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i haven't played it, but i know that aside from the new content, tribunal alters morrowind's journal system, making it much eaiser to see which quests you're in the middle of. very helpful, i'd imagine. i also think that it allows you to add notes to the field maps, but i'm not sure..
I've been looking for that mud crab for a few days now :)
I found a "Staff of magnus" today, and its worth 210000 G, but I don't have enough expensive items to sell it to the creeper (look around coldera for a skamp, and talk to him) :( . I'm yet to find a daedric spear or halberd, but when I do it I'll enchant it good.
I'm now the grand master of the morag tong, which is kinda cool, except there aren't any missions for me left.
Oh, and I still can't drop my bound weapons.
A 1 ghz processor and at minimum a 32mb graphics card will be able to run this game at nearly maximum settings at a nice framerate (20-30fps). The main issue is RAM, since this game is a RAM hog. Get 512mb. Anything higher is up to you, but Morrowind won't really take advantage of it. It's best to get 1 gig of RAM though, if you intend to play other PC games.Quote:
Originally posted by Werewolf
I was wondering since I will be getting a new PC, what is the minimum (to run maximum for this game) I should be looking for in a computer?
I haven't bought a new PC since 1994 so I'm due for a new one, I've been just building ones out of spare parts... it get's me by so far ;)
Thanks man. I love you.
I completely forgot about the armour actually. My brother baught Mech Assualt and Halo, so I played them for a few days. I'll get it sometime tonight.
I just started this game and I have a question. When you enter a room and wound an enemy, do they heal after you leave that room? I'm so weak right now it seems the only way I can kill anyone is to stab them a few times and run off and heal myself and repeat.
yes, they seem to, try to fight scribs and kwama foragers till you have a suitable level of butt kicking-ness.
There's nothing wrong with what you're doing Green since your skills will still be raising with use.
I must say this game is awesome but being turned into a vampire sucks.
true he is raising hsi skills, btu since he mentioned that he wanted to kill the individuals, it woudl be more prudent to go in only when he is ready, but you make a good point, he will be increasing hsi skills, but if you leave a door and come back in, the enemy ususually will be right by the door,a dn will get at least oen whack in before you are ready to hit, so there is that risk. you he has blunt wep, axe or long sword skills, i would suggest getting a nice 2 handed wep, unless he is going after guards, which is suicide at this level, he is probably fighting smugglers, who dont fare well in full on brute force attacks.
So they do heal. I wasn't sure because I changed my tactics on the guy I was doing it to (the bandit in the cave near the silt sandworm platform). I went stabby on the guy then I remembered I have a whole bunch of spells I can use (I'm a dark elf) and killed him quick with some fire.
How do I avoid being turned into a vampire? Also, anybody have any quick, general tips?
You have three days after being contaminated with the disease (something hemophilya) to cure yourself before really becoming a vampire. Else you have to do a quest to become normal again. But there is some fun quests to do while being a vampire. And you look cool :cool:Quote:
Originally posted by Green
How do I avoid being turned into a vampire?
http://www.enst.fr/~bagland/vampire.jpg
I'm still playing this game. It's so damn addictive...
Green (or anyone interested): Here is a great way to kill people much stronger than you...
Firstly, if you are a fighter, stock up on as many sujamma's as you can. If you are a mage, make a spell that does lots of damage, like 100 to 100 fire damage on touch.
also, be sure to have healing potions or spells stocked up.
Inbetween Khull and Gnisis you'll come across a woman who has lost her ring in a pond. if you explore a little further down the road, you'll find that she is with someone who is partially invisible. Normally, if you get her the ring they ambush you, so I propose you do this:
If you are a fighter, drink all of your sujammas and kill them. If you are a mage, you're gonna have to fight them fairly, which can be fairly difficult when you're at a low level. Just be sure to keep an eye on your health.
The invisible person has an "amulet of shadows", which allows you to cast 80% chameleon on yourself. Basically, the majority of people can't see you, even if you attack them!
When you attack someone while using it, instead of fighting they usually run like a baby. This gives you the opportunity to kill people much tougher than you without taking any damage from them at all.
arj, did you ever find the crab?
green, check out the earlier thread, we did a lot of advice/faq typs stuff, and you will find out all you need to know there.
bumped for the 2 year anniversery of morrowind being released . here's to games still worth playing 2 years later. :cool:
Also, the quest for curing it is incredibly easy and you can't catch any disease after passing a certain point in the main quest, making you completely immune.Quote:
Originally Posted by barbu
Man, I haven't played this game in a long while. I bought the game of the year edition for xbox and have hardly touched it. It's still great, but there are just too many other games calling for my attention and it ends up eating up way too much of my time.
I stopped playing this when one of my quest items disappeared and none of my save files has it. I didn't think that this kind of thing can happen in a game, but apparently it is a bug all the way back in the daggerfall games. And this is when I made my unarmed(100) and unarmored(~70) character with pimping "exquisite" clothes.
I am still pissed off about it. :curse:
i am trying to motivate myself to pick this back up and get more into the expansions. i beat the main game but haven't really touched bloodmoon or tribunal.
if i had just played it straight, i woudl be sick of it by now, but the modding community is insane! i have 80+mods and that turned the game into a whole new experience for me, some of them really are nearly professional quality, and they are available for free.
What mods would you (or anyone else, for that matter) consider to be absolute musts? I figured I'd pick up the GOTY edition now that I've actually got a decent rig to run it on. I'll definitely be running Giants, Better Bodies/Faces and pacified Cliff Racers/Slaughterfish, but I'd love to hear some suggestions beyond those.
ok mode, here are some, all of which can be found on the official morrowind forum, in the mod section with some searching. First, better bodies is very good, but there also is another mod called smoother bodies, this mod works a little better with the in game clothes,as better bodies tends to have clipping issues with some armor and clothes. also, giants is known for having some great monsters, but also some ugly ones, check out "morrowind advanced" It was done by one of the original programmers "wormgod" and has some very cool looking dragons, but if you want, run em both, puma man's mod has some really cool monsters too, just a few really bad ones. Here is a numerical breakdown of some of my other faves, as you can tell from my av, i have a soft spot for aragonias, so there will be a bias.
1. Sea of destiny by clone- huge island with quite a few quests, not the best storytelling, but still compelling enough, also comes with some very cool assasin type weapons that i found in sadith mora's weapon shop.
2. The beauty pack- its a compiliation of a ton of player created heads, some are yuck, some are so much better than the defaults its kind of funny, having gotten this i will never use a bethesda made face again, 10-20 new faces and hairstyles for almost every race. If you are an aragonian nut, also check out the work by sliaria, she did a seperate head pack for the aragonians that is strikingly beautiful, reflective scales, imaginative hornsets, i changed frostwolf's appearence in a hurry, as the new horns looked far better.
3. Herdy gurdy's robes- dramatic change in how some of the robes look on human and elf characters, a bit of fanservice, but nothing too bad, very cool looking and feminine robes.
4. Shironeko-ok, this mod is a bit weird, as the mod itsself is kind of forgetable, it makes a humanoid race with cat ears, but it also applies a really cool resource pack by french modder lord yig, who made a beautiful asian art mod, so you get things like wearable kimonos, some of which look really cool on casters. The only funny downside is that the mod is entirely in french, so if you need any translation help, there si a thread in the mod forum that will help.
5. leia's dual wield mod- a neat workaround of the weapons only in your right hand thing, it adds a second weapon that you can carry in your defending hand, giving you the look of a dual weilding fighter, unfortunatly the weapon only functions as a blocking weapon,and you still can only attack with the right handed weapon, but the quility of the weapons looks beautiful, there are dual welds for both beginners and for end-gamers, and come on, what looks cooler than an aragonian wearing a kendo type kimono with a daedric katana in each hand? nothing, thats what:D
6. brash's mods, brash is this mom who loved morrowind, but wanted it to have a more kid friendly feel too, so she is making a total conversion that turns morrowind into this bizarre, rainbow colored fantasy area thats far less gritty, but amazingly imaginative, she also did some other funny mods that you can find at her site, including one that allows you to find teddy bears...that you can actually hold in your shield arm, its so funny you have to get it, i actually finally beat the main morrowind monday, and it was with sunder in my right hand and a teddy bear in my left, it was surreal on many levels:D the funny thing is the bears actually give limited time buffs, so before a major fight, its good to hug every teddy bear you have...surreal
7 the claws- just a cool little mod that makes these vega type hand blades that you can equip. they look silly in first person mode, but in third person they look very cool,particularly for a kajiit.
8. Jeremy's knights of tamriel- not sure if it will ever be compleated, but adds these cool little mini quests that allow you to get some very good looking armors themed after paladins of the 9 divines of the imperial cult religion, so far there are 6 out. high level stuff, but worth it, very professional looking heavy armors. some of the architecture of the paladin's churches is really realy fucking amazing, this guy needs to turn pro.
9. Canadianice's metal queen boutique- new armors for sale for female human and elf(and orc) characters, also sells wigs and some cool outfits, she also has a cool female robe replacer that replaces all the robes in the game for females with better looking, more feminine ones, really looks better than the bulky look they used to have. I'd also add that she has the second best modders links page in existence, the best is undoubtedly clone's he has a links page that will take you to just about "EVERY" good modding page out there, including the lys and euro morowind, 2 great modding sites. if you like mods, bookmark clone's links page.
10. if you liked legend of zelda, check out snakebitten's legend of zelda mod, great mod that adds an area where you can actually fight gannon(who has too many hp, fix that in theconstruction set:P) some kick ass armor,and faithful recreations of almost all of links stuff from oot, including all the tunics, the power gloves, a kick ass master-sword, the mirror shield, and the regular hylian shield, and even a cool link hat that gives the impression of having the main sword strapped to your back(when you draw the illusion is broken, but hey, it looks fucking badass.). woodelves should definitly have this mod.
11. the firstguard armor- if you play a beast race,and are tired of not having any good boot armor, check it out, the guys who did better bodies made this mod, that makes really cool beast race specific armor. It also has a cool book story attached to it too, worth a dl for that alone if you are a h/e/o and must have for beast races. eventually they are releasing more aragonian stuff too in a mod called beastly features.
12. Swords of morrowind really cool mod that adds many swords from other sources, like the gunblade from ff8, the soul reaver, and rambo's combat knife, worth a checkout. but currently its giving me some hassles because 2 swords seem bugged.
thats it for me for now, my fingers are tired and my typo quota has been reached, there are other good mods out there, just look around. ill add more later once my fingers heal.
Thanks a ton for the recommendations. Have you gone through Suran Underworld? I'm stuck on the second quest trying to find incriminating evidence against Avon Oran. No doubt the solution is something completely obvious, since that's what I generally miss out on.
sorry mode, i have been meaning to get it, but it seems more for theif characters,and frosty was a warrior/healing /mystic type, so i had horrible stealth stuff, so i havent tried it yet. i have a new kajiit assasin guy going, so i will definitly check it out. one more reccomendation, the "house of spears" very nice pair of shops that sell some unique looking spears, including a very cool looking scythe and a sapphire lance, the scythe has a little bit of clipping issues, but it looks so bad ass, its hard to care, despair would like this one:D
oh and if you got the seige of firemoth mod from the official plug ins at beth's site, sea of destiny will conflict, so pick one or the other, i strangely never did seige, but the genral concensus of the boards is that sod beats the flying hell out of it.
does anyone else's copy just quit on them? It takes me right back to the desktop immediatly, like it was never running in the first place. It's always done it too me, but it happened 3 times tonight. Still don't know what the hell is causing it.
mien did, but its because my younger brother had been leaving it in unsanctiond areas and it was scratched to hell. did you dl any new mods that might have some kind of major conflict?
no, i actually don't use any mods. Dont think the disk has any scratches either. i just have to remember to save all the time
ok, sorry then i have nothing, check out the morrowind official forums and see if they have any help. they discuss problems pretty frequently, that might help.
I am still pissed off about that. But I am going to play it again since I ran out of awesome newly translated NES games to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damian79
Any suggestions on making the game a little bit more difficult? I pretty much was owning everything with my unarmed and unarmored character, maybe a spell casting guy?
ok quick update, 2 more mods i found that should be checked out
First is samuraidoykin's(one word, really) kyodin armor complete from euro morrowind, very cool retextures of the orcish armor to make it look like a full suit of samurai armor. the scabbards and quivers put it well above some of the other samurai mods out there.
second is one for the casters, its star boi's magical goods, tons of staves and wands,plus, for the homeowners, it has some neat crystal balls and things. warning, starboi evidently has a good system, and he assumes we do to, so expect the shop that sells the stuff to chug a bit if you are on an older rig, but dont worry too much, most of the stuff becomes loot pretty quick, so if you are controlling the bandit population, you will find his stuff here and there. he even has dual weilding for the wands..which looks kind of odd, but if you are a caster with block as a skill, it looks more in character than a shield.
oh and damien, there si no escaping that towards the end, you become godzilla, the best way around that is either beat it sooner, use off skill weapons, or push up the difficulty slider(if you are on pc) If you play around and adventure for a while, yeah, you are going to become stronger than most everything pretty quick. do you have tribunal? that had some extra difficulty, i was 45th level and those guys were giving me grief.
i'm level 30 ish and the black dart gang was fucking my shit up, so i had to run, dodge, and be trixie. Most fun i've had in a Morrowind fight in a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
question, all the Ordinators hate me and the head of the temple refuses to reinstate me because i've transgressed twice. is there any way i can i can make amends? traveling through vivec sucks now. Even the Ordinators in tribunal don't like me.
Get the expansions. My character's practically a god in the regular game but he's getting his butt handed to him on difficulty 100.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damian79
This was with the expansions with difficult set at 100.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
Anyway, I went for a magician type with light armor. I am pretty much raping all my enemies now(at the start of the game), but as soon as enemies start using magic against me, I will be screwed (+100% magic damage penalty).
try playing a race that dosent work well with a class, like an orcish caster, or a high elf warrior.
Iunno about the temple head, but I believe there are mods out that address the whole inordinately ornery ordinator thing.Quote:
question, all the Ordinators hate me and the head of the temple refuses to reinstate me because i've transgressed twice. is there any way i can i can make amends? traveling through vivec sucks now. Even the Ordinators in tribunal don't like me.
So, is there a way to bypass the opening movies without dealing with missing file errors at start-up? I suppose I could potentially rip the disc and hack the iso, but... bleargh.
do you mean the bethesda logo and the fade in on the title screen? just hit escape when they start.
(this seems way to easy to be your actual problem)
yeah, i will post it later, but if you are playing pc, there is a console command that reduces the aggro, i got that when i accidentily wore the ordinator armor into almalexia's temple. the worst thing is, i got said armor from solving the "jack the ripper" storyline. so i was marked for death for solving a murder :sweat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mode7
I swear I tried that.Quote:
just hit escape when they start.
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Alright, move along. Nothing to see here.
yeah, that slow ass loading screen teaches you the esc trick pretty fast, it works twice, first when the bethesda logo loads,and again when the new/continue/options/ screen loads. when i was hardcore into mw that saved my fragile mind.
Heh, I knew it wasn't the nasty little loading bug I got. If anyone else gets it, uninstall and keep your saves. Then reinstall and apply patch.
I don't suppose their's anything for this on the xbox? I'm at a point right now where I have to be in Vivec quite a bit, and it's sapping my enjoyment of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
Not without a modded 'box there's not.
All the Fable talk combined with me not owning it has gotten me back into this game. Apparently I needed a few months away from it because I was just getting overwhelmed by all the stuff the GoTY edition threw at me, but now I'm enjoying it again.
Anyway, is there a method to revive a mercenary who dies in your service in Mournhold? I got jumped deep in the sewers under the city near the ancient battlefield by a gang of Goblin Officers, Handlers, and some War Durzogs thrown in for good measure. My merc got nailed, and he's carrying a ton of stuff. What's more, I'm not sure I can fight my way out alone. Is he dead for good? I'm worried if I just leave & come back his corpse will disappear. I could just restart my save or move the difficulty slider down, but that's no fun.
Really? I walked around Ordinator HQ unmolested in that set.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
Unless there's a revive spell I'm not remembering (I doubt heal others would work there), I think you're screwed. I never used the merc though so I can't be sure though. I did get trapped in the sewers, but having mark and recall helped me out of that pinch. Illusion helps as well.
Thanks. I swear these sewers go on forever. Fortunately, I've found ingredients lying around to make enough fortify strength & fatigue potions to keep me alive so far. But those Goblin Warchiefs are creaming me - I swear they and the Bruisers are tougher than any of the 6th House guys. Almost every piece of armor I have with me is destroyed, and is it just my imagination, or do they drain fatigue?
Of course, I could always recall (well, maybe - my mark is back in Balmora and I don't think you can teleport out of Mournhold) or use divine intervention, but really, where's the fun in that?
I never had that problem, but then, I started the game trying my hand at enchanting and broke it with Absorb Health. Take a nice amulet and enchant with with absorb heath and the world is your oyster, apperantly.
Yeah, I was the same way. I think I tried tackling them when my level was too low and had to use up all my magic and special arrows, keeping them at a distance... and it still took them forever to fall down. Sixth house had some nasty spells, but you could trick them to shooting them into a wall. These guys are plain tough.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
Yep, you can use recall that way. I didn't do it there, I just ran the heck out of the sewers, but I used it elsewhere in Mournhold and I could go back to the main continent with no difficulty.Quote:
Of course, I could always recall (well, maybe - my mark is back in Balmora and I don't think you can teleport out of Mournhold) or use divine intervention, but really, where's the fun in that?
Oh, the way to break the game is with an item that both regenerates health and has constant levitation. Get your marksman skill up, and you can kill anything, even Vivec, with barely a scratch, but such cheap tactics do take the thrill out of the game.
I actually started over with a new character recently, focusing totally on hand to hand combat and potion usage, but haven't had enough time to play. Morrowind is evil in just how it makes your free time vanish. It always makes me feel guilty afterwards. :sweat:
I'm actually level 44, but I did move the difficulty slider up after going through the toughest enemies in the original Morrowind like a hot knife through Velveeta. My magic resistance (Breton born under the Lady with Phynaster's ring and Cuirass of Saviour's Hide) is so ridiculous most of their spells just bounced off, but for some reason the Goblin Officers can bake me no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ammadeau
I'm a bard, so I have marskman as a miscellaneous skill. I don't think I'll sink the time in to build that up. I've largely neglected my enchant skill after hearing it was game breaking (alchemy can make you powerful, but not game-breakingly so against high difficulty), but I do plan to move on to it soon since everything else practical is nearly maxed. I have a Wizard's Staff though, which pretty much gives you de facto permanent levitiation.Quote:
Oh, the way to break the game is with an item that both regenerates health and has constant levitation. Get your marksman skill up, and you can kill anything, even Vivec, with barely a scratch, but such cheap tactics do take the thrill out of the game.
Yeah, I felt the same way. I made a Dunmer assassin and started over - I wanted to see if the Night Mother was in the game if you rose high enough in the ranks - but I just couldn't fathom clearing out all those dungeons again.Quote:
I actually started over with a new character recently, focusing totally on hand to hand combat and potion usage, but haven't had enough time to play. Morrowind is evil in just how it makes your free time vanish. It always makes me feel guilty afterwards. :sweat:
Doh. I just hit this bug. And I know it's a bug, because only certain Ordinators go after me. Unfortunately one of them is standing outside the Head Priest's office in Almalexia's temple. Think I'll have to go back a save and start over...anyone know of a better medium helmet?Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
Is the Marrowind game on Xbox good??
JBNagis
If you have patience, yes. There's nothing else like it.
The armor made from those guys who attack you underwater is all medium and has high defense ratings. Can't remember what they're called, though not sure if it's better or worse than ordinator wear.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
Dreughs, and the helmets are worse. The shields are top notch though - I've been lugging one of those around since almost the beginning. Those cool ass Dark Brotherhood helmets are the next best thing I've come across.
Hmm, constant bound helmet then? Never used them myself. I have this crazy notion of wanting to actually see my character's head most of the time. Then I was using cheap magic tricks to compensate.
I just met Almalexia, which was a pretty cool experience...if I weren't interested in seeing how the story progresses, I'd know where my next helmet would come from - the set Hands of Almalexia are wearing looks freaking sweet. Wouldn't solve my Ordinator harassment problems, though. I just reset and gave up wearing the Ordinator helm. It's a shame I have heavy armor as a miscellaneous; I've got a Daedric Face of Inspiration and a set of Lord's Mail that aren't much more than trophies on a shelf at home right now.
I also just fought Gavis Drin (the mage whose useless brother attacks you in Mournhold's bazaar) - holy crap!! That's easily the most insane fight in the entire game so far. I got my ass handed to me, and barely managed to amulet-of-divine-intervention my ass out of there before being creamed by the deadric hordes.
You know...Morrowind sound alot like D&D.i have heard there is insane amount of creat a character...is this true? if yes than i am sold.
JBNagis
Same here. When I play Fable I like running around with no helmet and sometimes no chest armor either to show off my tattoos ("Or as young people like to call them, 'Tats.'"), there's just something about actually seeing the person that's nice. I don't care quite as much in Morrowind, but that's because I play almost exclusively in first-person so helmets are little more then stat boosters to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ammadeau
yeah, you can create your own class/appearance. with the right plug-ins (get the pc version,) you'll have a lot more variety to choose from than the game shipped with. that isn't to say the game is limited out of the box.. it's just that the texture art isn't very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBNagis
interesting side note, the world of morrowind that was first introduced in arena was based on the d&d world the designers played, so actually the tes series is one degree of seperation from d&d, though you will find the races somewhat different. Elves are similar to their d&d counteparts but far less friendly, orcs are actually more friendly, and live at tenuous peace amongst elves and humans. Dwarves..well i will let you see whats up with the dwarves. And there are 2 beast races, cat/elves called kajiit, and lizardmen called aragonians. they are fairly new, from a d&d perspective, since the lizardmen were always c-grade heavies, and i dont recall a prominent sentient cat race.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBNagis
The character creation is very free in which skills you take, there are quite a lot, grouped under stealth, magic, and combat, so if you want you could custom class a heavy armor weilding swordsman who casts spells and can pick pockets, though you will run into some limitations in how your skills grow. as for the appearences, as ep said, not too much freedom there, pc has free mods that have added hundreds of new appearences to the game, do the right thing.
while the PC version is great, and yes, better than the xbox version, the xbox version is still fantastic. If you prefer playing on consoles (like me, I like to lie in bed to play morrowind for extended hours) then you'd be fine picking up the xbox version.
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Originally Posted by Ammadeau
My whole suit of armor besides pauldrons were Bound as constant effect. I really wish there was a way you could duel online =(
Then again... people would get killed very quick untill they started ramping up thier resists to elements and magic (absorb health).
This thread sucks. After reading it I started playing again on an old early main quest savegame then went out and got Bloodmoon and Tribunal. :(
I don't have time for this again. And I can't believe the game is already this old.
Yay for Morrowind.
Is there a specific order I should do the expansions to? Ie., should I finish the original main quest before finishing Tribunal, or vice-versa? Where does Bloodmoon fit in? I want to go through as much of everything as I can, and don't want to end the game prematurely.
Original main quest --> Tribunal ---> BloodmoonQuote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
That's how they came out on the PC, so i'd imagine that's how they intended for them to be played. I'd assume it's because Tribunal and Bloodmoon are huge jumps in difficulty over one another, but I don't know for sure.
And the game never ends, once you finish the main quest, you can still do Tribunal and Bloodmoon.
You mean there's no actual end to the game?
9.96 at circuit city NOW.
As least in Tribunal, some dialogs from the main quest are somewhat different if you didn't finish the original main quest, so everything should be handled smoothly and you can still do everything no matter the order. As for the game ending, you can still play even after you finish the main quest (to do every quest you didn't have time before) so you shouldn't worry about missing something. But I think the recommended order is main game -> tribunal or bloodmoon mainly because of the difficulty. Plus I think it is more enjoyable to do Tribunal after finishing the main quest since you have more "background" (on the gods and so on) to understand what happens (Tribunal follows the issues from the main quest whereas Bloodmoon is more of a side-quest, as far as I remember, the NPC in Bloodmoon nearly ignored my achievements from before).Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
All this Elder Scrolls talk had me try my $5 Morrowind GOTY game on the Xbox again, this time going a bit further.
I created my lizardman, actually bought him some armor and a weapon, wandered out and got killed by a worm.
I immediately went back to Kamatar Damacy.
Am I giving up too easily? Should this worm even be able to kill me?
what kind of worm?
ok you probably got taken by a kwama forager, this has come up a few times and i repeat, what is your main weapon proficiency? if you have low skill in a weapon type you will miss with it repetedly, if you picked short blade, buy a knife, using an axe will lead to you whiffing constantly. also, the armor, what types of armor are you skilled at, if you are wearing an armor you are not skilled with, you will get less armor protection of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
same thing with magic, using destruction magic is great for offing baddies, so is mysticism because it has a lifetap spell, but if you are unskilled in the particular school, you will miscast and be left vulnerable. my advice is just check your character build, a lizardman has a natural advantage in spears and medium armor and illusion magic, which has a neat little paralysis spell, given your lack of experience you may want to stay with that first, then when you get better, you can just do a rebuild.
Now, for the order question, i actually did it bass ackwards, i got bored with mw's main quest, so i was just meandering, beating daedric worshipers and bandits, and tribunal was frikkin hard so i did bloodmoon first, then went into bloodmoon with some of the bm weapons, then i finally beat the main quest a few months ago.
Thanks for the answers guys. Man, this game is cynical. No matter what faction I join, whether it's the legion or the friggin' church, sooner or later the person giving the orders wants me to steal something, kill someone or unleash flesh-flaying ashstorms upon the city. This game is really tough to stay a decent person in.
Basically, your character's probably going to be a major sissy until around level 5 or so. A few hints: take the northwest path out of the first town. An event will happen that will get you off to a decent start. Try to buy a bound whatever-weapon-you-have spell early on - that'll keep you alive until you get some real gear. And try learning some alchemy - mixing wickwheat and saltrice creates a healing potion that you won't have to pay for. Fortify strength and levitation potions (mix racer plumes & trama root) will get you through alot of bad situations early on. And figure out enchantment as soon as possible - that's the key to becoming real powerful real quick.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
You also don't need to fight anything for quite a while. Most of the early faction quests don't require it, especially thieves guild, and if you stick to the roads/stilt striders you should have no problem.
depends strider, the legion quest you are thinking about, if its the one where you have to get the land deed from the widow, has another way to do it. i did it the wrong way too, but if you follow the clues, you will find that there is more to her story then meets the eye, and there is a more "moral" way to handle it. As for the ashstorm, i assume you are in tribunal, i agree, alm starts to show a nasty side early there, i think they assumed that you already knew the secrets of the tribunal, but the ash storms, while annoying arent actually that harmful. the thing is, there are nasty people in most guilds, you often can circumvent them though, the fighters and mages guilds both are like this too, just try to talk to all the quest givers, often you can find that there are some nasty people in the guild, rather than the guild itsself, sometimes you can even get those nasty peopel out of the guilds..
Helseth, the temple, the fighters guild, the legion, they all want me to wax people. Hlaalu and the mages guild have me stealing things. I'll go out on a limb and assume Telvanni, the vampire guilds, the thieves guild, morag tong and camonna tong aren't any better - I'm not sure it's possible to reach the top of any given faction without resorting to skullduggery.
As a low level character i had the most fun being a thief. Because just about anyone could take me out, I had to come up with some really inventive ways of sneaking around and stealing things. You have a lot of different strategies to use too, hiding, sneaking, telekenesis, brute force(later), mad dashes back to the Corner Club ;). It's a good way to get into the proper mindset to play. The straight brute force method (not just for thievery, but everything) is only fun for so long, and is not the way to get the most enjoyment out of Morrowind.
Actually, if you could, I'd love to hear about what's going on with the dwarves. I don't have my Xbox anymore, so I'm not likely to play the game again, and I'm pretty curious..especially after some of the ruins I found.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
Question: I'm finally doing the third trial, and one of the things I need to provide is a 6th House Cup. Problem - much earlier in the game, I stumbled across a few House Dagoth hideouts, cleaned them out and sold the cups I found. None of the traders I sold them to have them anymore.
Are there any more to be found? Do I have to venture to Red Mountain to get them? Or am I screwed?
There probably are more out there. I'm at work now, but if I remember when I get home, I'll install the PC version. In the editor, you can search for a particular item and it'll give you every instance of it in the game. Useful if you need to find something.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
But even if you're screwed that way, there's still the alternate way of completing the main quest. I'm sure there are faqs which cover that. It involves killing Vivec though, so you need to be pretty buff for it.
Thanks, man. My character's gotten a lot tougher recently - I managed to snag a set of Royal Guard armor, as well as some daedric stuff, and I've pumped my heavy armor skill, and though I can pretty much whip everything on main Vvardenfell senseless on difficulty 100, I'm not sure I'm up for taking on gods just yet. The dwarven ruins under Mournhold still give me a hard time.
as far as i recall there is only one house dagoth cup, and any merchant who got it should still have it. it is a very distinct red/black goblet.
EDIT: hit up my trusty morrowind prophecies book(my memory is foggy) and the cup is in kogoruhn
Well, it's supposed to be in Kagoruhn, but I raided that place a while ago. Does it tell you exactly where it should be? Because I went over that place pretty thoroughly.
And I think I remember there being several house dagoth cups; they seem to be used in their rituals and show up around the altars to Dagoth Ur. If merchants hang onto these things I guess I can look around, but I have no clue who I would have sold it to. Nobody in the area seems to have it.
according to the book its on the table in the dome of pollocks eve on the surface. i will click it on tommorow and check it out, its late tonight an im old:P
Doh. Nope, it's not there. I really hope there's another one out there somewhere.
Two 'i's in Cyrodiil, btw. I'd hate to have those ElderScrolls.com people think you weren't serious or something.
Uh, anybody have any luck locating another cup in the editor? I'm playing the Xbox version, so I don't really have the option.
i hate to break this to you, but im pretty sure there is only one, i have been collecting cups for my household, and there is only one in my house(they dont keep it). I am finding it hard to belive that a unique item just vanished, most rares and uniques i have sold stayed at the merchents, so make sure you havent just overlooked the merchent, im not saying it cant happen and you are screwed(but im really hoping that is not the case), but i have never seen it happen. How many merchents did you use? i tended to stay with just a few, but hot everymerchent that you have, not saying it cant happen, but you put a lot of work in your guy, and i dont want to see it get screwed over.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
oh and they already kwow i am not serious because i never played daggerfall and arena(i dl'd it from the main site but havent had time to play) so im just Noobie McNooberson on that site, they mock me and pelt me with fishysticks
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- that's me banging my head on my keyboard. I sold the cup some time last year, and I tend to sell stuff all over. I guess my next mission is to go through just about every merchant on Vvardenfell and see if they have it. Fuck.
One reason I think there may have been more than one is that when Sul gave me the mission he asked for "one of those house Dagoth cups I know they have over there." I could have sworn I had multiple cups, but I may just be confused with the amulets.
Checked the editor and couldn't find any reference to '6th house cup,' but just about every object connected to the 6th house except for those ash statues seem to have only one instance in the game, so there probably is only one of them. I'll double check when I get home since I didn't really have much time to check the editor.
If you want to do things the alternate way, killing Vivec isn't too hard since the only difficult thing about him is his punches do insane damage. Basically, anyone with constant levitation can beat him, especially if you bring lots of magic arrows. Your far enough in that it wouldn't really be a shortcut.
They tried to make a god and the entire race dissapeared.Quote:
Originally Posted by taloony
You don't need levitation. Just a couple rings with constant effect restore health and one item with constant effect restore fatigue. Having a good magic resistance helps too, cause that spell he casts is nasty. If you dodge the first couple blasts and close in hand to hand he switches to punches though, so it's not that big of a deal.Quote:
If you want to do things the alternate way, killing Vivec isn't too hard since the only difficult thing about him is his punches do insane damage. Basically, anyone with constant levitation can beat him, especially if you bring lots of magic arrows.
Well, so far plotwise I don't really have much reason to kill him. I may just start over - it didn't make much sense in terms of my character to go through Bloodmoon, aside from just doing it for the heck of it, so I started up a nord crusader a couple of days ago for that specific purpose.
I've got him in the Imperial Legion and the Imperial Cult; when I'm strong enough I'll head to Solstheim in search of Hrothmund's amulet in an attempt to cure my severe social defencies (going from playing a bard to a crusader puts a major crimp in just about everything except fighting). I'm suprised at how fun the Legion quests are so far - I figured it'd just be a themed fighters guild. I also like the way they set up the cult with three different career paths. It almost makes me want to play as a healer. But how weird is it that the first shrine sergeant quest requires you to break into a guy's house to steal a bowl back? I couldn't figure out a way to do it that didn't get me reported for comitting a crime (aside from just not letting anyone see me, which is what I ended up doing).
And does anyone remember bumping into a woman north of Gnisis near Ald Velothi who dropped her ring in a pool? I've scoured every inch of that pool, and I can't find it for the life of me.
Ha, the last quest I attempted was that stupid ring one, and I could not find it at all. I think it's some kind of trick or something, that if the ring exists at all, it's someplace else. All this talk is tempting me to fire it up again, especially since I built my current character around easily leveling, though that meant having next to no magic powers.
I'm kind of enjoying being a wuss again. The game's sense of scale gets thrown out of wack when you can fly anywhere at warp speed and return to the safety of your bed at will. Marching from Hla Oad to Gnaar Mok, running from bandits in the woods and barely surviving the whole experience puts alot of the romance back into the game, if that makes any sense, and restores alot of the game's grandeur.
Very true. I had just finished a quest that took me all the way up to the northern edge of Morrowind for the House Rendoran, and the person tells me basically to talk to the person to gave me the quest in the first place to collect my fee. So I'm like 'okay, all I need to do is recall... wait, don't have that spell... use divine amulet... don't have that either... damn, you mean I've got to walk?!'
But the odd thing is that I like walking in the game, but I'll only do it when I've forced to. Probably why I've started over for the seventh time now, having only really done a bulk of the game during my first playthrough. Once you can do pretty much anything, there isn't much point in actually doing it.
Heh, yeah, it kind of felt like I was spoiling them doing most of those quests once I got a daedric claymore with strength & long blade of 100, because I could basically decapitate anything on Vvardenfell that stumbled across my path. Better to just start up a new character tailor made to go through a faction's quests, and ignore the blades altogether. That's the beauty of the game's non-linearity.
the ring is hard to find, but confidentially, you may not want to find it. and as for the seargents quest..yeah you are breaking in, but he stole it first, after beign cured of swamp fever, the ungrateful bitch. Its really more of a repo man job. but yeah the only way i know of is just picking the lock and re-appropriating the churches property. I also dropped a silver dagger in the place of said bowel, just to warn him what happens to people who have light fingers :D dosent affect anything in the game, but i thought it was a nice touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
I have the opportunity to pick up the original PC version of Morrowind for $5 and I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and buy that or shell out the extra $20 for the Game of the Year version that also includes two expansion packs. Basically, what I need to know is if the regular version can keep me busy for a while and is still worth playing in comparision to the recently released add-ons. Any opinions?
you will have more than enough to do without getting the expansions, and if you do end up playing the hell out of it like many of us, going back and buying the expansions won't be that big a deal, as you'll have long gotten your money's worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by wEEman33
Every time i see this thread back on the first page it makes me smile :tu:
So, after reading all about this game, am I the only one who has started playing Morrowind again?
Its amazing, I've owned it since about a week after it came out, and I've played it to death, probably 3 or 4 hundred hours clocked in total, and I'm still finding shit that I've never seen before. I fear that the new instant travelling in Oblivion will ruin the whole see something once and never again magic of morrowind. For instance, I found a dead ordinator in the ashlands on my first go, and haven't been able to find it since. I just found the underground path to inside red mountain (I just flew over the ghostfence before) and a tomb full of mummies. Crazy shit.
A few posts up -- "This thread broke me. I went out and picked up ES III, GotY Edition."Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
I'm only a couple of hours into it, but I can see how people dumped hundreds of hours into the game. It's almost overwhelming. Almost.
Edit: I really wish I knew how to do a previous post within a reply. I do in fact suck at the internet.
You have no idea. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger, with more and more to do. I'm guessing you haven't even scratched the surface of the expansions yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
When you reply, just scroll down below the reply box to where all the previous posts are listed, copy & paste, and put in quote tags. No big secret.Quote:
Edit: I really wish I knew how to do a previous post within a reply. I do in fact suck at the internet.
Expansions? I've only just arrived in Balmora, joined a couple Guilds, and stirred up some minor trouble. I assume I'm a long, long ways off from any of the exapanded adventures. Not to mention that, having played for a bit, I can already tell that my choice of characters and skills pretty much sucked ass -- time for a new character.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
Thanks. I may have figured it out had I thought about it for more than a second. Then again, perhaps not.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrikderKyo
The island of Solstheim and the capital city Mournhold are where they take place. You can go straight to either whenever you want, but you'll likely get your ass handed to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
The beautiful thing about this game is that it really doesn't matter, anybody can get good at anything. It'll just be a bit tougher to go outside your class unless you find a trainer. But yeah, you're still right at the beginning, best to go back and start somebody you're perfectly happy with. You're going to be dealing with them for a long time. Though you'll probably end up going back and making new guys anyway; I must have made at least 6 or 7 characters, including a few custom classes, just to try new things out - different religions, races, non-combat classes like healers, etc. Though I kept going back to my bard character; it's such a versatile class.Quote:
Not to mention that, having played for a bit, I can already tell that my choice of characters and skills pretty much sucked ass -- time for a new character.
I definitely have a few ideas for how I'm going to play Oblivion. though. I hope they include more political stuff for classes like agents. And some new classes in general.
Don't forget that you can change the difficulty of the game down if you need to. The silder goes to -100 or +100. Some character types (mages, especially) are horribly difficult in the early part of the game. I played as a thief/assassin (it was great being paid by the government to perform hits on people). I made sure I traveled light so I could run very, very fast when I got in over my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Planet
Good luck with the game PP. Hope you enjoy it!
There's a difficulty slider? Wow, news to me. Coincidentally, I made up a thief/assassin much like you described. So far, I can say that picking pockets is far more difficult than it should be. Anyway, I'll put any futher posts re: Morrowind in the proper thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolffen