In case you didnt do it yet, in the options menu, theres an option called always use best attack. Makes it so youll always stab with your spear instead of bonking people with it
@@ABardsBalladworth noting the game lies and forgets to remove warning a few times like a few characters have it but are so out of way main quest is ok
I just love the image of the main character speaking with Caius as he's bum-naked - clearly a skooma-drinker - offering to share his bed with you and telling you he wants some favours and orders done for him. Caius Cosades is a certified Balmora freak.
This is the best ever. Morrowind was my first ES game. Hell, it was my first non-platform or point and click game, and it utterly dazzled me. What a joy to get to watch you experience it for the first time.
Hahaha, using fire spells on Dark Elves in Morrowind is an ultra classic we all did. Gotta avoid it though, they have 75% resist fire. Nords are 100% immune to frost as well, etc. It’s real important to have multiple elements of damage in this game and to try to match it against the target to avoid resists. Resist magic also doesn’t reduce elemental damage in this game, meaning the Breton passive resist won’t help vs enemy battlemages. It helps to use and create low cost spells too, 5-15 magicka range. Very easy to cast and very efficient to apply. Just make sure to watch your elemental choices vs enemies! Good vid!
@@drewgoin8849 It resists every form of magic effect except elemental damage, paralyze, and silence. Thats how it used to worked in TES, only changing to include elemental damage and such in Oblivion and on. It made elemental resists matter quite a bit. It also made the Breton and Orc resist magic passives not have an extreme effect on general combat in Morrowind specifically. In older games there were no playable Orcs and most player races were bugged and didn’t get any passives at all, so it’s mostly a Morrowind thing. Basically the elemental damage effects had a special advantage over standard magic effects like damage health/drain health/demoralize in that they needed their own unique resists. It’s also why you see such large passive natural resists on Morrowind races. Nords with 100% immunity to frost and 50% resist shock and Dunmer with 75% resist fire, etc. It also means that Altmer weakness to magic isn’t such an extreme problem and is why they also have a weakness to elements, because they don’t stack. Same thing with the power balance of the Apprentice birthsign. Hope that helps explain it a bit, haha.
Lets go! This will be a great journey. This advice is also give in game: talking is free. Talk to many people and ask em about things, rumors, little secret and little advice are things you should ask about from everyone you talk to. Unlike in Oblivion and Skyrim merchant can run out of money when you sell thinks to then, but they get it back after 24 ingame hours. Also your fatigue effects the prices you can gets from trades. If you have the coin bribing is always a easy way to make npcs like you more.
I appreciate the information! That’s crazy that fatigue affects so many different little things 😂 really feels like the most important stat of the game!
Yeah, it really feels like that. I think its one of those "you are out of breath and cant to anything properly" things, for some skills it makes more sense than others.
@@ABardsBallad been loving your content from the very beginning and I’m glad I found your channel when I did. I hope you keep making videos for a long time man!
Thanks bro. Morrowind is my favourite and in my opinnion by far the best Elder Scrolls game. It doesnt give you anything for free, you will have to earn the victory, explore, use your brain, endure, go through long and hard quests and lose your nerves many times, but its all worth it. Excited for the next video.
Its so nice you actually read what people tell you. The crank on the pibe, a lot if people dont know what to do. You have a nice way to play it. Also! Get some frost magic! Dunmers has a 50% resistance to fire... and the chances of running into one is high
I definitely recommend talking to the other Blades that Caius tells you about. They will give advice and items that you can use or sell. I also recommend getting a hold of some Restore Strength potions, especially as you gain levels and will encounter Greater Bonewalkers. And I totally understand the frustration with that first Dwemer ruin! I felt the same way the first time.
Ahh very interesting I didn’t know that! I’ll have to go and speak with them! I appreciate it, and yeah it’s a very different dungeons experience in this game! 😂
Mage is my favorite playstyle in morrowind, so I understand how rough it can be to start. I would recommend getting a spell that doesn't do fire damage. Most non monster enemies are dunmer, and they take 50% less fire damage. Your fatigue also effects your chance to cast a spell as well as your chance to hit with a weapon, so try to keep that high. Good luck and I hope you join house telvanni! P.S another fast travel option is the guild guides in the mages guild. They charge money, but they can teleport you to four or five different cities all across vardenfell and the price decreases as you rank up in the guild
@@ABardsBallad Yeah. Nords take significantly less damage from frost, Bretons are overall magic resistant (whereas High Elves are weak to magicka, IIRC), and Dunmer are very strong against fire.
a mage and a fighter character feel insanely.different to play off the get-go. it's hard to understand unless you make two characters back-to-back and get a feel for both
Nooooo!! I hope you’re doing as well as you can be my friend! Hopefully you’re doing better by then but for sure the end of October I’ll be able to step on the gas for content!
LOVED THIS!! Can't wait to see so much more! Watching you as a novice, without reading any guides or walkthroughs reminds me exactly where I was playing it 22 years ago! I really look forward to the next instalment and watching you as you learn new features and how to play the game as it was intended! Your story telling is so compelling and interesting, keep up the amazing work brah!
Haha I hear you my friend! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! It was so much fun to get to play through this bit of it and I’m excited to get to experience the rest with you all!
Omg, the npc voices😂 I initially played morrowind localized in Russian and it sounds extremely good, a lot of it got pulled in and turned into meme and amazing mixes. But it's gonna be great fun to watch Bard playing morrowind, sign me up))
This is amazing! I always wanted to play Morrowind but the closest I got was morroblivion which I sadly couldn’t complete due to game-breaking bugs. Your videos got me through some rough times earlier this year when I had some medical issues (seizures). My mind would run wild worried about the next one and these videos calmed me down. I'm better now but this is still my favorite channel. My favorite game of all time was Oblivion and those videos are my favorite, but Morrowind seems amazing. My Skyrim is modded to be high fantasy & resemble Oblivion (Skyrim music is replaced with Oblivion music, snow is replaced with fall leaves etc…) so it is not exactly lore-friendly, but I still prefer the Oblivion high-fantacy world. It would be amazing once you cover all of Morrowind, to see you also do videos someday about Skyrim with more of an upbeat oblivion high fantasy storytelling. Skyrim, ESO, The Witcher 3, Zelda games, BG3 would all be amazing to see you cover someday with your upbeat narration. Please keep making videos!
I really appreciate you commenting and sharing that with me! I’m really glad to hear that you’re not only doing better but also that the videos helped you through that time which is all I could ever ask for from my content! I hear you, Oblivion is and always will be my favourite TES game (we’ll see how that is after this one though lol). But I’m definitely looking forward to playing the others! Those are all great suggestions for games to play and one day I’d like to do them all that’s for sure! I really appreciate your continued support! :)
This is a fun playthrough! In case no one else has said this yet, quicksave! Also get yourself a restore strength spell, you will thank me later! Also mark/recall/intervention spells are very helpful.
Smh you didn't take the limeware platter. No, super looking forward to this series. When you get to Daedric quests, I recommend doing the Sheogorath one early with this character since you get a great enchanted spear.
I dunno if you'll see this, but you were one of the inspirations to start my channel, especially lore videos. Love your work (also I recommend watching Just Background Noise if you want to learn more about succeeding in Morrowind in the future)
This was a trip! I always forget how janky walking mechanics was for NPC’s back then and that most of them walk like they just sh*t themselves and the face models can be nightmare fuel at times. You’re doing well man. This game has a way steeper learning curve than Oblivion & Skyrim.
😂 yeah the walking animation gets me every time! Especially with the argonians, they actually kinda creep me out 😂 I really appreciate the continued support! :)
Ah the good old Dark Brotherhood assassin a.k.a (almost) infinite money farm. One of my major grievances with tribunal is that it starts way too early spoiling a whole chunk of the early game experience in my opinion. If you manage to defeat the assassin you get great upper mid game light armor, letting you skip a whole bunch of cool starter gear like netch leather or chitin. And the fact there is no real limit on assassin encounters until you start the tribunal main quest means you get tons of gold right from the start. A level requirement for starting the tribunal events would have easily fixed this. It would also be more lore accurate and confuse less new players that way since doing the tribunal quest at level 1 is definitely not recommended.
Yeah this actually totally makes sense. After I successfully beat him one time, I noticed his gear was worth sooooo much money, I knew something was up here 😂 I appreciate the information!
Iirc, you can actually stop the dark brotherhood attacks relatively easily. You have to go to the mainland and talk to one particular person and then there won't be any more attacks, and they stop interrupting your rests. I had to do that in my playthrough
The best thing to do is just grab a mod that will delay the attacks until you have reached a certain high level or completed a significant part of the main quest. There’s a nice simple mod like that on the Tamriel Rebuilt site. (Recommended Mods on the main Downloads page). And if you’ve never heard of Tamriel Rebuilt… oh man will that blow your mind.
Blade trainers Offer tips or items if low level Main quest I believe you can continue without stopping it is more of recommended than demanded Stolen works differently here as you probably saw; it is based on settlement and owner also several real illegal items that no one but fence only
I think that stolen items work like this: Every item can be assigned an owner in the construction kit. If you take an item with an owner assigned, it is considered stealing. But you weren't caught in the act then you will get in trouble ONLY if you then try to sell it to the owner and maybe those with a close association to the owner I don't remember exactly. So you can steal an item from let's say a merchant, and if you try to sell it to that merchant you get caught. BUT you can just leave and sell it to someone else with no trouble. I think that's how it works anyway. I don't remember exactly, because there's a work around. It gets sticky when you have a lot of stuff and can't remember who it belongs to, then wind up trying to sell it to the wrong guy. But here's the kicker. You can grab an item that is marked with an owner and just drop it, and that erases the ownership tag. You're still in Truckee if you were caught in the act the first time, but once you drop it it's free game. You can drop it right in front of a guard and pick it up with no problem. Now you can pick it back up and do whatever you like with it. The real crime here, though, is that he didn't snatch the limeware platter in the census office. For a long time I didn't realize you got to keep it when the guard caught you for stealing it. I for some reason thought you just didn't get fined but the item was still confiscated. So I would always steal and then drop it before the guard got to me, then pick it back up after we had our little chat with and no one would care, because it was no longer marked as being owned by anyone therefore it wasn't considered stealing any more.
Direction keys (WSAD) are also responsible for atack types so when you are using spears use W/S with LMB (you will do thrust which is most efective for spears) A/D are for slash and not using keys is for choping
I'll make a bit of a running collection of notes. This will be a long comment. Sorry in advance Welcome to Morrowind! It's great to see more fans back track to this one. It was my first TES game and it's what got me into the RPG genre It was more discussed in your first video but if you find failed casting and weapon misses annoying, remember it is about your *CHARACTER* skill and not yours. Presumably you mess up the incantation for the spell or your weapon swing was predictable and dodged. This gets better with practise. It just needs a little imagination on your part Reading skill books will help explain the theory behind these mechanics (or in fact any lore book). "The Rear Guard" is a personal favourite that explains light armour usage Watch those skeleton archers. You can get unlucky like I did and they spawn with paralysis arrows. That's a bad time Bonewalkers have fascinating lore. They are not like the zombies of Oblivion (the dead magically reanimated) or draugr of Skyrim (worshippers that are having their life stretched and siphoned over millenia). They are guardians of Dark Elf tombs made using the spirit of a disgraced family member placed in what can only be described as a cursed meat sack and driven mad. Just wait for the Greater Bonewalkers. Easily the cruelest enemy in a modern TES game. The lore is very VERY deep especially if you go looking for it outside regular gameplay/story
Good job on your first day fighting through Morrowind's persistent horde! Avoid sprinting in this game, which drains your character's green bar, which directly lowers your hit chance down to zero depending on your main combat skills. Walking in this game significantly lowers your speed to a frustrating crawl, but it also regenerates stamina Taking on the main questline from the get-go is a herculean task, so progressing through one of the guild questlines is not a bad idea, as the first few quests from them involve weaker enemies, free gear and access to the guild's commodities (beginner chest, skill trainers, quick travel in the mage's guild, etc) As a tip, the caves around Seyda Neen contain useful gear. There should be one more cave to look for around this village, but you can easily find out where it lays Finally, the ninja guy is part of a high-level DLC. Killing him for his gear is worth it, but you could also disable him using a patch which delays him from spawning until you're combat ready
Funny thing too I don't think anyone else said yet, if you have any elemental resistances items equipped or due to your race you choose, enemies will make the effort to use other spell types they might have to damage you. Or in cases of Flame, Frost or Storm Atronachs, if you have 100% resistance of whichever you're fighting they'll use their fists to start fighting you
Fun playthrough, but as others have mentioned by now, you gotta get some ice/lightning to deal with Dunmer, they take 75% reduced fire damage!! You're only dealing 25% damage with that fireball and most enemies in this game are going to be Dunmer. Arrille sells ice and lightning magic or you can join a magically inclined faction like the Mages Guild or House Telvanni and buy some from them. BTW those blades trainers Caius mentioned are actually pretty useful to go out and find, especially because going to visit all of them will help you explore the western half of the island a bit in the process. Your weapon choice of spear was very good actually, for a mage it's probably the best choice since spears go into Endurance attribute (which gives you more max HP + Fatigue and which you otherwise would lack since you didn't pick medium/heavy armor) have a long reach, and don't need block skill to go with. You will find many powerful spears during the game if you keep playing, don't worry about the axe in the stump 🤣
The black hoded guy attacking you after you woke up, was an assassine of the Dark Botherhood. You've been a naughty boy, bard :D Won't spoil it, but it has something to do with a certain expansion packs storyline :) The game actually tells you if your level is too low for a quest, atleast for the main quest.
@ABardsBallad they're not actually supposed to start appearing until later in the story (no spoilers), but apparently they just . . . weren't programmed to start spawning at that time, I guess? Their equipment is genuinely game-breaking early on, as it's both very good Light Armor _and_ very expensive.
Game considers level 10th the right one to start main quest When you are at this level Caius tells you that you have created perfect cover instead of classic go train create your cover
The spell from the door was a trap; you can disarm them in a couple ways. there in fact is a constant effect ring near seyda neen as well as a decent amount of gold. it doesn't say so; but clothing effects disposition. weight effects your fatigue drain iirc; so i usually make a stash to come back to; using mark/recall and intervention to get the goods out when all is said and done. i too missed the cube and killed the entire ancestry of the dwemer. in 3rd person your charcter will shield their eyes from ash storms; but im pretty sure they chose to keep it there because of shields blocking sight. 33:33 lazy shit didn't even toss his engraved dart; what a failure of an assassin.
Man the dark brotherhood assasin is one of my grievances with the game. It just confuses new players because it's part of the dlc that for some reason doesn't have like a level or reputation requirement for them to appear
I would really recommend playing with a bit bigger view distance. I enjoyed my playthroughs much more with this, though maxing this out is kind of immersion breaking. But able to see landmarks from far , especially in mid to late game with your magical abilities by then, is just something very nice. I guess the developers would have made a bigger raw distance if it wasnt for the technical limitations. But also foggyness is a part of morrowind haha Btw, you really didn't try out the acrobatic scrolls of the wizzard from the sky?? I thought every human being does that;D
I appreciate the information! I’ll have to increase the render distance because yeah it’s a bit brutal right now! 😂 ohhhh and don’t worry! The scrolls are coming soon 😂
Those guys in the first cave hideout were Dunmer. That’s why your fire spells were quite ineffective. Dark elves are 75% immune to fire. Try frost or shock spells.
I don’t know if you found out but the dust storm does have an effect on your character, try go into third person. Also that puzzle box ruined me for ages back in the early 2000’s hahha a good light source helps and checking the local map.
I would like to offer 2 tips for you. The first tip is that Fatigue, stamina is EVERYTHING in morrowind, hit chance,success rate performing spells, buying and selling etc. And my second tip is that while there are essential NPC'S none have immortality. There is one character incorrectly marked as essential named Crazy Batou but he is not related to any important quest lines
@@ABardsBallad I'm not sure what version of morrowind your playing but as far as Fatigue goes in unpacked versions of the game and GOTY edition the coding for armorer has a mistake. Instead of your success rate depending on your fatigue being full instead your success rate with repairs is better when the fatigue bar is drained.
If you stick with spears, it will be recommended to do Thrust attacks, which are performed by winding up while moving forwards or backwards. Standing still while attacking does the Chop attack; spears have rather low damage values for Chop and Slash attacks.
I totally forgot to add (a little long, bear with me) - I've played Morrowind half a dozen times. My husband, on the other hand, has played it for about thirty minutes. Here's why. He made a Redguard and named him Broguard. As Broguard began his adventures, my husband decided to do a running monologue using the voice of Tim Meadow's SNL character The Ladies Man. This mostly consisted of Broguard being discomfited at Caius' shirtlessness and telling the Blades agent that his nipples were very distracting. Broguard decided that jumping off the Balmoral silt strider platform into the Odai river outside the town would be a keen shortcut. He flung himself skyward, shouted 'Hooray for water!', and promptly shmacked into the shallow riverbed and died. That's where my husband left him, forevermore. So now whenever I go over that bridge toward the Fort or dwemer ruin, I call it Broguard Bridge in his honor. His legend lives on in my heart.
A DLC delay mod is optional in later Elder Scrolls and Fallout games (incl. New Vegas)-it's absolutely _essential_ for Morrowind. Dealing with late game Dark Brotherhood assassins at level 1 is NOT the intended vanilla game experience (Tribunal, as a paid retail expansion was designed to be installed towards the end, or after a main playthrough), no matter what anyone says. You can beat them, but then you end up with economy breaking top-tier gear which is no fun at all, unless you're a spreadsheet loving min-max ghoul who hates role-playing. There are high-profile, _very reliable_ mods that fix this, that I (as an insufferable purist) consider _essential bug-fixes_ to both a vanilla engine and OpenMW game.
So the early Elder Scrolls games have directional attacks. Moving the mouse in conjunction with attacking can cause a weapon to slash/chop/stab. If you examine the weapons in your inventory, you'll see that different weapons have differing damages for each attack but in the game options, you can select the option to always use best attack.
Tarhiel is a reference to the Carolina Tarheels. There are a few other references to the team in the game. You also can find a reference to this character in the Dragonborn expansion.
Morrowind kind of geniusly introduces you to all the major guilds in the intro of the main quest. Southwall Corner club where you are sent to find Caius is the location of the Thieve's Guild in Balmora, which you are likely to discover from talking to people in the building. Then Caius' first few quests introduce you into the Fighter's and Mage's guilds.
If you increase your reputation with Sharn, you should ask her about teaching necromancy again. What information people are willing to give you is very dependent on how well they like you.
Bonewalkers don't actually cast fire damage. But their magic attacks can drain, or even permanently damage your stats. Most shrines can restore your stats, or you can learn Restoration spells to do it yourself. If you look at your stats and hover over your level, it should display your progress towards leveling up. Don't forget to check the Fighter's/Mage's guild chests for free health and magicka potions.
You made my build that i used for my first playthrough of morrowind. The problem i found was because i picked all the willpower skills, it was hard to get x5 on a levelup without dedicating ALL of my major/minor skill ups to willpower. It was fine though, efficent levelling isnt really required in Morrowind.
It seems that you may have not yet managed some options on the OpenMW launcher, like water reflects and shadows animations, improved general textures, etc, so game graphical experience will increase specially as you comming from later elder scrolls games
I would like to add that unlike oblivion and skyrim there aren't any perks for matching sets of armor. Each piece of armor has different values , the some armors in game can have a right pauldron with a rating of 10 while the left pauldron only has a rating of 3. Basically you don't have to stick with only one armor set
Quick note - the sign you chose doesn’t increase your intelligence it increases your magicka BASED off how much intelligence you have. It’s adding .5*INT
Watch who you kill in morrowind, unlike oblivion or Skyrim, you can kill essential NPC’s and with a selection of a few, killing essential NPC’s can brick your run and it’ll force you to re load a previous save and morrowind isn’t very gracious with auto saves
I've heard that running around the world space in Morrowind is taxing to a player's sanity. I wonder if Levitation is a viable option for you instead? I have never played "TES III: Morrowind", btw.
In case you didnt do it yet, in the options menu, theres an option called always use best attack. Makes it so youll always stab with your spear instead of bonking people with it
Huge support ! Just don't kill random npc, in Morrowind there is no such a thing as essential npc
Thank you! I really appreciate it! Spoiler alert, I learned that the hard way in this video lol
@@ABardsBalladworth noting the game lies and forgets to remove warning a few times like a few characters have it but are so out of way main quest is ok
Yup...aka the good ol' days
I just love the image of the main character speaking with Caius as he's bum-naked - clearly a skooma-drinker - offering to share his bed with you and telling you he wants some favours and orders done for him. Caius Cosades is a certified Balmora freak.
Truly a Blade dedicated to his role
This is the best ever. Morrowind was my first ES game. Hell, it was my first non-platform or point and click game, and it utterly dazzled me. What a joy to get to watch you experience it for the first time.
I’m really glad to hear it and I hope you enjoy it! I’m super excited to get to play through it the first time!
Hahaha, using fire spells on Dark Elves in Morrowind is an ultra classic we all did. Gotta avoid it though, they have 75% resist fire. Nords are 100% immune to frost as well, etc. It’s real important to have multiple elements of damage in this game and to try to match it against the target to avoid resists. Resist magic also doesn’t reduce elemental damage in this game, meaning the Breton passive resist won’t help vs enemy battlemages.
It helps to use and create low cost spells too, 5-15 magicka range. Very easy to cast and very efficient to apply.
Just make sure to watch your elemental choices vs enemies!
Good vid!
Very helpful information! Yeah I definitely need to diversify my spell portfolio! Cheers! I appreciate the support! :)
If Resist Magic doesn't work against elemental damage, then what DOES it do?
@@drewgoin8849 It resists every form of magic effect except elemental damage, paralyze, and silence. Thats how it used to worked in TES, only changing to include elemental damage and such in Oblivion and on.
It made elemental resists matter quite a bit. It also made the Breton and Orc resist magic passives not have an extreme effect on general combat in Morrowind specifically. In older games there were no playable Orcs and most player races were bugged and didn’t get any passives at all, so it’s mostly a Morrowind thing.
Basically the elemental damage effects had a special advantage over standard magic effects like damage health/drain health/demoralize in that they needed their own unique resists. It’s also why you see such large passive natural resists on Morrowind races. Nords with 100% immunity to frost and 50% resist shock and Dunmer with 75% resist fire, etc.
It also means that Altmer weakness to magic isn’t such an extreme problem and is why they also have a weakness to elements, because they don’t stack. Same thing with the power balance of the Apprentice birthsign.
Hope that helps explain it a bit, haha.
Lets go! This will be a great journey.
This advice is also give in game: talking is free. Talk to many people and ask em about things, rumors, little secret and little advice are things you should ask about from everyone you talk to.
Unlike in Oblivion and Skyrim merchant can run out of money when you sell thinks to then, but they get it back after 24 ingame hours.
Also your fatigue effects the prices you can gets from trades.
If you have the coin bribing is always a easy way to make npcs like you more.
I appreciate the information! That’s crazy that fatigue affects so many different little things 😂 really feels like the most important stat of the game!
Yeah, it really feels like that. I think its one of those "you are out of breath and cant to anything properly" things, for some skills it makes more sense than others.
Bard is essentially the Elder Scrolls equivalent of Oxhorn
Never thought of it that way. But yeh, really be like that.
Oh boy! We’re getting into morrowind now! Super excited to watch you go through the story!
Yes we are! I’m really excited to get to finally play through it and especially with you all!
@@ABardsBallad been loving your content from the very beginning and I’m glad I found your channel when I did. I hope you keep making videos for a long time man!
Thanks bro. Morrowind is my favourite and in my opinnion by far the best Elder Scrolls game. It doesnt give you anything for free, you will have to earn the victory, explore, use your brain, endure, go through long and hard quests and lose your nerves many times, but its all worth it. Excited for the next video.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching! It certainly is a beautiful game that holds nothing back! I look forward to putting out more! :)
Video so good i had to Watch it twice. Aint nobody making quality content like this.
Its so nice you actually read what people tell you. The crank on the pibe, a lot if people dont know what to do. You have a nice way to play it.
Also! Get some frost magic! Dunmers has a 50% resistance to fire... and the chances of running into one is high
Thank you for keeping on! Love your videos and I look forward to every upload. Its great to have some Morrowind content in these trying times
I really appreciate it! I’m really looking forward to playing more and learning more!
I definitely recommend talking to the other Blades that Caius tells you about. They will give advice and items that you can use or sell.
I also recommend getting a hold of some Restore Strength potions, especially as you gain levels and will encounter Greater Bonewalkers.
And I totally understand the frustration with that first Dwemer ruin! I felt the same way the first time.
Ahh very interesting I didn’t know that! I’ll have to go and speak with them! I appreciate it, and yeah it’s a very different dungeons experience in this game! 😂
Mage is my favorite playstyle in morrowind, so I understand how rough it can be to start. I would recommend getting a spell that doesn't do fire damage. Most non monster enemies are dunmer, and they take 50% less fire damage. Your fatigue also effects your chance to cast a spell as well as your chance to hit with a weapon, so try to keep that high. Good luck and I hope you join house telvanni!
P.S another fast travel option is the guild guides in the mages guild. They charge money, but they can teleport you to four or five different cities all across vardenfell and the price decreases as you rank up in the guild
I never thought about the fire spell anecdote! Definitely makes sense, I’ll look into buying another spell! I appreciate it!
@@ABardsBallad Yeah. Nords take significantly less damage from frost, Bretons are overall magic resistant (whereas High Elves are weak to magicka, IIRC), and Dunmer are very strong against fire.
a mage and a fighter character feel insanely.different to play off the get-go. it's hard to understand unless you make two characters back-to-back and get a feel for both
Poison is pretty strong choice, or just straight non elemental damage
@@skaphanatic5657Poison is more Magicka-intensive to use, Absorb Health is genuinely busted as an attack option.
It's good to see old Morrowind still getting some love. In the modern day... I look forward to following your adventure.
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Everything under the sun my friend!
BARD - I broke my hip and femur last week. please for the love of god upload more amazing content. xoxo
Nooooo!! I hope you’re doing as well as you can be my friend! Hopefully you’re doing better by then but for sure the end of October I’ll be able to step on the gas for content!
LOVED THIS!! Can't wait to see so much more! Watching you as a novice, without reading any guides or walkthroughs reminds me exactly where I was playing it 22 years ago! I really look forward to the next instalment and watching you as you learn new features and how to play the game as it was intended!
Your story telling is so compelling and interesting, keep up the amazing work brah!
Haha I hear you my friend! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! It was so much fun to get to play through this bit of it and I’m excited to get to experience the rest with you all!
Here’s to the Morrowind chapter of your channel! Cheers 🥂
I appreciate it! Cheers 🥂
Ayyy! I love this game's story. Thank you for this series.
Thank you for watching! I’m really excited to get to experience it finally!
Omg, the npc voices😂 I initially played morrowind localized in Russian and it sounds extremely good, a lot of it got pulled in and turned into meme and amazing mixes. But it's gonna be great fun to watch Bard playing morrowind, sign me up))
The voices are very interesting for this game 😂 I really appreciate the support! :)
Caius Cosades, the man, the legend, the best room mate
The goat never misses, love ur videos
Haha I love it! I appreciate your support my friend!
Yes!. Never played this game and im looking forward to your video style for Morrowind.
I’m really glad to hear it! I’m looking forward to getting to playthrough it and experience it with you all!
Fall asleep to your videos every night. Now that you do morrowind I can sleepy happily. I wonder what you’re gonna do after morrowind though.
love your narrative style as you play the game, huge support
sweet glad you are doing this my friend.
Me too! I appreciate you supporting the content switch over to Morrowind!
Finally, we are going full on Morrowind train now boys
We’re in it to win it now! 👀
YESSS super excited for this series!!!
I hope you enjoyed it!
This is amazing! I always wanted to play Morrowind but the closest I got was morroblivion which I sadly couldn’t complete due to game-breaking bugs.
Your videos got me through some rough times earlier this year when I had some medical issues (seizures). My mind would run wild worried about the next one and these videos calmed me down. I'm better now but this is still my favorite channel.
My favorite game of all time was Oblivion and those videos are my favorite, but Morrowind seems amazing. My Skyrim is modded to be high fantasy & resemble Oblivion (Skyrim music is replaced with Oblivion music, snow is replaced with fall leaves etc…) so it is not exactly lore-friendly, but I still prefer the Oblivion high-fantacy world.
It would be amazing once you cover all of Morrowind, to see you also do videos someday about Skyrim with more of an upbeat oblivion high fantasy storytelling.
Skyrim, ESO, The Witcher 3, Zelda games, BG3 would all be amazing to see you cover someday with your upbeat narration.
Please keep making videos!
I really appreciate you commenting and sharing that with me! I’m really glad to hear that you’re not only doing better but also that the videos helped you through that time which is all I could ever ask for from my content! I hear you, Oblivion is and always will be my favourite TES game (we’ll see how that is after this one though lol). But I’m definitely looking forward to playing the others! Those are all great suggestions for games to play and one day I’d like to do them all that’s for sure! I really appreciate your continued support! :)
This is a fun playthrough!
In case no one else has said this yet, quicksave!
Also get yourself a restore strength spell, you will thank me later!
Also mark/recall/intervention spells are very helpful.
Thanks for the uploads
I hope you enjoyed them! Thanks for the support! :)
Smh you didn't take the limeware platter. No, super looking forward to this series. When you get to Daedric quests, I recommend doing the Sheogorath one early with this character since you get a great enchanted spear.
😂 not the limeware plate! I appreciate the support :) that sounds like a fantastic weapon to have for my character, I appreciate it!
Spear is actually a solid choice because it has great reach, and is also an Endurance based skill, so you will be training your max hps
Leeeeetsssss Go!!!! Something to watch while eating dinner
I hope you enjoy it!
I like ur channel and can’t bring myself to play this glad i can watch you play it
I dunno if you'll see this, but you were one of the inspirations to start my channel, especially lore videos. Love your work (also I recommend watching Just Background Noise if you want to learn more about succeeding in Morrowind in the future)
That’s amazing! I’m really glad to hear it! I’ll have to check out your channel!
Can't wait for more morrowind!
Me too! This game’s been a lot of fun so far!
I love Morrowind, Skyrim and Morrowind feel the same as art style, ambiance and feel.
I do agree with you that in some ways, Morrowind and Skyrim feel more alike than Morrowind and Oblivion! So far a great game!
This was a trip! I always forget how janky walking mechanics was for NPC’s back then and that most of them walk like they just sh*t themselves and the face models can be nightmare fuel at times. You’re doing well man. This game has a way steeper learning curve than Oblivion & Skyrim.
😂 yeah the walking animation gets me every time! Especially with the argonians, they actually kinda creep me out 😂 I really appreciate the continued support! :)
Ah the good old Dark Brotherhood assassin a.k.a (almost) infinite money farm.
One of my major grievances with tribunal is that it starts way too early spoiling a whole chunk of the early game experience in my opinion.
If you manage to defeat the assassin you get great upper mid game light armor, letting you skip a whole bunch of cool starter gear like netch leather or chitin.
And the fact there is no real limit on assassin encounters until you start the tribunal main quest means you get tons of gold right from the start.
A level requirement for starting the tribunal events would have easily fixed this. It would also be more lore accurate and confuse less new players that way since doing the tribunal quest at level 1 is definitely not recommended.
Hilarious as they did just that on Xbox version so it is a bit safer at start
Yeah this actually totally makes sense. After I successfully beat him one time, I noticed his gear was worth sooooo much money, I knew something was up here 😂 I appreciate the information!
Iirc, you can actually stop the dark brotherhood attacks relatively easily. You have to go to the mainland and talk to one particular person and then there won't be any more attacks, and they stop interrupting your rests. I had to do that in my playthrough
The best thing to do is just grab a mod that will delay the attacks until you have reached a certain high level or completed a significant part of the main quest.
There’s a nice simple mod like that on the Tamriel Rebuilt site. (Recommended Mods on the main Downloads page).
And if you’ve never heard of Tamriel Rebuilt… oh man will that blow your mind.
Welcome brother 🍻 give your papers to the guard and join us in the cornerclub later.
Glad to join the club my friend! I’m excited to continue on with the adventure 🍻
Blade trainers Offer tips or items if low level
Main quest I believe you can continue without stopping it is more of recommended than demanded
Stolen works differently here as you probably saw; it is based on settlement and owner also several real illegal items that no one but fence only
Awesome! I appreciate all of this!
I think that stolen items work like this:
Every item can be assigned an owner in the construction kit. If you take an item with an owner assigned, it is considered stealing. But you weren't caught in the act then you will get in trouble ONLY if you then try to sell it to the owner and maybe those with a close association to the owner I don't remember exactly.
So you can steal an item from let's say a merchant, and if you try to sell it to that merchant you get caught. BUT you can just leave and sell it to someone else with no trouble. I think that's how it works anyway. I don't remember exactly, because there's a work around.
It gets sticky when you have a lot of stuff and can't remember who it belongs to, then wind up trying to sell it to the wrong guy.
But here's the kicker. You can grab an item that is marked with an owner and just drop it, and that erases the ownership tag. You're still in Truckee if you were caught in the act the first time, but once you drop it it's free game. You can drop it right in front of a guard and pick it up with no problem. Now you can pick it back up and do whatever you like with it.
The real crime here, though, is that he didn't snatch the limeware platter in the census office.
For a long time I didn't realize you got to keep it when the guard caught you for stealing it. I for some reason thought you just didn't get fined but the item was still confiscated. So I would always steal and then drop it before the guard got to me, then pick it back up after we had our little chat with and no one would care, because it was no longer marked as being owned by anyone therefore it wasn't considered stealing any more.
Another Morrowind episode lets gooo
but frl the moment i saw u use fire on dark elfs with 75% fire resistance i got mad lmao xd
I hope you enjoyed it! 😂 and yeah my bad, i really gotta diversify my destruction magic portfolio lol
Direction keys (WSAD) are also responsible for atack types so when you are using spears use W/S with LMB (you will do thrust which is most efective for spears)
A/D are for slash and not using keys is for choping
That’s incredibly useful to know! Thank you for the tip I had no clue!
I'll make a bit of a running collection of notes. This will be a long comment. Sorry in advance
Welcome to Morrowind! It's great to see more fans back track to this one. It was my first TES game and it's what got me into the RPG genre
It was more discussed in your first video but if you find failed casting and weapon misses annoying, remember it is about your *CHARACTER* skill and not yours. Presumably you mess up the incantation for the spell or your weapon swing was predictable and dodged. This gets better with practise. It just needs a little imagination on your part
Reading skill books will help explain the theory behind these mechanics (or in fact any lore book). "The Rear Guard" is a personal favourite that explains light armour usage
Watch those skeleton archers. You can get unlucky like I did and they spawn with paralysis arrows. That's a bad time
Bonewalkers have fascinating lore. They are not like the zombies of Oblivion (the dead magically reanimated) or draugr of Skyrim (worshippers that are having their life stretched and siphoned over millenia). They are guardians of Dark Elf tombs made using the spirit of a disgraced family member placed in what can only be described as a cursed meat sack and driven mad. Just wait for the Greater Bonewalkers. Easily the cruelest enemy in a modern TES game. The lore is very VERY deep especially if you go looking for it outside regular gameplay/story
*RAAAAAHHHH* MORROWIND. Make sure you say hello to the baby scribs around the island. They’re sweet little things ❤
Good job on your first day fighting through Morrowind's persistent horde!
Avoid sprinting in this game, which drains your character's green bar, which directly lowers your hit chance down to zero depending on your main combat skills. Walking in this game significantly lowers your speed to a frustrating crawl, but it also regenerates stamina
Taking on the main questline from the get-go is a herculean task, so progressing through one of the guild questlines is not a bad idea, as the first few quests from them involve weaker enemies, free gear and access to the guild's commodities (beginner chest, skill trainers, quick travel in the mage's guild, etc)
As a tip, the caves around Seyda Neen contain useful gear. There should be one more cave to look for around this village, but you can easily find out where it lays
Finally, the ninja guy is part of a high-level DLC. Killing him for his gear is worth it, but you could also disable him using a patch which delays him from spawning until you're combat ready
Funny thing too I don't think anyone else said yet, if you have any elemental resistances items equipped or due to your race you choose, enemies will make the effort to use other spell types they might have to damage you. Or in cases of Flame, Frost or Storm Atronachs, if you have 100% resistance of whichever you're fighting they'll use their fists to start fighting you
Fun playthrough, but as others have mentioned by now, you gotta get some ice/lightning to deal with Dunmer, they take 75% reduced fire damage!! You're only dealing 25% damage with that fireball and most enemies in this game are going to be Dunmer. Arrille sells ice and lightning magic or you can join a magically inclined faction like the Mages Guild or House Telvanni and buy some from them. BTW those blades trainers Caius mentioned are actually pretty useful to go out and find, especially because going to visit all of them will help you explore the western half of the island a bit in the process. Your weapon choice of spear was very good actually, for a mage it's probably the best choice since spears go into Endurance attribute (which gives you more max HP + Fatigue and which you otherwise would lack since you didn't pick medium/heavy armor) have a long reach, and don't need block skill to go with. You will find many powerful spears during the game if you keep playing, don't worry about the axe in the stump 🤣
hope you do daggerfall too!
I’d love to do all of the games on this channel! :)
I forgot about the assassin 😅 thank god theres a mod to delay the tribunal expansion. Excited to see the rest of your adventures in vardenfell
😂 yeah he rocked me too many times for my liking!
OOOOOOOO I'M EXCITED
Let’s gooo! I hope you enjoyed it! Any feedback would be awesome on things I should tweak with the storytelling!
So stoked to watch this
The black hoded guy attacking you after you woke up, was an assassine of the Dark Botherhood. You've been a naughty boy, bard :D Won't spoil it, but it has something to do with a certain expansion packs storyline :) The game actually tells you if your level is too low for a quest, atleast for the main quest.
Haha I think I have been! They won’t stop following me 😂
@ABardsBallad they're not actually supposed to start appearing until later in the story (no spoilers), but apparently they just . . . weren't programmed to start spawning at that time, I guess? Their equipment is genuinely game-breaking early on, as it's both very good Light Armor _and_ very expensive.
Game considers level 10th the right one to start main quest
When you are at this level Caius tells you that you have created perfect cover instead of classic go train create your cover
Ahh interesting I didn’t know that! That makes sense! Appreciate it!
The spell from the door was a trap; you can disarm them in a couple ways.
there in fact is a constant effect ring near seyda neen as well as a decent amount of gold.
it doesn't say so; but clothing effects disposition.
weight effects your fatigue drain iirc; so i usually make a stash to come back to; using mark/recall and intervention to get the goods out when all is said and done.
i too missed the cube and killed the entire ancestry of the dwemer.
in 3rd person your charcter will shield their eyes from ash storms; but im pretty sure they chose to keep it there because of shields blocking sight.
33:33 lazy shit didn't even toss his engraved dart; what a failure of an assassin.
Ahhh this all makes sense! I appreciate the information thank you! :)
@@ABardsBallad np
Man the dark brotherhood assasin is one of my grievances with the game. It just confuses new players because it's part of the dlc that for some reason doesn't have like a level or reputation requirement for them to appear
Fun fact, you can find Jiub's jead in Kvatch in Oblivion. It's in the house to the left when you first enter the city. Poor guy didn't deserve it.
Yeah, Bretons are fun magical characters. Keep meaning to pick up Morrowind again and rebuild my old Arcane Warden, just for fun.
I would really recommend playing with a bit bigger view distance. I enjoyed my playthroughs much more with this, though maxing this out is kind of immersion breaking. But able to see landmarks from far , especially in mid to late game with your magical abilities by then, is just something very nice. I guess the developers would have made a bigger raw distance if it wasnt for the technical limitations. But also foggyness is a part of morrowind haha
Btw, you really didn't try out the acrobatic scrolls of the wizzard from the sky?? I thought every human being does that;D
I appreciate the information! I’ll have to increase the render distance because yeah it’s a bit brutal right now! 😂 ohhhh and don’t worry! The scrolls are coming soon 😂
YEAH BABY HERE WE GO
I hope you enjoy it! :)
lol, this guy smited Snowy Granius like it was nothing.
36:15 this is not Oblivion. You do not face penalties for leveling less than optimally due to the level scaling mechanics being vastly different.
Slashing with a spear, getting jump scared by the DB assassin... god, memories
17:30 how did you resist using the scrolls?
Those guys in the first cave hideout were Dunmer. That’s why your fire spells were quite ineffective. Dark elves are 75% immune to fire. Try frost or shock spells.
I don’t know if you found out but the dust storm does have an effect on your character, try go into third person.
Also that puzzle box ruined me for ages back in the early 2000’s hahha a good light source helps and checking the local map.
I would like to offer 2 tips for you. The first tip is that Fatigue, stamina is EVERYTHING in morrowind, hit chance,success rate performing spells, buying and selling etc. And my second tip is that while there are essential NPC'S none have immortality. There is one character incorrectly marked as essential named Crazy Batou but he is not related to any important quest lines
I appreciate the information! Yeah I’ve been learning how important fatigue is! Also very interesting on the essential setting for NPCs!
@@ABardsBallad I'm not sure what version of morrowind your playing but as far as Fatigue goes in unpacked versions of the game and GOTY edition the coding for armorer has a mistake. Instead of your success rate depending on your fatigue being full instead your success rate with repairs is better when the fatigue bar is drained.
If you stick with spears, it will be recommended to do Thrust attacks, which are performed by winding up while moving forwards or backwards. Standing still while attacking does the Chop attack; spears have rather low damage values for Chop and Slash attacks.
I totally forgot to add (a little long, bear with me) -
I've played Morrowind half a dozen times. My husband, on the other hand, has played it for about thirty minutes. Here's why.
He made a Redguard and named him Broguard. As Broguard began his adventures, my husband decided to do a running monologue using the voice of Tim Meadow's SNL character The Ladies Man. This mostly consisted of Broguard being discomfited at Caius' shirtlessness and telling the Blades agent that his nipples were very distracting.
Broguard decided that jumping off the Balmoral silt strider platform into the Odai river outside the town would be a keen shortcut. He flung himself skyward, shouted 'Hooray for water!', and promptly shmacked into the shallow riverbed and died.
That's where my husband left him, forevermore. So now whenever I go over that bridge toward the Fort or dwemer ruin, I call it Broguard Bridge in his honor.
His legend lives on in my heart.
morrowind ai isn’t as robust as in oblivion, you just gotta enter a new zone to escape any combat
belligerents fear doors
also absolutely insane to test combat in a cave
i can already tell that this will be a grand and intoxicating first run
Yeah that makes sense! The worst and best part is they wait for you to come back right outside 😂
😂 yeah something tells me might not have been the best idea!
Hell yeah
I hope you enjoy it!
All that loot in the cave. All that money that could have been made.
A DLC delay mod is optional in later Elder Scrolls and Fallout games (incl. New Vegas)-it's absolutely _essential_ for Morrowind. Dealing with late game Dark Brotherhood assassins at level 1 is NOT the intended vanilla game experience (Tribunal, as a paid retail expansion was designed to be installed towards the end, or after a main playthrough), no matter what anyone says. You can beat them, but then you end up with economy breaking top-tier gear which is no fun at all, unless you're a spreadsheet loving min-max ghoul who hates role-playing.
There are high-profile, _very reliable_ mods that fix this, that I (as an insufferable purist) consider _essential bug-fixes_ to both a vanilla engine and OpenMW game.
this channel is awesome
So the early Elder Scrolls games have directional attacks. Moving the mouse in conjunction with attacking can cause a weapon to slash/chop/stab. If you examine the weapons in your inventory, you'll see that different weapons have differing damages for each attack but in the game options, you can select the option to always use best attack.
Tarhiel is a reference to the Carolina Tarheels. There are a few other references to the team in the game. You also can find a reference to this character in the Dragonborn expansion.
Arkingthand is one of several places where you will find numerous references to different Pokemon.
Morrowind kind of geniusly introduces you to all the major guilds in the intro of the main quest. Southwall Corner club where you are sent to find Caius is the location of the Thieve's Guild in Balmora, which you are likely to discover from talking to people in the building. Then Caius' first few quests introduce you into the Fighter's and Mage's guilds.
If you increase your reputation with Sharn, you should ask her about teaching necromancy again. What information people are willing to give you is very dependent on how well they like you.
Bonewalkers don't actually cast fire damage. But their magic attacks can drain, or even permanently damage your stats. Most shrines can restore your stats, or you can learn Restoration spells to do it yourself. If you look at your stats and hover over your level, it should display your progress towards leveling up. Don't forget to check the Fighter's/Mage's guild chests for free health and magicka potions.
One great house per playthough although if criteria is met you can technically get benefits of two at a very specific time but no quests
Might want a mod for the tribunal as it is technically post game but due to code it can trigger at a rest point like that ambush you had
Auto save is only for resting
Ahh interesting! I appreciate the information!
You made my build that i used for my first playthrough of morrowind. The problem i found was because i picked all the willpower skills, it was hard to get x5 on a levelup without dedicating ALL of my major/minor skill ups to willpower. It was fine though, efficent levelling isnt really required in Morrowind.
It seems that you may have not yet managed some options on the OpenMW launcher, like water reflects and shadows animations, improved general textures, etc, so game graphical experience will increase specially as you comming from later elder scrolls games
Yeah I didn’t play around too much with it yet but will look into it real soon! Cheers!
I would like to add that unlike oblivion and skyrim there aren't any perks for matching sets of armor. Each piece of armor has different values , the some armors in game can have a right pauldron with a rating of 10 while the left pauldron only has a rating of 3. Basically you don't have to stick with only one armor set
Assassination is perfectly legal in morrowind. Just need the right Writ.
Very true! Everyone in Pelagiad knows it’s just business I suppose
Your fatigue affects everything in game even prices for items from traders
Word of caution regarding alchemy: be very careful about making and consuming fortify health potions. They can be a death sentence.
Quick note - the sign you chose doesn’t increase your intelligence it increases your magicka BASED off how much intelligence you have. It’s adding .5*INT
WE ARE SO BACK
Do you know about the different strikes? Different types of strikes will be more or less effective on different weapons from a cleave stab strike etc
i'm here for this
I hope you enjoyed it!
@@ABardsBallad every minute of it
The graphic overhaul isn't too bad.
I love your vids
I appreciate the support! :)
All hail Saint Jiub !
Dark elf innate 75% fire resist on full display 😂
Watch who you kill in morrowind, unlike oblivion or Skyrim, you can kill essential NPC’s and with a selection of a few, killing essential NPC’s can brick your run and it’ll force you to re load a previous save and morrowind isn’t very gracious with auto saves
I appreciate the info! Yeah it’s a very different experience in this game with essential NPCs!
woohoo!!!
I hope you enjoyed it!
You playing the beginning wrong, Ballad. At Seyda Neen. There are two side quest that start you off with a decent amount of gold.
Also, you would have enough to fast travel!
Morrowind asks the interesting question: “what if Jesus was an op sent by the Roman government, but then went on to be the Christ anyway?”
Yusss
I hope you enjoyed it!
I've heard that running around the world space in Morrowind is taxing to a player's sanity. I wonder if Levitation is a viable option for you instead?
I have never played "TES III: Morrowind", btw.
Fuckk finally lets gooo!!!
I hope you enjoyed it! :)
enable the water shader in openmw settings
I keep trying to play Morrowind, because I have a port on my 360, but I always only get as far as Balmora
Is it because of limitations or loss of interest?
@@ABardsBallad the gameplay honestly, it is hard to get used to
Are you using your major skills? Is your fatigue bar (green) full or near full?