36:29 Jon comes up with an elaborate plan on how to get back to Balmora, Forgets he had cast mark in Balmora and only needed to cast Recall to teleport there.
Mercantile affects the price of training as well as shop prices, so getting a chunk of mercantile training early will save you a fortune in training costs in the long run!
XD Jon, I feel it prudent to note that you weren't seen because the NPC saw the object you were interacting with, you were seen because the NPC moved into line-of-sight with you between the start of your casting, and the end of it. If you watch back, the 'unseen' icon vanishes before your spell ends, which is why they pinched you for unlocking the owned chest. 24:30
Yeah the sneak system is a bit opaque because every npc does an opposing skill check every few seconds, making it difficult to parse exactly what dropped your stealth, how line-of-sight works etc. A combat log for stealth checks would've been incredibly useful in this game.
stays just out of view for the first 3 spell failures but moves into view right as the final successful spell opens the private property. infuriating lol
It's a terrific dagger! 3 points damage (no-roll), no matter how you're moving about, with the fastest dps in the game-PLUS a _cumulative_ penalty to Stamina (chance-to-hit) and Strength (damage & ability to move) on strike. It's an 'Acrobat's' (cat-burglar's) dream weapon! Appreciate that's not Jon's character, and it's (criminally) undervalued but as a card-carrying Nightblade, I choked slightly at the callousness! ;(
The main difference between Almsivi and Divine Intervention in practical terms is that Divine Intervention typically takes you to the nearest Imperial Fort (since that's where shrines to the Nine Divines usually are) and Almsivi Intervention usually takes you to the nearest Dunmer town (since that's where Tribunal Temples usually are). Often there's kind of an overlap since there are a lot of Imperial forts right next to towns with Temples in them.
It's the no overlap locations that are interesting. For example, when one places mark next to Kummu Shrine, ALM takes him to Balmora, but DI to Pelagiad, and ALM there takes to Vivec, it's like having Mark in 2 major cities at the same time, with useful Feather shrine too. Bonus trivia: casting the Feather 100 over same period of time as Blessing of Humility would cost player 17280 magicka.
@@varthaner4617 Tribunal just casually excreting apocalyptic levels of magic for any dirty pilgrim with a handful of gunk. Stop the moon's even funnier cos you just _know_ vivec's actually full of floating nerds, even if we don't see them in game
@@varthaner4617 Another example is if you Alm on Azura's coast you'll teleport to Molag Mar but if you DI you'll end up in Sadrith Mora and can then Alm to Ald'ruhn.
11:30 By the way, if you're going to run around and collect tons of ingredients for fatigue potions, then it might help you if you occasionally make fatigue potions with them. Not only do you train alchemy, which is good for you, but you also don't need to be so reliant on being able to rest, which is also good for you. As you noticed, they start getting good now, and a single one of those potions you're making is able to pretty much fully restore you. This also means you don't need to carry as many around. And you figured out the value of books, so small steps…. 🤭 34:30 On a related note, scrolls will happily be *even more* valuable than books and easy to carry around. In fact, for a long time, you will have problem unloading them fast enough (unless you still have that glitch where vendor's money immediately refreshes). You will commonly see even mediocre scrolls be worth 100-150 gold for less than half a weight unit. You're probably right that you will never use them, but that also means you're currently running around with a small fortune in your inventory.
As someone who started @ep3 and is almost done, let me say, go for it. I had a blast, especially after I remembered Jump spells and high Acrobatics allows you to leap from city to another city....
Morrowind nerd here, I got you John. You see, a voice actor in the game says the name "Nerevar". He pronounces it neh-reh-var. So that makes "Neravarine" neh-reh-var-een 👍 got your back Jack
Maybe it ends up more neh-reh-vuh-reen but feel free to change whatever you need to fit it in your mouth. At least now you know what you're aiming at 🫡
Really enjoying this series, I decided to give the game a try after watching the first couple episodes and I've been having a blast alongside your playthrough.
The dagger of judgement is actually incredible for short blade builds since its damage to strength and endurance is permanent and stacks so you can slowly whittle down even the strongest opponent. There are staff equivalents with the same effect.
It's highly effective against nocs because after enough hits it will damage their strength to the point that they become over encumbered and can't move.
To be fair, the difference and practical effects of the three Absorb / Drain / Damage [stat] spells is a bit vague and the way they work on NPCs in particular often becomes a matter of equally vague probabilities. Since even heavily armoured enemies generally aren't very near their weight capacity (unlike some players we know) for instance, it takes a while for reduced strength to kick in… but it's there. They *do* slow down, and they *do* deal less damage - you're just not likely to notice it until the stat is basically reduced to zero. Same with Agility and their hit chance/stagger chance. If you just read the basic descriptions, they almost feel redundant, but the way they interact with, for instance, magic reflect and resistances, or how some of them just reset after the spell wears out, So reading the description itself can be almost as opaque as trying to observe the effects in action. Just know that for base attributes and skills, Damage > Absorb > Drain (until you go up against Daedra), whereas for derived stats (health, fatigue), Absorb > Damage > Drain. In fact, Drain in general is a pretty bad effect unless its potent enough to kill a target outright.
@TippisBRC The primary reason to use drain is that it's cheaper and easier to cast then absorb or damage. Absorb is safer to use against daedra because if it gets reflected it doesn't do anything because you can't absorb yourself.
Jon's first encounter with a greater bonewalker is going to be funny, keep dropping those coward saves jon! you never know when they might be necessary :)
The chance of casting a spell is influenced by skill in that school, willpower, current fatigue, and luck - regardless of the attribute associated with that school. So for example chance of casting conjuration and illusion spells is influenced by willpower and not intelligence/personality
Dont worry about forgetting travel options Jon. Eventually you will get like many of us did where in order to go from A to B, you first go from A to take a strider to a mage's guild teleport, then over to a ship or temple spell, and finally then to B...even when walking straight from A to B might have been quicker technically.
So a minor point about the Nerevarine, at the time the prophecy was originally said, there was no Empire founded by Tiber Septim, later to become Talos, that came later. So the Nerevarine driving out the Empire, that's something the Ashlanders added later as part of their whole cult, but the chosen one was never meant to drive out the Empire.
The original outsiders were Nords, Orcs and Dwemer (in various combinations, waves, and iterations). The Chimer/Dunmer have consistently wanted to throw people out of their lands so it's pretty handy from a history-myth-turning-to-prophecy standpoint that a new bunch of outsiders came along and tried to impart their control as well. …but then, with the way those factions and alliances fractured and reformed multiple times even back in the mythic era, it's impossible to tell how much of the original tales have been warped for new purposes over time. In a way, it will always be “true”.
Remembering to pick up books? Remembering to put weapons away before talking to people? Remembering (eventually) the Recall spell? Did Alternate Universe Jon show up for this part?
Nice to see you are starting to find your way. Really skill books are the only books with a value to weight ratio that you want to pick up. If you find a book that is not a skill book that is really expensive save it somewhere as it is probably for a quest.
In lore, dwemer artifacts, ebony and glass are restricted good with EEC having monopoly on them, but in gameplay terms only drugs are checked. There are mods of course for that too. Justification might be, that only export is illegal but everyone is fine with them circulating on local market. Dagger uf judgement wasn't so bad. Well, depends how many charges that damage attribute would last, but damage str+end is great if you can't smack everyone with two hits of giant hammer.
You can continue bartering a Merchant down even if they reject you the first time. In fact, by just resubmitting the offer over and over until they accept it, you will gain additional points towards a level up
Word of warning: invisibility effect makes you undetectable *until* you interact with anything, it immediately ends when you try to do anything other than running around. Chameleon on the other hand lowers detection rolls of NPCs even if you aren't sneaking and it doesn't prevent you from doing anything. So, unlike invisibilty, low magnitude chameleon spell might be helpful when stealing crap, but not guaranteed to actually make you undetectable. High values of chameleon are generally difficult to obtain.
I mean a short duration high value spell is pretty effective, especially when stacked with some enchanted items. Chameleon is definitely the superior sneak spell though. Or you could do the old jump steal if you really want to cheese it...
@@benjaminfranklin329 i don't wanna mention anything cheesy like that. I know there's that amulet that solves any issues, but it all sucks the fun out for me.
I love selling merchants fancy clothing or a special piece of armor, because when you click out of that menu they've got the nice clothing/armor on! And they continue to wear until you sell them something better! I sold one of the merchants a set of Assassin's armor and they immediately put it on. Now, every time I come into their shop they are initially invisible but pop into view right away! It is funny and I love it! Also, Jon if you read this, be very careful about selling items you stole from a shop owner back to that same owner. They will recognize their stolen item and a guard will immediately appear and charge you! Happened to me a few times with different people so after looting a little in one town, I go to another town and sell the stuff. Another fun video!
@@garmtpug nah, it's mostly because you can't buy it back and is labeled as just a bug because of how it managed inventory of there stock. I was sad to have the Balmora weapon shop guy not put on the cool gear I sold, while I was in the midst of explaining that they do that, lol.
It only took Jon 12 episodes, getting to level 6, and leaving about 10 skill books behind before he finally realised that they have a good weight to value ratio and that he should take them.
Aria deadass led a full blown, one-woman WAAAAAAGH into the cave. Brilliant. Also, Day One of asking Jon to play Kira Kira Magical Stars, if you have time in your schedule for a little indie top-down shooter- It might be your jam!
Alteration becomes pretty much mandatory for exploring dungeons. There are many dungeons and artifacts that are just inaccessible without Levitate, Water Breathing, Jump etc.
34:49 - Jon going into the dungeon SPECIFICALLY for the special skull, being engrossed by the Dagger of Judgement to the point of being OBLIVIOUS TO THE SPECIAL SKULL is one of the moments I live for in the playthroughs. 🫡🫶
Consider yourself lucky that skeleton archer in the Andrano Ancestral Tomb didn't hit you with those paralyze arrows it was using, because it would have stun-locked you in place and killed you. That's happened to me SO many times in that tomb, which is why that skeleton is the first to die there.
Jon figures out spear to raise endurance, uses it once. Complains his endurance isn't going up. At least he learned things. I've picked up some basics from Jon I missed, myself.
Jon, I was just watching your Red Dead 2 playthrough, and man, I forgot how convoluted everything in that game seemed upon release. It's still gorgeous after 6 years...
Regarding mark and recall Jon, there are settlements that don't have fast travel options, or ones that only have limited access - Caldera only via mage's guild and gnaar mok only via boat for example. I typically use Mark and Recall either for returning from a quest I know it 10,000 miles from the quest giver or in one if these more isolated settlements.
I think the only hat sexy enough to replace the Colovian Fur Helm would be the Helm of Tohan. Looks badass, it's medium armor, and the fact that it has the highest enchanting capacity of any helm is just bonus.
Get the Calcinator you left in Caldera! It is heavy but it makes your potions much stronger. Even if you leave it home and just use it when you're home, it's worth having.
The whole question of whether the player is the chosen one is… spoilery. …something that will never fully be answered. Even after you get a very clear one, it is open for interpretation whether that answer is correct, or *when* it is correct, or if it even matters if it is correct or not. Welcome to an Elder Scrolls game with, you know, writing. And ideas. Funnily enough, every single one of your instincts and guesses can be considered correct, at once, even the conflicting ones.
It's mythology the only reason mythology is ever straightforward is when a religion uses it for political reasons. Otherwise it's just stories, and what those stories mean to people.
It was a while since I ran through it, but iirc that's even an explicit explanation given at some point: the emperor is actively using the myth to drive an agenda. Whether it happens to be true or not is secondary to people believing it and doing what the emperor wants. But even that notion is buried in a bunch of optional lore and conversations so it's a story that is potentially left untold to the player. …and I suppose it's also telling that the two parties that most explicitly offer a straight answer are a demon prince and the supposed badguy of the myth. So pick your poison. 😄
After you walked away from that first skillbook, I started leaving a comment about taking them, but then you realized it before I finished typing. Thank you, Jon. I am so glad you read some of the comments.
the imperial legion is fine and all but if i were you i'd be looking into what house i'd like to join right now. i always love joining house telvanni, the cutthroat wizard faction, really good magic items with them.
eh, i'm more of a redoran loyalist myself. they are the superior house after all, seeing as they were the ones who protected morrowind during the oblivion crisis/argonian attack. but nah, jokes aside, it's mostly just because in morrowind you actually need the proper skills to advance in a faction and redoran is usually the best option for my go to spellsword warrior character.
@@thechatteringclown Jon is a battlemage so both Houses are a good choice for him, but objectively speaking the Telvanni quests have much better rewards than the Redoran's
Please Jon, I beg you. Play the DLCs for this game also (at some point)! There’s some great stories and connections to Skyrim to be found! Also this game right here is what got me really, truly hooked on video games. Thanks for the nostalgia of stumbling blind through this game😂
It bears (constant) repeating: Morrowind does NOT hold your hand like later Bethesda games. The sacred object won't always be on a massive pedestal in a beam of light or in the last room of the dungeon. Some of the best artifact level items in this game are sitting in plain sight, you just have to look around - poke into corners, look behind objects, and peer down into buckets, etc. Speaking of being curious, at some point you might want to look into the red 'status' icon you've been walking about with for the past few episodes. Just because there's no obvious effect doesn't mean there's no effect on your character. The easiest way to get endurance up is to pick a fist fight with a mud crab. With orcish armor, it should be a breeze.
Love how Jon ALREADY forgot his "naked nord friend" because he kept delaying solving that guys quest and even ran away and then teleported around. That poor guy never gets his stuff back, and Jon will never remember that he promised to help him, right?
Your skepticism about the main character being the Nerevarine is exactly what made this game's lore special. Like in the game's historical books, it's hard to tell what's biased and what's accurate. Without spoiling anything, I think you're right to question the possibility of being the big chosen one and that's probably what the developers intended. Are you a reincarnated local legend, or are you just some random person plucked from your home province and thrown into another country based on circumstances and coincidence? Does the Emperor believe in the prophecy and they want to fulfill it, or did someone from the Blades just find it convenient to play into the prophecy so that they can investigate potential troubles that may be brewing within a culture that's hostile to them? This game is all about raising questions and *maybe* answering them. Just keep reading books and talking to people, maybe one day you'll feel satisfied with the answers you receive.
"-kind of like a Hades & Persephone myth, so... right" calling it, Jon's 100% an English Lit-Classics major-who says you can't earn a living with an Arts degree!! 👍
Jon butchering the Morrow wind equivalent of the local dog shelter's volunteer staff, and then making himself feel better about his behaviour by stealing the donation box was very much what I've come to expect from him 🤣
He didn’t need to use the silk strider. I thought Jon had a x placed in town which allows him to straight up leave wherever he is and just be safe in town.
Aria going into her berserker rage and summoning a demon spear rushing screaming at the top of her lungs into the wrong was GOLD 😂
Lancelot at the wedding vibes!
Lore accurate orc roleplay
Jon: "Where does Muk come from?"
Just evolve a Grimer. This is basic stuff Jon!!
36:29 Jon comes up with an elaborate plan on how to get back to Balmora, Forgets he had cast mark in Balmora and only needed to cast Recall to teleport there.
Skooma, not even once
Vivek's humility...HA!
That guy is a lot of things, but humble ain't one of them!
“I truly am one of the most humble people I know”
@@hardcorescissors582 "THE most humble, actually"
"Oh, lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way."
"Oooh, look at how humble I am, watch me plow your fields in the nude"
"This guy is a lot of things" relevant in every context
The only time Vivec showed "humility" but really he just took advantage of the opportunity to wiggle his bare ass in front of a farmer.
Vivec is such a lil freaky freak fr
HUH?!
Oh Praise thr Tribunal! Jon is picking up skill books
Mercantile affects the price of training as well as shop prices, so getting a chunk of mercantile training early will save you a fortune in training costs in the long run!
The fatigue bar also affects prices for training and bartering, but Jon forgot it instantly after acknowledging it once!
XD Jon, I feel it prudent to note that you weren't seen because the NPC saw the object you were interacting with, you were seen because the NPC moved into line-of-sight with you between the start of your casting, and the end of it. If you watch back, the 'unseen' icon vanishes before your spell ends, which is why they pinched you for unlocking the owned chest. 24:30
Yeah the sneak system is a bit opaque because every npc does an opposing skill check every few seconds, making it difficult to parse exactly what dropped your stealth, how line-of-sight works etc. A combat log for stealth checks would've been incredibly useful in this game.
stays just out of view for the first 3 spell failures but moves into view right as the final successful spell opens the private property. infuriating lol
Haha, the tease as Jon walks away from his Nth skillbook, before doubling back and finally picking it up! I feel elated. ;D
John hastily judges the dagger of judgement.
It's a terrific dagger! 3 points damage (no-roll), no matter how you're moving about, with the fastest dps in the game-PLUS a _cumulative_ penalty to Stamina (chance-to-hit) and Strength (damage & ability to move) on strike. It's an 'Acrobat's' (cat-burglar's) dream weapon! Appreciate that's not Jon's character, and it's (criminally) undervalued but as a card-carrying Nightblade, I choked slightly at the callousness! ;(
His power and confidence is slowly making Jon into the monster we all know and love.
The main difference between Almsivi and Divine Intervention in practical terms is that Divine Intervention typically takes you to the nearest Imperial Fort (since that's where shrines to the Nine Divines usually are) and Almsivi Intervention usually takes you to the nearest Dunmer town (since that's where Tribunal Temples usually are). Often there's kind of an overlap since there are a lot of Imperial forts right next to towns with Temples in them.
It's the no overlap locations that are interesting. For example, when one places mark next to Kummu Shrine, ALM takes him to Balmora, but DI to Pelagiad, and ALM there takes to Vivec, it's like having Mark in 2 major cities at the same time, with useful Feather shrine too. Bonus trivia: casting the Feather 100 over same period of time as Blessing of Humility would cost player 17280 magicka.
@@varthaner4617 Tribunal just casually excreting apocalyptic levels of magic for any dirty pilgrim with a handful of gunk. Stop the moon's even funnier cos you just _know_ vivec's actually full of floating nerds, even if we don't see them in game
@@varthaner4617 Another example is if you Alm on Azura's coast you'll teleport to Molag Mar but if you DI you'll end up in Sadrith Mora and can then Alm to Ald'ruhn.
11:30 By the way, if you're going to run around and collect tons of ingredients for fatigue potions, then it might help you if you occasionally make fatigue potions with them. Not only do you train alchemy, which is good for you, but you also don't need to be so reliant on being able to rest, which is also good for you. As you noticed, they start getting good now, and a single one of those potions you're making is able to pretty much fully restore you. This also means you don't need to carry as many around.
And you figured out the value of books, so small steps…. 🤭
34:30 On a related note, scrolls will happily be *even more* valuable than books and easy to carry around. In fact, for a long time, you will have problem unloading them fast enough (unless you still have that glitch where vendor's money immediately refreshes). You will commonly see even mediocre scrolls be worth 100-150 gold for less than half a weight unit. You're probably right that you will never use them, but that also means you're currently running around with a small fortune in your inventory.
now i want to try morrowind again. jon's playing and the comments section are helping me get a more firm grip on all the mechanics of the game.
As someone who started @ep3 and is almost done, let me say, go for it. I had a blast, especially after I remembered Jump spells and high Acrobatics allows you to leap from city to another city....
I'm loving this series.
Also, THANK GOD YOU TOOK A SKILLBOOK!!!
Jon already forgot about the mark and recall spells and paid for a silt strider back to Balmora.
Nevermind, he remembered at the end of the episode.
Why recall when you can ride?
I really appreciate that rate at which these videos come out!
Morrowind nerd here, I got you John. You see, a voice actor in the game says the name "Nerevar". He pronounces it neh-reh-var. So that makes "Neravarine" neh-reh-var-een 👍 got your back Jack
Maybe it ends up more neh-reh-vuh-reen but feel free to change whatever you need to fit it in your mouth. At least now you know what you're aiming at 🫡
They even say it in Oblivion.
@@DarkDragonDave And Skyrim. Neloth talks about the Nerevarine
Idk pretty sure it's pronounced N'wah
There's a mod that adds back in all the unused VA.
Really enjoying this series, I decided to give the game a try after watching the first couple episodes and I've been having a blast alongside your playthrough.
New-Shoes had to get rid of his shoes to get some new shoes. Obviously.
Maybe he has a shoe fixation, like - um, some people, have with hats?
24:32 I love the stream of new head canon that keeps coming. "The guard could see the chest but not me."
The dagger of judgement is actually incredible for short blade builds since its damage to strength and endurance is permanent and stacks so you can slowly whittle down even the strongest opponent. There are staff equivalents with the same effect.
It's highly effective against nocs because after enough hits it will damage their strength to the point that they become over encumbered and can't move.
To be fair, the difference and practical effects of the three Absorb / Drain / Damage [stat] spells is a bit vague and the way they work on NPCs in particular often becomes a matter of equally vague probabilities. Since even heavily armoured enemies generally aren't very near their weight capacity (unlike some players we know) for instance, it takes a while for reduced strength to kick in… but it's there. They *do* slow down, and they *do* deal less damage - you're just not likely to notice it until the stat is basically reduced to zero. Same with Agility and their hit chance/stagger chance.
If you just read the basic descriptions, they almost feel redundant, but the way they interact with, for instance, magic reflect and resistances, or how some of them just reset after the spell wears out, So reading the description itself can be almost as opaque as trying to observe the effects in action.
Just know that for base attributes and skills, Damage > Absorb > Drain (until you go up against Daedra), whereas for derived stats (health, fatigue), Absorb > Damage > Drain. In fact, Drain in general is a pretty bad effect unless its potent enough to kill a target outright.
@TippisBRC The primary reason to use drain is that it's cheaper and easier to cast then absorb or damage.
Absorb is safer to use against daedra because if it gets reflected it doesn't do anything because you can't absorb yourself.
Jon's first encounter with a greater bonewalker is going to be funny, keep dropping those coward saves jon! you never know when they might be necessary :)
Every time Jon uploads a new Morrowind video, I feel a tingle in my Dagoth. (Seriously Jon, it makes my whole day 😀)
making my Dagoth go "Urrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
47 seconds ago when I clicked. Perfectly uploaded as I get home from work for the weekend.
You need to evolve your Grimer if you want Muck.
I approve of your new pronunciation of Nerevarine. It's how I'd pronounce it, and therefore correct :) I am having such a good time watching this!
The chance of casting a spell is influenced by skill in that school, willpower, current fatigue, and luck - regardless of the attribute associated with that school.
So for example chance of casting conjuration and illusion spells is influenced by willpower and not intelligence/personality
Man my feed is full of great Morrowind content today. I swear it's a conspiracy.
Dont worry about forgetting travel options Jon. Eventually you will get like many of us did where in order to go from A to B, you first go from A to take a strider to a mage's guild teleport, then over to a ship or temple spell, and finally then to B...even when walking straight from A to B might have been quicker technically.
So a minor point about the Nerevarine, at the time the prophecy was originally said, there was no Empire founded by Tiber Septim, later to become Talos, that came later. So the Nerevarine driving out the Empire, that's something the Ashlanders added later as part of their whole cult, but the chosen one was never meant to drive out the Empire.
I always wondered, given what ends up happening, if the original prophecy was about traitors and it was corrupted into 'Outsiders' as time went on
The original outsiders were Nords, Orcs and Dwemer (in various combinations, waves, and iterations). The Chimer/Dunmer have consistently wanted to throw people out of their lands so it's pretty handy from a history-myth-turning-to-prophecy standpoint that a new bunch of outsiders came along and tried to impart their control as well.
…but then, with the way those factions and alliances fractured and reformed multiple times even back in the mythic era, it's impossible to tell how much of the original tales have been warped for new purposes over time. In a way, it will always be “true”.
i had a disturbing dream of a keytargonian playing synthwave, or should i say...
no, nevermind.
such a sweet and intoxicating dream
And now.. you got it (re)stuck in my head as well.
@@kelecheney there is a drummer guy who makes blind covers on stream, channel called 8bit something something iirc. look this up.
Now I need to go listen to it. I blame Joov 😂
I finally managed to play along a game with Jon. No waiting for the next bite of Morrowind inbetween videos
It’s good to see you getting a grip on the systems. I love this game, but it does have a bit of a learning curve.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday are the best days on the channel currently. Old titles you say? Exactly, I say.
"Come faster, because, like, I wanna take out as many of you as ..." *giggity*
most people pronounce it with the emphasis on the first syllable: NErevarine
Remembering to pick up books? Remembering to put weapons away before talking to people? Remembering (eventually) the Recall spell?
Did Alternate Universe Jon show up for this part?
Nice to see you are starting to find your way. Really skill books are the only books with a value to weight ratio that you want to pick up. If you find a book that is not a skill book that is really expensive save it somewhere as it is probably for a quest.
In lore, dwemer artifacts, ebony and glass are restricted good with EEC having monopoly on them, but in gameplay terms only drugs are checked. There are mods of course for that too. Justification might be, that only export is illegal but everyone is fine with them circulating on local market.
Dagger uf judgement wasn't so bad. Well, depends how many charges that damage attribute would last, but damage str+end is great if you can't smack everyone with two hits of giant hammer.
Imagine being filled with beserker rage and going on a murder spree. Very on brand
Oh my goodness, he realized skill books are valuable! What's next, will he notice the rest until healed option?
Thank you. this channel means so much for me and has help me trough my hardest times
Jon immediately forgetting about Recall and paying to get back to Balmora instead of just using the spell.... never change Jon, never change.
Jon: Spends last episode working out the joys of Mark and Recall.
Also Jon: Pays to take a silt strider to get back to Balmora
Haven't refreshed so often since fallout 3 yolo
The epic revenge speech before raiding the empty cavern reminds me of capturing the stunt doubles in SpaceBalls.
Jon picked up a skill book! I'm SO relieved.
You can continue bartering a Merchant down even if they reject you the first time. In fact, by just resubmitting the offer over and over until they accept it, you will gain additional points towards a level up
Pronunciation of Neravarine: There is dialog in Oblivion where NPCs talk about the Neravarine's activities. That would be the canonical pronunciation.
Word of warning: invisibility effect makes you undetectable *until* you interact with anything, it immediately ends when you try to do anything other than running around. Chameleon on the other hand lowers detection rolls of NPCs even if you aren't sneaking and it doesn't prevent you from doing anything. So, unlike invisibilty, low magnitude chameleon spell might be helpful when stealing crap, but not guaranteed to actually make you undetectable. High values of chameleon are generally difficult to obtain.
I mean a short duration high value spell is pretty effective, especially when stacked with some enchanted items. Chameleon is definitely the superior sneak spell though. Or you could do the old jump steal if you really want to cheese it...
@@benjaminfranklin329 i don't wanna mention anything cheesy like that. I know there's that amulet that solves any issues, but it all sucks the fun out for me.
I love selling merchants fancy clothing or a special piece of armor, because when you click out of that menu they've got the nice clothing/armor on! And they continue to wear until you sell them something better! I sold one of the merchants a set of Assassin's armor and they immediately put it on. Now, every time I come into their shop they are initially invisible but pop into view right away! It is funny and I love it!
Also, Jon if you read this, be very careful about selling items you stole from a shop owner back to that same owner. They will recognize their stolen item and a guard will immediately appear and charge you! Happened to me a few times with different people so after looting a little in one town, I go to another town and sell the stuff. Another fun video!
Honestly, that's one of the things I miss about unmodded vanilla. The unofficial patch script/ patch for purist fixed that "bug"
@@DibsAtraiyu Really?? What would that bother anyone? It's such a great little touch to the game!
@@garmtpug nah, it's mostly because you can't buy it back and is labeled as just a bug because of how it managed inventory of there stock.
I was sad to have the Balmora weapon shop guy not put on the cool gear I sold, while I was in the midst of explaining that they do that, lol.
@@DibsAtraiyu Oh no! Well that certainly sucks! LOL...
All those games he played, and I swear Morrowind is slowly corrupting him more....
As if Jon can be more corrupted 😂
It only took Jon 12 episodes, getting to level 6, and leaving about 10 skill books behind before he finally realised that they have a good weight to value ratio and that he should take them.
Aria deadass led a full blown, one-woman WAAAAAAGH into the cave. Brilliant.
Also, Day One of asking Jon to play Kira Kira Magical Stars, if you have time in your schedule for a little indie top-down shooter- It might be your jam!
Alteration becomes pretty much mandatory for exploring dungeons.
There are many dungeons and artifacts that are just inaccessible without Levitate, Water Breathing, Jump etc.
Thank God he figured out he should take books! Hallelujah
"Dreams matter in The Elder Scrolls". Yeah the entire franchise essentially kicks off with a prisoner having a dream all the way back in TES 1: Arena
"Another happy landing!" - Jon's Bad Idea Spell
34:49 - Jon going into the dungeon SPECIFICALLY for the special skull, being engrossed by the Dagger of Judgement to the point of being OBLIVIOUS TO THE SPECIAL SKULL is one of the moments I live for in the playthroughs. 🫡🫶
Consider yourself lucky that skeleton archer in the Andrano Ancestral Tomb didn't hit you with those paralyze arrows it was using, because it would have stun-locked you in place and killed you. That's happened to me SO many times in that tomb, which is why that skeleton is the first to die there.
lvling up endurance - try a spear, pref chitin
"I will use spear this level!" Proceeds not to use spear more than once, and keeps summoning the mace
Jon figures out spear to raise endurance, uses it once. Complains his endurance isn't going up. At least he learned things. I've picked up some basics from Jon I missed, myself.
Jon, I was just watching your Red Dead 2 playthrough, and man, I forgot how convoluted everything in that game seemed upon release. It's still gorgeous after 6 years...
Regarding mark and recall Jon, there are settlements that don't have fast travel options, or ones that only have limited access - Caldera only via mage's guild and gnaar mok only via boat for example. I typically use Mark and Recall either for returning from a quest I know it 10,000 miles from the quest giver or in one if these more isolated settlements.
Aria just crossing grudges off her list here
I heard Alec Guinness say that this isn't the dungeon you are looking for. In my head at least. 🤣
I think the only hat sexy enough to replace the Colovian Fur Helm would be the Helm of Tohan. Looks badass, it's medium armor, and the fact that it has the highest enchanting capacity of any helm is just bonus.
Assuming he has the official plug in installed anyways. (Otherwise adamentium is same thing but with only 1/3 the enchant space)
8:55 - No revenge ahead... Therefore try circling around.
Get the Calcinator you left in Caldera!
It is heavy but it makes your potions much stronger. Even if you leave it home and just use it when you're home, it's worth having.
You could also get your beloved alchemy book back from evidence
The whole question of whether the player is the chosen one is… spoilery.
…something that will never fully be answered. Even after you get a very clear one, it is open for interpretation whether that answer is correct, or *when* it is correct, or if it even matters if it is correct or not. Welcome to an Elder Scrolls game with, you know, writing. And ideas. Funnily enough, every single one of your instincts and guesses can be considered correct, at once, even the conflicting ones.
It's mythology the only reason mythology is ever straightforward is when a religion uses it for political reasons. Otherwise it's just stories, and what those stories mean to people.
It was a while since I ran through it, but iirc that's even an explicit explanation given at some point: the emperor is actively using the myth to drive an agenda. Whether it happens to be true or not is secondary to people believing it and doing what the emperor wants. But even that notion is buried in a bunch of optional lore and conversations so it's a story that is potentially left untold to the player.
…and I suppose it's also telling that the two parties that most explicitly offer a straight answer are a demon prince and the supposed badguy of the myth. So pick your poison. 😄
14:51 you passed tasty berries for your restore magica sandwiches
After you walked away from that first skillbook, I started leaving a comment about taking them, but then you realized it before I finished typing. Thank you, Jon. I am so glad you read some of the comments.
I liked him covering the close button on the skill book near the skull before he remembered to keep it,lol.
the imperial legion is fine and all but if i were you i'd be looking into what house i'd like to join right now. i always love joining house telvanni, the cutthroat wizard faction, really good magic items with them.
eh, i'm more of a redoran loyalist myself. they are the superior house after all, seeing as they were the ones who protected morrowind during the oblivion crisis/argonian attack.
but nah, jokes aside, it's mostly just because in morrowind you actually need the proper skills to advance in a faction and redoran is usually the best option for my go to spellsword warrior character.
@@thechatteringclown Jon is a battlemage so both Houses are a good choice for him, but objectively speaking the Telvanni quests have much better rewards than the Redoran's
Telvanni's wacky quests could be something in Jon's alley...
It's funny how Farore's Wind is functional in the right game in the right circumstances.
Jon, clearly he'd be No-Shoes Bragor.
Shoeless Joe Bragor?
@17:40 Jon, regarding the fighters guild vs thieves guild quest conflict, read the fighters guild quest text carefully.
Please Jon, I beg you. Play the DLCs for this game also (at some point)! There’s some great stories and connections to Skyrim to be found! Also this game right here is what got me really, truly hooked on video games. Thanks for the nostalgia of stumbling blind through this game😂
A quick reminder that you can leave notes on the local map by double clicking on any spot you want. Just so you don't berserk into empty caves lol
Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit! He took a skill book guys! He took a skill book!! :D
It bears (constant) repeating: Morrowind does NOT hold your hand like later Bethesda games. The sacred object won't always be on a massive pedestal in a beam of light or in the last room of the dungeon. Some of the best artifact level items in this game are sitting in plain sight, you just have to look around - poke into corners, look behind objects, and peer down into buckets, etc. Speaking of being curious, at some point you might want to look into the red 'status' icon you've been walking about with for the past few episodes. Just because there's no obvious effect doesn't mean there's no effect on your character.
The easiest way to get endurance up is to pick a fist fight with a mud crab. With orcish armor, it should be a breeze.
You could just park your alchemy gear on Caius' table so that you don't get it taken by guards, and make potions whenever you're back in Balmora
Thank God this intro isn't done by American Jon.. 😅
Now I have the horrible image of Dunmer Jon, where he's doing a Dark Elf voice
Love how Jon ALREADY forgot his "naked nord friend" because he kept delaying solving that guys quest and even ran away and then teleported around. That poor guy never gets his stuff back, and Jon will never remember that he promised to help him, right?
In Oblivion you aren't the chosen one, you're merely chosen by a higher power to save the world. Completely different, obviously.
you are just the emperors sleep paralysis demon
That was quite an interesting dream. I wonder if there's any significance in that. (Grins in anticipation)
I think the new question will be if Jon will ever replace the Colovian Fur Helmet.
Ngl, i got a chuckle out of how harshly you judged the Dagger of Judgement.
Worship as many gods as you like. 9? 12? What ever gets you free blessings, am I right?
Your skepticism about the main character being the Nerevarine is exactly what made this game's lore special. Like in the game's historical books, it's hard to tell what's biased and what's accurate. Without spoiling anything, I think you're right to question the possibility of being the big chosen one and that's probably what the developers intended. Are you a reincarnated local legend, or are you just some random person plucked from your home province and thrown into another country based on circumstances and coincidence? Does the Emperor believe in the prophecy and they want to fulfill it, or did someone from the Blades just find it convenient to play into the prophecy so that they can investigate potential troubles that may be brewing within a culture that's hostile to them?
This game is all about raising questions and *maybe* answering them. Just keep reading books and talking to people, maybe one day you'll feel satisfied with the answers you receive.
24:43 yeah that'll happen sometimes. Morrowind has a very strange stealth system
"-kind of like a Hades & Persephone myth, so... right" calling it, Jon's 100% an English Lit-Classics major-who says you can't earn a living with an Arts degree!! 👍
Jon butchering the Morrow wind equivalent of the local dog shelter's volunteer staff, and then making himself feel better about his behaviour by stealing the donation box was very much what I've come to expect from him 🤣
Jon is Monty pythoning this episode
LOL For some reason every time you say Seyda Neen, I hear St. Denis
He didn’t need to use the silk strider. I thought Jon had a x placed in town which allows him to straight up leave wherever he is and just be safe in town.
They really should be calling you sir.
very short spears in this...