic video! Sick that you stuck with it, it's a beautiful game and you were right on the money--the most fun part is *not* doing the main quest. No shame on the map either, most of us back in the day had a fold-out paper game map that game with the game which was super useful so we'll call it even. As for travel, there are a lot of options! I'd look into Intervention scrolls, great way to escape from a bad situation and usually get back on the fast travel network. FYI, the Holomayan puzzle is just that it opens up at a certain time of day--luckily you were there around the right time! Looking forward to episode 2!
Edit: made this comment with like two minutes left on the video and you brought up the map. Woops.
Thank you for the comment! I may even try to buy one online or something to put up on my wall for the "real" feel; I think that'll be cool. Glad you enjoyed and thank you for the tips :)
Max Acrobat in Morrowind could launch you over half a town lol
I love the "real" feeling of getting stronger this game has. Already I can leap ontop of most buildings!
Tip for casting spells: use enchanted items instead of casting a spell. Since you only have alteration as a minor skill and no others, you will fail at casting often, but using enchanted items never fails (unless the charge is used up, but it regenerates over time). Buy an item, or pay for an enchantment, with a spell effect you need, such as night eye/light like you tried to cast in this video. That way you will always be able to cast an important spell whenever you need it.
Some useful spell effects: teleportation spells, restore fatigue/health, fortify strength (carry weight, better than feather), fortify agility/weapon skill (hit chance), telekinesis (open traps), damage (not drain) strength (better than burden), jump/fortify acrobatics (fast way to move around, with 1 pt slow fall to prevent fall damage), fortify personality 100 for 1 sec (use right before talking with someone), absorb health (doesn't damage you when reflected), drain health 100 points for 1 sec (instant kill enemies with less than 100 hp), restore strength (for greater bonewalkers, trust me).
For travel, spell make a jump spell, pretty fast forward acceleration. Magnitude 50+ (the highest you can cast). Duration 1s, jump after casting. If uses to much mana, rest for mana regen, keep jump. Vivec to balmora just a handful of jumps. Also lower mag jumps (20 or so) are great for traversing city’s, especially vivec