How to Alchemy - Mechanics and Start Guide for Morrowind

With great potions comes great responsibility.

The telvanni: "you can fly, can't you?" My skooma addled Breton, chewing on a cliff racer tail: "I reckon"

I never use Alchemy to exploit the game, but I appreciate that it’s possible for people who want to. Morrowind rules.

Crab Meat and Hound Meat make for a heavy potion just for fatigue restoration. I recommend using Scuttle, Marshmarrow, and Saltrice for a health and fatigue potion that are super light.

20:46 I lost it at that point, that was fucking hillarious. "Levitation potions son. They harden in response to fortifiy intelligence. You can't catch me Dagoth!"

I'm starting to binge watch your vids when playing any of my elder scrolls games, you are so entertaining and informative.

All the game “breaking” stuff in this game actually makes it way cooler in my opinion

When stealing the limeware platter in the start, you can just open your inv, then pick up and drop without actually placing it in your inv for the same effect but more effective. Cause you can also do that for everything else on the shelf while your inv is open. I never see people do that method. Helps a lot for the bookshelf too and is just much faster.

Love Morrowind and really enjoying your content. Here's how I beat the game in around an hour at level 1 using Alchemy. Step 1: Gather 4 different mushrooms just outside Seyda Neen. Step 2: Travel to Balmora Step 3: Join the Mages Guild Step 4: Do the first mages guild quest in Balmora (give mushrooms to a Khajit) Step 5: Accept second mages guild quest (allows you to steal soul gems worth nearly 100k gold) Step 6: Teleport to Caldera mages guild, go upstairs and steal unguarded Master Alchemy equipment Step 7: Go outside to Ghorak Manor, go upstairs and sell 5000g of soul gems to Creeper Step 8: Teleport to Sadrith Mora mages guild, go upstairs to Imperial Cult Shrine Step 9: Buy 10 Ash Yam, 5 Bloat and 5 Netch Leather from Aunius Autrus. He restocks these as soon as you leave his inventory so keep doing this over and over and over again. Step 10: Use 1 Ash Yam and 1 of the other ingredients to make a “Fortify Intelligence” potion. Drink. Repeat. Keep doing this: each time you make a new potion, your increased intelligence will make the next one more powerful. Step 11: When bored, stop doing this. I had about half a million intelligence from potions that wouldn’t wear off for hundreds of hours). Step 12: Use the mages guild teleporter to buy ingredients to Fortify Health and Luck. Having a massive Luck boost means you will never miss in combat, health means you won’t die. You can fortify Personality too (sell items worth 1g for all of seller’s gold or buy items worth 10,000g+ for 1g), Agility and Willpower too if you want (but not Strength or Speed: massive strength means you will break your own weapons every time you hit, massive speed makes it very hard to navigate the game). Step 13: Learn a Levitation Spell. Optional: create spells that increase your speed/strength to make things go a bit quicker. Step 14: Teleport to Ald’ruhn and levitate over the fence to the 2 bases with Keening and Sunder. Fight/run through and grab kill the bosses holding these weapons. Step 15: Levitate to Dagoth Ur and fight/run through to the end. Step 16: Hit the heart with Sunder then Keening. Normally you would take massive damage for trying to wield these without the bracer Wraithguard from the main quest but at this point you have millions of HP. Step 17: Kill Dagoth Ur. Steps 1, 4, 5 and 7 are optional: together they take about 5 minutes and give you thousands of gold but you don’t really need it if you sell a couple of the potions you make during step 10.

CHIM obtained via psychoactive brews! Crazy powered Fortify Willpower potions let's you cast any spell in the game. Let's you summon, soultrap and kill golden saints. The juiced up Fortify Intelligence potions lets you enchant anything with no chance of failure. Azura's Star might be needed as well.

This is why Morrowind is better than anything that came after, it lets you go at it however you want from the start even letting you kill characters vital to the main quest.

I haven't touched this game in over 5 years and your video series just has reawakened my need to play it again. I've lost all of my old savegames where I have completely broken the game and murdered entire towns just on a whim but it is wonderful that someone has taken the time to make such a detailed video about some of the basics that even old players still don't fully understand and have explained even clearer than the wiki itself in some areas. Cheers mate! I think the worst part about this game is that playing vanilla is so easily broken, much less if you decide to include mods and modpacks. XD

Donno if its mantioned but you can get so strong with alchemy so easily that you really don;'t even need to make the perfect alchemist lvl 1. I always play as a Nord and its still op as all hell. So play whatever and break the game as you see fit. This game was made to be abused and i love her for it.

Dude I am loving these vids ! Just started playing Morrowind for the first time since I was about 13 years old - it’s nostalgia in bucket loads. Although I have realized that I had ZERO idea what I was doing back then lol

fortify fatigue is also surprisingly powerful and easy to abuse with alchemy. chug a few fort fatigue pots and just try doing Stuff. It affects most things you do, sometimes in surprising ways. I once used a few fortify fatigue potions in combination with icarian fight and attempted to jump from seydda neen to solstheim. my jump went about 100 times too far, without exaggeration. also with ~1000/200 fatigue i could haggle any item down to 1 septim. i dont know how fatigue figures into the jumping and bartering formulas, and I dont think anybody at Bethesda does either.

Saltrice and Heather and scuttle are three cheap and easily acquired ingredients that both give you fatigue regen but also slightly boosting your speed by making your gear weigh less by the feather effect. I call it Travelers Brew, and imagine it as a sort of saltrice beer that makes those who drink it able to travel for longer and faster.

I always have a blast when coming to Morrowind. This game is and will always be the best RPG game of all times! Thanks for the video.

you can use a dispel potion to remove effects, such as the nearly infinite levitate effect.

I keep coming back to your videos even as a Morrowind veteran, TY for your service sir (salute)

I recently found your channel and you inspired me to start playing Morrowind again (haven’t played it in 10+ yrs)! I’m loving OpenMW. Thanks!