ohnoitsabear said:
Signa said:
UBERfionn said:
I always find it so hard to get in to morrowind because the start is so slow. Does this help to fix that at all?
It helps a lot if you make a Nord with the Steed starsign, and Athletics as a major skill. Your starting walk speed is faster than my normal Bretton build's running speed 10 levels in. I personally enjoy my build's poor speed, because it's just another aspect of the character I can improve while playing.
The other ***** of a hurdle is the combat system. As long as you understand it's all dice rolls based on your character's skills, it's a lot easier to swallow. I think a lot of people tried the game expecting an action hack-n-slash and were surprised by the amount their character would miss attacks.
I disagree with having athletics a major skill. Yes, it does make the early levels much easier, but you will end up leveling a lot faster than you would with athletics as a misc. skill, and thus get less out each level. However, I think that the only thing Morrowind players will agree on as far as designing a character goes is that the artronach is seriously overpowered, especially for non magic characters.
I never would recommend it to someone wanting to play that character for the long-haul (at least if they like to ban buying training, as I do), but if he's having a hard time getting into the game because it's slow, then that's a great place to start. Either you have him never play it, or he gets stuck with Athletics and possibly enjoys the game.
EDIT: Misread the line about leveling too fast. This isn't like Oblivion at all. Oblivion made it so that if you leveled your major skills 10 times, that was it, you got all the bonuses you were allowed for that level. In Morrowind, you can keep getting more bonuses if you just don't rest. In Oblivion, if you leveled your major skills 20 times, and then slept, you would get the bonuses for the first level, and then sleeping again would give you the bonuses you earned for the second. In Morrowind, the first sleeping would grant bonuses from both levels earned, and then sleeping again would grant you no bonuses, unless you went out and leveled more misc skills. I've played characters that I wasn't ready to level up until they were 30 major skill levels too high. I can get around the game with never resting, so it was never a concern to under level.
Even so, there is no auto-scaling in Morrowind, so you can under-level a lot, and it won't hurt you. My first character took plenty of 1x-3x because I didn't understand how I could get 5x bonuses. She still kicked ass in the end.
