First playthrough of Morrowind

Post » Thu May 03, 2012 8:42 am

I just got Morrowind on Steam and I'm about to start my first vanilla playthrough. The question is, what should I play as? I was thinking of playing as a Sneaky Khajiit Monk, but I usually play as a warrior first to kinda understand the game better, while making it easy. But for some reason, I don't feel like playing a warrior. So, what should I play as?
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Andrea P
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 8:39 am

Play as whoever you want. No need to force yourself to play a class that doesn't appeal to you - the game will be great with any character. Warriors have it a little easier at the beginning, but that's true for almost every game out there ;) Sneaky monk, you say? Then it's probably only robes, no armor. And what for a weapon?

Starting off with a monk might be quite difficult indeed, but certainly not impossible. My first character in Morrowind was a Bosmer thief and I could survive just fine.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:15 pm

I think I'll play as a Khajiit monk, using unarmored and unarmed. I won't really have to worry about buying and repairing weapons and armor, and I'd have a lot of free inventory space to hold a lot of stolen stuff to make tons of money. Sounds good to me.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:15 pm

Then you should know how the hand-to.hand combat works cause it's not like in Oblivion or Skyrim. Every character or monster has a fatigue and a health value. When you punch someone with bare hands, the fatigue value decreases. Now as long as they have some fatigue left you won't make any real health damage. When they run out of fatigue they fall to the ground and only then can you damage their health. And while on the ground, they recover their fatigue. So hand-to hand combat can be a little ineffective, but don't let this discourage you. Morrowind's true beauty is that it's playable with any twisted character build and with any roleplaying attitude. So good luck with your monk! :)
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 4:58 am

A hand-to-hand character can be VERY difficult to start out, but can become awesomely powerful by late game (1 or 2 punch knockouts, even against high-level Daedra immune to normal weapons). As mentioned, you have to deplete their fatigue before you can even begin to do damage, while they keep getting up and doing actual damage to you in return. Healing spells or potions are a must.

There's a bug in the game (several hundred of them, actually), but a particular one prevents your unarmored skill from working unless you're wearing at least ONE piece of actual armor (a pair of boots or a leather wrist band will do). For a Monk character relying on Unarmored, this little tidbit is important to remember. The Morrowind Code Patch (if you play on PC) takes care of this and a host of other issues, and is highly configurable (with a neat menu when you run the patch installer) to allow you to fix or not fix whichever glitches you wish.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:30 pm

Play as an Adventurer. It's what i always do.

I don't choose. I play everyone one of them.
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