Morrowind Tips and Tricks! (Useful for Beginners)

Fun fact, if you pick up the tax collector's gold and then immediately go and confront the murderer and kill him, you can then go to the census and excise office and complete the quest and get the reward, WITHOUT having to give up the 200 you find on the guy's body.

Just noticed, that in all these years, I've never ever been to the Warehouse at the start

I've been playing morrowind since it came out on Xbox and I never knew about the axe in the log...

Another good tip is the sword of white woe: in the guard tower in Balmora near Caius Cosades's house, on the second floor, there is a guard and a dresser and a bed. If you position yourself right, you can get up on the bed and then behind a pillar to grab the sword while the guard can't see you. The sword is an ebony longsword with a good enchantment, you can use it the whole game.

Near Gnisis there's a woman near a pond ( under a bridge I think? ) that says she lost her ring. It's a trap, and there's an invisible bandit that starts shooting you when you go in the water. Kill him and you get an amulet called "The Amulet of Shadows", Chameleon 80% for 60 seconds I think. Never played a game without it.

Another pro tip for beginners: in Balmora there is a two story house next to the potion store with a lock lvl of 75 (or something like that, I don't remember exactly) but if you jump or levitate to the second floor there is another door that is either unlocked or has a low level lock. Once inside you can just open the front door without picking it. Inside this house is a dead guy on the floor and a bunch of storage space (boxes and barrels.) The dead guy also acts a bottomless storage space. Just move right in, it's a great easy to access base you can use for the rest of the game.

"STOP! THEIF! Oh wait. You dropped it. Well, carry on then."

06:53 - Lol, the cliff racer appears and looms in the background, menacingly!!!

This video has been up for more than a year and not one person has asked why Eldafire is in the floor in the intro

If you finish the quest with the dead tax collector and return his ring to the lady in the lighthouse, you profit 300 gold total from the tax office, 2 standard healing potions from returning the ring, and a house you can use after legally killing it's owner. There is also a book inside of the lighthouse worth ~300 gold, very easy to steal. Easily one of the simplest quests in the game with great rewards.

This reminds me of the video i made as a kid showing basically my friends how to rob a bank in vivec and it has made me happy. thank you m8, your channel brings me joy

That cliff racer at the end, lol.

You're laughing. Umbra just got murdered by a lvl 1 Nord who downed 55 stacks of sujama and you're laughing. But seriously, great stuff.

A pro-tip for the boots of blinding speed: don't use a 100% magic resist spell, use a ~70% instead. The screen will be a little darker, but you will have a 30% blindness effect on you, and in Morrowind a small amount of blindness is actually a good thing because it INCREASES your chance to hit with melee weapons (it's supposed to decrease it but it was coded wrong). This makes hitting enemies with high agility like cliff racers easier, and the 70% resist magic spell is easier to cast than a 109% spell to boot

A better way to use the Scrolls of Icarian Flight is just to use a levitate spell before you land so you don’t waste two scrolls for one jump.

To add to this there is no need to waste another scroll of icarian to land safely. All you need is a spell with just 1 point of slowfall and it will negate all fall damage. Just cast it before hitting the ground and you are golden. The magic system in Morrowind is like that a bunch though where a lot of the magical effects aren't fully explained so best to experiment with all of them to find out what they do. Some of them have effects that will surprise you. Some of them are also surprisingly cheap to cast even for a non mage character that is just looking for an advantage in a fight such as blind to decrease how many hits you take from an enemy or sound to have enemy mages waste all their magicka trying and failing to cast spells. A experienced Morrowind player treats the magic system like Batman treats his utility belt as a bag of tricks that can help out of any situation even if you yourself are not a mage character. To add to this If a nonspellcaster character wants to have access to some spell casting in a pinch and has a hard time finding the proper spell in scroll form you can take just about any piece of paper in the game you find other than books and take them to an enchanter that for a price can enchant them to to your liking providing you can get the soul gems and know the spell effect. I personally pick up just about every piece of paper I find laying around and store it away in a crate somewhere just in case I need a scroll for a rainy day.

0:45 A better technique I found was to just enter your inventory (usually the right mouse button) and just click on the key with your left mouse button from there, and lay it back down. After you exit from your inventory, it will cause the same effect as with the Limeware Plate in the beginning, where the key becomes yours after Sellus Gravius talks to you and doesn't find the key in your inventory. Just remember to drop other stolen items before you do this, or they will get taken in the process.

-Always use weapon type you have some points in, at full stamina bar, otherwise you will miss a lot of hits. If you want to level other weapon types easier without trainer, using Bound Weapon spells give you temporary weapons with 10pts bonus to corresponding skills. Picking Conjuration as your major skill also gives free Bound Dagger spell that like with Hearth Heal from Restoration is fantastic for early game, and eliminates the problem of dealing with Ghosts. -Telekinesis skill, while looking quite worthless, allows you to steal things from places you normally would be seen and set off traps. Traps shoot a projectile that you can dodge by moving your char out of the way. -Mark & Recall can save you trouble coming back to places with very confusing layout or navigation (looking at you, Vivec City) -Frenzy allows you to force NPCs that refuse to talk to you to attack you. It's not considered assault -Enchantments recharge by themselves while resting, but you can also Soultrap own summons

For the tax collector, if you report his death to the guy who helps you create your class and follow the quest properly (shouldn't take too long) you'll actually end up gaining an additional 100 gold for a couple minutes of extra time. You'll also have a better rep with the Imperials, I think

You just made me realize Skyrim is older now than Morrowind was when Skyrim was released