Overwhelmed by Morrowind

[Narcolepsy]

I got Morrowind for the Xbox the other day, and the more I play it, the more I realize that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. The character creation system, skills, leveling up, loads of armor, enchantments, etc. are boggling my mind.

But the game looks like it shows a huge amount of promise, so mainly I need help on getting started.

Do you have any helpful hints for beginners like me, especially in the way of character creation?

 

[Gunner]

Pick a Night Elf - important skills: security, enchantment, med/heavy armor, long swords, alchemy, acrobatics and a few more I can't remember heh.

 

[Foxtrot]

Pick a warrior, because you can learn anything else at the end of the game. Redguard would be the best race too.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Morrowind seemd to just... amaze me to the point were I never played it after booting it a couple of times

 

[Kadayi]

God where to begin.

1) get recall and mark spells when you can or as amulets. They are damn useful. Levitate as well.

2) In Caldera there is a creature in the Orc House who buys items at full price (upto 5000 gold).

3) Don't wander into the ashlands until you are quite tough, and always have blight potions if you do.

4) If you steal goods from shopkeepers don't try and sell them those sorts of items later on, they will remember.

5) make plenty of saves.

 

[SubKamran]

Learn yourself! It takes a while and it's real fun. You get the hang of it later...

 

[Foxtrot]

Sub is right, the best advice is learn how to do everything on your own, because trying to explain things is very confusing(atleast it was when I was new) so just do some quests and see what works and what doesn't and learn from your mistakes.

 

[Brian Damage]

Actually, Creeper in Caldera buys items at 101% price, Kadayi, and I'm pretty sure he sells things at 99%. So if you can be bothered, you can make a profit just by buying and selling from Creeper.

 

[phantomdesign]

Learning yourself is the best way.

Actually, Creeper in Caldera buys items at 101% price, Kadayi, and I'm pretty sure he sells things at 99%. So if you can be bothered, you can make a profit just by buying and selling from Creeper.

True. He also gets a resuply of gold every 25 hours (wait 24, wait 1). If you buy and sell creatively, you can sell your high-end items like daedric weapons.

Then there's also the mudcrab merchant who's west of Vivec who has 10k .


My favorite thing to do is make a lot of high-level enchantments. If you do the correct permanent enchantments on strength, you can take anything out in 1 swing.

 

[Dedalus]

apparently there was a little turtle thing on an island near Balmora who buys things for x5 their price.

Morrowind has got to be the largest and most in depth game i've ever played. ZoomaCLW, prepare yourself for a very fun and eye opening experience

never played it on the xbox so i dunno how different it is to the pc version.

first time i played was as a Wood Elf. halfway through i thought, damn i've made a mistake i'd better restart. but then i found a Daedric bow, and i became an awesome archer. could kill almost anything before it got within 10 meters of me.

but warrior is a good class to start off with, but you're by no means bound to that class, which makes it great.

 

[Kyorisu]

This may sound confusing and heck it was when I first realized it myself. You need to make a custom class btw.

If you wanted to be a mage for example make all your primary skills warrior skills and your secondary skills to the mage ones you wish to use. This way you can level your mage skills quickly and thus level up faster and if you ever get in trouble with an enemy you can allways rely on those warrior skills that should be in the 30-40's.

This may be concidered cheating but I just call it a flaw. If you buy a whole set of extravegant clothes and find several of the biggest soul gems with the monster that allows you to set a constant effect on something (I forgot the name of the monster but the mage guild in Balmora should have one sitting on a table allready in the soul gem ofcourse) you can set the maximum sanctuary on all the items of clothing and have a grand total of 100 sanctuary (no monster can hit you) This is very exspensive unless you've got a good enchant skill.

 

[Narcolepsy]

This may sound confusing and heck it was when I first realized it myself. You need to make a custom class btw.

Is an Argonian sorceror a good idea, or just a waste?

I thought maybe it wasn't a good choice (especially for leveling), so I restarted with a Dark Elf that specialized in magic and had lesser skills in speechcraft, mercantile, light armor, etc.

I liked him, but I died before I remembered to save, and he was gone forever, so I went back to the Argonian.

 

[Sui]

i leave it for rainy days, as i have more fun games to play, and morrowwind has 100+ hours of CAMPAIGN MISSIONS, and about 400 hours of other missions :x its too daunting...

the size is fantastic though. i am a theif / ranger wood elf, but i kindof wish i had been a warrior / spellcaster because i cant kill anyhting AT ALL, even with the amazing bow i have. I was thinking of starting again, but replaying 10 hours of gameplay is not fun.

 

[Letters]

I never got ANYWHERE in that game!

It's just fun to wander around, though... but really, really hard at first.

Oh, and those flying guys? **** them!

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Heh...should have got it for the PC. All the mods you can download and make yourself are what makes that game so amazing. I love it so much....


But yeah, learning yourself is really the best way because if you don't make the mistakes then you won't learn the lessons.

 

[Narcolepsy]

Heh...should have got it for the PC. All the mods you can download and make yourself are what makes that game so amazing. I love it so much....


But yeah, learning yourself is really the best way because if you don't make the mistakes then you won't learn the lessons.

'twas a gift. And to add to it, it's the platinum hits version and not GOTY.

Do you think it's worth just cutting my losses and buying the GOTY PC version?

 

[blahblahblah]

Heh...should have got it for the PC. All the mods you can download and make yourself are what makes that game so amazing. I love it so much....


But yeah, learning yourself is really the best way because if you don't make the mistakes then you won't learn the lessons.

I played through the entire game and its first expansion pack. It was fun but that took forever to beat it. I got tired of Morrowind before I played any of its mods. Maybe I should try Morrowind again.

My favorite thing I did in that game was "create" my own house. I did that by going house shopping in Balmora and finding the house of my choosing. I then killed whoever was living there. I then decorated my house with soul gems, plates, and vases. Plus it was a useful stuff to store potions, armor, weapons, and plants.

I had set a recall marker there so I could retreat in a hurry, plus my house had a bed in it too. Not to mention the amount of storage capacity it had. I tried to keep one of every rare item that was in the game.

[Edit]: How does morrowind feel on the X-Box? If you can control it fine, I would stick with the X-Box. To me, Morrowind on the PC has a perfect control scheme.

 

[Dedalus]

My favorite thing I did in that game was "create" my own house. I did that by going house shopping in Balmora and finding the house of my choosing. I then killed whoever was living there. I then decorated my house with soul gems, plates, and vases. Plus it was a useful stuff to store potions, armor, weapons, and plants.

I had set a recall marker there so I could retreat in a hurry, plus my house had a bed in it too. Not to mention the amount of storage capacity it had. I tried to keep one of every rare item that was in the game.

i dunno whether you played it long enough but...

Spoiler

you get to build your own stronghold just north of Balmora near the egg mines, overlooking the river. at least, i got to build it there as i went through with house Hlaalu (and that really really fruity house leader. anyway, once the stronghold is finished it's pretty nifty. apparently you get income from it too, but i never saw any of it....

 

[Foxtrot]

i dunno whether you played it long enough but...

Spoiler

you get to build your own stronghold just north of Balmora near the egg mines, overlooking the river. at least, i got to build it there as i went through with house Hlaalu (and that really really fruity house leader. anyway, once the stronghold is finished it's pretty nifty. apparently you get income from it too, but i never saw any of it....

Spoiler

You get a house out of all of the great house quests, the mage is the coolest IMO. And in the expansion you get to make a whole mining town and you get your own house.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Do you think it's worth just cutting my losses and buying the GOTY PC version?

Yes. all the mods turn a great game into an amazing one. Also grab FPS Optimizer for it aswell. Has a few fixes and improvements such as turning on truform, increasing view distance, lowering it on the fly if fps is too slow and improved indoor lighting, to name a few. And definately make sure you get the GOTY version. I skipped the main quests and went straight into Tribunal and Bloodmoon and never had so much fun.

 

[blahblahblah]

Yes. all the mods turn a great game into an amazing one. Also grab FPS Optimizer for it aswell. Has a few fixes and improvements such as turning on truform, increasing view distance, lowering it on the fly if fps is too slow and improved indoor lighting, to name a few. And definately make sure you get the GOTY version. I skipped the main quests and went straight into Tribunal and Bloodmoon and never had so much fun.

You skipped the main quests? And you started with the tribunal expansion pack? You poor man. The tribunal expansion pack is not that good if you compare that to the main Morrowind quests.

I'll have to check out that FPS Optimizer though. Sounds intriguing.

 

[Narcolepsy]

Yes. all the mods turn a great game into an amazing one. Also grab FPS Optimizer for it aswell. Has a few fixes and improvements such as turning on truform, increasing view distance, lowering it on the fly if fps is too slow and improved indoor lighting, to name a few. And definately make sure you get the GOTY version. I skipped the main quests and went straight into Tribunal and Bloodmoon and never had so much fun.

Darn, so you think I should get the PC GOTY version and just cut my losses on the Xbox version (I only paid $20 for it)?
;(

 

[Foxtrot]

No, the xbox version is just fine.

 

[Kadayi]

Get a large scale interactive morrowind map here. It allows you to record and make notes regarding all the games locations. Very handy when you get really into the game and have dozens of quests on the go.

 

[The Dark Elf]

You skipped the main quests? And you started with the tribunal expansion pack? You poor man. The tribunal expansion pack is not that good if you compare that to the main Morrowind quests.

I'll have to check out that FPS Optimizer though. Sounds intriguing.

What do you mean poor man? heh. I have tons of weapons, armor of all types, countless scrolls, spells, potions. A home in the small colony, a small hut in the middle of the island, the Thirsk Mead Hall, the castle when I decide to move in. Plenty of gold. A high reputation level so most creatures and NPC's wont attack me on sight now (except those god awful cliff racers, which are just crap). Even managed to take down a Titan cause of all the goodies I got from jumping straight into the expansions first, Titan's are fun, with plenty of goodies themselves.. The fused bones make for great decoration in ones home lol :E

Besides, hunting in snowstorms for bear and wolf pelts is great fun when your bored

and the optimizer really improves the game. Also fixes the bloody awful slow menu mouse pointer

 

[SidewinderX]

Morrowind is one of the msot amazing RPGs i've played... I love it. you shoudl have an awsome time....!!

 

[Kyorisu]

Once you get to level 10 it's a peice of cake. I have a level 50 custom race/custom class character.

 

[CR0M]

Been playing it for over a year and STILL not finished the main quests or covered half the map - quite happy wandering around like kain from kung-fu, doing sub quests and getting into adventures.

Started as a Nord Human, learned no magic whatsoever (I use potions whenever i need any of that hocus pocus), and the best sword I own is Ice blade of the monarch. Armour is the highest i've seen in the game and daedra can't even get a strike in.

One of the best games in my collection. And not so much a RPG, more a freeform FPS - with the most in-depth storyline and environment in a game to date. Kind of like a 3D baldurs gate.

Stunning.

Wishlist - Morrowind 2, the same size map area using the source engine and havoc physics

 

[Kyorisu]

Wishlist - Morrowind 2, the same size map area using the source engine and havoc physics

You think Morrowind was big. Have you played "The Elder Scrolls DaggerFall"?

 

[Bad^Hat]

I played Daggerfall for a while some time ago, it was huge... and largely confusing :|

Edit - Oh yeah, the first Elderscrolls game, "Arena", is now abandonware (free/legal to download) ^_^

 

[The Dark Elf]

Daggerfall was simply amazing. IMO better than Morrowind. Though as anyone who played it knows, it has some REALLY annoying bugs. But its scale was perfect. Could quite happily play that without ever doing the main quest. And I never did. I just had fun doing my own thing.

Though morrowind wins out with the whole having your own home thing. The fact you can just go into the game and change absolutely anything you want is amazingly useful. One of these days I'll give it a real chance and build my own city in it, just for the hell of it.

I did put a trapdoor in the floor of my home up in the north. Then built a long corridor which came out of a doorway in a home further down. Did that after I'd got them though.

Maybe one day I'll build a big haunted house near the start point, keep that as my home, have the big city built elsewhere full of nasties to fight with for fun.