Harness the Elements and Max Your Damage - Morrowind Guide
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- Elemental damage has a lot of perks above other spells, but you also need to choose your source correctly base don the situation! This Morrowind guide will help you do just that.
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00:00 Intro
0:17 Elemental Damage Explained
02:19 Fire Festival
04:18 Frosty the Snowman
06:08 Shock and Awe
07:14 Poison
08:28 Outro
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► Title: Harness the Elements and Max Your Damage - Morrowind Guide
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For so many years I just assumed Resist Magicka resisted all magicka in some way or another. I never knew it didn't do jack-diddley against elemental spells. You learn something everyday.
Morrowind definitely hides it from you
it still helps with "weakness to X element" spells
Yea funny stuff for sure, but if you have absorb or reflect magic high enough then those DO work on elements=]
So who has ever made a High Elf to be the Wiz & tried to get 100% absorb magic w/ Atronach?
OR the more crazy one... to negate the double damage -%100 weakness of Apprentice with %100 reflect magic? I tried to do that because I thought it would double the damage reflected back at them LoL
That's how it works in Oblivion (which makes bretons OP but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Yeah I still find myself torn between lots of magic pool or Nord with immunity
I'm a kid and I'm on my first playthru of morrwoind and you've been helping me sm. I'm loving the game so far ;:)
That's awesome to hear! Welcome to Vvardenfell
The best damage is Enchant Damage. Go Breton, get Savior's Hide. Get your enchant up to 100, make an Exquisite Belt with constant effect 5-10 Fortify Enchant. Unquip and re-equip it until you get the +10 Enchant. Now all your cast when used/strike charge costs are reduced to 1. Get a Daedric Towershield. Enchant it with Weakness to Magic 100% for 1 second and 19 feet on Touch and Absorb Health 100 points for 5 seconds and 20 feet on Touch. Damage is calculated during the instance of effect application, so even if Weakness to Magic only has a 1 second duration, it will still double Absorb's damage per tick for all 5 seconds.
With a Golden Saint Soul, you get 400 Charges, which amounts to 400 Casts with 110 Enchant skill. Use Almalexia's soul? 1500 casts. Completely unnecessary. Each cast is a nuke that strips magic resistance (but not immunity) and deals 1000 Magic Damage over 5 seconds in a massive area, while healing the caster for 200 Health per second for 5 seconds per enemy hit. Hit 5 targets? Get 1000 Health per second for 5 seconds for 5,000 total.
What about enemy reflect effects? No need to worry. Breton + Savior's Hide maxes out your magic resistance, granting you immunity to the spell should it be reflected, as magic immunity prevents weakness to magic from stripping your resistances.
The only enemy in the game who is immune to the spell is Gedna Revel; otherwise everyone else is cannon fodder.
Tips: This enchantment is insanely expensive should you try to pay for it. Build up a decent restoration skill, make 9 different spells that all Fortify Enchant 100 points for 15 seconds, and stack them before crafting the Shield yourself. With 1010 enchant, even this monster of an enchantment can manage a 100% success ratio.
That is an impressive build. Gamefaqs tier.
Higher than gamefaq
Fun Morrowind fact:
Enemies know your resistances. By instinct, I guess. Or Sheo's been spreading rumours.
If you enchant your entire wardrobe so that combined you're fully immune to magicka and all elements, no enemy will attempt to cast a spell against you.
I may or may not be using a 100x enchantability mod.
Good to know!
Bruhhhhh. That explains a lot. Also, @&%#$!!!
With the spell effect "Absorb Health" being as broken as it is, I tend not to use destruction spells that much.
Who doesn't want a spell that simultaneously heals you and damages the enemy?
Absorb Health is 90% of the time the more powerful spell. To destructions credit however, Variety is the spice to ending life
In addition if it is reflected back on you it won’t damage you.
@@LemonsInTheShade In abse morrowind with the code patch it does by default but you can bring back the self safety.
There're a few frost damage scrolls at Arrille's Tradehouse, handy for taking down Dark Brotherhood assassins in the early game.
Arrille is the GOAT. Man just keeps buying that platter and NEVER asks any questions
I just started a pure Altmer mage with the atronach stone, who focuses on destruction and conjuration, because I've never really used these two skills before. This video will definitely be useful to me.
did you pick the atronach stone? if you did, you have a "free" source of magicka, cos you can attack your spellcasting summons (like the ancestral spirit) for a chance to absorb their spells for magicka.
remember to quicksave before you attack.
and just quicksave often in general.
same here and this is my first Altmer build in this game and i have always avoided them because those weaknesses scared me a bit having always picked Breton or Dunmer for my mage as both have very strong resistances. But so far it is a really strong build and once you steal the saviors hide from Master Aryon it counters the weakness to magic completely but you still have the elemental weakness but that is okay as most magic is non elemental effects but given the massive magic pool of 4.5xINT that is a very acceptable trade off.
I even try experimenting with a tank paladin style build with the Atronach stone and my though was that since your not really using magicka often then its essentially an separate 50% resistance to ALL harmful spell effects and when playing as a Breton or Dunmer
(Nord too but there is not a lot of frost spells used so their frost resist is not fully realized) it just allows you to just mow through those mages while shrugging off most of the spell damage.
Basically i have come to realize that the Atronach stone is not just for mages but every build can benefit from it as there are a lot of strong magic users you will come across in this game.
@@arifhossain9751 yeah, I know about it and keep using it
@@HPD1171 Fun fact about Spell Absorb effects, like Atronach: the amount of magic you Absorb from incoming spells is determined by the amount of magnitude. Weakness to Element/Magic effects actually increase the spell magnitude.
Meaning that Altmer Absorb 50% more Magicka from Magic and Fire Based spells, and 25% more from electric and frost spells.
Altmer + Atronach not only scores you a massive magicka pool; it also recovers more magicka from Absorbed Spells.
@@clayendfield4850 wow i did not realize that. i did wonder why my almer was regaining so much more magicka in combat then my breton and dunmer mages and i just assumed it was scalled to your maximum magicka as that was the only difference i could think of but this makes a lot more sense.
I am so glad this game is so perfectly ballenced.
Poison has one great use, making enemies weaker to other forms of magic. This is amazing when youre playing on higher difficulties
Currently playing through morrowind on my series x, only beat the game as a kid using cheats but I’m doing it it legit this time so your videos have been awesome!
That's awesome to hear! Glad they are helpful.
Honestly, I love keeping a frost damage kit in my back pocket just for dealing with Dunmer. More magicka efficient than shock and works just aswell. Then just swap back to fire.
Yeah, when you study the elemental resistances of Creatures and NPCs, you will see that everything that resists Fire and Frost also resists Shock an equal amount, and the Golden Saint is the only Creature that resists Fire, Frost and Shock, but not Poison. If you want to use Destruction to maximize the damage you deal per Magicka spent, making a Fire and a Frost version of all of your general use attack spells works better than doing so with Fire and Shock since Frost is cheaper than Shock. If you add any additional effect to the Frost spell (such as Weakness to Frost) it will override the slowness of Frost magic, too.
Very nice. I was too lazy to figure that stuff out. Too bad we have to wait on other week
Great content loving it
This is why i like being a nord with the dragonbone cuirass. Just gotta watch out for poison and a lil shock.
Recently started oblivion after finishing the main story of morrowind (over 100 hours play). Looking forward to your oblivion content.
I really love fire and electricity, so it's good to know they're the better choices of the elements.
Also pretty fond of how ranged fire attacks explode. :D
It will cost more, but pairing a spell that causes a weakness to the element you're using with that elemental attack is a good way to bypass natural resistances.
I also find lightning and fire to be the best combo for a weapon. You need a grand soul gem and high enchantment weapon to get around 20 damage apiece.
1:49 UNLIMITED POWAAAAH
I'm 31 I'm still playing this game lol. Never gets old.
Only fire has been covered so far, I'm pausing it right now after hearing about the resistance that dark elves have, I already had an idea for what kind of character I want to make, which is basically a light armored throwing-marksman who uses illusion and poison magic (with spear as a final backup to keep things at a distance)
Edit: Life isn't fair, but I don't care, I'm sticking with my poison magic + Thrower build
Something to add to this. It costs more magic to cast but really helpful to put a weakness to an element part to the spell of a duration of a at least a few seconds. What that will do is make that elemental damage hit a lot harder which means less casts needed to deal with an enemy.Especially effective against undead and fire damage. That added weakness to fire damage shreds undead. Using weakness to element will also remove the immunity so if you want to flex and kill a fire atronauch with a fire spell it is doable.
you don't need more than 1 second since the weakness is applied per cast to the first and all subsequent ticks, not per tick. So 1 sec 100% weakness is enough for crazy powerful spells. If you have Fire Damage 3sec all 3 secs of fire damage will have 100% weakness applied.
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I recently tried my lovely paralysis dagger on a Dremora. I no longer use Paralysis daggers on Dremora.
Basically I’d say as a mage go with every element you prefer, make a strong spell for that element, learn witch enemies have a resistance against it and use a damage health spell for them (unlike absorb health it’s destruction, deals magic damage so it’s essential for enemies with high elemental resistances later on, very inefficient though)
Either switching between fire and ice (most cost effective and covers nearly every enemy in game) or going only shock (more expensive but cooler if you ask me and you have one more free slot in your hot bar) is the most efficient way to go.
I like to have key bindings for some spells and know the spells near it in the list. This way, I can quickly select a lot more spells by using "next spell/previous spell" on the mousewheel. For example, if I have Greater Fireball, Greater Shockball, and Greater Frostball, it is enough to have a binding for just one of them.
So I have the more urgent spells accessible this way (quick access plus 1 or 2 positions), and the less important ones just take a little longer to select (say, 5 positions away from the binding key). So I almost never need to open the spells' list and can just go on playing without interruptions.
1:49 Omfg how were you even casting the spells that fast 😂
It’s weird how down he is on frost. It’s mana efficient, and most enemies on Vvardenfell lack frost resistance. Just avoid using it against undead or on the island of Solstiem, and you’re generally good. Especially with touch + area effect frost.
I think Poison IS supposed to represent Earth, like maybe swamps or natural poisons in nature...
And Morrowind’s unfortunate lack of creatures being venomous on attack, Or poisoning weapons.
You can add 1 second huge ass weaknes to your damaging spell for very cheap.
( laughs in one shoting flame atronach with a fire spell )
To make things clear. I use code patch plugins which allow me to choose values above 100 and plugin which makes custom spells being as costly as premade ones.
Target, 100% weaknes to fire for 1 sec, 170 fire damage for 1 sec for 86 magica. With 100 INT, apprentice sign and necromancer amulet you can desintegrate 3 npcs and still have 60 magica to spare between resting
In my last play through, after playing legit I made a mage named God and just tried to break the game as much as possible. My favorite spell I made was “Nuke”, a fire spell with 100 magnitude for 3 seconds as well as 100% weakness to fire and max radius. It could obliterate everyone outdoors in balmora in about 7 casts, was a ton of fun to mess around with. Kind of a pain sometimes since you can never cast it when anyone that you don’t want to hit is around, I definitely killed a few friendly NPCs through walls and roofs while messing around nuking dungeons and doing the telvanni quests
So by your thumbnail’s own admission, Hungers are what peak performance looks like?
Absolutely. I mean just look at that lean, athletic physique
But why would I make my own elemental spells when I could use the Ring of (element) storm, or Toxic Cloud?
7:09 schock is bad for nord they got a 50 prozent resistens, right.
Please what is the music at the start of your video. I can't figure it out.
Evening at the Tavern from the first Witcher RPG
@@CoffeeNutGaming thanks
shock is resisted 50% by nords so maybe use fire instead
Resists everything,
except Steely Dan's Reelin' In the Years.
Facts. Nothing can resist Reelin' in the Years
@@CoffeeNutGaming I'm gonna repeat-play it today, while commuting..
Have a nice work week, and cheers from the newest NATO country Finland.
Does Weakness to Magic affect Weakness to Elements spells? If I make a spell that is 100% Weakness to Magic and 100% Weakness to Shock, do will the Weakness to Shock be buffed?
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I've found everything is allergic to sharp pointy metal sticks. Just be able to whack them faster than they can whack you and maybe carry a shield. Run in the room and go whack a mole on their face. Disclaimer "proper sharp pointy metal stick is required"
it is actually best way to deal with Hunger daedra, just stop casting and hit him with your heavy staff
Actually, you didn't mention important thing really. Weakness to Fire is a magical effects that reduces resistance to fire ( same thing with Poison, Frost, Shock ), so since it's a magical effect you can just put Weakness to magicka and then weakness to a certain element, and it'll increase damage incredibly high. And without exaggeration you can kill Fire Atronach with Fire 😂 using weaknesses. And wanted to say that this vid is cool because i didn't really know the speed of spells, it's great to learn something in Morrowind.
I was really hoping for a run down on enemy types that are weak to certain elemental damages. Are there any outside of high elves and maybe flame atronachs (frost atronachs too?)?
Nothing is weak, BUT YOU ARE STRONG NEREVAR!
step 1. level destruction to 90
2. buy a damage health 100 on target spell
3. profit
Heyy sorry for being nitpick, but you didn't add this to the guides playlist
Hey wait, arsenic is on that periodic table. Maybe Bethesda was right.
My life goal is to be a full time morrowind streamer
Next stream when? On here, or twitch? I'll come
3:06 Incestual tombs you say? 😳
the immunity from frost does not really make since and it should have just been a resist like the Dunmer. The fact that a Nord in this game can literally submerge their hand in liquid nitrogen and take no damage makes no since.
When you put it that way, it does seem pretty crazy lol
@@CoffeeNutGaming And why do they also resist 50% Shock? What is it about Nords that make them less electrically conductive then the other races. Perhaps this should be studied closer and I will be sure to submit a formal thesis to master Aryon for approval.
But in all seriousness at least Altmer have a reason for having a weakness to shock even though it is their smallest weakness and not really that noticeable.
My only guess is Bethesda attempting to balance the resists more across the races as fire is the most common elemental effect and frost being very rare. So it would be silly to have a race that is only immune to something they may encounter once or twice in their entire playthrough so they get shock as an extra to help "balance" them if there is such a thing in a Bethesda game.
I swear he's stoned in all of these videos
Nice shirt
Nice PFP 🤘
2:30 dunmer not dark elves you filthy n'wah
You didn't even mention that Nords are 75% resistant to shock damage (could have been just 50% too, tho I'm pretty sure it's 75).
I've watch several of your Morrowind videos and overall you present the information on the game mechanics very well. However, I have one note of criticism on the editing of your videos. You are way too twitchy and animated to constantly rely on full screen shots of you talking while the camera chaotically zooms in and out. I realize it might take more time but adding more in-game shots showing what your talking about might help to alleviate the eye strain your current editing creates. Or even toning down the animated movements and/or camera zooms. Not a personal attack just thoughts from one perspective. Cheers!