Fun fact: the Daedra speak with your mouth. When you go afk the idle animation is just a slow camera rotation in 3rd person. When that happened during one of the Daedra Prince's monologues I discovered that *I* was the one speaking. I thought it was neat and was disappointment when it was removed from subsequent games, even if it was probably just a hack to make the voices work.
i think that is indeed a trick to make the voice sound like its "in your head"...if the voice was attached to some offscreen NPC, then the volume would be influenced by your distance to that NPC...so to make the words that the voice speaks 'follow' you, it makes sense to me, to just put that Voice onto the Player character... ...of course, if you prefer to believe that the Daedra is "possessing" your character in order to speak, then thats fine too...personally, i like the headcanon (heh, no pun intended), to add to Morrowind's "mystical fantasy" vibe...
Tarhiel also speaks through the player. The reason it's done that way is that there needs to be an actor assigned to the voice files. And that hasn't really been fixed. In New Vegas there is an NPC behind the end slides that does the voice over, and in Skyrim the door in Dragonsreach with the ebony blade has a dresser behind it to speak.
@HappyBeezerStudios Tbf that's not something that really needs "fixed", it's not an issue. It's a funny quirk of the game engine but it does nothing to deter from the game.
to be fair though, Princes with taste for meddling with Nirn as a whole pay a lot of attention to whatever dragonblood emperors do, because duh. And if Uriel released a random nobody out of blue, said nobody would be watched closely and probably recognized as a "true hero of Destiny" after downing fifth skooma without dying.
The people of morrowind witnessed a random crack head flying throughout the land killing all the gods and demigods, even destroying the heart of lorkhan, only for him to od on adrenaline and die.
I really enjoyed when I played Morrowind. Playing a sword and board + restoration character the game felt really balanced. Early on I missed a lot and later game I almost never missed and it felt great. I only finished the base game and some of the side quests. I think when I play again I’ll try some dest/conj build and go through the dlc.
@@zachlewis9751 might I suggest you check out some mods for next run? I'm sure you're already aware, but there are some super neat ones that add so much (and many with just minor tweaks if that's more your thing!)
Instead of the real plot of Morrowind, this is a story of a supposedly doomed world where the prophesied hero never came. So some random criminal decided "fuck that", collects the most powerful artifacts in all the land, uses them to kill two gods to save the world, and then dies of exhaustion from overexerting himself during the final battle. That goes so much harder than the actual plot lmao
I remember reading a fan theory once that the game giving you the persist in a doomed world message you get after killing vivec despite being able to still beat the game is just vivec using the last of his chim powers to try and manipulate the player into loading a save game and effectively reset reality to prevent his death
Actually, you can "beat" morrowind even without the jury-rigged wraithguard. If you have enough health, you can hotkey swap the dagger into your hand and out of your hand again and again to do all the necessary damage to the heart. You can also use a spear's knockback to just knock Dagoth Ur into the lava and not deal with him for the rest of the fight. I know this because it's how I beat Dagoth Ur on a TES3MP server lol.
Dagoth Ur is already precious, but imagining his amazing "I'm a god! How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence!" as a dozen veteran players, who collectively have centuries of experience in this masterpiece of a game, all wearing nothing but Colovian Fur Helms, troll the utter silt out of the greatest TES villain to ever exist in his own dungeon, all before spamming chat with "lol n'wah"... ...I mean, it probably didn't go that way, but it could've, and that's beautiful. Gotta love this game.
Theres even a more scuffed way to do it,first you get to the first town and buy lots of ingredients to make fortify inteligence potions,then you make fortify health potion,thats because the dagger doesnt techniccally kills you,it just removes a lot of hp,tho the downside of that method is that when the fortify health effect end you will die because your health will become negative
@@butelthomas2503 Assuming that you don't, as well, take time out of your coked-up alchemy session to create some busted health potions that negate the concern of missing health.
@@ryjelsum Oh nah thats just Morrowind Potions, they stack infinitely so you just chug INT bonuses, brew whatever you want, and get chugging your super drugs
For anybody who didn't know: you can really easily get cheap training by making a damage skill spell and reducing your chosen skill to train to 0 for luke 1 or 2 seconds. Training to level 1 will always cost 1 gold, and will still add to your total whenever the skill resets. Makes grinding levels a lot easier without completely emptying your pockets and still guaranteeing you that +5 in whatever attribute you need. It also gets around the whole "You may not train a skill above its governing attribute" thing.
at this point i would rather just install the garanteed 5x multiplier mod. not saying the strategy isnt valid. but it does feel liek alot of trouble to ciscunvent the bad leveling design.
@@skeletonking4119 he still posts memes on twitter every few days, but yeah I think he posted a thing where he was talking about being chronically sick and was talking about a longtime hiatus
Thats why I love Morrowind. I realized halfway through my first play I could just go up to Dagoth and win the game once I had enough HP to hold the tools for long enough.
Hey, your previous Morrowind video about Marksmanship is what got me to download and try the game again after bouncing off in the past. I've gotten farther than I ever have before(by which I mean I spoke to shirtless man and have killed at least one cliffracer.)
@@TheRealRusDaddy tbh I think that ruins the balance of the game, but I think a mod that gave "hitmarkers" so that you have some feedback for hitting, even if you aren't always doing damage, would go a long way.
The sheer overflow of your fatigue bar is simply staggering. I always spent my time in Morrowind totally drained of fatigue, but you manage to always have more than enough! I can tell because it says so on the screen, and there's no way you could fake that.
So cool. I always wanted to do a “backdoor” run. I love that Morrowind made it possible to screw up your game and still finish the main quest. Such incredible roleplaying options.
After watching nerbit and other creators such as him. I was hoping to find a channel that does morrowind challenges. And I did! It is great to be here! I love your channel already
All you need is Ash Yams and Bloat. I think the general store in Dagon Fel sells both. 1. Buy Ash Yams and Bloat. 2. Make Fortify Intelligence potions. 3. Drink potions. 4. Make more potions while under effect of previous potions. 5. Sell potions to anyone who will take them for more money. 6. Repeat. It has a slow ramp up because it seems to work exponentially rather than flat boosts, but in about 20-30 minutes you're making potions nobody can afford, and they fortify intelligence by tens of thousands for hours.
@@thatdumbguy2621 It is roughly the same, except in Skyrim you have the extra step of having to enchant gear with Fortify Enchant and then slowly snowballing your stats that way, because there is no simple "Fortify Intelligence" ingredients you can just plop into a potion. Still easy to break both games, though.
One thing i loved about morrowind is it had more than one way to complete the story and the only way you could make it nigh impossible to finish is by killing vivec and the fat dwarf before they give you wraithguard
I'm grateful for this video. I've seen several sources talk about the "backpath" to the Morrowind main story but none of them actually went into detail on how to do it and I've also never been able to find a video of it. You've scratched a very long-standing curious itch.
17:14 Small correction, security can help with intelligence growth, but otherwise has no effect on security rolls itself. The stat part of the calculation is Security + (Agility/5) + (Luck/10). The other 2 parts to success calculations is your tool quality (an easy multiplier) and fatigue (.75 multiplier to 1.25 multiplier depending on how full it is.) Lastly, the final check is the difficulty, which subtracts, and gives us our final percentage chance of success. Example, 40 security, 40 agility (8) and 40 luck (4)= 52. Multiply by a normal journeyman lockpick of 1.0, and obviously, full fatigue 1.25= 65. We are picking a difficulty 50 lock. 65-50=15% chance on every attempt. At zero fatigue instead, we would be getting a 'lock too complex' message, a 0 or below % chance of success. A simple formula, obfuscated by the fact that this game is jank spaghetti at the best of times, and the mechanics are generally poorly explained, if not outright false information. Thankfully, your stupid high agility more then makes up for any slight stat mismanagement. ;p
I've got a challenge that sounds impossible, but I've done it on console: bring Vivec and Dagoth Ur together at a neutral location to "parley" and/or just to decorate your crib.
@@DIEGhostfish *hint* you must convert them from an enemy to a follower at least temporarily; getting them through the door is the easy part, no exploit required, although you may need some artificially boosted stats given their level. The tricky part is getting Dagoth Ur out of Red Mountain, his sprite presents a unique challenge when exiting, that requires an exploit based on an understanding of how to get him to follow you in the first place...you have to think waaay outside the box, but it is possible.
"How can you kill a God? What a grand and intoxicating innocence." *literally 0.1 seconds later* "STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" *5 seconds later while falling to his fiery death* "Come, lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy."
If this was a legend to be told it would never be known the PC was the Nereverine. Just a crazy Redgaurd who wanted all powerful artifacts he could find.
You can actually beat Morrowind without wraith guard as long as you either fortify health enough to outlive the 1 hit with sunder and 4 with keening or just drink an absolutely obscene amount of healing potions. Drinking healing potions has a high chance of not working if you have lower amounts of HP though. Edit: extra clarification I guess this could be considered alchemy exploits but this is possible with potions you can buy from merchants and still let's you actually finish the main quest and get the ring of azura as apposed to the just killing the heart of lorkhan after gaining like 2,000 strength or something
Sunder and Keening only do 50-125 damage per second. Half that damage is always fire related the other half is electrical so blocking out the damage is a trivial matter. Morrowind is balanced for around a level 15-20 character and once you pass that to around level 30 and beyond you are basically untouchable. So if you get to around level 50+ you can easily just tank the damage long enough to destroy the heart, I have done it all sorts of ways multiple times.
@@Salt-Upon-Woundss I'm well aware tanking the damage is possible as I've both just tanked the damage by having a lot of HP as well as chugged quality restore health potions to beat the game at level 1 with 50 hp. I however did not know that keening and sunders self damage was elemental damage so thanks for that info
This was uploaded almost an hour ago on a realtively small channel I probably would have never found myself and yet it already appeared on my recommended page. Youtbe knows me well. This is a great video!
What a gem! Last time I played Morowind I wandered around aimlessly and eventualyl stumbled on that dungeon that has Skull Crusher in it and then suddently I was able to actually fight stuff; then I stumbled onto the quest to go to the dungeon later in the playthrough. Thats always an amusing feeling. Great video!
The Morrowind back route is one of those things I think wouldn't be put into a big RPG game nowadays because it would be seen as wasted effort as something that people would never see (or that if they do see it they miss out on the material in the main story instead) and with budgets and development cycles as they are it wouldn't be seen as economical. It's pretty cool though.
I'm surprised you didn't grab the daedric warhammer from Tukushapal. Its normally locked, but giving Matze to Ennbjof in Vivec gives you access to it. The only enemies at level one are easy to take on skeletons. It DOES require levitation to grab, but there are conveniently placed rising force potions right below the location with the weapon. Plus, you get the best unenchanted helmet in game, the Daedric Face of God.
I never used a shield unless I was using spells or 2 handed. Since you block automatically and the chance to block gets higher as you increase the skill you can potentially stun lock yourself. You can't do anything else while the block animation is happening and blocking doesn't negate all damage. I've died from chip damage because I couldn't stop blocking to attack. You do still get an armor bonus from equipping the shield (and any passive enchantments) even if you're using a 2 handed weapon or a spell so that's the only time I used shields.
You're wrong. Blocking does block all damage. Dying to chip damage could only happen with multiple attackers or a single enemy attacking faster than you can block. Also you do not actually get the armor rating while using a 2 handed weapon, it just says you do. Go read it in UESP if you don't believe me. Also you have a maximum of 50% chance to block so I highly doubt you could ever realistically get stun locked.
Neat little tip, stoneflower petals have restore strength as a primary effect, the chances of getting ingredients to give you their effect is based on alchemy skill and not amazing but the flowers are fairly light, free, and abundant in certain areas like around Lake Amaya and Caldera, even buying them from alchemists is cheap at 1 gold a piece.
I love the little details that you put in that could be easy to miss like when you were trying to kill the cliff racer and had text over the empty fatigue bar...that was hilarious and Iove finding these little things. This is quality content
24:10 A nostalgic tale i have involving Daedric armor My dad probably had thousands of hours into Morrowind when he first introduced me to it. When i started my character is when he actually started trying to look for Daedric armor, because when he did find pieces, he didnt wear it as he would main light or medium armor in all his builds. This is when we discovered (with the help of that gigantic guide book) that Daedric pauldrons arent in the base game aside from the ones Divayth is wearing. Way later on i did manage to stumble across one when i was poking through a random cave in Solstheim but i dont think i ever found the other one.
"Hello Nerevar---wait. You're not the one I've foreseen in prophecy." "Is that a problem?" "You're not the one able to defeat me. Begone, intru---is that Sunder and Keening?!!? AND WRAITHGUARD!? HOW DID----when did!? How did YOU even SURVIVE" "Don't care, I'ma smash your heart like I smashed your prophecy."
Kwama eggs are like if honey was both one of your only sources of food, and your country's major export. So you farm and maintain giant underground bees.
I played so much Morrowind at release that I’m so excited to have new facts dropped on me. Went from playing the OG Xbox port, to the PC version with the updates/expansion packs. This was my favorite game ever along with Diablo II as a middle school kid. Brings back great memories. Love the content.
To make leveling up a bit harder, at character creation, I selected Luck as a favored attribute. At each level up, I put one point into luck. I maxed out luck by roughly level 50 or 51, without using the Bitter Cup (needed for a certain quest).
After reading through the script for the charging event you should 100% be able to simply cast fortify health 220 points and skip the entire leveling portion.
Just found your channel, really enjoying your content and casual, almost off the cuff humor mixed with breaking down systems. Very entertaining to listen to.
That adrenaline rush death bs confused me for hours as a kid on my first playthrough. Definitely learned to appreciate potions and healing magic that day lol
Oh, so I CAN whack that weird skooma addict in Balmora without worrying about it. That's comforting. He's always on about some group called the "Blades". I'm already in the fighters guild, I don't need another.
Favorite ways getting stacked at start: Doing a lot of the quests in seyda neen, sure, dont forget the axe in the stump by the watchtower :) then going to a few places (It's been a while since I played). 1. Certain farm you go up to the top floor near the owner & there was good loot. 2. Vivec, being able to get into the vaults was always sick. 3. I remember an ebony mine somewhere. 4. faze into ceilings of rooms near items you want to steal. 5. Clearing bandit caves and dwemer of coarse.
Correction: You can actually get any Daedric weapon by save farming any Daedric shrine. For example, there are I think four under the different waterways in Vivic. You can summon the Daedra by taking the offering before the statue. If the Daedric warrior doesn't have the weapon you want you can simply reload-farm until he has it (SAVE before taking the offering and reload until he has the desired wep) Another tip; You can also get billions of Gold and XP by taking advantage of the broken trap soul gem system. You can get your first from the table upstairs in the Mage Guild in Balmora, just use the shadow sign when character creating. Cheers!
I agree with your assessment of maxing out Endurance and perfectly leveling up too fast in this game. Every time I do that I end up putting the game away cause it starts to feel trivial.
Yo, your videos are pretty awesome and a fresh breath for TES content for me. I wanted to play Morrowind since I really liked skyrim, and find some aspects of oblivion interesting.
My younger brothers and I completed the game without Wraithguard by alchemy cheese once. We'd lost the papers we were meant to give to Cassius but were absolutely determimed to beat the game with that character anyway.
I remember killing Vivec when I was a teenager lol. My younger brother still reminds me to this day. Not sure if this is what you do, but I leveled my destruction decently, got a ton of magic potions, and stood on the triangular platform in the middle of his room kiting him around it and shooting fireballs at him. Shit look like 3 hours no joke lol. Amd all you get is a glove with no special effects that's worth nothing.
When I was a kid and played this game I never did a single quest. I just ran around killing stuff. I really should play this again as an Adult and actually beat it.
14:00 You can type in RA in console to reset NPC positions in case someone clipped through the floor/fell off the stairs/is stuck in the door. The only downside is that it also resets position of any NPCs you moved through Command Humanoid spell
18:18 I remember when I went down that cave before the quest and didn’t find the gloves until after I sent back again 20 hours or so. I remember just thinking I’ll double check the area and when I found these gloves. I was both ecstatic and angry because I am a hoarder and just play about 20 hours without these gloves
I'd absolutely love to see more Morrowind content! I love osrs as much as the next guy, as I just got the shadow on leagues, now I'm hunting for the heart from these stupid hydras that only give me eternal gems :(. But either way, I don't see a lot of Morrowind content and I actually need to finish the game myself!
you videos are pretty cool, i like watching them even though i dont know anything about any of the games you play tbh also good sometimes when im tired asf i can just pass out, like your videos are good as just background noise too thats crazy
Damn the first time i played this game was on the original xbox in 2002. I've played the game tons of times since then never knew this. This is so awesome i love how deep the elder scrolls games are. Cheers
Just goes to show how far ahead of its time Morrowind was, and that beth regressed with each new game they released. If they actually would have embraced the strenghts of Morrowind they could have been the ones releasing something like bg3 instead of starfield.
"persist in the doomed world you have created" still goes so hard 20 years later
It was doomed the moment I left the Census and Excise Office. It just didn't know it yet.
it just sat there looking...@@JustBackgroundNoise
but it's only been 7 years since Harambe died
Jedi survivor uses it too
@@TasTheWatcher Longest seven years of my life
Fun fact: the Daedra speak with your mouth. When you go afk the idle animation is just a slow camera rotation in 3rd person. When that happened during one of the Daedra Prince's monologues I discovered that *I* was the one speaking. I thought it was neat and was disappointment when it was removed from subsequent games, even if it was probably just a hack to make the voices work.
Ooo giving me plot ideas for a new story I can work on!
this blew my mind the first time I saw it haha, so cool to see other people noticed little details like this that I like to geek out over
i think that is indeed a trick to make the voice sound like its "in your head"...if the voice was attached to some offscreen NPC, then the volume would be influenced by your distance to that NPC...so to make the words that the voice speaks 'follow' you, it makes sense to me, to just put that Voice onto the Player character...
...of course, if you prefer to believe that the Daedra is "possessing" your character in order to speak, then thats fine too...personally, i like the headcanon (heh, no pun intended), to add to Morrowind's "mystical fantasy" vibe...
Tarhiel also speaks through the player.
The reason it's done that way is that there needs to be an actor assigned to the voice files.
And that hasn't really been fixed. In New Vegas there is an NPC behind the end slides that does the voice over, and in Skyrim the door in Dragonsreach with the ebony blade has a dresser behind it to speak.
@HappyBeezerStudios
Tbf that's not something that really needs "fixed", it's not an issue. It's a funny quirk of the game engine but it does nothing to deter from the game.
Azura seeing a random Redguard kill Dagoth ur and leaving Red mountain :
"Who the fuck are you ?!"
“Your daddy, you n’wah’
"Surprise, muthadaedra!"
More like "Eh, that'll do". I'm more concerned about feelings of previous incarnations
I feel like this is the sort of situation a daedra lord would find truly hilarious
to be fair though, Princes with taste for meddling with Nirn as a whole pay a lot of attention to whatever dragonblood emperors do, because duh. And if Uriel released a random nobody out of blue, said nobody would be watched closely and probably recognized as a "true hero of Destiny" after downing fifth skooma without dying.
The people of morrowind witnessed a random crack head flying throughout the land killing all the gods and demigods, even destroying the heart of lorkhan, only for him to od on adrenaline and die.
Das racist
@@honestabe411 it's Morrowind. EVERYONE is racist.
@@MarkoKrstic14 N'wah
@@Shushkin Swit
@@patigelstarberry4302 Ha ha! You can make anything sound bad, when you put it like that xD
I personally love how nothing scales with level. It allows me to play the game naturally and not worry about leveling efficiently.
Enemy spawns are affected by levels
@@LSDOvideos Dont feel it. Its not like Skyrim where a lever 80 has to go trough full barrows of draugrlords.
I really enjoyed when I played Morrowind. Playing a sword and board + restoration character the game felt really balanced. Early on I missed a lot and later game I almost never missed and it felt great. I only finished the base game and some of the side quests. I think when I play again I’ll try some dest/conj build and go through the dlc.
Magic is broken in morrowind- if you do certain things you can have instakills perma invisibilty and many more.@@zachlewis9751
@@zachlewis9751 might I suggest you check out some mods for next run? I'm sure you're already aware, but there are some super neat ones that add so much (and many with just minor tweaks if that's more your thing!)
"It is not too late for my mercy," Dagoth Ur says, stripped of his immortality, burning to death in the magma.
I believe that qualifies as the bargaining stage of grief.
Instead of the real plot of Morrowind, this is a story of a supposedly doomed world where the prophesied hero never came. So some random criminal decided "fuck that", collects the most powerful artifacts in all the land, uses them to kill two gods to save the world, and then dies of exhaustion from overexerting himself during the final battle. That goes so much harder than the actual plot lmao
Lmfao ikr
The thing is, this can be the real plot. JBN was the Nerevarine that just magically knew how to do it
scribs interrupt sleep but you dont actually have to kill them, theyre just checking on you
Aww, now I feel bad.
@@JustBackgroundNoise i had to watch the petting a scrib in vr video to learn, feel bad for all the innocent scribs i killed before then
@anonopossum idk ruining my sleep is punishable by violence so that's on them.
@@heszedjim9699 I can make some exceptions. My cat wakes me up more often than not, but he's a good boy so it's okay.
@@JustBackgroundNoiseScribs are just Morrowind's cats
I remember reading a fan theory once that the game giving you the persist in a doomed world message you get after killing vivec despite being able to still beat the game is just vivec using the last of his chim powers to try and manipulate the player into loading a save game and effectively reset reality to prevent his death
sure, by why do that for fargoth?
@@marcosdheleno nothing to do with Fargoth.
@@marcosdhelenofargoth is a chim user too
@@marcosdheleno Because Fargoth is the best waifu, duh
Actually, you can "beat" morrowind even without the jury-rigged wraithguard. If you have enough health, you can hotkey swap the dagger into your hand and out of your hand again and again to do all the necessary damage to the heart. You can also use a spear's knockback to just knock Dagoth Ur into the lava and not deal with him for the rest of the fight. I know this because it's how I beat Dagoth Ur on a TES3MP server lol.
Dagoth Ur is already precious, but imagining his amazing "I'm a god! How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence!" as a dozen veteran players, who collectively have centuries of experience in this masterpiece of a game, all wearing nothing but Colovian Fur Helms, troll the utter silt out of the greatest TES villain to ever exist in his own dungeon, all before spamming chat with "lol n'wah"...
...I mean, it probably didn't go that way, but it could've, and that's beautiful. Gotta love this game.
Theres even a more scuffed way to do it,first you get to the first town and buy lots of ingredients to make fortify inteligence potions,then you make fortify health potion,thats because the dagger doesnt techniccally kills you,it just removes a lot of hp,tho the downside of that method is that when the fortify health effect end you will die because your health will become negative
@@butelthomas2503 Assuming that you don't, as well, take time out of your coked-up alchemy session to create some busted health potions that negate the concern of missing health.
@@ryjelsum Oh nah thats just Morrowind Potions, they stack infinitely so you just chug INT bonuses, brew whatever you want, and get chugging your super drugs
@@ryjelsum different glitch afaik. You can use a Soul Trap on target spell with other effects on self and it’ll stick around
For anybody who didn't know: you can really easily get cheap training by making a damage skill spell and reducing your chosen skill to train to 0 for luke 1 or 2 seconds. Training to level 1 will always cost 1 gold, and will still add to your total whenever the skill resets. Makes grinding levels a lot easier without completely emptying your pockets and still guaranteeing you that +5 in whatever attribute you need. It also gets around the whole "You may not train a skill above its governing attribute" thing.
Holy shit this is BRILLIANT. Do you know if this works in Oblivion too?
@@Voromire1 It does. You can train for 0 gold. However in Oblivion you can only train 5 times per level (like in Skyrim).
at this point i would rather just install the garanteed 5x multiplier mod.
not saying the strategy isnt valid. but it does feel liek alot of trouble to ciscunvent the bad leveling design.
Keep these vids coming, you're filling a hole that formed after Micky D took a break for his health, feeding my addiction to Morrowind videos
Oh no! Is he alright ?
@@skeletonking4119 It's unclear at the moment precisely what's up with him, however I saw him in a Joov stream chat a recently so I hope he's alright
@@skeletonking4119 he still posts memes on twitter every few days, but yeah I think he posted a thing where he was talking about being chronically sick and was talking about a longtime hiatus
@@Ingaldre thank you sincerely for the information! All of you are awesome! Bless thee !
This is not the place I expected to see a micky d update but at least now I know😂
I was not prepared for how threatening the “you should run now” would be right off the bat
JBN: "Chance to block is based on this equation."
Also JBN: "I couldn't find the equation."
Why is this so funny?
I thought I saw the equation somewhere, but never bothered checking before I wrote and recorded. Oopsie.
Uesp has it
@@swssm4741Do you have a link for that? All I was able to find there was hit and evasion chance. It's possible that I was looking on the wrong page.
@@JustBackgroundNoise It's on the "Combat" page under the "Blocking" section. TH-cam obliterates links I think.
@@JustBackgroundNoise en uesp net/wiki/Morrowind:Combat#Blocking
Thats why I love Morrowind. I realized halfway through my first play I could just go up to Dagoth and win the game once I had enough HP to hold the tools for long enough.
Hey, your previous Morrowind video about Marksmanship is what got me to download and try the game again after bouncing off in the past. I've gotten farther than I ever have before(by which I mean I spoke to shirtless man and have killed at least one cliffracer.)
There's never just one cliff racer.
Rhaaa intensifies
@@JustBackgroundNoise*cliff racer duplication mod flashbacks*
Any mod that makes your hits more consistent is the most important mod i could recommend
@@TheRealRusDaddy tbh I think that ruins the balance of the game, but I think a mod that gave "hitmarkers" so that you have some feedback for hitting, even if you aren't always doing damage, would go a long way.
The sheer overflow of your fatigue bar is simply staggering. I always spent my time in Morrowind totally drained of fatigue, but you manage to always have more than enough! I can tell because it says so on the screen, and there's no way you could fake that.
So cool. I always wanted to do a “backdoor” run. I love that Morrowind made it possible to screw up your game and still finish the main quest. Such incredible roleplaying options.
The jury rigged wraithgaurd is left handed so you can use it with the real wraithgaurd at the same time.
When I was younger, the line "you should run now" terrified me as much as taking two steps outside of a city.
After watching nerbit and other creators such as him. I was hoping to find a channel that does morrowind challenges.
And I did! It is great to be here! I love your channel already
I hope Mitten Squad can return one day. He was the OG with some of the elements of this style of challenge video.
@@DanteTorn This REALLY didnt age well holy fuck
@@DanteTorn f*ck, this one hurts now.
@DanteTorn when I saw this comment I thought mittensquad may have been mentioned. Rip.
@@gamerin123d6 It;s not quite /mu/ jinxing Lemmy, but it's bad.
"You can also abuse alchemy, but that's for a different video."
I'll hold you to it, JBN.
All you need is Ash Yams and Bloat. I think the general store in Dagon Fel sells both.
1. Buy Ash Yams and Bloat.
2. Make Fortify Intelligence potions.
3. Drink potions.
4. Make more potions while under effect of previous potions.
5. Sell potions to anyone who will take them for more money.
6. Repeat.
It has a slow ramp up because it seems to work exponentially rather than flat boosts, but in about 20-30 minutes you're making potions nobody can afford, and they fortify intelligence by tens of thousands for hours.
@McAwesomePants feels reminiscent to skyrim fortify restoration loop
@@thatdumbguy2621 It is roughly the same, except in Skyrim you have the extra step of having to enchant gear with Fortify Enchant and then slowly snowballing your stats that way, because there is no simple "Fortify Intelligence" ingredients you can just plop into a potion. Still easy to break both games, though.
One thing i loved about morrowind is it had more than one way to complete the story and the only way you could make it nigh impossible to finish is by killing vivec and the fat dwarf before they give you wraithguard
And even then, if you have enough health and strong enough restore health potions, you can brute-force the mortal wounds from Sunder and Keening.
@@JustBackgroundNoise didn't know that
I'm grateful for this video. I've seen several sources talk about the "backpath" to the Morrowind main story but none of them actually went into detail on how to do it and I've also never been able to find a video of it. You've scratched a very long-standing curious itch.
17:14
Small correction, security can help with intelligence growth, but otherwise has no effect on security rolls itself.
The stat part of the calculation is Security + (Agility/5) + (Luck/10). The other 2 parts to success calculations is your tool quality (an easy multiplier) and fatigue (.75 multiplier to 1.25 multiplier depending on how full it is.)
Lastly, the final check is the difficulty, which subtracts, and gives us our final percentage chance of success.
Example, 40 security, 40 agility (8) and 40 luck (4)= 52. Multiply by a normal journeyman lockpick of 1.0, and obviously, full fatigue 1.25= 65. We are picking a difficulty 50 lock. 65-50=15% chance on every attempt. At zero fatigue instead, we would be getting a 'lock too complex' message, a 0 or below % chance of success.
A simple formula, obfuscated by the fact that this game is jank spaghetti at the best of times, and the mechanics are generally poorly explained, if not outright false information.
Thankfully, your stupid high agility more then makes up for any slight stat mismanagement. ;p
Man I love finding Morrowind content like this. It's such a cozy game and I love watching people play it in different ways.
2002 pureness, really charming
Typical Morrowind combat:
(basket sound)
(basket sound)
(basket sound)
(squelch)
(Hahhhhh 🙌)
When you have a hammer, every problem become a nail.
Me with my favorite glass warhammer in Skyrim lol
I've got a challenge that sounds impossible, but I've done it on console: bring Vivec and Dagoth Ur together at a neutral location to "parley" and/or just to decorate your crib.
ENemies don't use doors so I don't see your plan here.
@@DIEGhostfish *hint* you must convert them from an enemy to a follower at least temporarily; getting them through the door is the easy part, no exploit required, although you may need some artificially boosted stats given their level. The tricky part is getting Dagoth Ur out of Red Mountain, his sprite presents a unique challenge when exiting, that requires an exploit based on an understanding of how to get him to follow you in the first place...you have to think waaay outside the box, but it is possible.
Sounds crazy I love it.
@@SuperRayW couldnt you cast levitate on him?
@@marcosdheleno would it let him clip through a solid object? It's been a while, I honestly don't remember if that's a thing.
It actually pleases me a lot that you enjoy the elder scrolls as well as RS
So glad your doing more morrowind videos, I was worried the archery run would be a one off, thank you
"How can you kill a God? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
*literally 0.1 seconds later*
"STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
*5 seconds later while falling to his fiery death*
"Come, lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy."
If this was a legend to be told it would never be known the PC was the Nereverine. Just a crazy Redgaurd who wanted all powerful artifacts he could find.
"Lemme get this straight. The empire drops this guy off in Seyda Neen then a bunch of people in Balmora train him to kill not one, but TWO gods?"
You forgot to mention that he just dies to a heart attack after killing the second god
Thank you for adding official subtitles. It's so much better than auto-generated.
28:52 I like how the last known Dwemer is basically a redditor discord mod
You can actually beat Morrowind without wraith guard as long as you either fortify health enough to outlive the 1 hit with sunder and 4 with keening or just drink an absolutely obscene amount of healing potions. Drinking healing potions has a high chance of not working if you have lower amounts of HP though.
Edit: extra clarification I guess this could be considered alchemy exploits but this is possible with potions you can buy from merchants and still let's you actually finish the main quest and get the ring of azura as apposed to the just killing the heart of lorkhan after gaining like 2,000 strength or something
Sunder and Keening only do 50-125 damage per second. Half that damage is always fire related the other half is electrical so blocking out the damage is a trivial matter. Morrowind is balanced for around a level 15-20 character and once you pass that to around level 30 and beyond you are basically untouchable. So if you get to around level 50+ you can easily just tank the damage long enough to destroy the heart, I have done it all sorts of ways multiple times.
@@Salt-Upon-Woundss I'm well aware tanking the damage is possible as I've both just tanked the damage by having a lot of HP as well as chugged quality restore health potions to beat the game at level 1 with 50 hp. I however did not know that keening and sunders self damage was elemental damage so thanks for that info
This was uploaded almost an hour ago on a realtively small channel I probably would have never found myself and yet it already appeared on my recommended page.
Youtbe knows me well. This is a great video!
What a gem! Last time I played Morowind I wandered around aimlessly and eventualyl stumbled on that dungeon that has Skull Crusher in it and then suddently I was able to actually fight stuff; then I stumbled onto the quest to go to the dungeon later in the playthrough. Thats always an amusing feeling. Great video!
It's crazy how much you were missing despite swimming in all that fatigue.
dude this channel is something special, you have such a perfect cadence for voiceovers
"Vivec is kill" is pretty much every Morrowind playthrough I've had
always gotta shank that backstabbing bastard
"were u be when vivec is kill"
"I was in home eating ash yam when phone ring"
"Hello"
"......vivec is kill"
"No....."
The Morrowind back route is one of those things I think wouldn't be put into a big RPG game nowadays because it would be seen as wasted effort as something that people would never see (or that if they do see it they miss out on the material in the main story instead) and with budgets and development cycles as they are it wouldn't be seen as economical.
It's pretty cool though.
I'm surprised you didn't grab the daedric warhammer from Tukushapal. Its normally locked, but giving Matze to Ennbjof in Vivec gives you access to it. The only enemies at level one are easy to take on skeletons. It DOES require levitation to grab, but there are conveniently placed rising force potions right below the location with the weapon. Plus, you get the best unenchanted helmet in game, the Daedric Face of God.
I never used a shield unless I was using spells or 2 handed. Since you block automatically and the chance to block gets higher as you increase the skill you can potentially stun lock yourself. You can't do anything else while the block animation is happening and blocking doesn't negate all damage. I've died from chip damage because I couldn't stop blocking to attack. You do still get an armor bonus from equipping the shield (and any passive enchantments) even if you're using a 2 handed weapon or a spell so that's the only time I used shields.
You're wrong. Blocking does block all damage. Dying to chip damage could only happen with multiple attackers or a single enemy attacking faster than you can block. Also you do not actually get the armor rating while using a 2 handed weapon, it just says you do. Go read it in UESP if you don't believe me. Also you have a maximum of 50% chance to block so I highly doubt you could ever realistically get stun locked.
Neat little tip, stoneflower petals have restore strength as a primary effect, the chances of getting ingredients to give you their effect is based on alchemy skill and not amazing but the flowers are fairly light, free, and abundant in certain areas like around Lake Amaya and Caldera, even buying them from alchemists is cheap at 1 gold a piece.
I love the little details that you put in that could be easy to miss like when you were trying to kill the cliff racer and had text over the empty fatigue bar...that was hilarious and Iove finding these little things. This is quality content
24:10 A nostalgic tale i have involving Daedric armor
My dad probably had thousands of hours into Morrowind when he first introduced me to it. When i started my character is when he actually started trying to look for Daedric armor, because when he did find pieces, he didnt wear it as he would main light or medium armor in all his builds. This is when we discovered (with the help of that gigantic guide book) that Daedric pauldrons arent in the base game aside from the ones Divayth is wearing. Way later on i did manage to stumble across one when i was poking through a random cave in Solstheim but i dont think i ever found the other one.
literally never found or heard about that mine in years of playing this game, so awesome
"Hello Nerevar---wait. You're not the one I've foreseen in prophecy."
"Is that a problem?"
"You're not the one able to defeat me. Begone, intru---is that Sunder and Keening?!!? AND WRAITHGUARD!? HOW DID----when did!? How did YOU even SURVIVE"
"Don't care, I'ma smash your heart like I smashed your prophecy."
Kwama eggs are like if honey was both one of your only sources of food, and your country's major export. So you farm and maintain giant underground bees.
I wonder if the entire concept of kwama only exists to enable the "egg poachers" pun.
This is one of the best pieces of content I've seen in this platform recently. Great quality work, it was pleasant to watch. Congratulations.
I played so much Morrowind at release that I’m so excited to have new facts dropped on me. Went from playing the OG Xbox port, to the PC version with the updates/expansion packs. This was my favorite game ever along with Diablo II as a middle school kid. Brings back great memories. Love the content.
one of my favourite games of all time and i learned something new today
To make leveling up a bit harder, at character creation, I selected Luck as a favored attribute. At each level up, I put one point into luck. I maxed out luck by roughly level 50 or 51, without using the Bitter Cup (needed for a certain quest).
Harder? Luck is the most versatile attribute in the game you use it at least 90 % of the time
I like these challenges. Would highly recommend a major in conjuration or enchant, bound weapons help a lot with stuff outside your major skills.
You DEFINITELY need to make more morrowind videos!! These are the best
I have never played morrowind and in this video I don’t know what going on half the time but I enjoyed every minute of this
After reading through the script for the charging event you should 100% be able to simply cast fortify health 220 points and skip the entire leveling portion.
Thank u for always being there for me when i need to go to sleep sooner rather than later (respectfully
Just found your channel, really enjoying your content and casual, almost off the cuff humor mixed with breaking down systems. Very entertaining to listen to.
That adrenaline rush death bs confused me for hours as a kid on my first playthrough. Definitely learned to appreciate potions and healing magic that day lol
Oh, so I CAN whack that weird skooma addict in Balmora without worrying about it. That's comforting. He's always on about some group called the "Blades". I'm already in the fighters guild, I don't need another.
Please continue with morrowind and oblivion vidoes, Its awesome to have some content to watch on my childhood favourites
I like that every time you miss, my eyes automatically flick down to see a ludicrous amount of fatigue
Just found this channel. As a morrowind enjoyer I am so happy people still make these types of videos.
Favorite ways getting stacked at start: Doing a lot of the quests in seyda neen, sure, dont forget the axe in the stump by the watchtower :) then going to a few places (It's been a while since I played). 1. Certain farm you go up to the top floor near the owner & there was good loot. 2. Vivec, being able to get into the vaults was always sick. 3. I remember an ebony mine somewhere. 4. faze into ceilings of rooms near items you want to steal. 5. Clearing bandit caves and dwemer of coarse.
Correction: You can actually get any Daedric weapon by save farming any Daedric shrine. For example, there are I think four under the different waterways in Vivic. You can summon the Daedra by taking the offering before the statue. If the Daedric warrior doesn't have the weapon you want you can simply reload-farm until he has it (SAVE before taking the offering and reload until he has the desired wep) Another tip; You can also get billions of Gold and XP by taking advantage of the broken trap soul gem system. You can get your first from the table upstairs in the Mage Guild in Balmora, just use the shadow sign when character creating. Cheers!
I agree with your assessment of maxing out Endurance and perfectly leveling up too fast in this game. Every time I do that I end up putting the game away cause it starts to feel trivial.
Was playing Skyrim Nolvus with this as background noise® and wound up just watching the vid. Great video brother. Subbed
Yo, your videos are pretty awesome and a fresh breath for TES content for me. I wanted to play Morrowind since I really liked skyrim, and find some aspects of oblivion interesting.
My younger brothers and I completed the game without Wraithguard by alchemy cheese once. We'd lost the papers we were meant to give to Cassius but were absolutely determimed to beat the game with that character anyway.
I remember killing Vivec when I was a teenager lol. My younger brother still reminds me to this day. Not sure if this is what you do, but I leveled my destruction decently, got a ton of magic potions, and stood on the triangular platform in the middle of his room kiting him around it and shooting fireballs at him. Shit look like 3 hours no joke lol. Amd all you get is a glove with no special effects that's worth nothing.
When I was a kid and played this game I never did a single quest. I just ran around killing stuff. I really should play this again as an Adult and actually beat it.
Thanks for the content. I like your style. And it's Morrowind content!
Great content loving your channel
Idk why this game feels cozy. Reminds me of early WoW aswell, old school rpgs are the best
This is the perfect video I intend to use to introduce a friend, who's never played, to Morrowind. Thank you :)
14:00 You can type in RA in console to reset NPC positions in case someone clipped through the floor/fell off the stairs/is stuck in the door. The only downside is that it also resets position of any NPCs you moved through Command Humanoid spell
i really liked your previous mw video, i was just wrapping it up this morning. so this is a pleasant treat to wake up to
Droping a comment to support this Content. Love these Videos
18:18 I remember when I went down that cave before the quest and didn’t find the gloves until after I sent back again 20 hours or so. I remember just thinking I’ll double check the area and when I found these gloves. I was both ecstatic and angry because I am a hoarder and just play about 20 hours without these gloves
original morrowind content feels like christmas... oh wait... well it's an appropriate time i gues
“Excluding the warriors what a surprise”😂😂😂💀💀
I'd absolutely love to see more Morrowind content! I love osrs as much as the next guy, as I just got the shadow on leagues, now I'm hunting for the heart from these stupid hydras that only give me eternal gems :(. But either way, I don't see a lot of Morrowind content and I actually need to finish the game myself!
you videos are pretty cool, i like watching them even though i dont know anything about any of the games you play tbh also good sometimes when im tired asf i can just pass out, like your videos are good as just background noise too thats crazy
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Love these videos. As someone with only a passing interest in Morrowind its so interesting to see. Maybe i'll give it a shot
Damn the first time i played this game was on the original xbox in 2002. I've played the game tons of times since then never knew this. This is so awesome i love how deep the elder scrolls games are. Cheers
Top quality video dude. Very chill sense of humor. Subscribed!
I love your humour dude. Great video, this will be my playthrough if and when I ever play this.
For videos used as background noise I can't help but focus on listening to it throughout
After you killed that Cliffracer and rested, I am honestly shocked another one didn't pop up. I can never get a good nights sleep in Morrowind.
This makes me wanna play Morrowind, even though I've never played with
These morrowwind videos are neat to watch. Cool to see them getting so many views for you.
That personality joke caught me off guard. I was drinking a soda and almost had it come out nose. It's the little jokes that get me the most.
Just goes to show how far ahead of its time Morrowind was, and that beth regressed with each new game they released. If they actually would have embraced the strenghts of Morrowind they could have been the ones releasing something like bg3 instead of starfield.
This was a delight! More Morrowind challenges please!
26:05 its actually pronounced
"Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh-oh-oh
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?"
Ah damn, just like number 999... So close!