About the Corprus thing, the guy who heals you said that the cure only removes the disease's negative effects while retaining its positives. So the buffs staying after being 'cured' is intended.
@@goreobsessed2308 Well. He is a god. How can you question a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape.
You can also read the scrolls like they're books. They're all written in Daedric, and most of them just read "woe upon you". A few are different: the scrolls that heal Blight on yourself and others actually sound like a prayer, the Scroll of Icarian Flight reads "from the earth to the aether and back", the Scroll of the Winter Guest oft-used in this video reads "greed eventually traps us all" and the Scroll of Fiercely Roasting reads "nine-fold woes and weaknesses upon you heaten servants of darkness". Most notable is the Scroll of Elemental Burst: Fire which contains the same text as a Morag Tong writ of execution two times in a row.
Years ago, I used to frequent a skyrim server that people would post builds to. One build that stood out was a "librarian". A caster that relied entirely on artifacts, scrolls, staffs, and speech. Fun times.
This is my very favorite build in the game! But slight different Wood elf Magic Intelligence Personality Major: Enchant, Alchemy, Restoration, Alteration, Conjuration Minor: Mysticism, Illusion, Mercantile, Armorer, Speechcraft Enchanter/ Alchemist Merchant Early game requires absoloute resourcefulness and dedication considering you cant really fight and very squishy Determination leads to an utterly broken endgame with complete freedom to specialize in any weapon or armor type.
Scroll merchants buy items that are enchanted or can be enchanted, because scrolls are enchanted paper (and yes, you can make your own with the enchant system). Since alchemy ingredients are consumable and cannot be enchanted, scroll merchants don't buy them.
The problem is that while game supports the creation of scrolls, there is not a single paper that holds viable amount of capacity to shoot proper spells. Also, you need to actually know the spell to enchant stuff with desired effect.
@@devingunnels3251 Because it's kinda gutted, unbalanced, never explained and so on. It's rather typical for older games to have a lot of stubs. It comes naturally with a lot of people pioneering genres, roleplay systems, trying out the lore and so on. Many studios started as either some mishmash of folks almost looking like college fraternity or tight-knit collectives of friends, coworkers and such. That's what you essentially had: a lot of passion projects, with end product scale being VERY fluid as wild imagination hits the ceiling of limited skills and even more limited hardware. Publishers still had their grasps, but it was mostly long series curse (Think Might & Magic, Ultima and such) and even then it was mostly a rush thing, not in-project meddling.
@@devingunnels3251 I think paper only has a max enchanting value of like 3, so there's not a lot you can even create that's useful. It has to be something that's extremely cheap, and you can use within a very short period of time, like levitation or charm.
Haha, When you were saying "Imagine a world where murder was just a fine-able offense" and then started to describe how it would work, I started to laugh because it didn't dawn on me that you were about to explain, "That's the Morag Tong!" But that system off "Legal Assassins" really did exist at different periods throughout history. The Middle-east and Japan in particular had interesting laws regarding assassins, mercenaries, and bounty hunters.
Also if I'm not mistaken, the nordic/germanic tribes would accept the paying of a fine for muder if it was done honorably and the assailant hand himself to the autorities
I think the pun sequence you were going for was: "They've got a BONE to pick with me, but I won't RATTLE them anymore, stop SKULLking around, and be on my MARROW way to deliver this bow."
Drain health is a really good way to finish off damaged enemies. When you were lamenting how it felt like a waste to use another scroll to finish off an opponent who didn't have much health left, yeah, that's what Drain Health is useful for. If it deals more damage than they have health remaining, it's insta-death.
I remember thinking I was a genius playing oblivion as a kid because I realised I could make a drain 100 health for 1 second spell that cost basically no magicka and instantly killed most early game or injured enemies
@@connorbeck575 Lots of spells in Oblivion and Morrowind are cheap and easy to cast, since the duration can be kept low. Use a max strength Feather Spell (Oblivion, of course), and you can always fast travel out. Cheap spell for 1 second too, so TECHNICALLY you can use it even in dungeons, if you're combat skills dont involve running around and keeping distance
@daviddragonheart6798 I made this one too but feathers actually one of the few spells where the buyable ones are way stronger and last longer than what you can make. I think at 50 alteration you can get pack mule which is 150 for like 5 minutes, while you can only make up to 100 for 120 seconds
I finished Morrowind yesterday, I was just watching your videos because I don't have to worry about spoilers now, nice coincidence You should do challenges on other Elder Scrolls games, like playing Daggerfall as a Wereboar, or Redguard without getting clinically depressed
@@Bloodlyshiva There's an actual PC (was it PC? may have been a console) game called Redguard. It's apparently pretty janky, and the voice acting is... well, look up a play-through and see for yourself :)
2:38 "Scroll merchants" are enchanters. They'll buy soul gems and any items that can be enchanted. Soul gems are a "misc" item, so they'll buy other misc items, too. Since scrolls are a "book" item, they'll buy other books, too.
I've never felt more immersed in a game than the time the Telvanni sent me to suppress a slave uprising. As I was flying to the mine they were occupying, I thought to myself, "I did just receive a nice firestorm scroll as payment from my last mission. I'd be shame not to test it out." So I walked in and told them to obey their masters or die. They chose the later. Only one survived the spell. He didn't survive my spiderbite ring.
21:38 I've always headcanoned the adventurers behind the ghost fence as being failed Incarnates. The reason they aren't entombed in the cavern of the incarnate is because the Ashlanders lost the prophecy that the Nerevarine would be an outlander.
I won't lie, I laughed pretty hard at JBN's misunderstanding of how Drain Health works. Not mocking him, I was the exact same way when I first played Morrowind myself like twenty years ago (oh god...). Drain Health is useless for anything besides crafting your own 'instant death' spell by draining like 100+ points of HP for 1 second.
I always took Baar Dau hanging over the city as more of a symbol of Vivecs power rather than a threat or because he couldn't. He stopped a massive object devastating the whole area with a wave of his hand so he just kinda kept it there as a, "Look what I can do! I am truly a god." In looking into it though there is a quest line about it in online where Vivec says that its also because there could be unintended consequences, saying: "...all actions have consequences and pose some risk. Best to leave it alone."
I'm pretty sure he explicitly uses it as a threat. Like I believe it's in the teachings of Vivec that should the peoples' love for Vivec ever fade, Baar Dau would resume its descent.
You'll find this excerpt from the 36 Lessons of Vivec quite telling then.. "Nerevar returned from the heavens and saw the frozen comet looming above the city and asked Vivec if it should be removed, to which Vivec responded 'I would have done so myself if I wanted, silly Hortator. I shall keep it there with its last intention intact, so that if the love of the people of this city for me ever disappear, so shall the power that holds back their destruction.' Nerevar said "Love is under your will only" which pleased Vivec, and he informed Nerevar that he had become a Minister of Truth."
Holy shit, you know about ll in Welsh You actually managed the sound pretty well, and in general I'm impressed and shocked you even know about it. Good on ya.
There is option to destroy Heart of Lorkhan without using Sunder and Keening yourself , but it requires using two NPCs made followers and there is a lot of aggroing and claming involved. You bring them near the heart, sell/pickpocket Sunder and Keening on them and then aggro them. They can hit the heart while trying to hit player
He learned from past comments that scribs are not hostile when they interrupt your rest and instead pets one @ 5:05 instead of killing it. You love to see it
the scrolls for teleportation to shrines were quite handy for hauling loot over huge distances from the quest missions. other than that yeah most ppl didin't bother to use them at all.
IIRC, if you enter the character screens and shuffle your interfaces, you can actually pick up books without reading them by clicking on them while in that menu, in the inverse of how dropping items works. This lets you avoid the cost of higher level skill training by preserving the books for late in the progression. They can also bypass the Governing Attribute limit, and using them on a skill at 100 still counts towards character level ups.
I didn't realize they didn't prevent you from resting after they interrupt you, so when I killed one in a video, I was thoroughly chastised. I'm trying to atone.
I am not a guy who grew up with Runescape and I know that's how you started UA-cam basically, but you seem to really be hitting a stride with these Morrowind videos. It wont last forever, eventually you will get burned out or people will get stale over Morrowind content, but right now your content is really great and I cant wait to see how you develop this channel. I know wherever you go you will succeed, I can just tell that whatever the "thing" is, which separates the good from the bad content creators, you got it. Keep it up champion!
Would love to see the DLCs, absolutely don't care that you go through all the same content in different ways and keep narrating it lol I absolutely love it, this game has so much charm, even if it's broken as heck.
Ok, so for the atronachs, fire is weak to ice and ice to fire, while the storm atronach doesn't care what you use unless it's shock, which obviously doesn't do much. Kinda silly and it really feels like there'd be a pokemon style type match-up as you mentioned, there just isn't. Seems Bethesda cared more about the lore than balancing back when they established this stuff in the 90's. Ash vampires are Dunmer, so they should take fire pretty well, but they're also classified as vampires (despite not being actual Molag Bal vampires, but whatever), so they're more weak to fire than resistant to it. No idea if your questions were serious, but if anyone was genuinely wondering, here it is.
There was a video on an effect titled "water damage" and it is unknown if it was going to be another element to use or if it was just drowning damage....or was that Oblivion? Eh, to lazy to look; it was a video I watched a long time ago.
Ah yes, the age old technique of being stealthy. BLASTING EVERYONE YOU SEE WITH BALLS OF MAGICAL FIRE. Yes Dagoth, I am a sneaky assassin with no honor, how could you tell?
I once did a run as a orc mage that couldn't cast spells, so I just used enchanted items and beat people up with my staff. Probably the most fun run I had in the last few years. Also got really good use out of the insane amounts of juiced Telvanni loot (ironically the rewards are so much better for a non spellcaster than a caster).
Would love to see a sort of "false mage" challenge run where you only use spells from enchanted items. To give it some semblance of actual challenge, no paying enchanters to make the items for you, and no soul-trapping summons.
i played the game like that - it was quite awesome. the constant hunt for bonelords in crypts to get more soul gems and to capture the bone lords in them to be used like clips in the assault rifle are used :D - spare ammo :D
19:00 To answer that, Vivec does not want to remove it , to him it was a symbol of faith. A reminder of why the Dunmer should be Grateful for him. (Vivec is self-absorbed if that was not obvious) . After his disappearance, The Dunmer used a Device called the Ingeinum to keep it stuck in time. Yet they could not maintain it. Leading the thing to blast straight to the ground starting the events of Red Year. As for reflect, countless ways to deal with it. dispel on touch first comes to mind! most reflections are precentile based and they are not very high so enough willpower makes damage minuscule. Even more so if you have spell absorption or resistance to the element you are using allowing you to blast freely.
Considering the story of Morrowind is, arguably, a prisoner is pushed into a foreign land in order to weaken the power of the living gods (the only people keeping the Empire from going full annexation) utilizing ancient Dwemer artifacts, it is really on theme for the 'Neverine' to be an Imperial conman whose only defining trait is being able to read
I absolutely love this video and this channel. Morrowind always had a special place in my heart and there is nothing more relaxing than watching videos about it.
since you never bothered with summoning you should do a summoning playthrough next, morrowinds summoning is probably the best of any tes game (not sure about daggerfall/arena) there is no limit on the amount you can have if you have the same summon in a different spell so you could make a build around having a literal army of summons
Finding your channel is such a blessing. Been listening to these while i fall asleep. Im 30 now but i used to play this in middleschool at my friends house and we would go archery and hunt wolves at the dlc fort island place. What an amazing game.
I love how you are both learning things and showing some of your own knowledge- its wonderful to experience you doing all this as someone who has played this far too much Keep it up fam!
Love your videos, just now discovering. Always see people making Skyrim content but never enough Morrowind or Oblivion content. Thank you for exploring these amazing games!
How do you combat spell reflect? By casting spells you are resistant, immune to or by using effects of spell absorb. Joining Telvanni gives a quest that rewards a ring with 100% spell absorb for 30s, making you spell immune and if it gets Reflected you get all your magicka back. Spell absorb or using spells that your chosen race is immune to (like Nords being immune to Frost) is the best way to combat Reflect. You can use Reflect yourself, but if enemy also has Reflect, the spell will still hit you because it can be reflected only once. Resist element restoration spells are quite cheap and easy to cast.
A good idea is "Can you beat morrowind only using enchantments" as you can create some really powerful damaging enchantments, utility, and even soul trap, it would have a rough start but if you can get a good soul trap + damage and soul gems you're set.
that's an entire build. you can straight up.. boost intelligence stats first abuse alchemy too.. then get spells that boost your skills you need specifically conjuration for soul trap.. level up to get dark brotherhood to attack you. let them attack you and take them out. take their armor, repair it then sell it to Creeper.. Once you get like 30k gold. at this point. You can really start your enchantment build... all clothing should boost attributes you find useful and stats such as health and fatique. Also boost skills you find most useful.. If you can boost these things to 150. You have pretty much hit end game, and it is 100% doable within a couple of hours of playing.
@@sky1155 sell DB armor to Creeper or Talking Mudcrab Merchant.. This is actually a lot easier and more achievable than people think. Without the need for console commands I've done this on console... The game basically begs you to exploit it.
there are a lot of content creators making elder scrolls and morrowind stuff, but you are my favorite by far, I could watch these videos for hours without getting bored
i watch your morrowind vids when im laying down to rest and i genuinely think i have yet to finish a singular video you have uploaded and im 99% sure i've watched all of them 4-5 times each
I'm so grateful for UA-cam recommending your channel. These are incredibly interesting and enjoyable, even though I understand nothing about these games.
An interesting quirk of the magic system in morrowind is spells have duration, the minimum duration being 1 second. When casting magic, the effects don't stack if they're of the same ID. The consequence of this is if you spam an enchant is it doesn't go through the entire over time duration, interrupting itself with the next roll. As for elements vs. absorb health, absorb health is generally a very expensive spell. Elemental destruction and heal of the same amount is more magicka efficient to do the same effect. Some races are immune or resistant to elements meaning that reflect won't do anything bad to them. Enchanting is just broken with how readily available absorb health is
Yes! new video lets go, love the content man. It's hard for me to get into older elder scrolls cuz the nostalgia isnt there (never played) but your videos show how cool the world is! Keep it up!!
Started watching your stuff in early December and i have loved the morrowind challenges, its given me a newfound reason to pick up morrowind again! So i just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work and ill be waiting for more fantastic content!
I wasn't really paying attention and was half listening but I heard "A New hand" and then "No Miridia wrong game" and that's when I goofy laughed and also clicked subscribe
Destruction spells typically cost less mana to use, and some creatures have weaknesses to exploit. A Dunmer can drink a small resist fire potion and then feel free to rain fireballs about. Its one of the ways to melt Ice Atronachs without RNG killing you.
24:59 The Cavern of the Incarnate is in the Valley of the Wind because Morrowind draws so much from Nausicaa, not JUST the art direction, but even the main story has a lot of parallels with the Manga version.
My first morrowind playthrough as a teen was a scroll run. I didnt understand the hit rate mechanic for melee/ranged, or the cast rate for magic, so I would go around collecting all the free scrolls from the mages guild to start, steal chitin armor in Vivec, and sell to Caldera scamp that I randomly found while exploring. Love Morrowind so much for that reason. It let me play how I wanted to, and successfully! I finished the mages guild and became archmage with scrolls only haha.
This was enjoyable as fuck to watch. No screaming or yelling, and genuinely funny! This is the first Morrowind playthrough I've been able to enjoy in about 15 years lol.
Beautiful work. I *still* haven't played through Morrowind completely (despite having first tried 20+ years ago), but this sort of challenge inspires me to keep going. Fortunately, you taught me about magic reflection, so I will pay attention for that now :)
Oh hey, just watched two other videos to find this one popping up. Nice! It's refreshing to see morrowind-specific challenges and videos, considering it came out in the early days where youtube didn't really was a thing. Time to dust off my Morrowind CDs, i guess.
I'm Welsh and I'm very impressed you knew the Double L was characteristic of the Welsh language, and your pronunciation wasn't half bad either! Mad respect . Also love the channel, keep the great content coming!
Love the innovative challenges, and the drips of lore. We've got pretty similar level of knowledge, so this level of detail into mechanics is perfect for me. Cheers!
Please keep up these videos! Your voice is super calming to listen to! Have you thought about adding an additional bit to some runs? Like "using only a dagger, but i have to beat (...) questline first"?
Btw to anyone watching, Unarmored is bugged unless using mods to patch it or OpenMW. Also to simplify the whole Mercantile thing: Basically just try and ask for 1% extra in profit OR 1% less in cost when haggling with merchants (where possible), and buy or sell items one at a time. That's one of the most efficient ways to level that skill beyond the usual with trainers. On a similar note, having maxed out stats can actually hurt you if their opinion of you is maxed out in an unpatched non-OpenMW version of the game, so you actually wanna make them dislike you, just a bit, to get around that. I mean hey, you *could* actually stand around and transform into a horrifying eldritch creature with the *right mod* after all, which has a whole (if a bit incomplete/old) alt ending to the game included. "Can you imagine if Absorb Health...." YEP! Cuz that's how it works in vanilla! "Goddamn reflect!" Honestly that is one thing that... *gag* Oblivion did better than this, by making Reflect a % of returned magic/physical damage back, rather than a % chance to reflect all/nothing. Something helpful (if rather heartless) you can do is buy all the other slaves in the Tel Aruhn slave market, and use them as meatshields to help clear out enemies while you're escorting her to the Zainab Camp. Then anyone who survives you free, or don't, honestly they'll follow you around forever (but they really have no other use besides, without mods). Well the Telvanni have a 'supremacist' mindset, and it's that mentality is precisely *why* their group exists at all. They all agree that they, as Dunmeri wizards, are basically the best thing since sliced cheese, and they have the power to back that up. It is also why they are iconoclastic, they don't really see the Tribunal as gods/beings worthy of worship like lesser beings might. Especially since the strongest members of the Telvanni are as old and nearly as powerful as the Tribunal (see: Divayth Fyr). They also are some of the wealthiest Dunmer, between their slave holdings and personal skills they've gotten tons of gold over their centuries of life. In particular, enchanting is a Telvanni specialty (which this is also reflected in-game too, some of the best non-artifact items you can get as rewards are from their questline). I admit little surprised you didn't join the Imperial Cult, or at least go to where one quest leads you, which has a semi-unique and very strong scroll lies. Still, great vid otherwise and look forward to the next one.
I'm pretty sure reflect spell in Oblivion is still a % chance of all/nothing. It's only reflect damage that reflects a particular percentage of damage back.
@@logan_wolf Hmm, would need to remember and double check. Could've sworn it was % reflected. Even so, the sheer number of enemies with reflect in Morrowind can get grating.
scrolls are awesome early game. With just a unhinging scroll you can get the vassir disadant daedric weapon reward. Get a few winter guests and you can kill the flame atronach inside and loot all the ebony too. Mark and recall pots at the white haven Balmora alchemist, and you sell her the ebony you took from the mine for big bucks. With just those few scrolls and the mark recall pots you can quickly get over 30k gold and a daedric weapon at the jump start of the game.
Started playing Morrowind after postponing it for over a decade (first TES game I played was Oblivion and then got stuck for years on Skyrim) and I use ALL the scrolls. Can't open a lock? Use a open lock scroll. Got into too hard of a dungeon? Use a damage scroll. Don't want to go around that mountain? Use Icarian Flight scroll. Die. Walk around said mountain. Using scrolls solves everything!
As others have mentioned, it would be neat to see you go through expansions I played morrowind as a kid and have great memories but we never got the expansions. I tried getting into it as an adult and I can't unfortunately. I like the way you storytell and worlds definitely enjoy a video in the expansion areas. I don't really care about lore enough to watch videos on it but I enjoy how you talk about quests or tiny bite size lore like in another vid you mention how the kwarma and miners get along as you were killing the poachers
First time I played this game I accidentally beat one of the endgame ash vampire bosses at lvl 1 without cheesing or meta knowledge. Suffice to say, I think you can beat this game with a wooden spoon. Difficulty is not its strength!
I love your videos so much, Morrowind has been my favourite game for as long as I can remember (it's only a few months older than me pahaha) and your videos are so entertaining and nostalgic, and I learn things even to this day! your humour is amazing too, yes, even the de-liver joke...
I always figured the corpses in the Ash Vampire citadels were Tribunal Temple crusaders and Buoyant Armigers who came through Ghostgate, considering the number of artifacts you have to retrieve for them during their questline.
This was fun to watch. Morrowind is my favorite elder scrolls game. But last time i played it an npc didn’t show up so i was softlocked from the main story.
just found this channel, and wow you deserve more views, probably got reccomended this because of runescape but tbh this content is good. you should do more games like this!
"Only Scrolls" is the magical channel that wizards use to share imagery of their most explicit curses and incantations.
Underrated comment!
It's all damage willpower scrolls in there.
Those on Only Scrolls are fools, the wisest of wizards use Scroll Hub for it is free.
@@pyotrilyichtchaikovskyii6638 those and command humanoid
or bibliophilic smut
Finally. Beating the Elder Scrolls with Elder Scrolls
Finally, Scroll
I'm annoyed that you beat me to it, but also quite pleased. So have a thumbs up.
actually it's not same "elder scrolls" as in name 🤓👆
@@idk.-.d That...That's the joke
@@azmakikian5400 o ma gad relly?
"Drain health" reduces maximum health for the time of the spell. You were looking for a "damage health" spell
Oh...that explains things.
@JustBackgroundNoise were you thinking absorb health?
Absorb health is even better, because it refills your health and doesn't hurt you if the enemy reflects it.
kinda false advertising to call something that reduces max health drain health.
they should've called it something else to not confuse the player.
Thousands of hours on Morrowind and just realised THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT HURT HEALTH SPELL
"You'd think he'd use better than a level 20 lock. His foolishness deserves punishment."
Spoken like a true Telvanni.
When in Doubt: Blow them to Seyda Neen! (Lol)
Our boy got jebaited by the Drain/Damage dichotomy. He’s now a true TES Player.
About the Corprus thing, the guy who heals you said that the cure only removes the disease's negative effects while retaining its positives. So the buffs staying after being 'cured' is intended.
So it's like if cancer gave you health regen.
@@randomindividual948 Deadpool:
@@randomindividual948yep corpus is designed to make the "strong" better dagoth ur is a crazy dude
Thats how i got 2000 strength
@@goreobsessed2308 Well. He is a god. How can you question a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape.
You can also read the scrolls like they're books. They're all written in Daedric, and most of them just read "woe upon you". A few are different: the scrolls that heal Blight on yourself and others actually sound like a prayer, the Scroll of Icarian Flight reads "from the earth to the aether and back", the Scroll of the Winter Guest oft-used in this video reads "greed eventually traps us all" and the Scroll of Fiercely Roasting reads "nine-fold woes and weaknesses upon you heaten servants of darkness".
Most notable is the Scroll of Elemental Burst: Fire which contains the same text as a Morag Tong writ of execution two times in a row.
My favorite is Baleful Suffering
SUFFER NO FOOLS. INVOKE WITH NO DOUBTS, NO HESITATION.
Too bad it's a terrible spell.
If the dude wrote "from the earth to the aether and back SAFELY", he'd be alive.
smh novice enchanters and their recklessness.
Golden Saint's is just straight up "BEHOLD"
Ahh the classic, what does this scroll do? Flies 20 miles into the sky in half a second.
It's great if you make a levitate to catch yourself with
I can hear the icarian flight scream from here.
Shame we cant get more than 3 of those.
@@daviddragonheart6798 you can create your own
Years ago, I used to frequent a skyrim server that people would post builds to. One build that stood out was a "librarian". A caster that relied entirely on artifacts, scrolls, staffs, and speech.
Fun times.
This is my very favorite build in the game! But slight different
Wood elf
Magic
Intelligence
Personality
Major: Enchant, Alchemy, Restoration, Alteration, Conjuration
Minor: Mysticism, Illusion, Mercantile, Armorer, Speechcraft
Enchanter/ Alchemist Merchant
Early game requires absoloute resourcefulness and dedication considering you cant really fight and very squishy
Determination leads to an utterly broken endgame with complete freedom to specialize in any weapon or armor type.
You'd think a librarian would use silence and not speech craft?
Scroll merchants buy items that are enchanted or can be enchanted, because scrolls are enchanted paper (and yes, you can make your own with the enchant system). Since alchemy ingredients are consumable and cannot be enchanted, scroll merchants don't buy them.
The problem is that while game supports the creation of scrolls, there is not a single paper that holds viable amount of capacity to shoot proper spells. Also, you need to actually know the spell to enchant stuff with desired effect.
@@burningsinner1132 I just used to them put copy pastas in text form for the morrowind mp server I was in
I've played through Morrowind four times and NEVER knew you could make your own magic scrolls. Amazing
@@devingunnels3251 Because it's kinda gutted, unbalanced, never explained and so on.
It's rather typical for older games to have a lot of stubs. It comes naturally with a lot of people pioneering genres, roleplay systems, trying out the lore and so on. Many studios started as either some mishmash of folks almost looking like college fraternity or tight-knit collectives of friends, coworkers and such.
That's what you essentially had: a lot of passion projects, with end product scale being VERY fluid as wild imagination hits the ceiling of limited skills and even more limited hardware. Publishers still had their grasps, but it was mostly long series curse (Think Might & Magic, Ultima and such) and even then it was mostly a rush thing, not in-project meddling.
@@devingunnels3251 I think paper only has a max enchanting value of like 3, so there's not a lot you can even create that's useful. It has to be something that's extremely cheap, and you can use within a very short period of time, like levitation or charm.
Haha, When you were saying "Imagine a world where murder was just a fine-able offense" and then started to describe how it would work, I started to laugh because it didn't dawn on me that you were about to explain, "That's the Morag Tong!" But that system off "Legal Assassins" really did exist at different periods throughout history. The Middle-east and Japan in particular had interesting laws regarding assassins, mercenaries, and bounty hunters.
Also if I'm not mistaken, the nordic/germanic tribes would accept the paying of a fine for muder if it was done honorably and the assailant hand himself to the autorities
At the end of the day, if any criminal activity is only punished by a fine, it only punishes the poor
The American West was full of it too.
I think the pun sequence you were going for was:
"They've got a BONE to pick with me, but I won't RATTLE them anymore, stop SKULLking around, and be on my MARROW way to deliver this bow."
"I am a God. How can you kill a God? - "Uh, by like, buying some stuff off the shelf from the store"
The TOP shelf at least
“Later never comes” is probably the best quote I’m gonna hear this year
Drain health is a really good way to finish off damaged enemies. When you were lamenting how it felt like a waste to use another scroll to finish off an opponent who didn't have much health left, yeah, that's what Drain Health is useful for. If it deals more damage than they have health remaining, it's insta-death.
I remember thinking I was a genius playing oblivion as a kid because I realised I could make a drain 100 health for 1 second spell that cost basically no magicka and instantly killed most early game or injured enemies
@@connorbeck575 pairing it with soul trap on a bow will get you through the entire game with unlimited soul gems.
@@connorbeck575 Lots of spells in Oblivion and Morrowind are cheap and easy to cast, since the duration can be kept low.
Use a max strength Feather Spell (Oblivion, of course), and you can always fast travel out. Cheap spell for 1 second too, so TECHNICALLY you can use it even in dungeons, if you're combat skills dont involve running around and keeping distance
@daviddragonheart6798 I made this one too but feathers actually one of the few spells where the buyable ones are way stronger and last longer than what you can make.
I think at 50 alteration you can get pack mule which is 150 for like 5 minutes, while you can only make up to 100 for 120 seconds
I finished Morrowind yesterday, I was just watching your videos because I don't have to worry about spoilers now, nice coincidence
You should do challenges on other Elder Scrolls games, like playing Daggerfall as a Wereboar, or Redguard without getting clinically depressed
Asking people to play Redguard should be a crime.
@plebisMaximus pay the fine or go to jail!
@@plebisMaximus Why would Redguard make you depressed? Wait. Are we talking the race, or something else?....
@@Bloodlyshiva There's an actual PC (was it PC? may have been a console) game called Redguard. It's apparently pretty janky, and the voice acting is... well, look up a play-through and see for yourself :)
2:38
"Scroll merchants" are enchanters. They'll buy soul gems and any items that can be enchanted.
Soul gems are a "misc" item, so they'll buy other misc items, too.
Since scrolls are a "book" item, they'll buy other books, too.
I've never felt more immersed in a game than the time the Telvanni sent me to suppress a slave uprising. As I was flying to the mine they were occupying, I thought to myself, "I did just receive a nice firestorm scroll as payment from my last mission. I'd be shame not to test it out." So I walked in and told them to obey their masters or die. They chose the later. Only one survived the spell. He didn't survive my spiderbite ring.
Morrowind challenge runs have become a thing because of you.
May others follow your path n'wah
dude said n'wah instead of sera. I am done XD lol
21:38 I've always headcanoned the adventurers behind the ghost fence as being failed Incarnates. The reason they aren't entombed in the cavern of the incarnate is because the Ashlanders lost the prophecy that the Nerevarine would be an outlander.
I won't lie, I laughed pretty hard at JBN's misunderstanding of how Drain Health works. Not mocking him, I was the exact same way when I first played Morrowind myself like twenty years ago (oh god...). Drain Health is useless for anything besides crafting your own 'instant death' spell by draining like 100+ points of HP for 1 second.
I always took Baar Dau hanging over the city as more of a symbol of Vivecs power rather than a threat or because he couldn't. He stopped a massive object devastating the whole area with a wave of his hand so he just kinda kept it there as a, "Look what I can do! I am truly a god."
In looking into it though there is a quest line about it in online where Vivec says that its also because there could be unintended consequences, saying: "...all actions have consequences and pose some risk. Best to leave it alone."
I'm pretty sure he explicitly uses it as a threat. Like I believe it's in the teachings of Vivec that should the peoples' love for Vivec ever fade, Baar Dau would resume its descent.
You'll find this excerpt from the 36 Lessons of Vivec quite telling then..
"Nerevar returned from the heavens and saw the frozen comet looming above the city and asked Vivec if it should be removed, to which Vivec responded 'I would have done so myself if I wanted, silly Hortator. I shall keep it there with its last intention intact, so that if the love of the people of this city for me ever disappear, so shall the power that holds back their destruction.' Nerevar said "Love is under your will only" which pleased Vivec, and he informed Nerevar that he had become a Minister of Truth."
Holy shit, you know about ll in Welsh
You actually managed the sound pretty well, and in general I'm impressed and shocked you even know about it. Good on ya.
Yeah, us native speakers would be able to understand him speaking it just fine pronounced like that.
There is option to destroy Heart of Lorkhan without using Sunder and Keening yourself , but it requires using two NPCs made followers and there is a lot of aggroing and claming involved. You bring them near the heart, sell/pickpocket Sunder and Keening on them and then aggro them. They can hit the heart while trying to hit player
He learned from past comments that scribs are not hostile when they interrupt your rest and instead pets one @ 5:05 instead of killing it.
You love to see it
You won me over by actually looking up the the linguistic term for the welsh phoneme and giving it your genuine best attempt
Great stuff never used the Scrolls in any Elder Scrolls just easy gold. Plus as someone from Wales it’s nice to see you tried with the double Ll’s.
the scrolls for teleportation to shrines were quite handy for hauling loot over huge distances from the quest missions. other than that yeah most ppl didin't bother to use them at all.
IIRC, if you enter the character screens and shuffle your interfaces, you can actually pick up books without reading them by clicking on them while in that menu, in the inverse of how dropping items works. This lets you avoid the cost of higher level skill training by preserving the books for late in the progression. They can also bypass the Governing Attribute limit, and using them on a skill at 100 still counts towards character level ups.
"Can you imagine a world where murder is legal if you have enough money to cover it"
Boeing: Hold my beer.
Awww you pet scrib!
I thought i'm the only one who does silly things like that in this legally-old-enough-to-drink game.
I didn't realize they didn't prevent you from resting after they interrupt you, so when I killed one in a video, I was thoroughly chastised. I'm trying to atone.
But... the alchemy ingredients...
@@aetherius6221 seek god and pet your cat/dog
I am not a guy who grew up with Runescape and I know that's how you started UA-cam basically, but you seem to really be hitting a stride with these Morrowind videos. It wont last forever, eventually you will get burned out or people will get stale over Morrowind content, but right now your content is really great and I cant wait to see how you develop this channel. I know wherever you go you will succeed, I can just tell that whatever the "thing" is, which separates the good from the bad content creators, you got it. Keep it up champion!
The petting of the scrib that woke you up in the beginning was wholesome and gave me a smile :)
Would love to see the DLCs, absolutely don't care that you go through all the same content in different ways and keep narrating it lol I absolutely love it, this game has so much charm, even if it's broken as heck.
Ok, so for the atronachs, fire is weak to ice and ice to fire, while the storm atronach doesn't care what you use unless it's shock, which obviously doesn't do much. Kinda silly and it really feels like there'd be a pokemon style type match-up as you mentioned, there just isn't. Seems Bethesda cared more about the lore than balancing back when they established this stuff in the 90's. Ash vampires are Dunmer, so they should take fire pretty well, but they're also classified as vampires (despite not being actual Molag Bal vampires, but whatever), so they're more weak to fire than resistant to it. No idea if your questions were serious, but if anyone was genuinely wondering, here it is.
There was a video on an effect titled "water damage" and it is unknown if it was going to be another element to use or if it was just drowning damage....or was that Oblivion? Eh, to lazy to look; it was a video I watched a long time ago.
Ah yes, the age old technique of being stealthy. BLASTING EVERYONE YOU SEE WITH BALLS OF MAGICAL FIRE. Yes Dagoth, I am a sneaky assassin with no honor, how could you tell?
You see, killing everyone who noticed you is kinda stealthy.
I once did a run as a orc mage that couldn't cast spells, so I just used enchanted items and beat people up with my staff. Probably the most fun run I had in the last few years. Also got really good use out of the insane amounts of juiced Telvanni loot (ironically the rewards are so much better for a non spellcaster than a caster).
Would love to see a sort of "false mage" challenge run where you only use spells from enchanted items. To give it some semblance of actual challenge, no paying enchanters to make the items for you, and no soul-trapping summons.
This is my current and first playthrough lol, it's not much of a challenge enchanted items are very strong.
i played the game like that - it was quite awesome. the constant hunt for bonelords in crypts to get more soul gems and to capture the bone lords in them to be used like clips in the assault rifle are used :D - spare ammo :D
19:00 To answer that, Vivec does not want to remove it , to him it was a symbol of faith. A reminder of why the Dunmer should be Grateful for him. (Vivec is self-absorbed if that was not obvious) . After his disappearance, The Dunmer used a Device called the Ingeinum to keep it stuck in time. Yet they could not maintain it. Leading the thing to blast straight to the ground starting the events of Red Year.
As for reflect, countless ways to deal with it. dispel on touch first comes to mind! most reflections are precentile based and they are not very high so enough willpower makes damage minuscule. Even more so if you have spell absorption or resistance to the element you are using allowing you to blast freely.
Considering the story of Morrowind is, arguably, a prisoner is pushed into a foreign land in order to weaken the power of the living gods (the only people keeping the Empire from going full annexation) utilizing ancient Dwemer artifacts, it is really on theme for the 'Neverine' to be an Imperial conman whose only defining trait is being able to read
I absolutely love this video and this channel. Morrowind always had a special place in my heart and there is nothing more relaxing than watching videos about it.
since you never bothered with summoning you should do a summoning playthrough next, morrowinds summoning is probably the best of any tes game (not sure about daggerfall/arena) there is no limit on the amount you can have if you have the same summon in a different spell so you could make a build around having a literal army of summons
Yesss.
Running around with a skeleton army is weirdly viable.
Vivic bless the youtube algorithm for showing me more morrowind vids that just dropped
Finding your channel is such a blessing. Been listening to these while i fall asleep. Im 30 now but i used to play this in middleschool at my friends house and we would go archery and hunt wolves at the dlc fort island place. What an amazing game.
I love how you are both learning things and showing some of your own knowledge- its wonderful to experience you doing all this as someone who has played this far too much
Keep it up fam!
Love your videos, just now discovering. Always see people making Skyrim content but never enough Morrowind or Oblivion content. Thank you for exploring these amazing games!
"Against a Dark Background" by Iain M Banks has "Hunting Passports" which work as a pre-paid murder bounty
How do you combat spell reflect? By casting spells you are resistant, immune to or by using effects of spell absorb. Joining Telvanni gives a quest that rewards a ring with 100% spell absorb for 30s, making you spell immune and if it gets Reflected you get all your magicka back. Spell absorb or using spells that your chosen race is immune to (like Nords being immune to Frost) is the best way to combat Reflect. You can use Reflect yourself, but if enemy also has Reflect, the spell will still hit you because it can be reflected only once. Resist element restoration spells are quite cheap and easy to cast.
use absorb health instead of damage health just in general but also specifically to combat reflects.
A good idea is "Can you beat morrowind only using enchantments" as you can create some really powerful damaging enchantments, utility, and even soul trap, it would have a rough start but if you can get a good soul trap + damage and soul gems you're set.
Or just get Aryon's gloves, they are seriously over powered
Tha hardest part is the set up, get enough gold to train enchant, a couple int potions then enchant "fortify enchant" and you're groovin
that's an entire build. you can straight up.. boost intelligence stats first abuse alchemy too.. then get spells that boost your skills you need specifically conjuration for soul trap.. level up to get dark brotherhood to attack you. let them attack you and take them out. take their armor, repair it then sell it to Creeper.. Once you get like 30k gold. at this point. You can really start your enchantment build... all clothing should boost attributes you find useful and stats such as health and fatique. Also boost skills you find most useful.. If you can boost these things to 150. You have pretty much hit end game, and it is 100% doable within a couple of hours of playing.
@@sky1155 sell DB armor to Creeper or Talking Mudcrab Merchant.. This is actually a lot easier and more achievable than people think. Without the need for console commands I've done this on console... The game basically begs you to exploit it.
@@lordblazer yeah I feel it becomes kinda broken for a challenge run 😅
That immediate demonstration of the power of high Mercantile and Personality was pretty amazing.
there are a lot of content creators making elder scrolls and morrowind stuff, but you are my favorite by far, I could watch these videos for hours without getting bored
A league is a distance, the item refers to the mythological "seven-league boots".
i watch your morrowind vids when im laying down to rest and i genuinely think i have yet to finish a singular video you have uploaded and im 99% sure i've watched all of them 4-5 times each
Im so jealous dude... I grew up playing this on xbox...
I had no idea it could look so good 🤘
I'm so grateful for UA-cam recommending your channel. These are incredibly interesting and enjoyable, even though I understand nothing about these games.
An interesting quirk of the magic system in morrowind is spells have duration, the minimum duration being 1 second. When casting magic, the effects don't stack if they're of the same ID. The consequence of this is if you spam an enchant is it doesn't go through the entire over time duration, interrupting itself with the next roll.
As for elements vs. absorb health, absorb health is generally a very expensive spell. Elemental destruction and heal of the same amount is more magicka efficient to do the same effect. Some races are immune or resistant to elements meaning that reflect won't do anything bad to them. Enchanting is just broken with how readily available absorb health is
"In a world like that, there'd probably be something like murder as a service"
Because contract killing? It's a beat we can all dance to.
Love the Morrowind Videos, keep it up 😊
Absolutely love the idea of some chatty imperial turning up and proceeding to fix everything by reading words off random scrolls. Awesome videos.
Scrib friend is best thing to wake up to
Yes! new video lets go, love the content man. It's hard for me to get into older elder scrolls cuz the nostalgia isnt there (never played) but your videos show how cool the world is! Keep it up!!
i love to see you keeping one of the best ES games alive to this day in the YT community love your videos inspired some of my playthroughs too
Congrats on the recent channel boom bro
Started watching your stuff in early December and i have loved the morrowind challenges, its given me a newfound reason to pick up morrowind again! So i just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work and ill be waiting for more fantastic content!
I wasn't really paying attention and was half listening but I heard
"A New hand" and then "No Miridia wrong game" and that's when I goofy laughed and also clicked subscribe
Destruction spells typically cost less mana to use, and some creatures have weaknesses to exploit.
A Dunmer can drink a small resist fire potion and then feel free to rain fireballs about. Its one of the ways to melt Ice Atronachs without RNG killing you.
24:59 The Cavern of the Incarnate is in the Valley of the Wind because Morrowind draws so much from Nausicaa, not JUST the art direction, but even the main story has a lot of parallels with the Manga version.
this run is canon and Weepingbell Hall is named after his pokemon summoning strategy
My first morrowind playthrough as a teen was a scroll run. I didnt understand the hit rate mechanic for melee/ranged, or the cast rate for magic, so I would go around collecting all the free scrolls from the mages guild to start, steal chitin armor in Vivec, and sell to Caldera scamp that I randomly found while exploring. Love Morrowind so much for that reason. It let me play how I wanted to, and successfully! I finished the mages guild and became archmage with scrolls only haha.
This was enjoyable as fuck to watch. No screaming or yelling, and genuinely funny! This is the first Morrowind playthrough I've been able to enjoy in about 15 years lol.
Beautiful work. I *still* haven't played through Morrowind completely (despite having first tried 20+ years ago), but this sort of challenge inspires me to keep going. Fortunately, you taught me about magic reflection, so I will pay attention for that now :)
Oh hey, just watched two other videos to find this one popping up. Nice!
It's refreshing to see morrowind-specific challenges and videos, considering it came out in the early days where youtube didn't really was a thing.
Time to dust off my Morrowind CDs, i guess.
Really enjoying the Morrowind videos. Keep it up.
33:22 I think there is something magical about that voice and background music playing, it feel very nostalgic
I'm Welsh and I'm very impressed you knew the Double L was characteristic of the Welsh language, and your pronunciation wasn't half bad either! Mad respect . Also love the channel, keep the great content coming!
I love the morrowind content. Hope to see them keep coming. These have made me want to get the game.
Love the innovative challenges, and the drips of lore. We've got pretty similar level of knowledge, so this level of detail into mechanics is perfect for me. Cheers!
Please keep up these videos! Your voice is super calming to listen to! Have you thought about adding an additional bit to some runs? Like "using only a dagger, but i have to beat (...) questline first"?
Bro i love the casualness of your voice overs
Btw to anyone watching, Unarmored is bugged unless using mods to patch it or OpenMW.
Also to simplify the whole Mercantile thing: Basically just try and ask for 1% extra in profit OR 1% less in cost when haggling with merchants (where possible), and buy or sell items one at a time. That's one of the most efficient ways to level that skill beyond the usual with trainers. On a similar note, having maxed out stats can actually hurt you if their opinion of you is maxed out in an unpatched non-OpenMW version of the game, so you actually wanna make them dislike you, just a bit, to get around that.
I mean hey, you *could* actually stand around and transform into a horrifying eldritch creature with the *right mod* after all, which has a whole (if a bit incomplete/old) alt ending to the game included.
"Can you imagine if Absorb Health...." YEP! Cuz that's how it works in vanilla!
"Goddamn reflect!" Honestly that is one thing that... *gag* Oblivion did better than this, by making Reflect a % of returned magic/physical damage back, rather than a % chance to reflect all/nothing.
Something helpful (if rather heartless) you can do is buy all the other slaves in the Tel Aruhn slave market, and use them as meatshields to help clear out enemies while you're escorting her to the Zainab Camp. Then anyone who survives you free, or don't, honestly they'll follow you around forever (but they really have no other use besides, without mods).
Well the Telvanni have a 'supremacist' mindset, and it's that mentality is precisely *why* their group exists at all. They all agree that they, as Dunmeri wizards, are basically the best thing since sliced cheese, and they have the power to back that up. It is also why they are iconoclastic, they don't really see the Tribunal as gods/beings worthy of worship like lesser beings might. Especially since the strongest members of the Telvanni are as old and nearly as powerful as the Tribunal (see: Divayth Fyr). They also are some of the wealthiest Dunmer, between their slave holdings and personal skills they've gotten tons of gold over their centuries of life. In particular, enchanting is a Telvanni specialty (which this is also reflected in-game too, some of the best non-artifact items you can get as rewards are from their questline).
I admit little surprised you didn't join the Imperial Cult, or at least go to where one quest leads you, which has a semi-unique and very strong scroll lies. Still, great vid otherwise and look forward to the next one.
I'm pretty sure reflect spell in Oblivion is still a % chance of all/nothing. It's only reflect damage that reflects a particular percentage of damage back.
@@logan_wolf Hmm, would need to remember and double check. Could've sworn it was % reflected.
Even so, the sheer number of enemies with reflect in Morrowind can get grating.
Your channel got me to go back to morrowind after having played it as a kid. Also, great stuff!
To be fair, the peaceful ashlanders are doing what you did in your pacifist playthrough. They don’t kill anyone and get someone else to do it.
I dropped everything when you uploaded! Another great video ❤
scrolls are awesome early game. With just a unhinging scroll you can get the vassir disadant daedric weapon reward. Get a few winter guests and you can kill the flame atronach inside and loot all the ebony too. Mark and recall pots at the white haven Balmora alchemist, and you sell her the ebony you took from the mine for big bucks.
With just those few scrolls and the mark recall pots you can quickly get over 30k gold and a daedric weapon at the jump start of the game.
"...Around here a freelance adventurer is a common profession..." Caius Cosades. Probably just random adventurers looking for loot.
really loving this morrowind and oblivion content, these are my favorite elder scroll games
Started playing Morrowind after postponing it for over a decade (first TES game I played was Oblivion and then got stuck for years on Skyrim) and I use ALL the scrolls. Can't open a lock? Use a open lock scroll. Got into too hard of a dungeon? Use a damage scroll. Don't want to go around that mountain? Use Icarian Flight scroll. Die. Walk around said mountain. Using scrolls solves everything!
"Your ability to haggle is (...) affected by fatigue"
*insert fatigue bar comment here*
These are the Morrowind challenge videos I've always needed. God bless.
3:29 "I bought nine Winter Guests"
Well damn, I've been playing this game since it came out, and I've always read that as "Winter Gust"
I wanted to listen to this video in the shower but I got a 5 minute ad as soon as I started washing my hair.
Come neravar, whether friend or traitor, come, come, come to me boldly
As others have mentioned, it would be neat to see you go through expansions
I played morrowind as a kid and have great memories but we never got the expansions. I tried getting into it as an adult and I can't unfortunately. I like the way you storytell and worlds definitely enjoy a video in the expansion areas. I don't really care about lore enough to watch videos on it but I enjoy how you talk about quests or tiny bite size lore like in another vid you mention how the kwarma and miners get along as you were killing the poachers
"One does not simply only use scrolls in Morrowind."
-Boromir
First time I played this game I accidentally beat one of the endgame ash vampire bosses at lvl 1 without cheesing or meta knowledge.
Suffice to say, I think you can beat this game with a wooden spoon. Difficulty is not its strength!
I love your videos so much, Morrowind has been my favourite game for as long as I can remember (it's only a few months older than me pahaha) and your videos are so entertaining and nostalgic, and I learn things even to this day!
your humour is amazing too, yes, even the de-liver joke...
I watch your videos when I use the stairs machine at the gym. Thank you for entertaining me during the burn.
This is the best Morrowind run in history, BRASS TACKS, barest of bones.
Came for the Morrowind, stayed for the surprisingly in-depth linguistics lesson
I always figured the corpses in the Ash Vampire citadels were Tribunal Temple crusaders and Buoyant Armigers who came through Ghostgate, considering the number of artifacts you have to retrieve for them during their questline.
This was fun to watch. Morrowind is my favorite elder scrolls game. But last time i played it an npc didn’t show up so i was softlocked from the main story.
just found this channel, and wow you deserve more views, probably got reccomended this because of runescape but tbh this content is good. you should do more games like this!