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On July 29 2011 03:31 GigaFlop wrote:Show nested quote +On July 29 2011 03:24 Mahina wrote:On July 29 2011 01:30 GigaFlop wrote:
Hlaalu quests? you'll be going back and forth a lot :D haha I'm beginning to notice that too :p ah well, lazy mode go go go xD Voted house hlaalu quests in the last poll, only because I'm doing their quests now too :p I don't think i've ever been in any other Great House, now that I think about it :D
I've only ever joined House Telvanni, since I pretty much always play either pure mages, or a hybrid mage of some sort. You get a mushroom tower guarded by dwemer centurions. Who could say no to that?
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On August 03 2011 12:09 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 29 2011 03:31 GigaFlop wrote:On July 29 2011 03:24 Mahina wrote:On July 29 2011 01:30 GigaFlop wrote:
Hlaalu quests? you'll be going back and forth a lot :D haha I'm beginning to notice that too :p ah well, lazy mode go go go xD Voted house hlaalu quests in the last poll, only because I'm doing their quests now too :p I don't think i've ever been in any other Great House, now that I think about it :D I've only ever joined House Telvanni, since I pretty much always play either pure mages, or a hybrid mage of some sort. You get a mushroom tower guarded by dwemer centurions. Who could say no to that? For real? What's it like? For instance, the interior and design?
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On August 03 2011 12:13 GigaFlop wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 12:09 h3r1n6 wrote:On July 29 2011 03:31 GigaFlop wrote:On July 29 2011 03:24 Mahina wrote:On July 29 2011 01:30 GigaFlop wrote:
Hlaalu quests? you'll be going back and forth a lot :D haha I'm beginning to notice that too :p ah well, lazy mode go go go xD Voted house hlaalu quests in the last poll, only because I'm doing their quests now too :p I don't think i've ever been in any other Great House, now that I think about it :D I've only ever joined House Telvanni, since I pretty much always play either pure mages, or a hybrid mage of some sort. You get a mushroom tower guarded by dwemer centurions. Who could say no to that? For real? What's it like? For instance, the interior and design?
Um, you go there and see it in the early stage for the Hlaalu/Redoran stronghold quest. It's like all Telvanni towers a bit cramped, but it's fairly large so it's ok.
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On August 03 2011 12:06 Aocowns wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 12:01 Slakkoo wrote: if I may ask, how different is Morrowind from Oblivion? I only tried Oblivion :o VERY different. What I find to be the biggest difference is the quests. you need to read the quest notes, and use your brain!!!!! Which I find quite refreshing. Also, the combat system is different. As in worse. It is determined whether you hit or not by your weapon stat, luck, and some other factors I think. It's quite obnoxious really :s Overall, the gameplay is waaaaayy better, but more difficult also. If you don't have patience, you won't really go far in this game I find Bolded part one: I disagree D: It is in no way worse. I find that if you don't enable 'always use best attack', that it takes more effort to put that hit on someone, however, I don't think anyone leaves that box unchecked :D. Also, I think that it is more rewarding to get that big hit on someone in TES3, becuase you can actually knock people down or knock them back. This is different from Oblivion, where it is pure hack and slash. Afaik, there aren't any reactions to big hits in TES4. But in single conbat in Morrowind, I usually use an Axe. Specifically, a two-handed Bound Axe. I get a feeling of satisfaction by making a Dremora Lord fall to the ground before my feet, allowing me to bring my mighty axe down upon his skull. I don't think that can come in Oblivion :/
Bolded part two: I agree with this so. Damn. Much. Patience is key to this game. Mainly from the lack of free Fast Travel from any place to any other marked place, at least. There is still fast transport, but it is more realistic in that you need to pay a small fee for it, and it's between large cities. However, this gets you more immersed into the game universe. You get more time on the ground(or above it, with Levitation), which gives you more time to walk around and look at everything, and it gives you more time to get acquianted with the land of Morrowind.
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Lack of fast travel is not that much of an issue. Once you figure out how to use the travel system, including divine/almivisi intervention and mark/recall, alongisde with the boots of blinding speed, you get around pretty fast.
Then you make permanent enchanted jump armor, and you travel ridiculously fast :D. I got really efficient at it. Started playing it at the start of last week, had some time last weekend, now I am nerevarine, head of most groups, finished tribunal and just started on bloodmoon.
Hmm, what to do with almalexias soul though?
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On August 03 2011 12:45 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 12:13 GigaFlop wrote:On August 03 2011 12:09 h3r1n6 wrote:On July 29 2011 03:31 GigaFlop wrote:On July 29 2011 03:24 Mahina wrote:On July 29 2011 01:30 GigaFlop wrote:
Hlaalu quests? you'll be going back and forth a lot :D haha I'm beginning to notice that too :p ah well, lazy mode go go go xD Voted house hlaalu quests in the last poll, only because I'm doing their quests now too :p I don't think i've ever been in any other Great House, now that I think about it :D I've only ever joined House Telvanni, since I pretty much always play either pure mages, or a hybrid mage of some sort. You get a mushroom tower guarded by dwemer centurions. Who could say no to that? For real? What's it like? For instance, the interior and design? Um, you go there and see it in the early stage for the Hlaalu/Redoran stronghold quest. It's like all Telvanni towers a bit cramped, but it's fairly large so it's ok. I find myself kind of annoyed with Telvanni towers :/ too much levitation required, even though I had a CE +4 Levitation belt(which I barely used due to the low +Lev). I also think that it's hard to find your way around sometimes, due to the twisty nature of the mushroom towers. I still like the outsides of the Mushroom Towers, though, as they blend nicely with the regions they're in. They also are one of the most memorable things in Morrowind. I still prefer the traditional style of house. I like the simple look and feel of it, along with being able to navigate rather easily.
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On August 03 2011 12:59 h3r1n6 wrote: Lack of fast travel is not that much of an issue. Once you figure out how to use the travel system, including divine/almivisi intervention and mark/recall, alongisde with the boots of blinding speed, you get around pretty fast.
Then you make permanent enchanted jump armor, and you travel ridiculously fast :D. I got really efficient at it. Started playing it at the start of last week, had some time last weekend, now I am nerevarine, head of most groups, finished tribunal and just started on bloodmoon.
Hmm, what to do with almalexias soul though? Make a dai katana with absorb health. Nothin kills faster than that.
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On August 03 2011 12:59 h3r1n6 wrote: Lack of fast travel is not that much of an issue. Once you figure out how to use the travel system, including divine/almivisi intervention and mark/recall, alongisde with the boots of blinding speed, you get around pretty fast.
Then you make permanent enchanted jump armor, and you travel ridiculously fast :D. I got really efficient at it. Started playing it at the start of last week, had some time last weekend, now I am nerevarine, head of most groups, finished tribunal and just started on bloodmoon.
Hmm, what to do with almalexias soul though? Save it, or enchant a Deadric weapon with it. I have a collection of soul gems that I've collected from just about every Dagoth I've killed. I've made a small exhibit of them atop a Balmora rooftop. Some of the other ones have been used to e nchant Daedric weapons with an enchantment that I feel suits the soul put into it, along with the Dagoth's name in the weapon name, as a reminder of who was killed to make it. But as a heads-up, Almalexia's soul is worth less than that of a Golden Saint, IIRC.
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On August 03 2011 13:05 Coriolis wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 12:59 h3r1n6 wrote: Lack of fast travel is not that much of an issue. Once you figure out how to use the travel system, including divine/almivisi intervention and mark/recall, alongisde with the boots of blinding speed, you get around pretty fast.
Then you make permanent enchanted jump armor, and you travel ridiculously fast :D. I got really efficient at it. Started playing it at the start of last week, had some time last weekend, now I am nerevarine, head of most groups, finished tribunal and just started on bloodmoon.
Hmm, what to do with almalexias soul though? Make a dai katana with absorb health. Nothin kills faster than that. A CE Bound Dai-Katana would work better, imo, as it has +10 CE Fortify Long Blade, making you even more proficient with the weapon you are holding, simply by holding it :D
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On August 03 2011 13:03 GigaFlop wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 12:45 h3r1n6 wrote:On August 03 2011 12:13 GigaFlop wrote:On August 03 2011 12:09 h3r1n6 wrote:On July 29 2011 03:31 GigaFlop wrote:On July 29 2011 03:24 Mahina wrote:On July 29 2011 01:30 GigaFlop wrote:
Hlaalu quests? you'll be going back and forth a lot :D haha I'm beginning to notice that too :p ah well, lazy mode go go go xD Voted house hlaalu quests in the last poll, only because I'm doing their quests now too :p I don't think i've ever been in any other Great House, now that I think about it :D I've only ever joined House Telvanni, since I pretty much always play either pure mages, or a hybrid mage of some sort. You get a mushroom tower guarded by dwemer centurions. Who could say no to that? For real? What's it like? For instance, the interior and design? Um, you go there and see it in the early stage for the Hlaalu/Redoran stronghold quest. It's like all Telvanni towers a bit cramped, but it's fairly large so it's ok. I find myself kind of annoyed with Telvanni towers :/ too much levitation required, even though I had a CE +4 Levitation belt(which I barely used due to the low +Lev). I also think that it's hard to find your way around sometimes, due to the twisty nature of the mushroom towers. I still like the outsides of the Mushroom Towers, though, as they blend nicely with the regions they're in. They also are one of the most memorable things in Morrowind. I still prefer the traditional style of house. I like the simple look and feel of it, along with being able to navigate rather easily.
My characters wear permanent enchanted jump items. I simply jump up in the towers :D.
Almalexias soul is the strongest soul in the game (and makes azuras star worth 7.5 million gold), about 4 times larger than a golden saint I think. Absorb health weapons are the strongest, but I wanna do something more creative.
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On August 03 2011 13:19 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 13:03 GigaFlop wrote:On August 03 2011 12:45 h3r1n6 wrote:On August 03 2011 12:13 GigaFlop wrote:On August 03 2011 12:09 h3r1n6 wrote:On July 29 2011 03:31 GigaFlop wrote:On July 29 2011 03:24 Mahina wrote:On July 29 2011 01:30 GigaFlop wrote:
Hlaalu quests? you'll be going back and forth a lot :D haha I'm beginning to notice that too :p ah well, lazy mode go go go xD Voted house hlaalu quests in the last poll, only because I'm doing their quests now too :p I don't think i've ever been in any other Great House, now that I think about it :D I've only ever joined House Telvanni, since I pretty much always play either pure mages, or a hybrid mage of some sort. You get a mushroom tower guarded by dwemer centurions. Who could say no to that? For real? What's it like? For instance, the interior and design? Um, you go there and see it in the early stage for the Hlaalu/Redoran stronghold quest. It's like all Telvanni towers a bit cramped, but it's fairly large so it's ok. I find myself kind of annoyed with Telvanni towers :/ too much levitation required, even though I had a CE +4 Levitation belt(which I barely used due to the low +Lev). I also think that it's hard to find your way around sometimes, due to the twisty nature of the mushroom towers. I still like the outsides of the Mushroom Towers, though, as they blend nicely with the regions they're in. They also are one of the most memorable things in Morrowind. I still prefer the traditional style of house. I like the simple look and feel of it, along with being able to navigate rather easily. My characters wear permanent enchanted jump items. I simply jump up in the towers :D. Almalexias soul is the strongest soul in the game (and makes azuras star worth 7.5 million gold), about 4 times larger than a golden saint I think. Absorb health weapons are the strongest, but I wanna do something more creative. I just have CE speed and CE bound armor + weapons, so I get the speed boost without the speed loss from wearing the armor. I also have CE restore health and CE restore fatigue, so I can constantly run, and actually gain stamina when not swinging my mighty axe, and getting some between blows. I'll check out CE jump and slowfall items, too, once I get back home this monday(or tuesday).
Also, I do indeed stand corrected. 1500 Soul > 400 Soul. However, If you're going to enchant something with it, DO NOT waste such a big soul on a CE, as a Golden Saint is made for CE. Get a Daedric weapon, and make a Cast on Strike enchant, make use of that gigantic soul rating.
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On August 03 2011 13:15 GigaFlop wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 13:05 Coriolis wrote:On August 03 2011 12:59 h3r1n6 wrote: Lack of fast travel is not that much of an issue. Once you figure out how to use the travel system, including divine/almivisi intervention and mark/recall, alongisde with the boots of blinding speed, you get around pretty fast.
Then you make permanent enchanted jump armor, and you travel ridiculously fast :D. I got really efficient at it. Started playing it at the start of last week, had some time last weekend, now I am nerevarine, head of most groups, finished tribunal and just started on bloodmoon.
Hmm, what to do with almalexias soul though? Make a dai katana with absorb health. Nothin kills faster than that. A CE Bound Dai-Katana would work better, imo, as it has +10 CE Fortify Long Blade, making you even more proficient with the weapon you are holding, simply by holding it :D It also doesn't make you kill people faster.
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On August 03 2011 13:44 Coriolis wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 13:15 GigaFlop wrote:On August 03 2011 13:05 Coriolis wrote:On August 03 2011 12:59 h3r1n6 wrote: Lack of fast travel is not that much of an issue. Once you figure out how to use the travel system, including divine/almivisi intervention and mark/recall, alongisde with the boots of blinding speed, you get around pretty fast.
Then you make permanent enchanted jump armor, and you travel ridiculously fast :D. I got really efficient at it. Started playing it at the start of last week, had some time last weekend, now I am nerevarine, head of most groups, finished tribunal and just started on bloodmoon.
Hmm, what to do with almalexias soul though? Make a dai katana with absorb health. Nothin kills faster than that. A CE Bound Dai-Katana would work better, imo, as it has +10 CE Fortify Long Blade, making you even more proficient with the weapon you are holding, simply by holding it :D It also doesn't make you kill people faster. Weight of 0 is a big appealing factor to me, along with no need for repair. Besides, why would I need to absorb health if I'm not getting hurt? I just find that I don't really like Cast on Strike that much :/ unless it's early in the game, where I need something that can hit spectral enemies, and Silver weapons don't give me the damage I want.
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Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards,
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On August 04 2011 02:00 icclown wrote: Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards,
In my opinion, Morrowind was a much bigger game. I played the crap out of it, and I still hadn't seen most of the stuff on the East coast. The combat sucks a bit because of the missing, but I feel like there were so many more quests.
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On August 04 2011 02:00 icclown wrote: Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards,
The story, the world and most of the game mechanics. It's just better.
For Almalexias soul, I wanna do one of the following: Daedric Dai-Katana on strike: -100 points chamaeleon for 3 or 4 seconds on self, meaning I am invisible while fighting, and can just hunt every opponent down without them being able to do anything about it. Can just make permanent chamaeleon armor though, but that freaks people out . -100 points sanctuary for 3 or for seconds on self, making me invulnerable in melee with that weapon. Can make that as constant effect as well, but I would have to not wear my jump armor then.
Daedric Tower Shield (need to find one first though): -Some form of bomb spell with 100 fire/frost/shock/poison damage 1 second on touch or on target. And with the speed you can activate enchanted items, its basically the highest dps thing there is. (apart from alchemy abusing strength :D): Goes well until something reflects it. -Fortifiy Strength, Acrobatics and Jump each 100 points for like 3 seconds on use, for fast travel. Although I can do that with spells right now.
Basically, the bomb spell would make the most use out of size of the soul, but I need to find a tower shield first.
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On August 04 2011 02:24 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 02:00 icclown wrote: Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards, The story, the world and most of the game mechanics. It's just better. For Almalexias soul, I wanna do one of the following: Daedric Dai-Katana on strike: -100 points chamaeleon for 3 or 4 seconds on self, meaning I am invisible while fighting, and can just hunt every opponent down without them being able to do anything about it. Can just make permanent chamaeleon armor though, but that freaks people out  . -100 points sanctuary for 3 or for seconds on self, making me invulnerable in melee with that weapon. Can make that as constant effect as well, Daedric Tower Shield (need to find one first though): -Some form of bomb spell with 100 fire/frost/shock/poison damage 1 second on touch or on target. And with the speed you can activate enchanted items, its basically the highest dps thing there is. (apart from alchemy abusing strength :D): Goes well until something reflects it. -Fortifiy Strength, Acrobatics and Jump each 100 points for like 3 seconds on use, for fast travel. Although I can do that with spells right now. Basically, the bomb spell would make the most use out of size of the soul, but I need to find a tower shield first. I would say...
For the Dai-Katana, if you want a Sancuaty spell, I would recommend Cast on Use. It seems like a Cast on Strike 100pts Sanctuary on Self would waste the charge rather quickly, especially if you need a lot of hits to kill your target, or if you have a bunch of smaller targets to deal with. However, you could use an Absorb Strength + Burden to basically immobilize them for easier killing. I just don't really like Cast on Strike spells very much :/
For a Daedric Tower shield, though, you can find them on Golden Saints. Just summon one, and use the perma-summon exploit in console. Summon the GS, open console, select the GS, sethealth 0. rapidlyexit and reenter console, and Resurrect the GS. It should now be a normal GS, and will drop whatever it has on it. It will also attack you/other people/guards. However, you can repeat the killing and resurrection process until you get a GS with a Daedric tower shield. For the enchantment, though, a spell that gave lots of + to Jump and Acrobatics would be nice, to get you out of sticky situations quickly, and allowing you to change out your currrent set of armor for a different one, with other enchantments. Like CE Bound Armor, or CE Sanctuary, which is something I wanna check out now. Just imagining, CE +100 Sanctuary would be so imba and broken awesome. Also, if you could get that along with CE +100 Absorb and/or Reflect Magicka, you would be just.... just plain invincible. However, would a Dispel spell remove the effects?
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On August 04 2011 02:24 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 02:00 icclown wrote: Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards, The story, the world and most of the game mechanics. It's just better.
Do you think I will be able to "downgrade" into Morrowind?! I mean, usually it is hard to downgrade in graphics (besides from sc2--->BW ofc :D ) without it being too disturbing. Perhaps there is a graphics enhancement mod?! Perhaps anyone knows if this works: http://morroblivion.com/ ?!
Thank you...
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On August 04 2011 20:44 icclown wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 02:24 h3r1n6 wrote:On August 04 2011 02:00 icclown wrote: Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards, The story, the world and most of the game mechanics. It's just better. Do you think I will be able to "downgrade" into Morrowind?! I mean, usually it is hard to downgrade in graphics (besides from sc2--->BW ofc :D ) without it being too disturbing. Perhaps there is a graphics enhancement mod?! Perhaps anyone knows if this works: http://morroblivion.com/ ?! Thank you...
Never tried that one, I use a couple of this list: http://btb2.free.fr/morrowind.html
This one is not a graphics mod, but use this one: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=mods.detail&id=2030
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On August 04 2011 20:44 icclown wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 02:24 h3r1n6 wrote:On August 04 2011 02:00 icclown wrote: Why pick Morrowind over Oblivion....
I never really played Morrowind, never got the hold of me. However once I wanted to beat goblins & bandits with a claymore and I installed Oblivion... And I loved it!
But there must be something to Morrowind which Oblivion lacks?? Is it the story line? (Never really played the story line in Oblivion, I found it boring and repetitive!)
regards, The story, the world and most of the game mechanics. It's just better. Do you think I will be able to "downgrade" into Morrowind?! I mean, usually it is hard to downgrade in graphics (besides from sc2--->BW ofc :D ) without it being too disturbing. Perhaps there is a graphics enhancement mod?! Perhaps anyone knows if this works: http://morroblivion.com/ ?! Thank you... Honestly, you don't NEED any graphics mods, the game is fine as is. Take a look at some of the screenshots in the post. You'll see that the graphics aren't terrible.
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