Maybe spending 3.5k on a skirt that casts a basic spell Jon could somewhat reliably cast himself (and level up illusion with,) wasn't the best financial decision.
@@ManyATrueNerd also not spoiling anything, but you can sell your expensive items to ONE person with more money than most so that when you need to sell something very expensive you can barter with items you sold previously. You lose too much money usually.
Well if nothing else having it for Enchantment Grinding and spamming uses of it to level up the skill isn't a horrible thing. Though I would have suggested to him just to use a Petty Soul Gem on a bit of Paper to make his own Light Scroll instead for something as niche as that (as well as building up his own Enchantment skill for making his own).
Without spoilerizing too much, Jon - there is a... Very secret trader somewhere in Caldera, that you could go on a special christmas-search for. He might just have the cash to actually buy some of those pricey items.
In Gnsis sits a man. Waiting in the river for days, watching the horizon for an Orc's return. Every day he prays to his ancestors that the Nix Hounds won't come for him that night. But just like the promise of new pants, his words go unheard. A chittering howl is heard in the distance.
@@Lowco5I want in, Brother! What's the initiation ritual? Murder a tailor, steal his collection of pants, and write "JUSTICE!" on the wall in his blood?
Dunmer traders have family stories about this one silly female orc from ages ago, who traded daedric artifacts for hammers and other utensils. They made fortunes and some of their descendants are now the most influential and rich people in Morrowind.
A word about balmoran silt strider guy - you can type "ra" (short for "reset actors") in console to make all NPCs move to their initial locations. Useful in more places than one.
Jon needs to go Merchant hunting. He can literally RECALL better merchants with more disposable cash AND hammers. Probably the best use of recall for Jon anyway.
I adore the "Ah, curate, take this mega warhammer and a ring and a belt, go kill a vampire lord" quest. It just goes so much harder than anything out of the fighters or mage's guild
Agree on fighters, but final mage q can be done peacefull way, or the hard way, player's choice, and hard way rewards some stuff that makes that hammer trivial. I kind of like that.
The reason the one vampire had so much stuff is because this is one of three hidden vampire factions for vampire characters. The Dwemer ruin therefore acted like a town and the smith was literally a Smith NPC trader who would sell and repair equipment. There were probably more chests for other trader NPCs as well in there. Although I have to admit I don't know which NPC does what because I've never done any of the vampire clans myself. Being a vampire in Morrowind is not fun.
There's 3 vampire clans that the player can join if they become a vampire. The player can only join the clan of the vampire that infected them. Each clan has it's own short quest. Only the mages guild, and a few select npcs, will talk to a vampire and many npcs (including quest essential npcs) will attack the player on site. You will destroy all 3 clans while progressing through the major factions.
House Telvanni will also deal with Vampires, not just the Mage's Guild. Expectedly, the Temple has the worst reaction adjustment to Vampires and pretty much every Temple NPC will try to hunt you down if you are in the same cell as them.
I am sure Galbedir is delighted from safeguarding your relics since you bring good name to the Balmora Mages guild. She might even got some money from organising guided tour for some of her new students. She would not mind even if you reset your recall directly to your stash when you become overuncumbered so you could unload even more relics :)
Galbedir doesn't mind Jon stashing his stuff 'cause he's the first player in Morrowind history that did the Balmora Mage's Guild quests and DIDN'T rob her blind. Eternal gratitude.
Veloth's Judgement is kind of weird because lore wise it was the personal weapon of Saint Veloth (think of him as the Moses to the Tribunal's Jesus). It should be one of the most sacred artefacts of the Temple, but they don't even give it to you as a reward. I mean, it's probably better off used slaughtering vampires instead of sitting in a shrine I guess. Also it was smart to keep that book, the Telvanni are very interested in it.
Jon please loot all the expensive stuff. You left the full set of orc armor and a Glass sparksword worth 17k on that guard. Constant effect enchantments, (say 24 strength on that amulet for example) cost anywhere between 60-80k each. You could have looted the guard and recalled back to Balmora and just dropped the stuff on the ground until you could sell it. The people of Balmora like you and would never touch your stuff.
Two notes about enchanting: 1: As you noticed, exquisite clothes / jewelry can hold a lot of enchantments. In fact, it has the highest enchantment capacity in that category, so save those items for your absolute best enchantments when you can finally enchant them. 2: Grand souls /= grand souls. While there are several creatures that can only be trapped in Grand soul gems, they still have different soul values. The highest value hold Golden Saints and certain sixth house creatures whose name I forgot. Those souls are also the only ones strong enough for constant enchantment effects, which makes them very valuable. Empty grand soul gems are also quite rare, so if you obtain one, try to save them until you encounter Golden Saints (they aren't particularly rare in higher level areas). So in conclusion: Golden Saint souls in exquisite jewelry/clothes = best enchanted equipment, though many artifacts will be better than anything you can enchant yourself.
It is easier to encounter 6th house's top brass for soul gems than golden saints. There are a lot of them including named leaders. If you see an enemy with several tentacles on the face they are the ones. Slow, magic-focused, 80000 worth of soul.
@@dmitriy9053 Golden Saints can be summoned, though. You can trap the souls of summoned creatures. There is one Telvanni spell merchant who sells a Summon Golden Saint spell, but casting it is pretty much impossible. Better solution is one of the guys in the Caldera Mages Guild, who sells and restocks a Summon Gold Saint scroll.
It may feel a little too expolit-y for you, Jon, but if you bribe a merchant up to 100 affinity, you can pretty easily scam them out of all of their money. They seem to naturally buy and sell items at the same price, but then you can barter up your sales and down your purchases so you can make a profit. Sell the same items back and forth until they have no money left. Then if you still want more money, you can wait 24 hours and do it again. Bonus points if you do this with an alchemist so you multiply their ingredients, then you can make unlimited potions.
The silt strider guy at 42:15 is a sign of a pretty common bug where NPC's move slightly during their idle animations. This can cause certain NPC's to basically wander off, get killed or phase through terrain, never to be seen again. Easy fix for it is just typing "ra" in the console commands. It will reset NPC's to their start positions. There are also mods that fix that bug so you don't need to rely on console commands.
2minutes in, and I am *CONVINCED* Jon is that jewel thief from Alfred's story in The Dark Knight! *"Some men, just want to watch the world burn."* Go merchant hunting Jon! *MERCHANTS ARE TREASURE!!!* It's like knowing the right people in real life, dude!
So one fun thing you can do with enchanting, you can add more than one effect. You can do, say, lightning damage 2-3 points of damage for 200 seconds, and calm humanoid 100%. They're no longer mad you attacked them, and lightning strikes them for 3 minutes 20 seconds. Useful and hilarious.
The reason the cattle hate you is because they are technically part of the vampire faction. Its like if you killed a bunch of Hlaalu folk, all their members wpuld hate you even if there was a weird example of someone in the faction not liking them
Don't become a vampire in Morrowind, especially not from a clan you just wiped out. Almost no NPC outside of the mages guild will talk to you, blocking you from almost every quest and faction as well as most services which includes most travel services.
You can just do the vampire questline and then go do the quest to get cured and then continue on with the game. It's not a huge deal and you miss out on content by not doing it.
Something to note about the cost of enchanting and the merchants never have enough gold for expensive stuff. If you purchase an enchantment, that is given to the enchanter, meaning if you can barter with that enchanter, they are now several thousand/tens of thousands of gold richer.
With this character's death the thread of a minor optional vampire faction is severed. Reload your previous save or persist in the only 2 mutually exclusive vampire factions world.
Damage [Ability] spell effects are really good. They permanently lower the enemy's stats! Drain [Ability] spells are pretty bad, though, because they just reduce an enemy's stats for the duration of the spell, after which their stats recover.
Jon, here's a tip about enchanting now that you're getting into it: you *can* make constant effect enchantment, but only with souls of 400 or more. Excluding Expansions (they weren't "DLC"), your options are Golden Saint souls and the squid-faced Sixth House monster - you'll know them when you see them. You might want to focus on those souls when you see them. Also, you can capture souls of summoned creatures. None of this the game tells you.
The game DOES actually tell you that you can capture summon souls. A telvanni wants a soul gem and tells you that you can just summon a monster and soul trap it. A lot of people don’t use it since they think it’s a glitch or an exploit, but the game tells you to do it so it’s not either of them! It’s working as intended!
On the loading screen it will sometimes say you can soul trap creatures you summon yourself. Also when you go to get your Telvanni house built the wizard says you can soul trap your own summons.
That's one reason I'm glad he went Apprentice - the partial resistance as an Orc would have given us a lot of dark travel scenes, rather then the objectively more hilarious top down navigation.
@14:20 - Easy solution to both your money woes and your tiny inventory capacity: Stop carrying around ingredients and just make sandwiches whenever you get a chance. :)
The good thing about enchanting gear is that you can throw all the high-priced weapons at the enchanter afterwards. Next to Galbadir in Balmora sits my pile of ebony and glass weaponry.
Best way to level your enchant skill is to make/use a weapon with the Soultrap enchantment on it, then use the trapped souls to recharge the weapon. Your enchant skill will level up very quickly that way. Best if you have Azura's Star for that, though. The higher your enchant skill, the more often you can use enchanted items before they will run out of charge.
well, there goes one potentiell faction you could have joined. yes, as others already mentioned, the berne are a potentiell faction you can join, if you get infected with vampirism by a berne vampire. though on a positive note, they are the the equivalent of the thieves guild among the vampire clans, so they wouldn't have been the best fit for you anyways.
Jon, Keep the Telvanni squid helm, please. It has THE HIGHEST ENCHANT value, so it'll actually be more useful in the future. Imagine a mega-death spell that you can fire machine gun fast, and then you switch helms when you get in close.
Been mentioned by several others, but if you press ~ it will open up the console command window. Using the RA command will reset all npc actors to their default positions letting your silt strider driver regain his platform. There is a large wardrobe downstairs by the bunk beds of the Mage's Guild. You can safely store your stuff in there if you start running out of space on Galbedir's carpet.
You could be soul trapping all the cliff racers, rats, etc you run into on the road and doing loads of petty gem enchantments to level up that skill. I believe there's even a restocking soul gem merchant at one of the Telvani towns, I think Tel Branora?
I wonder if he will ever find the two best traders (for selling). Hint: Both are creatures, one is located in a town, the other is located on an island to the south ( been around it but not on it v )
Should've called the skirt the "Kneeon Glow." In the afterlight, spending that gem and four grand on it might not have been that bright. The enchanting business in Morrowind is realy shady. Nevertheless, I'm beaming and it's the highlight of the episode so far. I'm sure it will be a lit fit for you. Really bringing light to fashion. LAMP
The reason they're slow to turn on you is because the game is doing a calculation of sorts in the background. I'm sure the fact that this specific coven of vampires has a faction name is of no relevance to that! Your enchant skill impacts both how fast it recharges and how much charge you use per swing.
Day 4 (11) of asking Jon to fulfill his oath to help old Hentus get his pants back. Eerie news have reached our ears. A poor Cassius Olcinius in Vivec has also been the victim of the so far false promises of heroism. Though no one has actually seen him, some have heard Aria promise to help him "next time". This doesn't bode well for Hentus and starts showing a worrying pattern. Happy holidays from the Justice and Pants for Hentus Association! May you all get your pants this year.
so im just wondering when hes gonna use the reset actor command to fix his npc moving issue. Hopefully before his entire playthrough is messed up so bad he cant even really play the game.
Open the console and type “ra” to reset the position of all npcs in the cell. Like when a strider box falls off their platform, which always happens eventually
Basically every time you load a cell, NPCs will shift a few pixels in one direction. This isn't a problem for moving NPCs: they just wander back to where they were anyway. For static NPCs like silt strider merchants; this can result in them falling off their platforms and potentially dying from fall damage. Other NPCs, like Ranis Athrys in the Balmora Mage's Guild, will get to the point where they completely obstruct your path because they end up in the middle of a narrow corridor and you can't manuever pass them without great effort.
Yeah, working for a Daedric lord, you don't need to fight fair, unless they actually demand it, of course. 😄 Can't wait to see what kind of enchanted weapons you might make! Glow in the dark skirt seems pretty cool.
John, you should consider combining different effects in a single spell, such as weakness to magic and paralysis. The weakness part only needs to be 1 second and the 2nd effect should continue to factor that in to its effect.
For a destruction spell, one of my go to spells is a high magnitude low duration drain health. Its useless to start a fight, but its super low cost and is great to finish someone off
You can create a spell with vulnerability to magic plus vulnerability to fire (both 100% for 1 second) plus fire damage over time. It can kill a flame atronach with fire. Pretty neat to one-shot pretty much anyone. Vulnerability to magic makes vulnerability to fire goes nuts to 200%, so you can chain it with previous vulnerability to magic spell making a target 400% more vulnerable to fire. Like in Oblivion it is overpowered. P.S. However in Morrowind many high-level enemies have absorb or deflect spells abilities, so... It is dangerous to use against them. In Oblivion only Xivilai has it I think.
Just like some trainers allow to trade back the money you spent on training, enchanters allow to trade back the money from enchanting. Top enchantments are so insanely expensive that, not only do you get the full value of a deadric weapon but you usually need multiple to pay for one enchantment. Also, only souls of golden saints, a high level variant of an enemy you haven't encountered yet and false gods are strong enough to make constant effect enchantments.
As for enchanting capacity - weapons and light armors have the lowest (barring several exceptions like certain staves and telvanni helms), medium armor has a bit more, heavy armor has a lot more, and exquisite clothing has the most capacity out of commonly available items in the game. There are only several unique items that have more capacity than an exquisite amulet, and some of them are only obtainable through unintended mechanics.
The best item is a big daedric shield (not a regular one). I think there is only one in the game. And the best enchantment for the warrior may be a sanctuary. Get a sanctuary 1-max possible on constant effect, then equip-unequip until you get higher value. You can have 150-200 sanctuary so only one very lucky wood elf would be able to hit you. Or magic.
@@Slithy I did not spoil the location anyway. And he knows about sanctuary. So, what is the problem? Only the mechanic of random application of value using constant effects items in the game? Which may not work depending on the mods configuration.
Marry Christmas MATN fam, thank you so much for being a bright light in a very dark year for my little family, words cannot express how much comfort you, and the community, have brought in very hard times. May 2025 be filled with love, laughter, and joy, for you all!
Enchanting and leveling magic skills; You will need to compromise. Using enchantments gives you a little enchanting experience with every use, so it is the best way to get your early enchanting levels. It does come at the cost of SOME spellcasting experience.
Merry Christmas, Jon! If you'd like to get the Balmora silt strider operator back on his platform, the console command 'ra' will invoke the Wrath of Ra and reset his position (it actually stands for Reset Actors but ssshhh)
Merry Christmas or as we say in Germany "Frohe Weihnachten!" Hope everyone is doing well and having a good Time and most importantly good Food! Also "Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr" (in english: Have a good Slide into the new Year) as we say in Germany, don't know if there is an English Equivalent! I'll be starting to watch the Morrowind Series from Part 1 now that i got Time, i expect only the most "Jon Moments" as usual! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps and Merry Christmas again everyone!
The reason you keep "accidentally" equipping sub-par enchanted items is because you hit "next spell" and the game doesn't differentiate between spells and enchanted items with on-cast effects. I would suggest avoiding that now that you have enough constant-effect items it's become a hassle.
Enchanting is best to level up by recharging items with crappy soul gems with rat souls or something, it's way easier than trying to make enchanted gear with low skill level. Otherwise you can use a huge soul gem with a huge soul to put a 1pt cost enchant of any kind on an item and just spam it whenever you run around doing nothing. It gives a miniscule amount of enchant XP on each use. Recharging items is the way to go if you purposely want to significantly level it up without paying a fortune to trainers though.
You can only train enchant to 63 in the game. If you do not know one trick with a certain mage who would attack you if you got less than 100 points in relationship with him. And he is behind a magical trap door with some nasty daedra. And without getting high-ranked in mages' guild you can have enchant up to 48 I think. You can create cheap items or scrolls with some paper in the game to level enchantment better than recharging items I think.
Now youre beginning to look at the enchanting system, it might be worth mentioning that Golden Saint souls are powerful enough to create constant effect enchantments, should you be able to afford them or succeed them. You can soul trap daedra you summon, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Focus your first enchanted items on utility magic like water walking or breathing. Rings and robes will recharge in places where magicka wont because its illegal to rest. So finding hidden objects in hard to reach places should be what you focus on doing with the first set of enchanted gear. Levitation is also a must as finding, buying and reliably using levitate potions or scrolls can be a nightmare. Potions can end up eating carry weight and most consumables seem to have very short durations anyway. An enchanted ring of levitate can give 10 to 20 points of levitate for 60 seconds 12 times in a row in exchange for 1/2 unit of weight and about 3,500 gold depending on disposition of vendor. That also means you can then sell all your utility potions and scrolls which should net enough to enchant something else. Soultrap on a ring is also OP and will let you snowball IF you have the money to keep having things enchanted. You dont know when youll find a golden saint or other high level soul and relying on cast magic mid-fight against the hardest enemy types can be a problem. So, anything you do for support, travel, exploring, or any other utility needs a lightweight enchanted item to fill that need. Once those needs are covered THEN you start weapon shopping in daedric ruins and hopping mages guild to find damge effects you like. Same kind of thing for armor. Use enchanting to save money, use that freed up money to enchant more, repeat, become a god. Thats the game
Good god Jon! Learn to use the guild guide in the mages guild. You could have spent 10 gold to teleport from balmora to sadrith mora. Instead you spend over 40 on silt strider and boat rides.
Jon gets told a story about how a famous hero's deeds were actually done by an orcish companion. Meets his descendent and immediately assumes he must be legit, despite him also having two companions, one of which is wearing Orcish armour. No symbolism in that armour at all!
Maybe spending 3.5k on a skirt that casts a basic spell Jon could somewhat reliably cast himself (and level up illusion with,) wasn't the best financial decision.
Well when you put it that way...
@@ManyATrueNerd also not spoiling anything, but you can sell your expensive items to ONE person with more money than most so that when you need to sell something very expensive you can barter with items you sold previously. You lose too much money usually.
Well if nothing else having it for Enchantment Grinding and spamming uses of it to level up the skill isn't a horrible thing.
Though I would have suggested to him just to use a Petty Soul Gem on a bit of Paper to make his own Light Scroll instead for something as niche as that (as well as building up his own Enchantment skill for making his own).
Without spoilerizing too much, Jon - there is a... Very secret trader somewhere in Caldera, that you could go on a special christmas-search for. He might just have the cash to actually buy some of those pricey items.
It wouldn't be Jon if he wouldn't do the worst choices on a regular basis.
In case you didn't know, you can shift click a spell to delete it from your list if its starting to get cluttered
Boost!
Genuinely helpful!
This is a great tip, I was just thinking it was starting to look cumbersome and wondered whether there was a solution or mod to help!
In Gnsis sits a man. Waiting in the river for days, watching the horizon for an Orc's return. Every day he prays to his ancestors that the Nix Hounds won't come for him that night. But just like the promise of new pants, his words go unheard. A chittering howl is heard in the distance.
Have you heard of the "Justice and Pants for Hentus Association"? You're welcome to join our ranks. For justice!!
I pray for those nixhounds.
By this time Hentus is more algae than man!
@@Lowco5I want in, Brother!
What's the initiation ritual? Murder a tailor, steal his collection of pants, and write "JUSTICE!" on the wall in his blood?
@@etherraichu Justice (and pants)!
Dunmer traders have family stories about this one silly female orc from ages ago, who traded daedric artifacts for hammers and other utensils. They made fortunes and some of their descendants are now the most influential and rich people in Morrowind.
I love how Jon calles the women sir and the men madam every episode at least one
Assigned gender by Jon.
Can't wait for Jon to still be using the spell cycle hotkeys in end game and die from unequipping Wraithguard.
F1 to create key binds right? Hopefully we can remind him 😜
A word about balmoran silt strider guy - you can type "ra" (short for "reset actors") in console to make all NPCs move to their initial locations. Useful in more places than one.
Jon needs to go Merchant hunting. He can literally RECALL better merchants with more disposable cash AND hammers.
Probably the best use of recall for Jon anyway.
0 perception, 5 second memory
Merry Chimer-istmas, everybody!
Three netch hens
Two hortators
And and a Nerevar in a fun-gi
FIIIIVE CLIFF RACERS!
Fo-our slaughterfish!
Three red dreugh!
Two-oo cliff racers!
And a cliff racer in a dead tree!
A Merry CHIM-mas to you too, Sir!
I adore the "Ah, curate, take this mega warhammer and a ring and a belt, go kill a vampire lord" quest. It just goes so much harder than anything out of the fighters or mage's guild
It's so cool, I didn't do the temple my first few characters and when I finally got to this quest it was so metal
Agree on fighters, but final mage q can be done peacefull way, or the hard way, player's choice, and hard way rewards some stuff that makes that hammer trivial. I kind of like that.
@@varthaner4617 In reality, everyone's gonna get felonius with Trebonius
The reason the one vampire had so much stuff is because this is one of three hidden vampire factions for vampire characters. The Dwemer ruin therefore acted like a town and the smith was literally a Smith NPC trader who would sell and repair equipment. There were probably more chests for other trader NPCs as well in there.
Although I have to admit I don't know which NPC does what because I've never done any of the vampire clans myself. Being a vampire in Morrowind is not fun.
There's 3 vampire clans that the player can join if they become a vampire. The player can only join the clan of the vampire that infected them. Each clan has it's own short quest. Only the mages guild, and a few select npcs, will talk to a vampire and many npcs (including quest essential npcs) will attack the player on site.
You will destroy all 3 clans while progressing through the major factions.
House Telvanni will also deal with Vampires, not just the Mage's Guild. Expectedly, the Temple has the worst reaction adjustment to Vampires and pretty much every Temple NPC will try to hunt you down if you are in the same cell as them.
@Vizorgz Forgot about house Telvanni but I think they might only offer services to house members.
Mages guild will let you do some of their quest.
22:35 I love how Jon kindly greets EVERY scrib since he found out... you know... after what he had done to the others...
I am sure Galbedir is delighted from safeguarding your relics since you bring good name to the Balmora Mages guild. She might even got some money from organising guided tour for some of her new students. She would not mind even if you reset your recall directly to your stash when you become overuncumbered so you could unload even more relics :)
Boost!
What a delightful idea!
It's kinda funny that he isn't moving his mark there even though being over encumbered is the reason why he keeps coming back to Balmora.
Galbedir doesn't mind Jon stashing his stuff 'cause he's the first player in Morrowind history that did the Balmora Mage's Guild quests and DIDN'T rob her blind.
Eternal gratitude.
Veloth's Judgement is kind of weird because lore wise it was the personal weapon of Saint Veloth (think of him as the Moses to the Tribunal's Jesus). It should be one of the most sacred artefacts of the Temple, but they don't even give it to you as a reward. I mean, it's probably better off used slaughtering vampires instead of sitting in a shrine I guess.
Also it was smart to keep that book, the Telvanni are very interested in it.
Jon please loot all the expensive stuff. You left the full set of orc armor and a Glass sparksword worth 17k on that guard. Constant effect enchantments, (say 24 strength on that amulet for example) cost anywhere between 60-80k each. You could have looted the guard and recalled back to Balmora and just dropped the stuff on the ground until you could sell it. The people of Balmora like you and would never touch your stuff.
He's so frustrating. I think he's purposely trying to limit how much money he has
@@Carahloporra Honestly that's not a terrible thing. Morrowind, if you're experienced with it, kind of just gives away money like candy.
@@AyaKho yeah but you gotta sell to creeper or the mud crab if you even want full value of something, wouldn't call that like candy
@@Carahloporra Yea and I deliberately avoid them for that reason. Money still comes extraordinarily easy without them.
@@AyaKho no it doesn't lol, look at how broke he is as proof
Two notes about enchanting:
1: As you noticed, exquisite clothes / jewelry can hold a lot of enchantments. In fact, it has the highest enchantment capacity in that category, so save those items for your absolute best enchantments when you can finally enchant them.
2: Grand souls /= grand souls. While there are several creatures that can only be trapped in Grand soul gems, they still have different soul values. The highest value hold Golden Saints and certain sixth house creatures whose name I forgot. Those souls are also the only ones strong enough for constant enchantment effects, which makes them very valuable. Empty grand soul gems are also quite rare, so if you obtain one, try to save them until you encounter Golden Saints (they aren't particularly rare in higher level areas).
So in conclusion: Golden Saint souls in exquisite jewelry/clothes = best enchanted equipment, though many artifacts will be better than anything you can enchant yourself.
It is easier to encounter 6th house's top brass for soul gems than golden saints. There are a lot of them including named leaders. If you see an enemy with several tentacles on the face they are the ones. Slow, magic-focused, 80000 worth of soul.
@@dmitriy9053 Golden Saints can be summoned, though. You can trap the souls of summoned creatures. There is one Telvanni spell merchant who sells a Summon Golden Saint spell, but casting it is pretty much impossible. Better solution is one of the guys in the Caldera Mages Guild, who sells and restocks a Summon Gold Saint scroll.
The rate at which these episodes are coming out is much appreciated! Merry Christmas, Jon 🤍
It may feel a little too expolit-y for you, Jon, but if you bribe a merchant up to 100 affinity, you can pretty easily scam them out of all of their money. They seem to naturally buy and sell items at the same price, but then you can barter up your sales and down your purchases so you can make a profit. Sell the same items back and forth until they have no money left. Then if you still want more money, you can wait 24 hours and do it again. Bonus points if you do this with an alchemist so you multiply their ingredients, then you can make unlimited potions.
I don't think Malacath would be so impressed if he heard Jon calling him Malekith!
Probably would like it better than when he realized what Dagoth UR meant by "hold on I gotta go take a malacath real quick"
The light spell from your skirt did actually help quite a lot with visibility indoors
Another Morrowind video is the perfect way to celebrate Christmas
Jon is absolutely the most entertaining youtube gamer; I'm so glad I found his channel during the pandemic. 聖誕節快樂 (Merry Christmas) from Taiwan!
The silt strider guy at 42:15 is a sign of a pretty common bug where NPC's move slightly during their idle animations. This can cause certain NPC's to basically wander off, get killed or phase through terrain, never to be seen again.
Easy fix for it is just typing "ra" in the console commands. It will reset NPC's to their start positions. There are also mods that fix that bug so you don't need to rely on console commands.
2minutes in, and I am *CONVINCED* Jon is that jewel thief from Alfred's story in The Dark Knight!
*"Some men, just want to watch the world burn."*
Go merchant hunting Jon! *MERCHANTS ARE TREASURE!!!* It's like knowing the right people in real life, dude!
So one fun thing you can do with enchanting, you can add more than one effect. You can do, say, lightning damage 2-3 points of damage for 200 seconds, and calm humanoid 100%. They're no longer mad you attacked them, and lightning strikes them for 3 minutes 20 seconds. Useful and hilarious.
I'm dubbing Jon's new weapon:
*"THE EVIL HAMMER...*
*...OF HAMMERING EVIL!"*
I love that Aria is now literally flashing people with her skirt.
The reason the cattle hate you is because they are technically part of the vampire faction. Its like if you killed a bunch of Hlaalu folk, all their members wpuld hate you even if there was a weird example of someone in the faction not liking them
The person who gives you quests in the Molag Mar temple is a man Jon. Your 0 Perception is incredible 😹
Don't become a vampire in Morrowind, especially not from a clan you just wiped out. Almost no NPC outside of the mages guild will talk to you, blocking you from almost every quest and faction as well as most services which includes most travel services.
You can just do the vampire questline and then go do the quest to get cured and then continue on with the game. It's not a huge deal and you miss out on content by not doing it.
"...and ensured there will be no more to follow"
Except that fighters guild guy in Cyrodill, Modryn. 😆
Something to note about the cost of enchanting and the merchants never have enough gold for expensive stuff. If you purchase an enchantment, that is given to the enchanter, meaning if you can barter with that enchanter, they are now several thousand/tens of thousands of gold richer.
With this character's death the thread of a minor optional vampire faction is severed. Reload your previous save or persist in the only 2 mutually exclusive vampire factions world.
Aundae's the only one worth anything, so it's no great loss.
Jon is carrying at least 40 weight in alchemical apparatus alone. Plus, random ingredients.
Orcish armor is sooooo much stylysh-eh-...er... I bet Orcs are so amazing at armory, their works look good with whatever you pair it with
Damage [Ability] spell effects are really good. They permanently lower the enemy's stats! Drain [Ability] spells are pretty bad, though, because they just reduce an enemy's stats for the duration of the spell, after which their stats recover.
Jon, here's a tip about enchanting now that you're getting into it: you *can* make constant effect enchantment, but only with souls of 400 or more. Excluding Expansions (they weren't "DLC"), your options are Golden Saint souls and the squid-faced Sixth House monster - you'll know them when you see them.
You might want to focus on those souls when you see them. Also, you can capture souls of summoned creatures. None of this the game tells you.
The game DOES actually tell you that you can capture summon souls. A telvanni wants a soul gem and tells you that you can just summon a monster and soul trap it. A lot of people don’t use it since they think it’s a glitch or an exploit, but the game tells you to do it so it’s not either of them! It’s working as intended!
On the loading screen it will sometimes say you can soul trap creatures you summon yourself. Also when you go to get your Telvanni house built the wizard says you can soul trap your own summons.
Boost!
Also... "Touch" does not equal *ON HIT.*
Jon's probably gonna learn that the hard way, like Mme, 🤦♀️
So did anyone else notice that Jon made a skirt that makes him fart light?
He farts, and things light up.
Never change. XD
Without ruining anything, I hope; there is a way to.... resist the negative effects of the boots of blinding speed.
That's one reason I'm glad he went Apprentice - the partial resistance as an Orc would have given us a lot of dark travel scenes, rather then the objectively more hilarious top down navigation.
I’m convinced at this point it’s a bit. People have commented on how to mitigate that
Uhhh I get what you mean now! Indeed, yes, indeed, that would be useful for him!
@14:20 - Easy solution to both your money woes and your tiny inventory capacity: Stop carrying around ingredients and just make sandwiches whenever you get a chance. :)
The good thing about enchanting gear is that you can throw all the high-priced weapons at the enchanter afterwards. Next to Galbadir in Balmora sits my pile of ebony and glass weaponry.
Jon if you become a vampire almost every npc in the game will refuse to talk to you and many(including essential npcs) will attack you on site.
Best way to level your enchant skill is to make/use a weapon with the Soultrap enchantment on it, then use the trapped souls to recharge the weapon. Your enchant skill will level up very quickly that way. Best if you have Azura's Star for that, though. The higher your enchant skill, the more often you can use enchanted items before they will run out of charge.
well, there goes one potentiell faction you could have joined. yes, as others already mentioned, the berne are a potentiell faction you can join, if you get infected with vampirism by a berne vampire. though on a positive note, they are the the equivalent of the thieves guild among the vampire clans, so they wouldn't have been the best fit for you anyways.
Merry Christmas, everyone 🎉
Gleðileg jól ljúfurinn.
¡Feliz navidad!
Happy Holidays to you!
Glædelig jul
Jon,
Keep the Telvanni squid helm, please. It has THE HIGHEST ENCHANT value, so it'll actually be more useful in the future.
Imagine a mega-death spell that you can fire machine gun fast, and then you switch helms when you get in close.
Been mentioned by several others, but if you press ~ it will open up the console command window. Using the RA command will reset all npc actors to their default positions letting your silt strider driver regain his platform. There is a large wardrobe downstairs by the bunk beds of the Mage's Guild. You can safely store your stuff in there if you start running out of space on Galbedir's carpet.
F1 to create shortcut keys. Loving the series
You could be soul trapping all the cliff racers, rats, etc you run into on the road and doing loads of petty gem enchantments to level up that skill. I believe there's even a restocking soul gem merchant at one of the Telvani towns, I think Tel Branora?
I wonder if he will ever find the two best traders (for selling). Hint: Both are creatures, one is located in a town, the other is located on an island to the south ( been around it but not on it v )
Merry Christmas Jon, Claire and the fur babies! I hope you all have a wonderful day
Merry Christmas to them and yourself, friend! 🎁
I'm halfway through, and Jon is killing vampires - I hope he figures out the dispel spell!!!
Should've called the skirt the "Kneeon Glow."
In the afterlight, spending that gem and four grand on it might not have been that bright. The enchanting business in Morrowind is realy shady.
Nevertheless, I'm beaming and it's the highlight of the episode so far.
I'm sure it will be a lit fit for you. Really bringing light to fashion.
LAMP
Missed opportunity not to call the strongest "open" spell, Open says me.
Ha! Good one! 😁
The reason they're slow to turn on you is because the game is doing a calculation of sorts in the background. I'm sure the fact that this specific coven of vampires has a faction name is of no relevance to that! Your enchant skill impacts both how fast it recharges and how much charge you use per swing.
Morry-Windmass chat and Jon
I love how Jon is still adamantly ignoring the mage guild guide system.
23 episodes in and I think Its finally time
In a house full of orcs in caldera, there is a merchant that may be of particular use to you Jon
why? let him suffer and find his own way.
that helmet I grab in almost every playthrough. it is so strong.
Day 4 (11) of asking Jon to fulfill his oath to help old Hentus get his pants back.
Eerie news have reached our ears. A poor Cassius Olcinius in Vivec has also been the victim of the so far false promises of heroism. Though no one has actually seen him, some have heard Aria promise to help him "next time". This doesn't bode well for Hentus and starts showing a worrying pattern.
Happy holidays from the Justice and Pants for Hentus Association! May you all get your pants this year.
Justice! Justice for their nethers!
We demand pants and blankets for our cold bits n pieces!
waiting for john to learn that he can cast resist magica before putting on the boots so he could see where he going while wearing them....
I hope jon doesn’t find and misplace the plans he needs from that Dwemer ruin for his mushroom house
The series goes hard man! 😁👍
so im just wondering when hes gonna use the reset actor command to fix his npc moving issue. Hopefully before his entire playthrough is messed up so bad he cant even really play the game.
Could you explain for all of us with 0 perception just like jon?
@@Palaquack59reset actor will move the npc back to their initial spawn point on top of the platform.
Open the console and type “ra” to reset the position of all npcs in the cell. Like when a strider box falls off their platform, which always happens eventually
Basically every time you load a cell, NPCs will shift a few pixels in one direction. This isn't a problem for moving NPCs: they just wander back to where they were anyway. For static NPCs like silt strider merchants; this can result in them falling off their platforms and potentially dying from fall damage. Other NPCs, like Ranis Athrys in the Balmora Mage's Guild, will get to the point where they completely obstruct your path because they end up in the middle of a narrow corridor and you can't manuever pass them without great effort.
@@Vizorgz they can also clip through the world
1/4 century later the Balmora travel dude still twitches off the podium 🤣🤌
The strongest of souls can provide constant enchantments for your gear.
Yeah, working for a Daedric lord, you don't need to fight fair, unless they actually demand it, of course. 😄 Can't wait to see what kind of enchanted weapons you might make! Glow in the dark skirt seems pretty cool.
John, you should consider combining different effects in a single spell, such as weakness to magic and paralysis. The weakness part only needs to be 1 second and the 2nd effect should continue to factor that in to its effect.
For a destruction spell, one of my go to spells is a high magnitude low duration drain health. Its useless to start a fight, but its super low cost and is great to finish someone off
You can create a spell with vulnerability to magic plus vulnerability to fire (both 100% for 1 second) plus fire damage over time. It can kill a flame atronach with fire. Pretty neat to one-shot pretty much anyone. Vulnerability to magic makes vulnerability to fire goes nuts to 200%, so you can chain it with previous vulnerability to magic spell making a target 400% more vulnerable to fire. Like in Oblivion it is overpowered.
P.S. However in Morrowind many high-level enemies have absorb or deflect spells abilities, so... It is dangerous to use against them. In Oblivion only Xivilai has it I think.
Just like some trainers allow to trade back the money you spent on training, enchanters allow to trade back the money from enchanting. Top enchantments are so insanely expensive that, not only do you get the full value of a deadric weapon but you usually need multiple to pay for one enchantment. Also, only souls of golden saints, a high level variant of an enemy you haven't encountered yet and false gods are strong enough to make constant effect enchantments.
Here Comes The Puns.
As for enchanting capacity - weapons and light armors have the lowest (barring several exceptions like certain staves and telvanni helms), medium armor has a bit more, heavy armor has a lot more, and exquisite clothing has the most capacity out of commonly available items in the game. There are only several unique items that have more capacity than an exquisite amulet, and some of them are only obtainable through unintended mechanics.
The best item is a big daedric shield (not a regular one). I think there is only one in the game. And the best enchantment for the warrior may be a sanctuary. Get a sanctuary 1-max possible on constant effect, then equip-unequip until you get higher value. You can have 150-200 sanctuary so only one very lucky wood elf would be able to hit you. Or magic.
@@dmitriy9053 do not spoil stuff like that please
@@Slithy I did not spoil the location anyway. And he knows about sanctuary. So, what is the problem? Only the mechanic of random application of value using constant effects items in the game? Which may not work depending on the mods configuration.
Marry Christmas MATN fam, thank you so much for being a bright light in a very dark year for my little family, words cannot express how much comfort you, and the community, have brought in very hard times. May 2025 be filled with love, laughter, and joy, for you all!
has no one warned this man about the absolute horror of overflow loot bags?!?
one of the "cattle" had an extra topic to ask about, tho I can't remember if it actually does anything
Enchanting and leveling magic skills; You will need to compromise. Using enchantments gives you a little enchanting experience with every use, so it is the best way to get your early enchanting levels. It does come at the cost of SOME spellcasting experience.
There are chests in the fighters guild that you can store non-essential items in.
(Among other locations in Balmora).
I didn't know the Temple just said "go kill the Berne vampire's HQ."
Yeah like....that's an insane ask.
Merry Christmas, Jon! If you'd like to get the Balmora silt strider operator back on his platform, the console command 'ra' will invoke the Wrath of Ra and reset his position (it actually stands for Reset Actors but ssshhh)
Merry Christmas or as we say in Germany "Frohe Weihnachten!" Hope everyone is doing well and having a good Time and most importantly good Food!
Also "Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr" (in english: Have a good Slide into the new Year) as we say in Germany, don't know if there is an English Equivalent!
I'll be starting to watch the Morrowind Series from Part 1 now that i got Time, i expect only the most "Jon Moments" as usual!
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps and Merry Christmas again everyone!
Silly question from the peanut gallery: Jon, why don’t you use the chest that is right next to your stuff on the floor?!?
In Oblivion he put a bunch of stuff in a crate and it despawned, he's not going to do that again.
its hilarious that they hide vampirism behind a buff
that rabbid in ant man must have had pretty cooking enchantments
Please experiment with the Enchant menu's bottom left button because if you don't already know about it I won't want to spoil the fun.
Congratulations on finding the best helmet in the game
Lovely way to spend an hour at Christmas this is, merry Christmas to you all :)
Happy Christmas MATN!
The reason you keep "accidentally" equipping sub-par enchanted items is because you hit "next spell" and the game doesn't differentiate between spells and enchanted items with on-cast effects. I would suggest avoiding that now that you have enough constant-effect items it's become a hassle.
Jon, please go back to Caldera. There's someone there with lots of gold to sell your things.
Enchanting is best to level up by recharging items with crappy soul gems with rat souls or something, it's way easier than trying to make enchanted gear with low skill level. Otherwise you can use a huge soul gem with a huge soul to put a 1pt cost enchant of any kind on an item and just spam it whenever you run around doing nothing. It gives a miniscule amount of enchant XP on each use. Recharging items is the way to go if you purposely want to significantly level it up without paying a fortune to trainers though.
You can only train enchant to 63 in the game. If you do not know one trick with a certain mage who would attack you if you got less than 100 points in relationship with him. And he is behind a magical trap door with some nasty daedra. And without getting high-ranked in mages' guild you can have enchant up to 48 I think.
You can create cheap items or scrolls with some paper in the game to level enchantment better than recharging items I think.
@@dmitriy9053 Recharging is faster. Also people in comments usually know a lot about this game, so make sure to not spoil anything to Jon
Now youre beginning to look at the enchanting system, it might be worth mentioning that Golden Saint souls are powerful enough to create constant effect enchantments, should you be able to afford them or succeed them. You can soul trap daedra you summon, nudge nudge, wink wink.
uvirith's grave - what a worthless and underwhelming dump, hehe
Jon you’re the best!!
Lord Marrakesh has been very generalisimus.
Hey, Jon, take a close look at your spell list. See if there's anything there that you don't recognize.
Focus your first enchanted items on utility magic like water walking or breathing. Rings and robes will recharge in places where magicka wont because its illegal to rest. So finding hidden objects in hard to reach places should be what you focus on doing with the first set of enchanted gear. Levitation is also a must as finding, buying and reliably using levitate potions or scrolls can be a nightmare. Potions can end up eating carry weight and most consumables seem to have very short durations anyway.
An enchanted ring of levitate can give 10 to 20 points of levitate for 60 seconds 12 times in a row in exchange for 1/2 unit of weight and about 3,500 gold depending on disposition of vendor.
That also means you can then sell all your utility potions and scrolls which should net enough to enchant something else.
Soultrap on a ring is also OP and will let you snowball IF you have the money to keep having things enchanted. You dont know when youll find a golden saint or other high level soul and relying on cast magic mid-fight against the hardest enemy types can be a problem.
So, anything you do for support, travel, exploring, or any other utility needs a lightweight enchanted item to fill that need. Once those needs are covered THEN you start weapon shopping in daedric ruins and hopping mages guild to find damge effects you like. Same kind of thing for armor.
Use enchanting to save money, use that freed up money to enchant more, repeat, become a god. Thats the game
Don't know when you will find a Golden Saint? He literally summoned one in this vid......
Merry Christmas, Jon, Claire, and Sir Fluffy Friend!
🎁🌲🎁. 🇬🇧♥️🇨🇵
Good god Jon! Learn to use the guild guide in the mages guild. You could have spent 10 gold to teleport from balmora to sadrith mora. Instead you spend over 40 on silt strider and boat rides.
Jon gets told a story about how a famous hero's deeds were actually done by an orcish companion. Meets his descendent and immediately assumes he must be legit, despite him also having two companions, one of which is wearing Orcish armour. No symbolism in that armour at all!
29:39... I'm sorry, but does that say Horny Fist Bracer?