I know there have been a lot of Morrowind threads but not an inparticular help thread.
We just got this game and I was just wondering if there was such thing as a Healers Guild and if there was, where is it? I know someone talks about the College of Restoration, can you get to it?
Thank you -unicornwhisperer
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
No, there's no healer's guild, but the Tribunal Temple and Imperial Cult are close enough. The college of restoration is a skill that you have that aids you in casting healing and buff spells. Not a real college.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Mage's Guild basically ecompesses all of the magical colleges. I suggest joining them.
Word of warning: if you plan on joining thieves guild and Fighter's guild, do the code book mission in the fighters guild before joining the thieves guild.
What charecter (creature) are you?
Hobbes Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Ohh, and college of restoration just means that they study restoration [edit: your good at restoration], there isn't an actual school for it.
Word of advice: all really good items are too expensive to purchase, blow your money on training and don't try and save up for any particular item.
Hobbes
[ September 25, 2003, 02:49 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Word of advice: at the begining of the game it can be useful to walk every where you want to go instead of using fast transport methods (like slit strider). It is a good way to practice your skills and get them up to a decent level as well as becoming framilar with the game's enviromen.
Word of advice: except for what I mentioned about the fighter's guild mission that conflicts with thieves guild, join as many of the guild as you can. You don't have to do the missions and then everyone in that guild likes you a lot more (and does things for you for less money).
[EDIT: One last thing. Some charecters will damage your abilities (like strength or agility). In this case you can either "restore" those abilities via spells or portions, or go to te temple and make a donation at the tribunal altar and get an "A Resotration" (only A is Almsimiv but I can't spell it). If you do that last one, join the temple and the donation is only 5 gold, you don't have to do any of the quests or the pilgrimage]
Hobbes
[ September 25, 2003, 03:09 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Another good move is there's a tower in the mage's guild in Caldera with a lot of unguarded, expensive alchemy equipment. Good for newbies to make about 1300 fast.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
My character is a Khajiti... however you spell that. Those cat characters. Although I would love to make a new character and use the faces this guy made even when I don't know how to plug them in the game.
Posted by Svidrigailov (Member # 5147) on :
1) unzip them to your Data Files folder 2) start the morrowind autoplay 3) click Data Files 4) Check the faces. 5) play
Morrowind is easy to add mods to. That is all you have to do.
Furthermore, don't listen to these people. Join EVERY GUILD except possibly the Imperial Legion. You MUST WEAR IMPERIAL MEDIUM ARMOR IF YOU JOIN. If you aren't trained in medium armor it is a real pain.
Also, using the mage guilds quest you are told to put a fake soul gem on a desk when someone leaves the desk. Steal everything there. You are looking at an easy 10000 or so.
For some reason I can't get get those to plug in right, they make Morrowind crash every single time.
::sigh::
Ni!
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Yes, join everyone but imperial. Medium armor sucks.
Morrowind is kind of unstable, but unless the mods shouldn't have that effect. Have you tried restarting your computer?
Hobbes Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I said it when that was posted the first time, but those models are beautiful!
The women especially. In the side by side comparisons, his models make the originals look hideous. He should be doing this stuff for a living, and making tons of money.
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
Rhedd does do that for a living -- he's a freelance graphic artist, and did work for Unreal Tournament 2003.
Anyway --
Rhedd's Heads actually have to be unzipped to the Morrowind directory for them to work. Personally, I use the NPC Replacer v3.5, 'cuz it includes the work of Rhedd and several other artists as well, plus it's a .esm file, so it loads last and eliminates conflicts. I don't have a link here, so just google it, that's how I found it, anyway. Something like xoom.com/zerothehero.
Also, it takes about 2 seconds to make a mod that add the "LegionUniform" script to a ring or something to make it so you just need to wear that to count as wearing a uniform. Additionally, there are several Heavy armors that count as a uniform, including 1 artifact piece. Or you can do what I did and just make all the "Imperial" armors (including newtscale and studded leather) have the "LegionUniform" script.
Of course, I found the legion missions kinda boring, so I don't join it anymore for that reason. Honestly, I usually only ever join the Mages' Guild an House Telvanni anymore, if I join anything. Excellent rewards there, for fairly interesting missions.
And I'm still anxiously awaiting the "Better Bodies Project" to be completed. Their forums are at http://www.psychodogstudios.net and links to screenies of progress can be found on the "progress update" thread.
And I just saw some screenies not too long ago where someone actually figured out a way to mod it so you can see through windows and have no doors on buildings. I don't remember the link offhand, and I'm now blocked from accessing the site where I know the link it, which is http://www.illuminatingdarkness.com under the forums, morrowind section, mods section, thread titles "Mods of note" in the nearly final posts of that thread as of a week ago.
And of course, I have Bloodmoon and Tribunal both as well. . . . .
[ September 25, 2003, 07:33 PM: Message edited by: Magson ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I just beat the game for the first time a couple days ago. Redgaurd is the best charecter in my opinion.
Also, if you get frustrated when all of your items are to expensive to sell, it's really really easy to write a mod to fix that. But I think explaining how can ruin some of the fun at the begining, so you can just ask when you get frustrated.
Hobbes Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
Redguards are very good, but my current favorite race is Nords. 100% Resist Frost, 50% resist shock, high Willpower for the females -- give 'em Atronach sign and their magic resistaces are nothing short of amazing, and they make a darn good fighter/mage too. go pick up the Dragonbone Cuirass to add another 100% resist Fire and duel the head of the Mages' Guild to get an item with another 25% magicka absorption to make 75% with your Atronach sign, and . . . . Of course you can get that 75% absorption with any race, but I still just like the Nords.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Hobbes, i've downloaded and plugged them in more than once, and it always does the dsame thing. Other mods seem to work fine.
Ni!
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
Does anyone know how to add your own music into the game?
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Get Supercreeper.
plug in all your mods before starting the game.
Don't go with a predesigned class, make your own.
You level based on your primary and secondary skills so if you want to level fast, use skills that go up quickly. Like Athletics.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
What's Supercreeper?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Creeper is a scamp in Caldera. He has 5000 gold and will barter straight for the listed value. You can very very easily create a mod that will bump up his money to whatever you want. If you don't want to figure out how to do that I can send you one, or you can find one online.
KWSNI, Morrowind uses it's own plugin system, I would have no idea how to even begin troubleshooting that. Sorry.
Hobbes Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
I'm a seraphim (a mod we found) I just got up to level 2 and about to buy a pet. Has anyone figured out how to make the hang glider mod to work? http://thelys.free.fr Thanks for the links by the way.
No one knows how to change the music on the game? Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I've never seen that mod before, does it not work the same way as the others? As for the music, I tend to mute their music and start up Windows Media Player before I play.
Hobbes Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I got Morrowind the other day, but I've barely had time to look at it. Are there any races that you would strongly recommend *against* playing? I noticed that the lizard race has the ability to breathe under water. Does that come in handy very often?
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Not really...best advice is not to get too set on your first character. Think about how you want to play and choose a race that suits your style. I like playing as Nords because I like to hack and slash and ignore that wussy magic stuff. However, any race can do just about anything, it's just that some don't start out doing some things very well.
(for the breathing in water thing - neat, but you can do the same thing with magic/potions so not critical)
[ November 06, 2003, 01:06 PM: Message edited by: TheTick ]
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Sometimes I wish I would have given this game more of a chance. I played it off and on for about a month, restarting a number of times but could never get into it. I really enjoy RPG but this one really stumped me. Finally made it a part of a big trade in towards my PS2. Maybe I should pick up a used copy and try again.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
You should - Morrowind is quite slow starting out. Once you get into the meat of a few of the story lines, though, the pace picks up. You start levelling faster, the quests increase in difficulty, and you start finding some ph4t l3wt. My favorite thing. Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
ph4t l3wt ...HUH?
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
I agree with tick, here. Don't get stuck woth your first character. It's fun to have enough diversity to do some things really well, and other things crappily.
I currently have three that I'm playing. One is a kajiit-kitty thing, who I use for running around and stealing stuff and generally getting into mischief. One is a breton who I'm actually following the storyline with, and one is a redguard that I use exclusively to kill anything he encounters. I'm thinking of making a lizardman who is an abolishionist.
Ni!
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Loot man! LOOT! Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Hmm...Well I may just have to give it another go. It will have to wait though...Curently playing Kingdom Hearts and have FFX waiting in the wing. Kingdom Hearts is mildly entertaining, an interesting mix between Zelda and Final Fantasy, kind of an action RPG that so far has been pretty linear. But it's easy on the brain. I think that is why Morrowwind was difficult to get into for me, Two kids and a wife at homemake it difficult to sit down and really invest anytime into an intense RPG.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'm a bit stuck on a low level Fighter's Guild quest--the one mentioned above, about the code book. How can I get that code book? I've bribed the woman in the thieves guild until she absolutely loves me, but she still won't give it to me. I don't want to kill her, and when I try to pick her pockets, all she's got on her is a spoon. Any suggestions?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
You're going to have to kill her. My suggestion is that you provoke her and get her to attack you first. If that doesn't work, steal a cup from behind her (or something of almost no value) and she'll attack you. Then you killing her is self defense. Warning: if you take option 2, if you ever talk to a gaurd again they will arrest you and take all your stolen stuff. I suggest getting rid of everything you own (after this epsidoe is over) except however much your bounty is and then talking to a gaurd. Just pay him your bounty and go back to pik up your stuff.
Hobbes Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
Hi unicornwhisperer Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
um, you might want to try joining the theives guild first.
edit: i r moron.
[ December 16, 2003, 06:19 PM: Message edited by: celia60 ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I've found that she wont give you the book if you join the guild. Then she claims it's against the guild's purpose to give you the book.
Hobbes Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
huh, i'm pretty sure bill didn't kill her. i wonder how he got it...
oh, and pickpocket will show you only some of what a given person has, based on their security, iirc.
oh well, kill her it is. but don't kill any of the native tribespeople. that will mess your game up beyond repain in the future. just ask prolixshore. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Celia can tell you that I'm a big fan of just walking around the incredibly cool enviroment and just slaughtering all the people that aren't nice to me. She's right though, best to hold off until you've beaten the main quest until you do that (and even then, watch out, the side quests may be unfinishable because of someone you killed).
Hobbes Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You can steal the book from her -- which is what Mercius suggests, if you ask him about it (and if you're in the Thieves Guild.) If her disposition is over 90 and you're in the Thieves Guild, too, she'll just give you the book when you ask about it.
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
I'd probably be a Morrowind addict, except my computer chokes on the game in weird ways. For instance, it won't let me use enchanted weapons. Whatever special effect that goes along with the enchantments makes my graphics card have a nervous breakdown. So...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Well, I'm in the Thieves Guild (and am far enough along in it that I'm making decent money from some of the quests), and her disposition toward me is in the high 90s, but she still won't give me the book. All she does is tell me the skinny on it. Frustrating. The game is fully patched, so it isn't just that a bug from an early version or something. I don't really want to kill her. My character is more on the thieving end of things, and if things go the way they look like they will, I'll be choosing the side of the Thieves Guild when they go to war with the Cammona Tog (or whatever it's called).
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
If you're confident that you're going to oppose the Tong, don't even bother with the quests in Balmora; there are other quests you can do to get a high enough rank that Mercius will give you quests, and you can get quests from him or people suggested by him for most of the game thereafter.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Thanks Tom, I think that's what I'll do.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
SPOILERS . . . . . . . .
My character rose to rule the Thieves Guild, rose to the highest ranks of House Hlaluu-- and then was asked to lead the Camonna Tong.
And this was AFTER I killed off all the Tong in Balmora.
. . . . . .
[ December 17, 2003, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: Scott R ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Now that's fascinating. That's kind of the track I was thinking of pursuing, actually. I'm still in the early stages--my character is verging on 8th level--but I was thinking that I wanted to rise as high as possible in both of those organizations. Maybe the Mage's Guild too; I haven't quite decided.
So have you guys played the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansion packs? I've got both of them, but it'll be a long time before my character is high enough level for them to come into play.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
one of them changes the journal so you can actually keep track of what quests you have open. even if you aren't going into that higher level area yet, it's still a nice improvement on the regular game.
and, tom, i knew we didn't kill her! it's been like 18 months since bill played those missions, i should probably not be giving advice on them Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
What everyone needs is Boots of Blinding Speed.
I work with the level designer who created them, and they're the most hilarious joke I've ever seen in an RPG Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Where do you get those boots, Geoff?
Another item that you want to get, that I've found EXTREMELY useful, is the Steel Dagger of Heaven. This item allows you to fly for 30 seconds, and makes getting across Morrowind MUCH easier.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, those are pretty funny. I fell for that with my first character.
Hey, Geoff, I've got an idea for a game, but I can't imagine that I'll ever have an opportunity to capitalize on it. Want it?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That does sound useful. Where do you find it.
I've been wanting to enchant some boots so that they constantly replinish my character's fatigue (I hate that your vigor is referred to as "fatigue". Does that bother anybody else?), as suggested by somebody above (or maybe in another thread, I can't remember), but at the moment I'm too low level to do it myself, and when I've looked into it in various enchanter's shops, I haven't seen an effect like that listed as a possibility.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Scott, there's a trader who offers them to you in exchange for escorting her to some tiny little middle of nowhere village. I can't remember where I bumped into her; it was my first night playing the game, and it wasn't too long after that that I abandoned that character and created a new one.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Oh. Her.
That quest took too long for my severly ADD wood-elf.
I'm not sure where I picked up the Steel Blade of Heaven-- but I think in one of the offshoots of the main quest.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'll keep my eyes open. I'm playing a Wood Elf too, at the moment.
I'm making excellent money selling the armor of the assassins who keep trying to kill me in my sleep at this point. At first they were giving me trouble, but now I just paralyze them with a sword of paralyzation, and fill them full of arrows at point blank range. Works like a charm.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
That Dwemer Jinkblade IS nice at the beginning of the game, isn't it?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yep, that's the one. Use it all the time. I had a staff that did the same thing, but I sold it.
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
Yes, the Dwemer Jinkblade. Most excellent. I had an assassin that I got up to about 30th level. Head of the Morag Tong. She still used the Dwemer Jinkblade as her "1st strike" weapon. Follwed with a hit from her Black Hands Dagger, and then she backs away and watches her foes die while still paralyzed -- and gets healed in the process.
She was very evil. A lot of fun to play too.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That Steel Blade of Heaven is useful, isn't it? I've found two of them so far.
My character is mid-32nd level at this point, and is in the process of having his House Hlaalu (sp?) stronghold built.
I have to say, this is the first gave I've ever played in which my character was sexually harrassed.
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
Hey Noemon, you said you had a game idea? I can't say I'll ever be able to do anything with it, but I love hearing new ideas Feel free to e-mail me!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Will do!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Sent.
Hey, has anyone else noticed just how much some of the NPCs in Morrowind sound like Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog? It's uncanny. I keep expecting to hear one of them say "Wealth beyond measure, Bosmer...for me to POOP ON!"
Posted by Polemarch (Member # 3293) on :
That dwemer jinkblade is danmm useful, but you don't get it if you aren't a short blade specialist (or at least, I haven't gotten it). So I went for the next best thing. I stole as much ordinator armor as I could carry, went to the mudcrab (he's a talking mudcrab with an expense account double creeper's and he lives on an island near Mzanch) sold it all over the course of a few days, and then soultrapped some skeletons in a tomb. I then got a steel claymore and enchanted it with pralyze, cast when strike, for 3 seconds. It's great. You can make hundreds of thousands off indoril armor, and then make totally bad*** enchantments from it. Though this character isn't quite up to killing a golden saint yet.
Posted by Polemarch (Member # 3293) on :
another hillarious weapon- there's a staff of shaming in the vivec arena storage (above the morag tong). It drains personality. It is literally an ugly stick. I love it.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Ha! An ugly stick, that's great! Anybody else come across the remains of Indiana Jones?
I'm going to have to find that talking mudcrab--I've been despairing of ever finding anyone who will pay me what some of my equipment is worth.
My character is currently 33rd level, and his short sword abilities are at 100, which seems to be as high as they can go. I'm able to take out a golden saint without ever letting her get a chance to strike, which is kind of fun. I'm in the process of bumping my axe, marksmanship, and destruction abilities up to 100. They're all in the mid 60s right now.
I'm a little bit concerned--getting to level up is an aspect of the game that I enjoy, but I seem to be approaching maximum levels, both in terms of attributes and abilities, and I haven't even started on the expansion pack plotlines yet.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
ok, those of you who've beaten the game, does nothing really special happen with vivec and other people, or did i beat the game wrong?
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