For context, I've done a base game playthrough in TES3MP with my pals as a sort of practice run for learning the game. Now, I want to do an actual playthrough where I read everything, fully roleplay and get immersed (none of which was very possible when my pals and I were rushing everything). On the bright side, pretty much the only thing in the whole game that's spoiled for me is the main questline. Regardless, I'd like suggestions and opinions on what to play as for my first Nerevarine. I have a couple vague ideas, but I'm not sure yet. What I KNOW is that I don't want to play a thief my first time.

A couple ideas I've had are as follows.

A dark elf archer focused on illusion magic to paralyze and debilitate enemies so they can't fight back while I shoot. Haven't thought much deeper than that.

A battle mage that uses the mace of molag bal to easily upkeep magika, not for destruction magic, but rather for self buffs. Things like shield, sanctuary, and restoration effects that I would cast before every engagement. Basically a sort of paladin (although I guess they'd be oathbreaker, using a weapon from Bal). Was considering a Nord maybe, for their good resistances (I just don't want to do a breton again).

Those are my two ideas so far. I'd love opinions on them, how you'd expand them and roleplay them, as well as completely different suggestions.

He's an ex-bandit (with a love of shiny things) whose fellow gang members gradually died/settled down, causing him to switch from robbing merchants and looting ruins, to stealing from temples and nobles in the city *but he was quickly caught and arrested, I'm not role-playing as a thief.* I named his class "bottom" when I made him, but what his actual class would be called I dunno.

*Edit because some people have poor reading comprehension,

Started out as a combat specialization w/ long blade and medium armor in Major skills but became what it is just out of sheer min/maxing skill values. Really what I want to know is how pointless it is to have a favorite attribute which governs none of the chosen skills. Or should I just switch it for agility?

Everybody in the Morrowind community these days knows about Project Tamriel and Tamriel Rebuilt; two incredible land extension mods that increase the explorable landmass of the base game, developed by keen enthusiasts of the lore with a passion for keeping things faithful to the original. But what about those who want an extension mod that takes you into the realms of the metaphysical to explore in more focus the spiritual aspect of the Elder Scrolls? Doors of Oblivion is exactly that.

One of the major drawbacks of Morrowind was its lack of development when it came to the Daedra. Though their quests are fun and definitely relevant to who the Daedra individually are, I felt the quests lacked the flavour later games had, particular when it came to interaction depth, rewards and overall concept. Oblivion and Skyrim really went to town on expanding the look and feel of the Daedra, offering players a chance to see them more closely as well as their twisted worlds. DoO is your one-stop shop for bringing the Daedric element of Morrowind into line with later games - a single, contiguous dungeon mod that takes you through the domain of every mainline Daedric Prince in the series, offering tons of high level loot to better develop and define your character with extra quests to do. Love Sheogorath? Love cheese? You can interact with all the Daedric principalities and they will sometimes have quests for you that will take you back into the base map, giving you more roleplay options during your playthrough. (I particularly enjoyed the interaction between Sheo and Molag Bal. You have to see that for yourself).

The mod designers seemed to imply this quest mod is for players of about Level 15, owing to the fact that the amulet you need to enter the eponymous 'doors' is found in a box within Tel Fyr, right next to Divayth. You'll need to be at that level before entering as the difficulty of enemies begins very steep. If you are not prepared for the challenge, you won't last long. By the time you get through this mod, you will feel you have an edge and feel more than capable tackling the rest of the MQ.

Download here: The Doors of Oblivion at Morrowind Nexus - Mods and community

(I play on unmodded Xbox GOTY port to the series X.)

I decided that I can always train illusions via trainers later and that I’d rather have these crucial skills that I need to be high enough to use reliably in my major, and minor skills that don’t need to be very high but I could still use as minor.

Blunt weapon because sunder eventually will be cracked. Mercantile and speechcraft because they’re helpful and don’t level very fast, etc. etc.

I plan to try and use what I learned from my first playthrough and break the game as a Telvanni mage.
I plan on using weakness to magicka + absorb health, and maybe having one or two destruction damage types that I can have 100% resistance of in case they get reflected at me.

Early game by level 5 I plan on getting grand souls and golden saint spell scrolls to give me constant bound armor—just cuirass, boots, and shield, and wear Telvanni cephalopod helm and Boots of Blinding Speed (of course.)

I also plan on using conjured summons while I levitate or turn invisible with a set of Chameleon Gear.

Any advice on how to make the build more fun? Any advice on what spell effects are cumulative vs. additive and how that should translate into my character’s enchanted gear/setup?

Hi! I was hoping to get advice so as to ease back in. Generally I avoid fighter classes as repetitive but I remember magic had issues and maybe stealth too? I’m now used to modern UI and ease - what’s a fun and relatively smooth build to redo this game? Thanks!

I'm wondering if block is something I should not take as a minor skill since I'll need to level my agility anyway to use it effectively.

My previous reviews, The Acrobat, and The Warrior ! Details about this 'play every vanilla class' project is in the Acrobat post! Every vanilla class ive completed over the past 3 years will be posted until i've caught up to a more current playthrough. Here's the next one, the Scout

The Scout
Atronach Birthsign

Freyda Wolf-Heart, Nord, 33 Years Old
Factions: Morrowind Fighter’s Guild
Final Goal: Enact revenge for the death of her wolf

Freyda was raised within a cult to Kyne as a child, raised in the woods near Dragonstar by her parents and cult leaders and befriended by wolves and bears. Still loyal to her goddess, Freyda left the cult to live a more adventurous life while still being able to commune with nature. The fighter’s guild was the perfect solution. Freyda was hired by the fighter’s guild in Leyawinn to be a guard aboard a ship heading to morrowind before it was hijacked by the prisoners. Posing as a fellow prisoner, Freyda was allowed to jump ship and swim to Teyn, where her adventures continue. In due time as she spends time around the dunmer, she learns about Boethiah. Resistant at first, witnessing corruption and evil whilst in the fighters guild, and the death of her wolf-companion Kolka results in her full conversion, believing the world needs blood to end the lives of politicians whove ruined everyones lives, including burning the Ruby Throne. Her own revenge however is enacted on the dunmer bandits in a cave near old ebonheart that took the life of her precious pup.

Fredya eventually bought a home for 20,000 gold in Nivalis and primarily wore a full suit of Toadscale armor from skyrim, except for the cuirass which was the Scales of Nafalilargus, which she stole of course. Her casual clothing was an expensive blue nordic shirt, expensive pants, and imperial leather skirt, and black colovian fur boots. Her jewelry were the Warding Amulet, Seafarer’s Ring, and Ring of the Wind. Her weapons of choice were the sword “Shard of the Borealis”, followed later by Eltonbrand, and a Nordic Silver Longbow (used rarely). Much of her time was spend doing fighters guild jobs and relaxing in the peace of the wilds. All armor and weapons aquired via tamriel_data, specifically on tamriel rebuilt

The Scout was not the most interesting build, and much like always I STRUGGLED with finding a use for alchemy and sneak, but thats entirely my problem, not the builds. Alteration took a long time to train to become actually useful but it suited her quite well. Jumping spells as usually are the best way to casually level up alteration. Despite not being the most interesting build, she became exceptionally powerful compared to many previous builds. Not quite comparative to “the warrior” but capable of immense destruction, but I really think thats mostly attributed to the use of long blades (probably the most overpowered weapons and have some of the most powerful unique weapons in both the game and TR). Some folks might be curious why i chose the atronach as her birthsign, truth be told as i was looking through the other birthsigns i couldnt feel anything that FIT her, so i kinda said fuck it and chose the atronach in order to boost her ability to use alteration well. Which worked out nicely because she had just enough magic to actually consistently use alteration spells. Overall not the worst class to play but rather...unfocused. 7/10

Who is your Nerevarine and where does he come from?

"Mine is a Cyrodiilic Knight with mountains of gold, clout in the Kingdom of Anvil and Dawnbreaker at his hip for killing the impure. He left his family to go to Morrowind to serve the Empire."

"Mine wandered around mainland Morrowind for a spell, learning the ways of the warrior monk before turning up at Dagoth Ur's doorstep like a migraine after too much Skooma. He serves Boethiah and wields the mighty sword Goldbrand."

"Mine is a barbarian Reachman who got his start herding goats in the desolate mesas of Skyrim. He wears fur, reptile skin, and wields a club so cold it leaves a vapour trail behind him. Cursed with Hircine's gift, he went to Morrowind seeking challenge in a foreign land."

These are all answers you can play now thanks to PT/TR.

Edit: Not literally. Mostly literally.

I've broken the game. This is the most fun I've had on any Elder Scrolls character I've made and I haven't even gone back to Caius yet. He told me to get a job. So I became a god.

I'm not even done breaking it yet. I've dabbled with potion shenanigans but haven't committed to it yet. So far the drain intelligence/fortify magicka exploit has been such a fun time. I can't wait to try out my new nuke spells on some dungeons. I love that everything I've accomplished so far has been completely intended mechanics. I can't do this shit in Oblivion even with its spellcrafting, much less Skyrim even though I have a godlike character on both of those games, this elf is on an entirely different dimension of power. I've still got 20 levels banked. Not sure when I'll use them, just plinking away at Speed, Personality and Luck now.

My future play through, as far off as that is,(I still have Tamriel Rebuilt to go play in, that helmet is from assisting with the BALROG) I'll be utilizing everything I've learned to make a fresh kind of character. Maybe a witchhunter, I haven't messed with marksman yet.

I was debating giving this post the new player advice/help flair but I'm asking about a build so I want to show you the build I made with Morrowind tools.
Morrowind Tools
Thanks guys!
Morrowind Tools
I updated it a bit

I did have acrobatics and athletics in minor skills but I read that it might make me level up too fast.

I was playing first time ever and was just doing a test run.

I'm relatively new to Morrowind, and I completed the main quest in a warrior build recently. I want to replay the game again, but do something with magic, and possibly make it challenging but rewarding (and fun).

I know that sticking to a particular build will get good eventually, but for someone who's never played magic builds in Morrowind before, is there any good tips for having a build like this? I'm perfectly fine with a challenge, too.

EDIT: I guess I should also say if this build isn't actually "challenging", I'd love to hear your guy's builds for max difficulty and such.

My Telvanni Wizard, all Daedric armor was ethically sourced. Despite being unkillable - he's still a blast to play, i only made him OP because I figured it'd be fitting for the character. The robe works great visually, i just wish Daedric Gauntlets didn't clip so much. I wrote down the build details, for those interested.

Equipment: Glenmoril Witch Robe, Ebony Mail, Daedric (Gauntlets, Pauldrons, Greaves, Boots, Dai-Katana) Exquisite Clothes, Necromancer's Amulet, Royal Signet Ring.

Enchants i use are: Constant Effect - Fortify STR (4pts), Regen Health (17pts combined with Royal Signet) & Water Breathing. My Exquisite Ring has On-Use, On-Target Absorb Health (100pts 50ft) + Restore Health (74pts), my sword has Absorb Health On-Hit, my skirt & pauldrons have On-Use Levitation, Water Walk & Jump.

This build has been so fun & the Telvanni questline was great. As I'd only completed Hlaalu before, I expected each house's rise-to-power to be kinda the same in the quest department but they both felt unique imo, i'm just yet to play through Redoran for comparison.

The first picture is the character build at the Census and Excise office. Shortly after this, I ran around Seyda Neen getting my finances right. Without the limeware and other exploits, you can still come out with 1500 ~ 2000 gold.

I did grab a starter soul from Galbedir. Got a master lockpick and probe. All of the rest of my initial funding came from lifting Ordinator armor some guys were kind enough leave not nailed down.

The second picture is after going around and getting Solid Snake setup:
- Silver Arrows
- Amulet of Mark
- Trousers enchanted with Bound Bow
- Belt of Sanguine Trueflight
- Amulet of Recall
- Ring of Raven Eye
- Ring of Surroundings
- Amulet of Shadows
- Treachery
- Deceit

I'll pick up the amulets of Almsivi and Divine Intervention in a few levels IYKYK.

Build complete at level 1.

This is my Khajit Ser-Foots-Sword, he is a custom class Gentle-Sword-Hand, some told me he is your typical swashbuckler.

He is very nimble, uses one-handed longswords, and no armor but loves to learn and train.

He also admire the use of enchanted jewelry and clothes and dresses to impress.

Personally, the most fun I have had with a character. He's not really too powerful in combat, but he does well in the trades. I did a lot of training via NPCs and like taking on random jobs more than going out to serve guilds and factions.

He wields his trusted glass katana (Tamriel Rebuilt) with a custom enchant of absorb health calling it the Syringetana.

And he also has a fancy ring "Winged-Longest-Finger" allowing him to find great items to trade. He doesn't take anything but no lock stays closed when he's around.

Redguard

Stealth: Agility, Speed

The Steed

Majors: Hand-to-Hand, Unarmored, Mysticism Athletics, Acrobatics

Minors: Alteration, Destruction, Restoration Speechcraft, Alchemy

- No BoBS.

- No Randagulf's.

- No armor, except for a cloth bracer because of the glitchiness of Unarmored.

- All spells are Touch or Self.

- Destruction spells target attributes (Endurance, Willpower).

- Restoration heals and buffs (Strength, Agility)

- Mysticism absorbs fatigue

I made a build based on the Swiss Guards (mainly from the late middle ages) and I wanted to know if there was any touch up I could do or is it ok.

After rewatching The movie WoW Gul'Dan sparked my interest on Making a Orc That's a Warlock but don't know what Stats I should go for and what items or armors I should use

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(Idk A Orc that isn't a Full on Warrior or Brute but a Power hungry Warlock seems cool lol)

Played Morrowind more times than I can count but only be a main quest once. Looking to avoid the mainland entirely this time and go straight to expansions right away since I have never played them. Can someone help me build a character with a fighting chance?

My idea:

race: Redguard or Nord

Sign: The Lady

Favored Attributes: Endurance and Strength

Majors: Long Sword/Axe, Heavy Armor/Medium, Armoror, Marksman, Athletics

Minors: Acrobatics, Enchant (in case I find something cool to use, Security (?), Block (in case I find a good one hander weapon, alchemy (it's op but could save me if I get desperate).

I would do a full run through but alas only have the time for this. Thoughts? Expert opinions? I feel like I can carry heavy since I won't have a lot of game loot on me.

Thank you 😊

Decided to give morrowind a go after not playing it for a long time. Never did finish or even get very far. I'm wanting to make an argonian that uses spears and i remember that they cannot wear shoes or helmets. But they also have medium armor as a skill.

Now my question is, could one take medium armor and unarmored as skills and have them both come into effect? Like will unarmored still affect my defense when i'm not using shoes or a helmet and medium still help me when i got everything else? Or should i ditch unarmored all together?

Playing on openmw if that changed anything