I think I make up a very small demographic of your channel, but this is exactly the kind of thing I'm subbed for. I usually only get to see one of these types of videos once year but it's worth the wait. I really like the elder scrolls as well as your detailed explanations of how the game's systems work. ☺️
Elder Scrolls videos are actually my most watched content. Very evergreen. Haven't done much Morrowind, but I might do more. There's so much to this game, even 20 years later I find new things.
I always use Speech craft and merchantile for minor skills to get my personality. Helps a lot early game with getting good sales and fast to level too can easily drain all vendors of their cash especially with the Dark brotherhood giving you essentially free loot to sell.
While major and minor skills go to your level up, misc. do affect your affect your stat multiplier. So training up a misc. skill with a trainer in town before level is also a good trick if you have the money.
9:26 the attributes that get increased up with level up depend on what skills are trained. I train 3 different endurance skills (heavy armour, medium armour, and spear)by 1 each to increase endurance to 100. After that I might do strength.
Holy shit 28 minutes!? When is this guy gonna get to the point? 28 minutes later: Booting up Morrowind because I now understand WHY my first character was royally fucked and could explain it in sign language to a deaf toddler while in freefall.
When I was a kid I was always start with the Beton, now I always go with the Red guard because of adrenaline rush. Gaining a large magicka pool is pretty easy mid game.
You want to go 5/5/1 while levelling. Always put a point into luck. Otherwise you'll later find out you dont have enough level ups left to max that final attribute out.
You can just drop mp3s in the music folders and the game will play them. I put in the files from the other games. You could add in ESO too if you want.
From a QOL game play standpoint i would say speed or agility should be the second attribute as it determines your movement which is abysmally slow in the beginning or your hit chance among other things. Luck can be increased each level and flows in fine if not chosen.
That's a good point because you do start out at mega slow speed in Morrowind. It's worse if you wear heavy armor. You also will end up with low stamina from running everywhere, and stamina even controls chance for spells to hit. Another benefit of rolling Breton is that you can get the boots of blinding speed early on and they won't blind you! Then you really don't have to worry about your speed. I like luck at level 1 though because it has the biggest effect on everything and it's just not as good when you're high level compared to any other stat.
@@DVSPress My most recent play through was with an Atronach Breaton. With a few items its easy to become pretty much immortal early on in the game. The BoBS are all but essential in the game one of the first things I go for every time. High luck characters are very good just ask Gaenor.
What are the odds that I watch your videos for the stuff on story-crafting only to find that you also have great videos on my favorite role playing games? Cheers.
i feel like morrowind did a great job at balancing the leveling system so you dont really need to worry about leveling efficiently. on the contrary, the only things that KINDA have a reason to worry on leveling are str and hp. the rest is pretty not really that important. mp is kinda useless once you start enchanting spells into items. same can be said about willpower, as you dont need to worry about hitting stuff with spells when using enchanted charges. agility and speed are good for moving around and hitting things.... if not for the fact you can easily aquire a helm and a pair of gloves that give you ALOT of agi. possibly even putting you above cap. luck is nonsensical to say the least. you cant really "grind" for it, and will take ALOT of effort to max. which makes it not really that good investment even though it affects alot of the dice rolls, but, like i said, you dont really need to worry about those things. and there's the boots of blindingspeed which will give you a ton of speed as well. and have an easy way to deal with the drawback. overall, like i said, the only stats that really matter when leveling are str and endurance. str because of carry capacity, and endurance because, well, its max hp you gain on level ups.
You don't even have to level to master the game. Just get an enchanted item that shoots death rays, one that fortifies enchanting by 10, and one that restores stamina. After you get the boots of blinding speed you can run through the entire game with just that.
I went with Dark Elf. I do spend a lot on skills mostly so I can move through the faction quests. I've been getting into enchantment but mostly focused on getting into the different faction quests. Which is the games strength.
Yeah having to have skill levels to rank up in the guilds is tough, but it does force a certain RP approach. Why would a character with 10 sneak join the Theives Guild anyway?
Good vid and good tips. Real chads go Endurance/Luck as favoured attributes and then level +5/+5/+1. I should play Morrowind for real. I recently started Arx Fatalis, but when I finally find enough time to (play and) complete that game, I should give OpenMW a spin. Tried playing MW twice, both times quitting after getting to Balmora; the first time was long ago and I, young and fresh out of Oblivion, didn't know why I was missing all of my attacks; the second time I couldn't get more than 15 fps because Morrowind (with graphics extender and the likes, of course) would refuse to run on my laptop's discrete GPU no matter how I tried to force it. I imagine OpenMW wouldn't have that issue.
Openmw is great you get more performance less crashes more memory access, millions of mods can be loaded at once as opposed to 255, (though I don’t think anyone would ever need to load 2 million mods) it’s got better support for stuff like distant land out of the box it’s all around wonderful
You could also do what I'm doing and go with a Nord, Strength, Endurance, and +5/+1/+1 until you hit 100 endurance. Then do your best to only do +1/+1/+1 to hit the highest level you can.
Soul gems do not have spells built into them. They are used to enchant items, which means you pick the spell to enchant into the item (ring, amulet, article of clothing, weapon, or armor.)
@@reesetorwad8346 i know that, i am asking if you can enchant yourself with regen, when i was playing morrowind 2000-2006 i never tried to so i am asking someone who can answer if they try it
@@iOnRX9 Oh. Well then. You can't enchant YOURSELF with anything, ever, in any Elder Scrolls game. If your question is: Can we achieve Constant Effects with Grand Soul Gems? Yes, provided the gem contains either a Golden Saint, or an Ascended Sleeper. And we have a LOT of money (for the Enchanter), or a LOT of Intelligence (like 4000, to be safe, if we try doing it ourselves)
honestly, I usually avoid placing acrobatics, athletics, speechcraft, and barter as major/minor skills.... feels 2 easy to level them, thus causing me to get the level ding before Im ready and personally I like the tower sign, it isnt great but early game the spell is busted, specially when you dont have the spell chance and/or gold to make it.... but yeah it drops off hard the moment you start making semi-decent gold :(
@@bulkvanderhuge9006 some are needed as major/minor... but ones you will be constantly using (like the movement/interaction ones) should be left off..... like you would want Spear as a major/minor skill so you can hit, but you dont want Acrobatics as a major./minor as just getting up a hill could level you lol
@@themoabrigade Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I would put acrobatics and Athletics as the very bottom skills, and for major and minor I would put spear, block and other skills I never use. Hand to Hand is OP AF. because you can 'juggle' a group of 4 or more bandits just by wearing one down until they pass out, then focus on the 2nd one, and the second the first one gets up, hit them again to knock them out, then go back to working on the 2nd one, and pretty soon, you have 4 bandits laying on the ground that stand up, and immediately fall down again because it only takes one punch to knock them out again, meanwhile you'll getting tons of skill
Neat stuff, would you ever consider live streaming Morrowind? I realize that's a greater strain on resources of time and energy, and improvisational but would be neat.
Mods. I think this one was called better faces. Open MW is great because you can switch out mods on the fly. Ivan loaded mods from my original Morrowind folder and they work!
Luck as a stat is extremely underrated, I once maxed out luck, and after that all my enchantment attempts were successful, even with my enchanting skill at something like 40 at best
It's technically the best stat because it does lots of things, BUT you can only get 1 luck when you level up; 5 in any other attribute is better if you want all that power as quickly as possible (the point of leveling efficiently). That's why I like picking luck boost at level 1. But you can do 5+5+1 if that's what you think is cool. All my other stats for this character were maxed around level 30 if I remember right, and I had over 100 luck because of gear (you can get a +20 luck shield that is a quest item pretty early).
I want to make a hybrid character that uses all melee, magic and stealth. What attributes should I use? I never played this game before. I'll pick Khajiit because they are my fav race
Play a battle mage, Nord, who wields both melee and magic and utilises stealth skills. Pay for training by making potions and selling enchanted and non enchanted gear. Mark and Recall are important spells. Clear out dungeons and move all the swag to barrels close to one another, then overload your inventory, Mark your position, use an Almsivi Intervention spell and offload outside a temple. You can drop deposit swag and good equipment at any guild. I have often taken over a room in the Mages Guild in Balmora as my holding area.
Well, he DEFINITELY is using MGE XE and Vurt's Groundcover to generate the groundcover in Seyda Neen, because of the Cattails at the edge of the water.
You can abuse certain bugs. If you get corporous and let it buff your strength while draining your attributes, then cure it, you'll keep all the strength but all your other attributes will go back to normal. It's possible to exploit it to make your strength so high you can one shot anything in the game and never run out of inventory space.
Honestly, I don't think efficient levelling matters in Morrowind all that much. You can boost your stats sky high quite quickly in the game using Fortify spells, Fortify potions (especially due to Grandmaster alchemical gear you can steal fairly easily even as a non-thief character) and enchantments. And also there's a nice 80% Chameleon ring you can get at level 7 or so. You can alway use that and some spells/ranged weapons to kill more difficult opponents.
SO many I can't list them. It was more or less all the mods from the graphical overhaul from a few years ago. This is running in openmw, which I recommend for anyone playing on modern hardware. You can add tons of mods and switch them on the fly. Much better than trying to use the original EXE.
Played Skyrim and i loved it, then I played Oblivion and I thought it's even better than Skyrim, now I play Morrowind and I think it's better than both. Why aren't there gemes like this anymore, we only get hollow sh*t with nice graphics.
@@holloww_dwella Yes. Games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Metaphor are showing that you can target a broader audience with deep story and gameplay. On the other hand there is a Dragon Age 5 that is hollow like a marvel movie - and it seems to flop. I see light at the end of the tunnel.
Do this, or modify your game to level up an Attribute every two levels of the Skills it governs. Don't do what I did, and forbid yourself to use Skill Trainers. You notice he never leaves Balmora? That's because the world outside cities becomes a doubly dangerous place - the normal chance of death, and the danger of accidentally leveling up your Athletics too high. Need five more points of Heavy Armor but can't use Restoration? Now you're running and pulling Mudcrabs for five minutes so you can sit in front of them for five minutes until your Healing rings run out. Congrats, only four points to go. Paying is crucial. But even then, there's the means by which you acquire the money. And the whole cheesiness of Training. I would really recommend the mod; it's so much more organic than this. Just play, and what you do levels you up. As intended.
As I point out this approach is not really necessary, especially with Morrowind. It DOES make you character extra powerful early on, which means you won't be outclassed depending on where you want to go, etc. Playing normally, you'll probably have to spend money on training at some point just to get a new skill you are interested in high enough to use. It really sucks to get a good weapon then wiff air at a mudcrab for 20 minutes because you have no skill in it, or to fail casting a spell until you are OOM because you didn't pick that skill in character creation. Setup a character the way I say though and you'll be well equipped for success. I also just enjoy interacting with rule sets, taking them to their limits, etc.
Also I don't worry about over-leveling skills this way. There are plenty of levels in Morrowind, so it's just not that important to micromanage, for example, athletics.
I always play a Breton because of the "Boots of Blinding Speed". I also use a mod from aBot called Quick Character Creation, that gives you the character creation screen right when you're standing there on the hip with Jiub, and once you're done it let's you save, and then it drops you in Front of the guy that tells you to find Caius Cosades so you can skip all that character creation stuff in the Census Office.
i dont really have an issue with the character creation in morrowind. the other games however are hell. it takes SO LONG in oblivion and morrowind to do the tutorial its insane. morrowind is absurdly fast by comparison. my one issue is that you cant save before leaving the census, which i think is really idiotic. but that's it.
Armourer is a bad choice for major/minor skills because getting it to 100 is tough. Alchemy, on the other hand, is easy to max out. However, some races have a bonus to alchemy (not sure which ones, haven't played in a long while).
I really love Oblivion, but of all the things it got wrong the levelling and skills system are list toppers. You really had to try not to cheese to get a challenge out of it, and character build choices didn't really matter. Why they didn't enforce a system at least as rigid as Morrowind's is a mystery to me.
In Morrowind the loot levels and the monsters in dungeons and to some extent the overworld levels with you. Certain dungeons or tombs have zero monsters when the player is level 1. Later the same place would have one or more scamps and later higher level Daedra are found in said locations. I don't know if the monsters found are locked in when first leveling an area or if they change over time.. but this level based aspect to the game world's environment really makes certain Artifacts exceptionally easy to obtain early on.
The leveling system is kinda lame. I use the carefree leveling mod, and speechcraft rebalanced mod. And set all my characters starting speed to 70 with the console. Other than that vanilla is great!
I'm not hating or anything, it's a good video, but my guy lost 3 potential levels by building his character this way. He is also losing out on some max health in the long-run because of his race choice. He chose the correct sign and favored attributes, and this is a decent demonstration of leveling efficiently, but this is not building for max power, as the title says. As I said, not hating. Just nitpicking. There's a difference between level 83 (highest achievable level in the game without glitches, mods, or jail-scumming) and level 80 (the highest level that creator's character could reach)
I think I make up a very small demographic of your channel, but this is exactly the kind of thing I'm subbed for. I usually only get to see one of these types of videos once year but it's worth the wait. I really like the elder scrolls as well as your detailed explanations of how the game's systems work. ☺️
Elder Scrolls videos are actually my most watched content. Very evergreen. Haven't done much Morrowind, but I might do more. There's so much to this game, even 20 years later I find new things.
7:37 I go with endurance and personality generally. For sign, the lady (endurance bonus).
I always use Speech craft and merchantile for minor skills to get my personality. Helps a lot early game with getting good sales and fast to level too can easily drain all vendors of their cash especially with the Dark brotherhood giving you essentially free loot to sell.
While major and minor skills go to your level up, misc. do affect your affect your stat multiplier. So training up a misc. skill with a trainer in town before level is also a good trick if you have the money.
9:26 the attributes that get increased up with level up depend on what skills are trained. I train 3 different endurance skills (heavy armour, medium armour, and spear)by 1 each to increase endurance to 100. After that I might do strength.
Holy shit 28 minutes!? When is this guy gonna get to the point?
28 minutes later: Booting up Morrowind because I now understand WHY my first character was royally fucked and could explain it in sign language to a deaf toddler while in freefall.
When I was a kid I was always start with the Beton, now I always go with the Red guard because of adrenaline rush. Gaining a large magicka pool is pretty easy mid game.
Redguard is good.
I mostly like Breton for the magic resistance, which is powerful still at high level.
You want to go 5/5/1 while levelling. Always put a point into luck. Otherwise you'll later find out you dont have enough level ups left to max that final attribute out.
Man, that Morrowind music is so nostalgic. Also some other TES music in there from a mod? great video!
You can just drop mp3s in the music folders and the game will play them. I put in the files from the other games. You could add in ESO too if you want.
Great information to have! My only problem is that I can't read your screens. Most videos I see just fine, but not yours for some reason, bummer.
Modders have turned this 22 year old game into a visual marvel, rivaling Skyrim
I can say honestly that the best game I played in 2022 was modded morrowind in 4k/HDR. Aesthetic!
I've played this game, used mods, and made mods for twenty years, and I'm just now learning this. Sub for that ;)
From a QOL game play standpoint i would say speed or agility should be the second attribute as it determines your movement which is abysmally slow in the beginning or your hit chance among other things. Luck can be increased each level and flows in fine if not chosen.
That's a good point because you do start out at mega slow speed in Morrowind. It's worse if you wear heavy armor. You also will end up with low stamina from running everywhere, and stamina even controls chance for spells to hit.
Another benefit of rolling Breton is that you can get the boots of blinding speed early on and they won't blind you! Then you really don't have to worry about your speed.
I like luck at level 1 though because it has the biggest effect on everything and it's just not as good when you're high level compared to any other stat.
@@DVSPress My most recent play through was with an Atronach Breaton. With a few items its easy to become pretty much immortal early on in the game. The BoBS are all but essential in the game one of the first things I go for every time. High luck characters are very good just ask Gaenor.
This is going to have to wait until I'm not in the middle of moving to Texas.
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What are the odds that I watch your videos for the stuff on story-crafting only to find that you also have great videos on my favorite role playing games? Cheers.
i feel like morrowind did a great job at balancing the leveling system so you dont really need to worry about leveling efficiently. on the contrary, the only things that KINDA have a reason to worry on leveling are str and hp. the rest is pretty not really that important.
mp is kinda useless once you start enchanting spells into items. same can be said about willpower, as you dont need to worry about hitting stuff with spells when using enchanted charges. agility and speed are good for moving around and hitting things.... if not for the fact you can easily aquire a helm and a pair of gloves that give you ALOT of agi. possibly even putting you above cap.
luck is nonsensical to say the least. you cant really "grind" for it, and will take ALOT of effort to max. which makes it not really that good investment even though it affects alot of the dice rolls, but, like i said, you dont really need to worry about those things. and there's the boots of blindingspeed which will give you a ton of speed as well. and have an easy way to deal with the drawback.
overall, like i said, the only stats that really matter when leveling are str and endurance. str because of carry capacity, and endurance because, well, its max hp you gain on level ups.
Love these types of videos. Well...I really like most of your vids lol.
Thank you!
You don't even have to level to master the game. Just get an enchanted item that shoots death rays, one that fortifies enchanting by 10, and one that restores stamina. After you get the boots of blinding speed you can run through the entire game with just that.
Thanx dude
I went with Dark Elf. I do spend a lot on skills mostly so I can move through the faction quests. I've been getting into enchantment but mostly focused on getting into the different faction quests. Which is the games strength.
Yeah having to have skill levels to rank up in the guilds is tough, but it does force a certain RP approach. Why would a character with 10 sneak join the Theives Guild anyway?
Good vid and good tips. Real chads go Endurance/Luck as favoured attributes and then level +5/+5/+1.
I should play Morrowind for real. I recently started Arx Fatalis, but when I finally find enough time to (play and) complete that game, I should give OpenMW a spin. Tried playing MW twice, both times quitting after getting to Balmora; the first time was long ago and I, young and fresh out of Oblivion, didn't know why I was missing all of my attacks; the second time I couldn't get more than 15 fps because Morrowind (with graphics extender and the likes, of course) would refuse to run on my laptop's discrete GPU no matter how I tried to force it. I imagine OpenMW wouldn't have that issue.
Openmw is great you get more performance less crashes more memory access, millions of mods can be loaded at once as opposed to 255, (though I don’t think anyone would ever need to load 2 million mods) it’s got better support for stuff like distant land out of the box it’s all around wonderful
Exactly this. 5y 5x 1x and endurance / luck.
You could also do what I'm doing and go with a Nord, Strength, Endurance, and +5/+1/+1 until you hit 100 endurance. Then do your best to only do +1/+1/+1 to hit the highest level you can.
@@Mathew3792 Max level is gated by skills not attributes. There’s no reason to do anything but 5/5/1, max level is the same regardless
quick question. can you cast regen on self with a grand soul gem? sustained effect?
Soul gems do not have spells built into them. They are used to enchant items, which means you pick the spell to enchant into the item (ring, amulet, article of clothing, weapon, or armor.)
@@reesetorwad8346 i know that, i am asking if you can enchant yourself with regen, when i was playing morrowind 2000-2006 i never tried to so i am asking someone who can answer if they try it
@@iOnRX9 Oh. Well then. You can't enchant YOURSELF with anything, ever, in any Elder Scrolls game.
If your question is: Can we achieve Constant Effects with Grand Soul Gems?
Yes, provided the gem contains either a Golden Saint, or an Ascended Sleeper. And we have a LOT of money (for the Enchanter), or a LOT of Intelligence (like 4000, to be safe, if we try doing it ourselves)
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@@iOnRX9 Yes you can put regen enchantments on constant effect items
Have you played Kingdom Come: Deliverance?
I found out about this game not long ago and having a blast so far.
honestly, I usually avoid placing acrobatics, athletics, speechcraft, and barter as major/minor skills.... feels 2 easy to level them, thus causing me to get the level ding before Im ready
and personally I like the tower sign, it isnt great but early game the spell is busted, specially when you dont have the spell chance and/or gold to make it.... but yeah it drops off hard the moment you start making semi-decent gold :(
That's the exact same thing I do. I avoid putting any skill that I know I will be using CONSTANTLY as a Major/Minor skill
@@bulkvanderhuge9006 some are needed as major/minor... but ones you will be constantly using (like the movement/interaction ones) should be left off..... like you would want Spear as a major/minor skill so you can hit, but you dont want Acrobatics as a major./minor as just getting up a hill could level you lol
@@themoabrigade Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I would put acrobatics and Athletics as the very bottom skills, and for major and minor I would put spear, block and other skills I never use.
Hand to Hand is OP AF. because you can 'juggle' a group of 4 or more bandits just by wearing one down until they pass out, then focus on the 2nd one, and the second the first one gets up, hit them again to knock them out, then go back to working on the 2nd one, and pretty soon, you have 4 bandits laying on the ground that stand up, and immediately fall down again because it only takes one punch to knock them out again, meanwhile you'll getting tons of skill
@@bulkvanderhuge9006 Hand to hand is one stat I always tell "first time players" to NEVER run, as it will ruin the game's difficulty for them lol
Neat stuff, would you ever consider live streaming Morrowind? I realize that's a greater strain on resources of time and energy, and improvisational but would be neat.
I did it for a while before I moved
How do you get the faces to be like that? I instaled OpenMW but it does not look the same as yours?
Mods.
I think this one was called better faces.
Open MW is great because you can switch out mods on the fly. Ivan loaded mods from my original Morrowind folder and they work!
@@DVSPress Thank you.
Bro 5 words: Madd Leveler & Practice makes perfect. Never worry about leveling up ever again. + You overdid it a little with the grass mods. xD
I did this and I one shot everything at level 45
Luck as a stat is extremely underrated, I once maxed out luck, and after that all my enchantment attempts were successful, even with my enchanting skill at something like 40 at best
It's technically the best stat because it does lots of things, BUT you can only get 1 luck when you level up; 5 in any other attribute is better if you want all that power as quickly as possible (the point of leveling efficiently). That's why I like picking luck boost at level 1. But you can do 5+5+1 if that's what you think is cool. All my other stats for this character were maxed around level 30 if I remember right, and I had over 100 luck because of gear (you can get a +20 luck shield that is a quest item pretty early).
@@DVSPress which shield quest is that?
I want to make a hybrid character that uses all melee, magic and stealth. What attributes should I use? I never played this game before. I'll pick Khajiit because they are my fav race
Play a battle mage, Nord, who wields both melee and magic and utilises stealth skills. Pay for training by making potions and selling enchanted and non enchanted gear. Mark and Recall are important spells. Clear out dungeons and move all the swag to barrels close to one another, then overload your inventory, Mark your position, use an Almsivi Intervention spell and offload outside a temple. You can drop deposit swag and good equipment at any guild. I have often taken over a room in the Mages Guild in Balmora as my holding area.
Also, only get enough major/minor skill levels to gain a level.
What mods do you have?. Seems the graphics are updated.
Well, he DEFINITELY is using MGE XE and Vurt's Groundcover to generate the groundcover in Seyda Neen, because of the Cattails at the edge of the water.
I figured this out when I first played Morrowind. The console version caps your attributes at 100. Is there any way to level attributes over 100?
You can abuse certain bugs. If you get corporous and let it buff your strength while draining your attributes, then cure it, you'll keep all the strength but all your other attributes will go back to normal. It's possible to exploit it to make your strength so high you can one shot anything in the game and never run out of inventory space.
@@DVSPress Grateful for your suggestions. I enjoyed your video. Thanks mate
Honestly, I don't think efficient levelling matters in Morrowind all that much.
You can boost your stats sky high quite quickly in the game using Fortify spells, Fortify potions (especially due to Grandmaster alchemical gear you can steal fairly easily even as a non-thief character) and enchantments.
And also there's a nice 80% Chameleon ring you can get at level 7 or so. You can alway use that and some spells/ranged weapons to kill more difficult opponents.
It's not necessary at all, but it's quite fun to have maxed out stats earlier in the game. Opens things up a lot.
damage skill on self for 1 second for 1 gold training on xbox min/maxing when i was a kid numbers games bring out the ocd
"Drain," not Damage.
The game looks great! What mods are you using?
SO many I can't list them.
It was more or less all the mods from the graphical overhaul from a few years ago.
This is running in openmw, which I recommend for anyone playing on modern hardware. You can add tons of mods and switch them on the fly. Much better than trying to use the original EXE.
Played Skyrim and i loved it, then I played Oblivion and I thought it's even better than Skyrim, now I play Morrowind and I think it's better than both. Why aren't there gemes like this anymore, we only get hollow sh*t with nice graphics.
Broader appeal. Skyrim and Fallout 4 are their most accessible games to date. Simple as that
@@holloww_dwella Yes. Games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Metaphor are showing that you can target a broader audience with deep story and gameplay. On the other hand there is a Dragon Age 5 that is hollow like a marvel movie - and it seems to flop. I see light at the end of the tunnel.
Do this, or modify your game to level up an Attribute every two levels of the Skills it governs.
Don't do what I did, and forbid yourself to use Skill Trainers.
You notice he never leaves Balmora? That's because the world outside cities becomes a doubly dangerous place - the normal chance of death, and the danger of accidentally leveling up your Athletics too high.
Need five more points of Heavy Armor but can't use Restoration? Now you're running and pulling Mudcrabs for five minutes so you can sit in front of them for five minutes until your Healing rings run out. Congrats, only four points to go.
Paying is crucial. But even then, there's the means by which you acquire the money. And the whole cheesiness of Training. I would really recommend the mod; it's so much more organic than this. Just play, and what you do levels you up. As intended.
As I point out this approach is not really necessary, especially with Morrowind. It DOES make you character extra powerful early on, which means you won't be outclassed depending on where you want to go, etc.
Playing normally, you'll probably have to spend money on training at some point just to get a new skill you are interested in high enough to use. It really sucks to get a good weapon then wiff air at a mudcrab for 20 minutes because you have no skill in it, or to fail casting a spell until you are OOM because you didn't pick that skill in character creation.
Setup a character the way I say though and you'll be well equipped for success.
I also just enjoy interacting with rule sets, taking them to their limits, etc.
Also I don't worry about over-leveling skills this way. There are plenty of levels in Morrowind, so it's just not that important to micromanage, for example, athletics.
I always play a Breton because of the "Boots of Blinding Speed". I also use a mod from aBot called Quick Character Creation, that gives you the character creation screen right when you're standing there on the hip with Jiub, and once you're done it let's you save, and then it drops you in Front of the guy that tells you to find Caius Cosades so you can skip all that character creation stuff in the Census Office.
Good idea.
i dont really have an issue with the character creation in morrowind. the other games however are hell. it takes SO LONG in oblivion and morrowind to do the tutorial its insane. morrowind is absurdly fast by comparison.
my one issue is that you cant save before leaving the census, which i think is really idiotic. but that's it.
Armourer is a bad choice for major/minor skills because getting it to 100 is tough. Alchemy, on the other hand, is easy to max out. However, some races have a bonus to alchemy (not sure which ones, haven't played in a long while).
Breton
I really love Oblivion, but of all the things it got wrong the levelling and skills system are list toppers. You really had to try not to cheese to get a challenge out of it, and character build choices didn't really matter.
Why they didn't enforce a system at least as rigid as Morrowind's is a mystery to me.
All the Characters have different strengths to start with. It Depends on what Style of Playthrough is Preferred !!! 😁😁😁
In Morrowind the loot levels and the monsters in dungeons and to some extent the overworld levels with you. Certain dungeons or tombs have zero monsters when the player is level 1. Later the same place would have one or more scamps and later higher level Daedra are found in said locations. I don't know if the monsters found are locked in when first leveling an area or if they change over time.. but this level based aspect to the game world's environment really makes certain Artifacts exceptionally easy to obtain early on.
Major and minor kills must have no bonuses.
The leveling system is kinda lame. I use the carefree leveling mod, and speechcraft rebalanced mod. And set all my characters starting speed to 70 with the console. Other than that vanilla is great!
I'm not hating or anything, it's a good video, but my guy lost 3 potential levels by building his character this way. He is also losing out on some max health in the long-run because of his race choice. He chose the correct sign and favored attributes, and this is a decent demonstration of leveling efficiently, but this is not building for max power, as the title says. As I said, not hating. Just nitpicking. There's a difference between level 83 (highest achievable level in the game without glitches, mods, or jail-scumming) and level 80 (the highest level that creator's character could reach)
Can you please teach me? I’m new 🤣 I’m a high eld mage. Who should I follow here on UA-cam?