Getting into Morrowind.

[TheAceTheOne]

Dude, cherish these rare moments of noobyness. Trust me, so much magic is lost from a huge RPG like Morrowind and Oblivion if you get into it with premature knowledge of what to do. Being an ignorant dot on the huge map is such a wonderful feeling, I wouldn't want to take it away from you.

Hear! Hear!

God, I do miss the days when videogames were played without an army of downloaded Microsoft Excel sheets to maximize your character's performance.

I haven't ever used a maximizing excel sheet.

On topic: I haven't played Morrowind much. I'd say that you should probably follow the other poster's advice, as when I *did* play Morrowind, what they are suggesting seems to work. Only tip I have for you: Don't jump after using the Scrolls of Icarian Flight. Or save before you do. You won't have legs left after landing.

 

[HellspawnCandy]

Skills that are a waste of time, in my opinion would be any melee weapon. Casting is so much easier. I've also learned is that don't do the mainquest yet. Do the guilds first, depending on what class you are(fighter,mage, thief thing) join a House too. Do not go on slaughtering rampages either. Sometimes you can kill mainquest needed npcs or npcs needed for guild quests

Spoiler

I accidently killed Fast Eddie once deep in the thieves guild questline, had to restart the game which sucked

 

[oberkid4]

in the first room after you get off the boat go over to the book shelf and pick up the huge plate IMMEDIATELY drop it after the guard runs over and talks to you pickup the plate again nothing will happen and you will have just gotten a 600 doller plate this only works at the beginning of the game

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[New Frontiersman]

Dude, cherish these rare moments of noobyness. Trust me, so much magic is lost from a huge RPG like Morrowind and Oblivion if you get into it with premature knowledge of what to do. Being an ignorant dot on the huge map is such a wonderful feeling, I wouldn't want to take it away from you.

I agree so much with this, the feeling of being lost, totally immersed in a new and wonderful wonderful world. It's such an amazing feeling! I agree I would give a lot to get that feeling back.

 

[Judgement101]

I don't understand people demanding that you use mod. I played it purely as it was and found it to be a bug-free adventure from one dark swamp to another swamp.

 

[Jim Stacey]

The most important thing to remember is that exploration is your friend. If you just take the Silt Strider from place to place, you'll be missing out on some amazing content. Also, guilds are great for sending you to new places in the game and will open up new opportunities as you go.

Find a jumping off point, dive in, and do your own thing. And as someone else said, make sure that you are very well prepared before you go for the expansion packs. Bloodmoon in particular is pretty intense and design for higher level characters.

Enough of this text! I'm going to play Morrowind!

 

[Manji187]

Howdy.

I'm a pretty big Oblivion fan.
I finished the game several times and enjoyed myself a lot.
The wait for Skyrim is of course slowly killing me on the inside, and will consume most of my black and empty soul before I am relieved and can play the next pearl in this awesome series.

So, I figured, lets try Morrowind.
I got it in steam, and I downloaded the 2011 graphic pack that was mentioned here a few months ago.
But I never really got started.

I felt just like I first started playing Oblivion. Lost.
What are some starters tips?
What skills are a massive waste of time, even though they sound awesome.
It's that sort of traps I usually fall for in RPG's and wish to avoid.

Can I screw up a character?
What are the basic do's and don't's

And of course, any other type of suggestions are always welcome!

Heh...believe it or not...but (in retrospect) I believe f*cking it up the first few times actually makes the experience worthwile.

What you should definitely know is that in the city of Caldera there's a house called Ghorak Manor. Inside the house on the second floor is a scamp called Creeper. He has 5000 gold to spend every day and DOES NOT HAGGLE, i.e. buys almost every item at face value (item must be in mint condition though).

Oh...and if you ever seriously want to break the game without cheating...one word; alchemy. It will make you more powerful than the greatest god of the game, Vivec.

 

[Weaver]

Two important things
1) Endurance works the same (IMO broken) way it does in Oblivion (ie, not retroactive).
2) Generally, pick a method of damage dealing and try to stick with that for the beginning. Don't try to do axes and longswords and the same time say.

 

[bobfish92]

Don't settle on low prices for selling high-priced items. If you look hard enough, you'll find someone who has 1,000,000 gold and trades everything at full price. So don't go selling that enchanted daedric weapon worth 100,000 to a normal broker, store it until you can find who I'm on about.

 

[AngryMongoose]

Can't really help. I couldn't even get into Oblivion.

 

[Darks63]

The final battle in the main storyline is harder in morrowind than in oblivion just a warning, but the main storline as a whole is alot more fun too.

 

[PPB]

As others have said, I think part of the fun with this kind of game is being lost at first. I still remember the first time I played Morrowind. I was completely clueless and lost and getting to the first town with the help of my paper map felt like a genuine adventure (I didn't know about Silt Striders).

That said, if you need some pointers, you might want to check these two pages on UESP:
Starting out [http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Starting_out]
Morrowind for Oblivion Players [http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Morrowind_for_Oblivion_Players]

 

[madwarper]

Get used to failure.

Remember in Oblivion when the first rat attacked you? You could try to punch it, slice it with a katana, roast it with a fireball, etc. and they all worked the first time?

In Morrowind, not so much. Weapons will miss. Spells will fizzle. Skills (ie. repairing) will fail.

God, I do miss the days when videogames were played without an army of downloaded Microsoft Excel sheets to maximize your character's performance.

But, I'm a 7th level accountant!

 

[ryanthemadman]

Dude, cherish these rare moments of noobyness. Trust me, so much magic is lost from a huge RPG like Morrowind and Oblivion if you get into it with premature knowledge of what to do. Being an ignorant dot on the huge map is such a wonderful feeling, I wouldn't want to take it away from you.

i agree wholeheartedly. i always never feel like going through a game like this again after i've beaten it once. i just finished new vegas and loved it. then i wanted to go back through it and do stuff that i didnt do and said "fuck it" three hours in because id already done all that stuff and didnt want to sit through it again.

 

[gim73]

You break the game if you try the whole 'soultrap an attribute' trick. If you do that, don't let speed get over like 500, because you get too fast to actually do anything, and you might fly over a mountain.

Legit min-max, you make sure that the skills you regularly use are not major/minor and you ALWAYS have a training skill that is not major/minor. I mean you shouldn't put all the endurance skills in your skill set so you can't just train a skill ten times for the times five multiplier. Try to max out endurance first, because it isn't retroactive. Pump up strength to give you carrying capacity. If you soultrap any spells to yourself, make them things like feather and waterbreathing. Levitation might sound like fun but you can never rest in the air and it's VERY annoying to slowly float around.

All and all, morrowind is superior to oblivion in almost every category except for graphics/sound. It's a damn fun game that you won't regret playing.

 

[Ranorak]

Thank you for all the tips and advice.
I decided to read the Morrowind for Oblivion players guide. Just to get into the basics.

I just took the giant bug thing to a town starting with a B, the one the main quest points you at.
But not after killing some smugglers in a cave.

Combat is a bit trickier, but I'm getting the hang of it.