Morrowind Tips and Tricks! (Useful for Beginners)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this video I detail some of my favourite tips and tricks in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind! Some of these could also count as cheats and exploits too.
Let me know some of your own favourite Morrowind Tips and exploits below!
Just noticed, that in all these years, I've never ever been to the Warehouse at the start
He didn't show the best part of it. it's full of moon sugar and skooma, which stacks like all the other potions. Mix with the Icarian Flight scrolls to jump literally anywhere. With Skooma rushing and the scroll, you could easily jump from one end of the island to the other, completely clearing Red Mountain in the process. Solstheim is literally a jump away, and if you have the Tamriel Expanded mod, you could probably clear Solstheim to Almalexia in a single jump.
I managed to get in there once, as I recall. I had been curious about it for a long time and eventually got around to actually sneakily breaking in. I recall it being fairly exciting, though I don't recall having actually found much that was interesting. Probably broke into it with a high-level character and thus all the gear was likely useless.
Near Gnisis there's a woman near a pond ( under a bridge I think? ) that says she lost her ring. It's a trap, and there's an invisible bandit that starts shooting you when you go in the water. Kill him and you get an amulet called "The Amulet of Shadows", Chameleon 80% for 60 seconds I think. Never played a game without it.
There's a what?
@@ammagon4519 a woman
@@TheInnerWorlds wtf is a woman
That’s a great one
To add some clarity to this post (I went on a hunt for this after I saw your post), the woman is under a big Dwemer bridge that leads to Arkngthunch-Sturdumz. She is on the road toward Khuul and Ald Velothi to the north. Hang slightly west and you’ll find her under the bridge. She asks you to find a ring that is pretty, dang hard to find (in between the first and second plant from the south edge of the pool). Once you find it, they attack you. Kill them and take the spoils.
Another pro tip for beginners: in Balmora there is a two story house next to the potion store with a lock lvl of 75 (or something like that, I don't remember exactly) but if you jump or levitate to the second floor there is another door that is either unlocked or has a low level lock. Once inside you can just open the front door without picking it.
Inside this house is a dead guy on the floor and a bunch of storage space (boxes and barrels.) The dead guy also acts a bottomless storage space. Just move right in, it's a great easy to access base you can use for the rest of the game.
Hlaalo Manor is an amazing house
Hide your treasures inside a dead body! Love this game.
@@alesin1992 it's hilarious too, because armor and clothes you put "in" him automatically get equipped. My guy was the most decked out corpse, with the finest of rare and magical crap I didn't want 😂
I knew about this place and I use it all the time but I had no idea the body can hold infinite items thanks bro
@@markusmitchell8585 NP bro! Yeah, the limited storage containers make it tough. My man that looks like he had a lot too much at a wild party makes it a whole lot easier 👍
Fun fact, if you pick up the tax collector's gold and then immediately go and confront the murderer and kill him, you can then go to the census and excise office and complete the quest and get the reward, WITHOUT having to give up the 200 you find on the guy's body.
I am so happy that I am not the only person who knew this trick xDD
I was going to comment how you get 500 from the quest I did not know this trick
You can lie and say you didnt find any gold and whats his face gives you 100 gold anyway
@@darthxenos7743 you get more out of the quest by killing gilnith
I had found that out. Lol. But it is a great tactic.
"STOP! THEIF! Oh wait. You dropped it. Well, carry on then."
It belongs to the floor, now.
"Oh, I see you're just clumsy. I'm sure you'll fit right in with the next game's engine."
This doesn't work for me. Even if I drop it, I get arrested/fined.
@@UltimateSuperMe same. You find a solution 2 years later?
It logically makes sense, you stole it, so if you drop it and leave it the crime no longer exists cuz it was dropped lmfao
If you finish the quest with the dead tax collector and return his ring to the lady in the lighthouse, you profit 300 gold total from the tax office, 2 standard healing potions from returning the ring, and a house you can use after legally killing it's owner. There is also a book inside of the lighthouse worth ~300 gold, very easy to steal. Easily one of the simplest quests in the game with great rewards.
Yes, free home is awesome.
To add to this there is no need to waste another scroll of icarian to land safely. All you need is a spell with just 1 point of slowfall and it will negate all fall damage. Just cast it before hitting the ground and you are golden.
The magic system in Morrowind is like that a bunch though where a lot of the magical effects aren't fully explained so best to experiment with all of them to find out what they do. Some of them have effects that will surprise you. Some of them are also surprisingly cheap to cast even for a non mage character that is just looking for an advantage in a fight such as blind to decrease how many hits you take from an enemy or sound to have enemy mages waste all their magicka trying and failing to cast spells.
A experienced Morrowind player treats the magic system like Batman treats his utility belt as a bag of tricks that can help out of any situation even if you yourself are not a mage character. To add to this If a nonspellcaster character wants to have access to some spell casting in a pinch and has a hard time finding the proper spell in scroll form you can take just about any piece of paper in the game you find other than books and take them to an enchanter that for a price can enchant them to to your liking providing you can get the soul gems and know the spell effect. I personally pick up just about every piece of paper I find laying around and store it away in a crate somewhere just in case I need a scroll for a rainy day.
You can get pieces of paper enchanted!?!
@@ianwalker2205 Yeah. They aren't the strongest enchantments of course but if you need a specific spell in a pinch and can't find what you need they will do.
@@maiqtheliar789 Wow.
@Andrew Sossaman No need to really save them either honestly. Racer Plumes and Trama Root are found everywhere and Coda Flowers are everywhere in the Bitter coast. All those can be used to make a levitation potion for free. Any combo of those will make you a levitate potion with no risk of it being anything else other than a levitation potion as the only effect they share is levitation. So feel free to brew all you want even if you can't see the effects on the ingredients quite yet. I love alchemy.
While I am sober and remember. I know these are older videos but JustRed has some really good videos for beginners that even an experienced player can learn stuff from if they haven't played in a while. She manages to break stuff down in a simple manner without boring you with a bunch of math and technical stuff and keep stuff interesting. Link to her Hitchhikers Guide to Morrowind right here ua-cam.com/play/PLB472F7A0E57751B7.html . Hope that helps out some newer players.
I know it’s a few years late but! You can go get the tax man’s gold and then directly to kill the murder (name is a male dark elf being charged 200 gold in taxes) and then go turn the quest in which lets you keep the 200 + the 500 for solving the murder!(DO NOT START QUEST THROUGH DIALOGUE! MUST GO STRAIGHT TO DEAD TAX COLLECTOR AND THEN KILL THE DARK ELF THEN TURN IN QUEST FOR THE EXTRA GOLD!) You can also give the ring to the lady in the lighthouse for two additional potions, then kill her and take back the ring plus loot all of the lighthouse and you can use this as a house or base for the rest of the game if you want! After turning the healing ring into Fargoth your high disposition with Arielle makes living in town a good choice! In the stump closest to the lighthouse there is also extra gold and a silver cup worth something like 13 gold! The second or third set of swamps on your right leaving the starting town is another tree stump that has an enchanted dagger and 50 more gold! You can kill all NPC’s in the starting town INSIDE their home’s (usually locked and these NPC’s won’t leave or call guards), which bumps up gold from the start with no extra mercantile somewhere around 2500+ before leaving the tutorial! There is also one unmarked quest where you speak to the imperial citizen and ask about advice, he will send you to the stilt strider and if you use his name when speaking to her she sends you back to him where you can trade 100 gold for an enchanted ring! Basically ALWAYS check any tree stumps for extra loot! Some even require very high Acrobatics skill or some low level levitate to see but do have loot, outside of Khuul is one that has a skull and a glass jinkblade worth 4900 gold!
I just really love this game and am still finding new things out from time to time! HOPE THIS HELPS
0:49 it's so much easier to just open the inventory screen first, grab the key then put it back down. You don't need to worry about time because the time freezes while your inventory screen is open but you also going to need to stash or drop the lime platter and other stolen items like silverware and plates that you might have grabbed before exiting the office.
I am SHOCKED at the amount of stuff there is in the beginning! Like wow you just blew my mind.
It's been a year, but I got one trick. In mages guild buy about 3 scrolls of Ondusi's unhidging and go to Vivec. Go straight to the Vivec temple and find there ordinator's barracks. There you have to find closed chests and in them there'll be their armor. Moreover, if you don't want to wear it, it costs pretty much, so you can just sell it to creeper
Regarding the Boots of Blinding Speed, a Breton character won't be blinded due to their innate Resist Magicka, but rather simply have a darker, murkier screen.
Yes, and on top of it blindness increases your chance to hit with melee weapons (50% blind is flat +50% chance to hit). Your Breton may be half blind but he's twice as dangerous!
Another note for the boots: if you're an Argonian or Khajiit, you can't wear them. :(
@@AhstTraotee I don't understand why Argonians and Khajit have that restriction tbh. They don't even get any compensation, e.g. Argonian/Khajit only items
@@exantiuse497 Because cats and reptiles don't have feet, and they don't have heads shape like humanoids. Adding special footwear and headgear for beast races was too much work for them i guess.
4:16 BEST GAME 10/10
100/100
Good job showing not just the limeware platter but the warehouse key trick too! I forgot it myself on my current run
one floor above creeper there is almost a whole orcish armor set in a crate, you can take it without getting bounty
6:50 min: Cliffracer lurking ominously in the sky, waiting for his prey to be inattentive.
For PC versions only, you actually don't need to grab the limeware platter first and then pull it out of your inventory. What I do is bring up the inventory first, when I'm in arm's length of the platter. While still in the inventory menu, you can grab the platter with your pointer and then drag it off to the edge of the screen and then drop the platter. It still counts as stealing and the guards still react, but they cannot move until you leave inventory menu. It just gives you that little extra time. This method also gives you a whole lot of time to steal pretty much everything in the room. Just don't pick up everything off the ground until you are all finished stealing, because even though you can pick them all up again without repercussion, the items are still flagged as stolen, and the guard will take everything if they are in your inventory.
if you want to get a lot of gold quick too you can always raid the Redoran vaults, if you are in vivc and at the redoran plaza, the mansion inside with the walls around it (Dralor Manor) has a key in the upper room in one of the drawers, you can position yourself with the door to not get detected and take the key, then head to the redoran treasury and then the vaults, and you can open the treasure rooms inside, if you wait the guards will leave and you can get around 100K gold from my experiences (selling the stuff to the Creeper in Caldera is good aswell because he has 0 Mercantalism which means he buys at full price)
You can also give fargoth his ring back (found in a barrel between the tax bureau and the one where the imperial give you your main quest), earning Aur'il friendship (better prices), then go to Auril's upstairs and find a nord nammed Hrisskar and accept his quest, observe fargoth at night from the top of the lighthousse, and get the ring back as well as his gold, you can never go back to Hrisskar to keep all of the money.
Saw the video length and thought "more UA-camrs stretching things out because they just like the sound of their own voice". But nah, it's all concentrated and concise good info.
For the Warehouse Key, if you open up inventory you can grab it and drop it then pick it up like the limeware platters
Also grab the books before picking up the platter. 50g each. And there is another book up the lightouse worth 250g. There is a sword in a guard tower in balnora worth 17k repaired, jump sneak, open inv and grab. Ald’rhun guard towers have armor you can steal and sell.
"your acrobatics skill increased to 1006"
You also forgot the imperial scale mail armour in that room about arills trade house in seyda neen. Its under the bed. I had no idea that sword was under the pillow and ive been breaking into that room for years lol
i never knew about that warehouse key on the shelf at the beginning or axe in the trunk. 🤷🤯🧠🧠
Also there is a "free" Ebony sword in one of the watchtowers in balmora. It's on top of a closet but very easy to steal
15 years since I started playing, thousands of hours of playthrus "How have I never seen this before?"
Extra tip: If you want to start your way to break the game with alchemy, go to the temple in balmora and just to the right there will be a guy that sells Marshmerrow and Wickwheat. Buy as much of both as you can and then make lots of restore health potions that you can sells for a very good price to become rich since the start of the game and have an infinite supply of potions making the game bullshit easy
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If you wamt to break the game with alchemy I recommend fortify intelligence potions. Buy ~150 ash yams from vivec foreign quarter healer, 150 bloat from one of the mage guild alchemists, then start making and drinking potions. Potion effects stack and intelligence makes your potions stronger, after about 100 potions you'll have intelligence of 40-50 thousand and you can make insane potions. Make the rest of the bloat and ash yam into intelligence potions so you can drink them whenever you want to make more potions, then make whatever crazy potions you want. Restore health, magicka or fatigue 1500 for 4500 seconds, levitate 500 points for 4500 seconds.... or just sell them to the creeper for 5000 each. Super fun but takes all challenge away from the game
Your tip is underrated
Just what I was looking for.
My approach back when I played Morrowind was to use a bunch of these tricks to get a good amount of money early on and then spend that on enchanting an amulet with max level unlock, which I would then use to plunder the vaults in Vivec and get absolutely loaded. Once you're rich in Morrowind you can do anything you want.
If you don't want to waste a scroll to not die from the scroll of icarian flight. Do a very easy quest that's just to the right on the way to balmora on the way to suran. You kill three little creatures and he gifts you with an amulet of slow falling. You can just use thay anytime anywhere
the game virtually ends when you realize Sujjama STACKS XD
I don’t even have morrowind, Idk if I’ll even buy it and play it, but I just love micky d so much that I’m watching this intently
I kept whiffing and getting one shot by Umbra so I went and built up my weapon skill by a few levels to increase the chance of hitting him. I then went back to Umbra and drank 35 Sujamma and took a swing at him. My alcohol fueled axe finally connected and hit him with the force of a thousand exploding suns. He died in one hit.
Yea I've died at least 5 times so far trying to get a hit in and having to drink each potion one at a time is torture.
Cheater.
The cooler older brother we always wanted:
I always jumped and Aimed for water under me you can pause and look for it but it was a good travel method as a kid lol
You can do the same trick with the key that you did with the platter If you're quick enough
Hey man love your videos i hope your doing well the world seems to be getting real crazy lately
Didn't know about the key, that's new.
Pretty sure you get more gold +potions of healing if you solve his murder (and are honest while doing so)
Good tip for the boots need to try that.
There are two more stumps around seyda neen with loot, one is down the coast past the Mara ring, the other is east of Tarhiel
There's also a firebite dagger and 50 gold in a tree stump to the right of the 3 jump scrolls in seyda need in a swampy area. Easy to find
ayo is that creeper ah man from minecraft? In morrowind???? Crazy todd thought of that
Truly ahead of his time
Don't forget that the sujama Also help for the Ebony mail (strongest heavy Armor in the game)
I just realized i never tried the umbra fight as a beginner
I was already level 12 with a daedric sword when i found him messing around suran
you can also just simply take the warehouse key and quickly open your menu then drop it. As long as you havent turned in your papers there is no consequence and you can simply pick up the key without worry
That's a great tip! I never considered taking it before you're released but it makes it so much easier
oh god, Micky steeling the limeware platter is cursed
Great video, thank you
Don't forget that you can get a guaranteed daedric dai-katana in the Maesa-Shammus Egg Mine on a road north of Molag Mar. It's in the back of the mine to the right behind the queen over some rocks. There's a dead warrior there who has the katana. It has one of the best base damages in the game.
I prefer a daedric longsword but still good.
If you’re struggling to steal the platter and key before the guards get to you, pick up and then drop the items while in inventory mode.
I am surprised that you didn't mention how to get a daedric weapon very early on in the game just by entering the ebony ore mine south of balmora and then talking with someone in the haunted house in Vivec. That person gives you a daedric weapon of the type you want.
I need to play this again soon.
I am completely new played the first 2 and half hours
I miss the existence of pillows and stacking books
Don't keep the tax collectors 200 gold. Return the gold to the character build npc (old skinny guy at start) give him the 200 gold, solve the murder and get 500.
Credit is due for you not using the glossy texture mods etc. I think MW should be experienced as it was created.
Life changing thank you
eh did you really forget the armor in the room in the tradehouse in seyda neen
there's a Newtscale cuirass in the same room as the hidden dagger under the pillow in Arille's Tradehouse
I wonder why he didn't mention that, it's even visible in the video.
The only trick I use at the start is to look up the location of the dungeon that a guy in Vivec wants, go to him and get a daedric weapon, then play normally
First tip: free your mind and embrace infinite freedom this game gives you 🙏
You forgot about the medium armor in the house with creeper
I wonder you didnt mention Vassir-Didanat Ebony Mine quest where you can get daedric weapon at lvl 1 without fighting anyone.
Boots of blinding speed became mandatory when I discovered them on my ahole Morrowind run
1:14 Bookmark 👍
I like that Haters gonna Hate walk your avatar does at the end of the video.
3:21 you say silt strider, i say giant flea
Here's a great tip: enter TGM on the console
I always kill Ravirr in Balmora and steal his house and weapons
I've made enough characters to populate a small city, but I never knew about that axe in the log, how did you find it?
Also I remember there's a glass/ebony mine outside of Balmora, if you're just starting out you can enter/exit the mine without fighting, then you run back to town (either to Balmora or Ebonheart, don't remember) and you tell some Hlaalu noble about it and he'll let you choose ANY daedric weapon as a prize for finding the mine. Better than that stupid sword of woe imo
The mine is on the side of town with the hanging bridge (you have to cross it) in the direction of the swamp town with the moon sugar inside a slave's belly quest.
Almost 20 years and I still remember :D
How is your morrowind so bright and vibrant?
i like the part about umbra and the sujama lol.
You get a nice weapon to take down Umbra on the way. It’s on top of a cupboard in one of the Suran guard towers. The Sword Of White Woe. I literally just remember this from being a kid and playing this when it came out but I’m about to retry it lol
Finally a video that doesn't scream at me for being a n,wah
Just build your class properly, and you will be fine. That is where 90% of people go wrong. For example; they'll pick a High Elf race because they like elves, then will craft their class based around being a fighter because they like being a fighter in RPGs, without realizing that High Elves are brutal starting fighters. This is especially a problem for people who started with Skyrim, where races have no differences besides once a day abilities
Fucking awesome 👏 how about a oblivion and a Skyrim one next
I carry an orcish shield
It's very heavy to wield
I want to use it more often
If it's not smells that weird
I'm sure that this is exactly how Bethesda imagined Morrowind
I was looking for an excuse to play this game again on my Xbox one
When you do the tax collector's quest you actually end up getting 500 gold instead of 200 as a little heads up
Argonian + Devil Spear + Levitate = Win
you can easily get 4000 golds before leaving seyda neen and that's if you dont sell mentor's ring, lol.
I always start off doing the makes guild first. Until the fake soul gem quest from ajira. I steal all the soul gems up there and sell all of them to creeper. I usually end up about 30k in about 10 minutes of starting
How do you remove your bounty?
you can also just use levitate to stop before you hit the ground
What is this? A Micky D video that isn't filled with sarcasm? What is this?
I've been playing morrowind since it came out on Xbox and I never knew about the axe in the log...
Me too!!!
What else have we missed!
Never knew about the Mentor's ring or dagger under the pillow!
I’ve probably played this game thousands of hours, and I’m still learning. That’s a sign of an amazing game.
Who are you
Another good tip is the sword of white woe: in the guard tower in Balmora near Caius Cosades's house, on the second floor, there is a guard and a dresser and a bed. If you position yourself right, you can get up on the bed and then behind a pillar to grab the sword while the guard can't see you. The sword is an ebony longsword with a good enchantment, you can use it the whole game.
Yeah i always grab it!
YOU FUCKIN WHAAAAAT. dude ive been playing this game since like 2004 and i never knew about that, jeez. Hands down best tes game ever
And there is also a second one in a tower guard in Suran
@@wejustsawmanfly Nah, best TES is Oblivion.
@@aninditapaul9291 Hot take right there, picking the one TES game that wasn't the best at anything LMAO
This video has been up for more than a year and not one person has asked why Eldafire is in the floor in the intro
Probably no one wants to make fun of the game since it's a good game?
why wouldn't she be
Sometimes it's just best not to ask
HAHA the answer is "because it's a Bethesda game"
That's because nobody questions her, she's in too much of a rush.
This reminds me of the video i made as a kid showing basically my friends how to rob a bank in vivec and it has made me happy. thank you m8, your channel brings me joy
You're laughing. Umbra just got murdered by a lvl 1 Nord who downed 55 stacks of sujama and you're laughing.
But seriously, great stuff.
Yeah, but that cliff racer sneaking up behind at the end has an eye on that armor.
@@HerbertFilby And we all know those bastards aren't to be trifled with.
I fucking snorted.
I did it with 20 bottles only.
There’s something immensely amusing about a demonically possesses swordsman being defeated by an absolutely smashed Viking
06:53 - Lol, the cliff racer appears and looms in the background, menacingly!!!
It's just like, "Why does NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME?!
A better way to use the Scrolls of Icarian Flight is just to use a levitate spell before you land so you don’t waste two scrolls for one jump.
Or land in deep water if you can
That cliff racer at the end, lol.
A pro-tip for the boots of blinding speed: don't use a 100% magic resist spell, use a ~70% instead. The screen will be a little darker, but you will have a 30% blindness effect on you, and in Morrowind a small amount of blindness is actually a good thing because it INCREASES your chance to hit with melee weapons (it's supposed to decrease it but it was coded wrong). This makes hitting enemies with high agility like cliff racers easier, and the 70% resist magic spell is easier to cast than a 109% spell to boot
Friendly reminder, this is only true if you play vanilla morrowind, the "Morrowind Code Patch" and probably other fix mods, fixes this error so that blindness correctly reduces your chance to hit instead of increasing it.
no thanks, im going with 100% resist
70% still darkens game too much, especially indoors, and yeah, some mods fix that coding error. 95% probably better, you'd barely notice that, and still get benefit.
Thank god there's actually a way to get rid of those annoying pterodactyls out there
Or just use savior’s hide
I'm going to give Morrowind as a gift in Steam to my best friend, then I'm going to give this vid so he can understand a little the game and have fun without dying constantly
You're a good friend. Hope he enjoys it! It's a very rewarding game when given proper patience.
For the tax collector, if you report his death to the guy who helps you create your class and follow the quest properly (shouldn't take too long) you'll actually end up gaining an additional 100 gold for a couple minutes of extra time. You'll also have a better rep with the Imperials, I think
Been binging your videos since yesterday, now I've installed Morrowind. This is the first time I've ever played it. I'm simultaneously excited and scared lol.
On a side note man you're really building an audience! I swear you didn't even have 10K yesterday, and as of the time of this comment you're nearly at 11K. Well done, you deserve it!
doing the same tomorrow morning and feel the same way haha (;
@@mclovin7969 So far I'm really enjoying it. Trying my hand at an unarmed mage build, and I'm having a pretty good time! Really enjoy the spell and armor systems too.
Morrowind has probably been my all time favorite game. I hope you enjoy it as much as I and other fans have.
Now look, he’s at 200k+
Sooo, how was it? I'd honestly quite like to hear what u think (if u played a fair bit that is and didn't get discouraged by slow movement speed/combat system/etc within first 10hrs)
You just made me realize Skyrim is older now than Morrowind was when Skyrim was released
this shit is crazy if you think about it
and yet hey are only doing fallout 76 and elder shits online
-Always use weapon type you have some points in, at full stamina bar, otherwise you will miss a lot of hits. If you want to level other weapon types easier without trainer, using Bound Weapon spells give you temporary weapons with 10pts bonus to corresponding skills. Picking Conjuration as your major skill also gives free Bound Dagger spell that like with Hearth Heal from Restoration is fantastic for early game, and eliminates the problem of dealing with Ghosts.
-Telekinesis skill, while looking quite worthless, allows you to steal things from places you normally would be seen and set off traps. Traps shoot a projectile that you can dodge by moving your char out of the way.
-Mark & Recall can save you trouble coming back to places with very confusing layout or navigation (looking at you, Vivec City)
-Frenzy allows you to force NPCs that refuse to talk to you to attack you. It's not considered assault
-Enchantments recharge by themselves while resting, but you can also Soultrap own summons
Alternate title: Beginner's Guide to Being a Dangerous Psychopath in Morrowind
Taunt Trebonius Artorias (if you're not doing mages guild) to make him aggro so you can take his op staff and the Necromancer's Amulet
YES. Every time.