Other, better, more detailed guides exist, but this one is mine. Download Links: www.zhakaron.com/2024/02/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind-new-player.html Non-Vanilla Live-Streaming Series: kzread.info/head/PL9qQ3PJcmlrc_0dKR7or1HzmGkxoeVcZx

@LupricalArcadius

4 ай бұрын

Question for you, what are your thoughts about running Morrowind on Steam Deck using the linux version of OpenMW engine?

Very informative and feels like just the right time. Morrowind interest seems unusually high atm.

@jasonramero6274

5 ай бұрын

It’s prolly because ESO is in a pretty crappy spot with ZOS nerfing everything, and making abilities have terrible animations. I know a lot of people doin that, including me.

@F2PMegaGod

5 ай бұрын

Lack of new content. People got tired of Starfield fast, and domt care about it anymore for the most part. So they turn to older games for their fix. I myself started playing Morrowind a few weeks ago, New Vegas a few days ago and am itching for a little Oblivion, maybe. The fact each game in the FO/ES franchises has its own feel to it also helps, games dont get outdated by newer releases (like cod or assassins creed series for example)

@DixieSchizo

5 ай бұрын

I thought you were Hugbees for a moment

@donovanromanski

5 ай бұрын

​@@F2PMegaGod Honestly same ive played morrowind for years but just decided to get back into it and played new vegas for the first time. new games just arent cutting it story wise these days

@HUNGRY4EGGS

5 ай бұрын

yeah I've always been a bit interested but started playing recently, and its odd how many starter guides are coming out, but its very helpful.

This will be perfect for Morropilling my friends!

@josephpercy1558

5 ай бұрын

And, to be sure, that pill is the color black. Just ask your Telvanni "friends" -- but don't be a blue-pilled n'wah!

i'm a veteran of this game (first played it in 2003), but i still enjoy these types of videos

your guides got me into daggerfall years ago, hope they do the same for a lot of people getting into morrowind!

I wasn't expecting this video, but as an old Morrowboomer, it made me smile. There seems to be a mini-renaissance of interest in Morrowind recently and this video was full of helpful advice for any TES fan looking to try (or return to) TES III. Well done, Mr. Z!

@josephpercy1558

5 ай бұрын

Smart people are realizing that, even in the gaming industry, sometimes "less is more."

@FifinatorKlon

5 ай бұрын

Since almost all you get is complete and utter slop/trash these days it is not surprising that people look at the classics.

@hexamael9458

5 ай бұрын

@@josephpercy1558 I don't know. Compared to Oblivion and Skyrim, Morrowind has more lol

@Rockah0lic

2 ай бұрын

Morrowind is currently in it's Golden Age. Because of Tamriel Rebuilt getting better and better, as well as Morrowind Script Extender and DarkElfGuys' continued championing of really compelling Modding Competitions. There's never been a better time to play, Morrowind is more Morrowindy because very talented lovers of the game have put in the WORK to bring concepts made by the og devs to life decades after the official release.

Thx again for doing this for the community!

Getting a constant effect restore fatigue enchant asap is probably the best advice I've seen on videos like this

FYI I *heavily* reccomend Lyle Shnub's Morrowind Mechanics series if you want to really understand how your character works. There's quite a lot going on under the hood that you might want to know.

As an atronach you can just use a reduce intelligence spell or potion on self and after its effects wear off, your magica will be full again. Casting golden saints into lava then casting soul trap on them as long as you have the appropriate soul gem can help you rack up a serious amount of gold. Most vendors will not be able to buy it but the unique mud crab vendor will. With the amount of tutorials online, you can make anything work, playing as a heavy swordsman but struggling go and get the fist of randagulf.

I finally got down to giving Morrowind a shot and I really enjoyed using OpenMW with some “vanilla plus” style mods as a first play-through and it really encouraged me to learn the more complex older mechanics with hit dice and all that to give Daggerfall a try without being as intimidated

Never did a proper full playthrough of Morrowind myself, this video came at a perfect time.

@josephpercy1558

5 ай бұрын

Oh, hey -- it's the Fashion Scrolls lady! 👌

Thank you for making Morrowind accessible for me, I've enjoyed my time with Bethesda RPGs after watching this video. My Redguard casually walked up to Dagoth Ur at about level 35, after maxing out all attributes but Luck, and pretty much no skill yet, and casually slew his first form, getting himself in an inescapable situation in the heart chamber, where I was forced to load a save from before the heart chamber and actually try to do the main quest line, completing the main quest at level 59. This is the best guide I've ever watched, and certainly brought me the most enjoyment out of any video as a consequence of me watching it. I had sworn off any Bethesda RPGs after failing at Oblivion in 2006, but this video made it clear to me that there's a lot of fun to be had with these games, so I went back and played Morrowind with OpenMW, thanks to your video, and started Skyrim SE right afterwards. I even dared plunge back into Oblivion, armed with the knowledge of how Bethesda RPGs work in general, made a "backwards" class with the skills I would use the least, and my Breton is now running around Cyrodiil at level 6, slaying things, looting poisoned apples from a strange cave with a hand sign, and getting rich while avoiding the oblivion gates spawning everywhere for some reason. I even dipped my toe into Daggerfall (with the Unity-based engine), thanks to another one of your videos. Looking forward to The Wayward Realms one day. Again, I can't thank you enough for making gaming interesting again for me, in my 40s. Thank you, sir!

Only someone who loves morrowind could have made such a well explained and thought out guide with proper context. Thank you ZZ. I am starting a new run

Great video for newbies. Well put together and full of precious information.

UPDATE: I got Morrowind, gonna start a fun adventure 2024 (: thank you for this video and your channel!!! Only a few minutes in and already I want to comment to praise how unique you are. I don’t know anything about you or your channel but keep being your genuine self man. You as a person are great and that seeps into your passion for this. I wouldn’t keep watching if you were anyone else or any different. I’ve wanted to get into morrowwind and daggerfall for a few years now actually lol. Just haven’t been able to or found the time, but that’s okay. Part of me likes the idea of finally experiencing these games; part of me enjoys fantasizing about “imagine how my life with be when I finally get to cozy up at night and play some Morrowind.” Maybe a bit silly, but that’s fine :) Thanks for the vid

@UsmevavyPanacek

5 ай бұрын

To cozy up at night and play Morrowind is great idea.. Just thinking about it, I can hear the soundtrack. I'd recommend the game just for OST alone to be honest.

This was the first game I've installed on my first ever computer in 31.12.2002 (I bought the disk long before I got the computer!) and I'm still a new player in 2024! :D

Fantastic video Zaric, this is definitely reigniting my interest in starting up a 2nd playthrough of Morrowind on OpenMW.

Thank you for providing us with this historical video, may it be studied centuries from now.

What a coincidence. I just bought Morrowind last week, and gonna start playing it this saturday. Thanks for the starter tips.

@josephpercy1558

5 ай бұрын

Never a "coincidence" when fated by Azura!

Good morning Z! Wonderful to see :)

I just got back into playing this. Thank you.

Excellent video and interesting footage (the magicka absorb thing)!

Fantastic guide. All content no fluff! 37:14

Natural Character Growth and Decay definitely made the game for me. I wanted to play as an Imperial that specs into both Mercantile and Speechcraft but also uses Longswords and Heavy Armor and I found myself racking up tons of dirty levels as I was mainly leveling up with Mercantile and Speechcraft. Not having to think about how much I've raised X attribute per level made the game much more intuitive for me.

@kokojack

5 ай бұрын

The issue with NCGD is that there's is no feeling of progression/accomplishment, when I use it, I miss my sweet dopamine rush from the level up screen. Morrowind leveling system is weird because you think you have to minmax, but in reality you don't need to since there is no really scaling ennemies like in Oblivion. You can perfectly beat the game having only x2 or even some x1 stats multiplicators each level. If you're too bothered with the x1, just train some skills each time you pass a town to guaranty at least some x2 and you're golden

@headwindshield

5 ай бұрын

@@kokojackI could've definitely avoided a lot of headache if I had realized how convenient trainers are in my early hours. Nowadays attribute growth is a no brainer, just run into the next guild hall and find a trainer who can level up the skill in question. I should def give Morrowind another shot without NCGD, to get a more "vanilla" experience. I mean, I'm using trainers to raise attributes even with NCGD installed, so my gameplay is already pretty close to how someone would play it vanilla.

Thanks for the vid Zaric, Morrowind stays going strong in 2024!

Thank you for making tgis updated guide!

This is a very high quality video. All the information is well organized, neatly presented in language that is accessible to anyone. Job well done! I am impressed and a new subscriber.

Thanks, I started playing around a month ago and I wish I had this vids, especially for vanilla mod recommendations.

For extra content people should also try to dip into doors of oblivion.. it adds most of the familiar daedric realms into the game.. with quests you can do.. and you get to meet and if you are insane or OP enough kill the daedric princes in their realms. Also zaric, thanks for making this, you are going to become the "here's a video for you noobs" standard now. "Morrowind for dummies guide"

Good timing. Never got that far in the main quest line as a kid, too busy exploring and thieving. Was thinking of giving it a more proper go just recently

Great and informative guide! I'll put it to good use. :-)

I love these videos. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us. 👍

Thank you for the info, good sir. 👍

This is nice and concise, thanks Zaric

Long time fan here, good to see you are still producing this kind of content my guy, I recently got the urge to play Morrowind again so this video was perfect for me!

good to hear people are still polishing this diamond in the rough

Well explained and very informative.

Even though I've been playing Morrowind since 2002, it's still interesting to hear fresh takes in beginner-friendly guides; so many wildly different opinions and most are justified. Hell, I'd never even heard of the Morrowind Advanced or Affresh mods. Seems really cool. For new players that would like to see more content in one save file, there's a criminally underrated mod called Join All Houses, and it does just that; it lets you join and complete each of the three, and have each of their strongholds. In terms of the game's fast travel, you should definitely complete the Master Index main plugin ASAP on a new file. You can also get Multiple Mark mods that will allow you to teleport to more than one location via Recall. The last one is more of a quality of life improvement that I don't exactly recommend it for new players, unless you absolutely must have more fast travel options.

When i look characters running in the game it feels like that is how we run in our dreams!

That feeling when I started yet another thief playthrough having believed it was a skill issue all along and that’s why I could never get anywhere in the story. Then I watch this video. Thank you sir.

@spatrk6634

Ай бұрын

stealth is very bad in morrowind even with mods that supposedly fix it. pickpocketing is totally broken in vanilla and it does not work at all. you would need to sit there for ages save scumming until you finally see single item in npc inventory, and then pray to rng gods that you manage to steal the item

Awesome vid. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more of your content

Done very good, thank you ❤❤🎉

Not even a new player but I got weirdly excited when you posted this video lol

Amazing video. How come I never thought about consant fatique regen? What a game, travelling across the whole island in few jumps (and usually landing near something interesting) is one of my fondest gaming memories.

Damn, didn't recognize you without the cat ears

Just started a Breton battle mage last week. I’m having fun using magic because I never used it as a kid

May the Tribunal's blessings upon you. Thank you for helping this N'wah on his journey towards enlightenement, for walking the path towards the Tower and the achievement of CHIM. This swit has sacrificed a pack of muck, potion of rising force, 100 Gold, has drowned and payed a silver sword, payed a potion of Cure of Common Disease, Dreugh Wax and a Soul Gem, for walking the pilgrimages of the seven graces. Toughened the quest for the Mage Guild, Fighters Guild and the Imperial Legion, this outlander wants to become a proper reincarnate in this was lands of Ash, Sorrow, Duty, Faith amd Luck. Many blessings to you, kind Sir. May the Tiburnal light you path.

amazing video thank you!

Thanks for the video kind sir. I downloaded Morrowind a few days ago and was having the hardest time getting anything done 😅

If someone insists on trying a stealth build for a first character, here's some tips; 1. Illusion spells are your friend, try to find items with illusion spells attached and/or train illusion 2. Sneak everywhere, just DON'T FORGET TO UNSNEAK when you want to talk to someone 3. Get real comfortable with save-scumming

Thank you sir🎉

I have beaten this game several times and didn't need a guide, but you are very informative, well spoken, and professional. Thank you for the entertainment, Good luck.

I tried morrowind a week ago, I had a blast. I don’t get some people’s “there’s a lot of reading” complaint, I’m freakin Gen Z and if I have no problem it should be a breeze. Magic actually felt fun unlike Skyrim.

Fantastic! I've played Morrowind since the Xbox days and do a playthrough every couple of years. This was well put together enough for me to do a playthrough. AND I LEARNED A LOT.

@Zhakaron

4 ай бұрын

Awesome I'm glad you're able to find use in this.

Damn 40 sec in and you've already earned a like from me, you work efficient man

@Zhakaron

5 ай бұрын

I don't like to think of likes and subs as a currency. But I'm glad you the video!

Thank you Sir your videos are excellent

This is a very well made video with the new player perspective always in mind. My brain screamed many times to correct things or add to what you said, but I realize that most of what you said is to allow them to enjoy that one-time only, true first Morrowind experience that has had coming back for years. Thank you for this considerate video, I already reinstalled the game :_)

Great guide - I gotta hop into Tamriel Rebuilt at some point.

Very good 👍

Love you man

Thank you Zaric!! :D

Don't forget: OpenMW has a VR fork and will run on a potato. If you have a mid rig and a Quest 2 you're good to go. IMO the best way to experience Morrowind

Outstanding Guide. I played Morrowind on Pc First. My Pc Died 3 months after. I ended up getting an original xbox, had an Orc Character I loved. Then my cousin from New Jersey comes over and he ended up saving over my file or deleted it, I don't know what happened. I will finish this game one day. Sorry for the Story Time. 😅

The assassin definitely broke the game for me. his gear is extremely valuable and breaks the economy

I wish some competent Devs could take the TES license from BGS so we could have decent TES games again.

appreciate all you do for the TES community

Umineko reference DETECTED.

I only heard friends talk about Morrowind, we didn't have a PC yet when it was relevant. My first TeS was Oblivion. A few days ago I finally bought Morrowind to finally see what the hype was all about. Cheers for giving me an easy start!

@spatrk6634

Ай бұрын

i learned english as a kid while playing morrowind with a dictionary by my side. still coming back to it at least once a year for a fresh playthrough. its so immersive world and story. bethesda later forgot about morrowind.... and how there was never sense of urgency in doing any single quest until you complete like 2/3 of main story. it entices you to explore and do side content.... when oblivion starts it instantly urges you to quickly bring amulet of kings to jofrey. then quickly go find and save martin. then quickly go find this and that before mythic dawn. etc... if you are roleplaying you would never do anything else but run from one main quest to another. you cannot come up with a role playing reason to not go to next quest market of your main quest and ignore everything else. because that is of up most importance to save the world... in morrowind one of the first things that main quest giver says to you is to go join some guild and train your skills. literally tells you off to go do side content because you suck.

@spatrk6634

Ай бұрын

and thats where game really opens up if you like role playing. now you can actually choose to ignore the main quest because idiots just released you from a prison ship thinking that you will obey emperors orders and fulfill the prophecy.

Started playing morrowind for the first time about two weeks ago and I've been addicted to it, which is a feeling I haven't felt in ages

Nice guide! I always recommended The Lady for new players, and would roll with it myself just so I wouldn't worry so much about health gain per level, and it helps a bit with the whole "everyone hates the player" early game that puts some off of the game, but a flat 50 attribute points across the board is very OP. Also, on my first playthroughs being hated by everyone at the start stuck with me and I really should encourage others to see it through if they feel they can as it really makes the whole experience hit different in a way that feels intentional. And, well, yeah. Good stuff! I do hope some people give it a go, as is always the case. I've not seen a single player game's player base go so hard towards trying to help onboard newcomers quite as much as Morrowind's, especially given its age. Occasionally people may come to the conclusion that we're hardcore elitist snobs for sticking with it, but I disagree. We always tell people that they should avoid doing certain things, but it's not really from a place of gatekeeping. God mode is only a console command on PC/Cheat code on Xbox away, but it delivers only a short term power fantasy that feels hollow. If one sticks with it, well, becoming powerful is basically inevitable, and with a character following this guide one should be able to take on just about anything aside from higher level foes that are specifically meant to scare people off until they come back stronger. Quicksave is very versatile as well. And hey, no one is saying to never use mods. It's just, well, once you sink your teeth into the game and get a feel for how it plays, how the various systems interact, then one can better understand exactly what they're installing. You can only play through Morrowind for the first time once, and how each person goes about it is up to them. Myself and many others just hope new players give it a go, and have fun while avoiding common pitfalls.

There's one most hilarious thing about the bartering system. Gold is basically a regular item, meaning it occupies space in your inventory (but doesn't weigh anything), which in turn means... you can sell it. For gold. And if your trading skill is high enough, you can trade gold for more gold.

Im playing as an imperial monk rn, I wish you could make better RPG chracters on the later games like you can in morrowind.

How did you know I was doing a “capture all ‘Dagoth’ souls completion” run-though. Thank you!

Thanks! Oblivion next please

you my favourite youtuber :)

I recently passed 500 hours in Morrowind (rookie numbers ik) but I'm still going to watch anyways as I'm a obsessed Morrowind fan that spends more time in Vivec city than socializing with the outside world.

A huge tip of mine for everybody but especially for hoarders is learn to use ctrl and shift when looting/selling, it will bypass the tedious "how many do you want to sell/pickup" dialogue and make it either a single item or a whole stack

Still love this game even though it's janky! Cheers Zaric

I jumped back into morrowind last week. And boy was it a blast. This is an amazing video for players who want to experience this absolute Gem of a Bethesda title. I minmaxed the hell out of my current character as I had never done so before. And min-maxing certainly is tedious. Not worth the hassle if you ask me. "Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a video game" very much applies to min-maxing in morrowind. The only thing I would have liked to see added to the video was an explanation on the diegetic fast travel system of morrowind. Especially that two certain spells are very, very handy. Mark and Recall. No need to say where to get them, just giving new players somewhat of an out of game sidequests to be on the lookout for those spells.

If you're going for a magic-user with the Atronach birthsign, I recommend making a 'Restore Magicka' spell rather than attacking the Ancestor Ghost and waiting for the absorb effect to kick in. Simply buy a spell with a Drain Attribute effect, open the Spellmaking tab and select 'Drain Attribute' and then 'Intelligence' in the list. Adjust that to cast on Self with a Magnitude of 100 for 1 second. That will replenish your magicka bar to full, instantaneously. Of course, that comes at the cost of depleting your INT to 0, but there are workarounds. This is, no doubt, an exploit. But what would Morrowind be without the exploits? But seriously, if you're roleplaying, say, an Altmer or a Breton mage born under the Atronach, you have to ask why in Magnus' good name are there no intellectuals smart enough to have 'Restore Magicka' spells in their magically-attuned cultures to make up for the downsides in their birthsigns? No sophisticated Altmer mage would stoop to the level of conjuring and attacking their ancestor spirits for this kind of crude magicka regeneration. Anyway, this exploit exists on pure vanilla. I wouldn't be surprised if one of these patches erased it.

there is just something i really like about these old rpg graphics, i wish there was more games like this

As someone whose first character was an Atronarch Breton I was a bit surprised. The only criticism I would have expected is that it trivializes the mid to late game because you become basically impervious to magic. And early game mages are much more reliable than fighters anyway since you can just craft your spells to have high success rate,

@josephpercy1558

5 ай бұрын

And then to think, people criticize Oblivion for the level-scaling that constrains the "trivializing" mid-late game by making enemies damage-sponges. 😆

you're a legend

tyvm

thank you for the new video, morrowind frasier!!

The man, myth, the legend has returned

I've been wanting to do a playthrough for months now after owning it for years guess now is the time

Atronach stone has a chance to absorb when you are gettinf a shrines buffs, also. I had a dark elf mage who trained in the temple undercroft in balmora until mastering cibjueation

I would love a History of The Elder Scrolls Part 3: Morrowind. The Daggerfall video is what inspired me to start playing that game, and I still watch it occasionally to this day.

I love this I did laugh when he said "I spent a huge amount of energy rolling semi good stats" and I think it was like two minutes of a 7 hour video

any mods ud reccomend that make damage input output balanced?

Does the Purist Patch and other initial game fixing mods all work through the OpenMW append feature or do those need to be manually installed?

Morrowind will always be my favorite game. The reason it was so fun is because of the crazy amount of options for a build. And yes, the brokenness of the game is also what made it so fun.

Got into morrowimd a year ago and played the absolute shit out of it and it’s definitely one of my favorites of all time. Glad this is here now I can go back and make an even better character. Not to say my old one wasn’t. Made a dark elf long blade heavy armor spell sword that had all kinds of great magiks. Levitation got my around vivec city so much easier

Beautiful as always. I think we actually really need guide like this for Skyrim, considering how much Anniversary Edition messed the original experience with both free and paywalled "mods" and after a lot of the real mods from nexus were converted (or should i say consolizationed? xd) into something more similar to these official, cross-platform addons. Also, many once must-have mods died or gained better alternatives, good modding guides got old and most of the newer ones focuses on turning Skyrim into 4k ultra hd shitty dark souls clone. Damn, i feel old

this video is perfect i like morrowind

Thank you for the video. Since Daggergall Unity 1.0 came out, would you make a similar guide to Daggerfall as well? (I already saved your mod list on my browser btw👍)

Will you be making a video covering the 1.0 release of Daggerfall Unity that happened a while ago?

Pick security, speechcraft, and sneak as main skills, go to Vivec, find the Hlaalu vaults, find the keys, rob them, go to Caldera, sell everything to Creeper, rinse and repeat. Bonus points for getting Mark and Recall spells from the Balmora temple for easier movement between Creeper and the vaults.