I do wanna comment on one thing though: Mercantile raises in EXP based on the % extra value you get from a barter (or a % less you buy an item for). Ergo the most efficient method of leveling mercantile is actually to sell exactly 100 gold worth of items to a merchant that likes you (disposition of around 80 is good, but NOT 100, that's bugged) but ask 101 gold for it. Then buy back the same items you just sold for 99 gold. Buying/selling at the item's value doesn't gain you any EXP in Morrowind. As your skill and stats increase, you can start selling 90 gold and asking 91, then buying back at 89. And so on and so forth until you max out the skill. Tbh there's a bunch more math behind the scenes, but for the sake of simplicity, that's the best way of doing it without making it overly complex (and probably getting my comment auto-deleted by RUclips again)
That's very helpful to know. Your comments seem to be coming through just fine. It's odd that they don't seem to appear in the livestream. I've changed the settings so that theoretically, there should be no auto-moderation. But in case there's a problem, use the discord link I sent you earlier to join the channel and write your comments there. I receive notifications so I should see what you write during the stream.
Not saying this is a quick method, but it will gradually work and it's something I've done heaps of times in the many hours I've played Morrowind. If you just want to level up, without much care what will be improved, Sneak is a good skill for it and I saw it's one of your Majors. I would often sneak behind things like Scribs and Mudcrabs, just to get a few points into Sneak. Even following non-hostile creatures, for a few extra points. Boring, but it's an easy thing to do while going from place to place. I'm not sure if you can see progress towards the next skill level in the Xbox version, but you can on PC. Super helpful to ensure you're sneaking correctly (Morrowind is a great game...but it's not perfect). Also, I wouldn't recommend getting levels through Armourer. In my 2nd playthrough, I repaired everything myself, even the gear of the enemies I killed, just to improve that skill as much as possible. By the end of my playthrough, main story, Tribunal Temple, and the Bloodmoon DLC, it still wasn't close to level 100. That skill is slow as a turtle. Hand-to-Hand is the fastest skill I've ever seen, but not helpful for this challenge. Just to throw my hat into the Alchemy argument. I'd say it's just mashing plants with water by using a mortar and pestle. Magic? Where? You can also eat ingredients for that skill. I think it's okay, but if you would rather play it safe and avoid it, I get that too. I hope I can provide more advice in the future. I'm no expert, but I've watched a lot of videos about this game by MickyD and Just Background Noise.
I'mma be honest, is there some other way of talking to you about this challenge run? Cuz RUclips deleting my comment automatically the other day really steamed me, much as I wanna help, yet I don't feel like dealing with trying to type out yet another one if it's also gonna be culled through no fault of my own (or yours, not blaming you for it). I tried your Discord invite in the description but it was expired.
That is really bizarre, I will check the settings, I don't know why RUclips keeps removing stuff. Here is the link to my discord discord.gg/kj7zQxjHrW I've created a new channel called #cdl (chat during livestream) Feel free to use that when you want to chat during the livestream and are having problems using RUclips.
@@TheReconJacob Well I'm not watching the livestreams while live. I haven't been on/around when you are doing them so far, so I'm trying to leave normal comments to the video. And whenever they seem to get too long RUclips auto-deletes em. Which is real annoying.
@@TheReconJacobAlso did get into the server thankfully. Appreciated on the link. May be best to delete that from your comment, to avoid the spam bots flooding the place now.
I do wanna comment on one thing though: Mercantile raises in EXP based on the % extra value you get from a barter (or a % less you buy an item for).
Ergo the most efficient method of leveling mercantile is actually to sell exactly 100 gold worth of items to a merchant that likes you (disposition of around 80 is good, but NOT 100, that's bugged) but ask 101 gold for it. Then buy back the same items you just sold for 99 gold. Buying/selling at the item's value doesn't gain you any EXP in Morrowind. As your skill and stats increase, you can start selling 90 gold and asking 91, then buying back at 89. And so on and so forth until you max out the skill.
Tbh there's a bunch more math behind the scenes, but for the sake of simplicity, that's the best way of doing it without making it overly complex (and probably getting my comment auto-deleted by RUclips again)
That's very helpful to know. Your comments seem to be coming through just fine. It's odd that they don't seem to appear in the livestream. I've changed the settings so that theoretically, there should be no auto-moderation. But in case there's a problem, use the discord link I sent you earlier to join the channel and write your comments there. I receive notifications so I should see what you write during the stream.
Not saying this is a quick method, but it will gradually work and it's something I've done heaps of times in the many hours I've played Morrowind. If you just want to level up, without much care what will be improved, Sneak is a good skill for it and I saw it's one of your Majors. I would often sneak behind things like Scribs and Mudcrabs, just to get a few points into Sneak. Even following non-hostile creatures, for a few extra points. Boring, but it's an easy thing to do while going from place to place. I'm not sure if you can see progress towards the next skill level in the Xbox version, but you can on PC. Super helpful to ensure you're sneaking correctly (Morrowind is a great game...but it's not perfect).
Also, I wouldn't recommend getting levels through Armourer. In my 2nd playthrough, I repaired everything myself, even the gear of the enemies I killed, just to improve that skill as much as possible. By the end of my playthrough, main story, Tribunal Temple, and the Bloodmoon DLC, it still wasn't close to level 100. That skill is slow as a turtle. Hand-to-Hand is the fastest skill I've ever seen, but not helpful for this challenge.
Just to throw my hat into the Alchemy argument. I'd say it's just mashing plants with water by using a mortar and pestle. Magic? Where? You can also eat ingredients for that skill. I think it's okay, but if you would rather play it safe and avoid it, I get that too. I hope I can provide more advice in the future. I'm no expert, but I've watched a lot of videos about this game by MickyD and Just Background Noise.
I'mma be honest, is there some other way of talking to you about this challenge run? Cuz RUclips deleting my comment automatically the other day really steamed me, much as I wanna help, yet I don't feel like dealing with trying to type out yet another one if it's also gonna be culled through no fault of my own (or yours, not blaming you for it).
I tried your Discord invite in the description but it was expired.
That is really bizarre, I will check the settings, I don't know why RUclips keeps removing stuff. Here is the link to my discord discord.gg/kj7zQxjHrW
I've created a new channel called #cdl (chat during livestream)
Feel free to use that when you want to chat during the livestream and are having problems using RUclips.
@@TheReconJacob Well I'm not watching the livestreams while live. I haven't been on/around when you are doing them so far, so I'm trying to leave normal comments to the video. And whenever they seem to get too long RUclips auto-deletes em. Which is real annoying.
@@TheReconJacobAlso did get into the server thankfully. Appreciated on the link. May be best to delete that from your comment, to avoid the spam bots flooding the place now.