So I am coming back from my time off from Morrowind. I was hoping that Skyrim was going to be better than it was and I was sadly disappointed. Oh well, at least I still have Morrowind for my RPG fun(nothing that I have played in the last 10 year has even come close).

Anyways, on to my point...I have reinstalled the game and both expansions but I am not going to use any serious mods at this time because I want to relive the original fun times I had with the game the first time around. I am using a couple of simple mods (better bodies, heads, and MGE) but that is it. I just started my game this morning and I went with a dunmer Summoner(custom class) He uses Destruction, Conjuration, Enchant, Alchemy, Unarmored for his majors, his minors are Restoration, Alteration, Illusion, ShortBlade and I forget the last one at the moment. His Spec. is Magic(of course) and Using Intelligence and Luck for his stat boost born under the Atronach Sign. So he has a decent amount of Magicka to start but will have to make his way to Balmora soon to make some new spells and get some potions made for recovering Magicka. His main strategy for dealing with enemies at this time is casting shock to get their attention then summon Ghost to tank, summon Dagger and join the fight. so far its a very light magicka drain but I have only been in a couple of fights so far(cleared out Adamastarus(sp?) and killed a couple of mudcrabs) and I still have about half my magicka. and I haven't taken any damage except when I was swimming and stayed underwater to long lol. I plan on taking it slow with this character so I can soak in the atmosphere of Morrowind again. I so miss the feeling of the game and the past two games(Oblivion and Skyrim) have not had the same feel at all.

Thats all, just wanted to post that I have come back this way after checking out and getting bored of Skyrim.

Cool, i just started again a couple of days ago aswell and also made a Dunmer Mage, i aim to become strong enough to make it to telvanni and join their council, i find the non-regenerating magicka to be tough but a new challenge. In the end i aim to become a walking wizard god who struts around Vvardenfell like i own the place

I really like the magic system in Morrowind, it just feels better than what we were given in the last two games IMO. I love the challenge of the non-regenerating Magicka because it adds that little extra strategy to the game and makes you think about the best way to use your spells. I also make as much use of enchanting as I can early on by making lightly enchanted rings that give me some extra attack power(i.e. range and on touch Destruction magic). I don't make extremely powerful stuff because I want as many uses as I can get out of them, but then that's the fun of it getting to know that balance of power vs. durability. I am planning on using the Mages guild until I become powerful enough to join Telvanni and then I will wipe the Mages Guild off the face of Vvardenfell .

I use GCD in some games, which includes gradual magicka regeneration, but I edited the configuration file to bring it down to about 1/4 of the default rate. In other games, I run MADD Leveler and Fair Magicka Regen, also edited to a fraction of the default. It makes the use of Magicka a lot more tactical and intelligent, rather than just spamming it at every opportunity, without forcing you to spend half of your day sleeping (even though, thanks to NoM, I spend between 1/4 and 1/3 sleeping anyway).

Regenerating Magicka was a great idea for the subsequent TES games. The absurdly high rate they chose was a bad idea. If Bethesda's usual answer to such balance issues holds, they'll remove magic from the next game.

I have used GCD in the past including the fair magicka regen and NoM and I do like them and hold nothing against them at all, I may even use them in the future for another character but i really wanted to get the vanilla feel for the game and I love the challenge as I stated above . For me the strategy and tactics of playing a mage is ruined if you regen your magicka all the time without doing anything. I think that having a limited amount of power to cast spells makes you think more and thus makes you enjoy the victory because you know that the plan that you worked on to take down those enemies without spamming spell after spell at it until it dropped because you know that your little blue bar is going to refill actually came thru.......whew sorry about that one, just kept going and going lol.

Well the only thing ill say about the magic system is that my dunmer looks like a lazy mofo sleeping pretty much all the time in some random corner of a crypt or forest sometimes takes me 3 or 4 days to clear a simple crypt with him lol.

I just started playing again last week and i am a dunmar assassin custum class . I kinda screwed it all up cause i wasn't thinking cause these are my skills'


Major:
- long blade
- short blade
- medium armor
- heavy armor
- restoration
minor:
- sneak
- security
- acrobatics
- block
- armorer


But i'm doing pretty good so far i've done a lot of the fighters guild and i just started the imperial legioned. I started them cause i had to do the fighter guild quest where you had the to kill the orcs in the deadric shrine. but only 3 of the 4 were inside and i didn't know were the 4th was and i didn't try after that cause a frost atranoc came out of no were and killed me 3 times in a row so i hauld ass out of there and started the IL so i could level up some before i go back. And also so i could find an enchanted sword that has something with fire cause the one i have has a frost enchant on it and dosn't doing any thing to it.




the one thing i love the most about morrowind is that you have to actually look for the place that your trying to get to. yesterday i spent about 3 or 4 hours just looking for that damn deadric shrine lol. i love getting lost looking for one thing and then finding some thing else that you never even knew was there before.

I'd just say that I don't think your class is that well made. Generally you only need one weapon skill and one armor skill, so you're wasting two major slots which is a pretty big deal. Your character would've been far better off including Mercantile, Speechcraft, and/or Athletics in place of one of your armor, one of your weapon skills, and probably with replacing one of your minor skills too, like armorer.

But, if he's working for you and you're having fun then there's no reason for you to worry about having a 'good build' for your character.

Frylock223,

That is an interesting class you have there , but I think that it will give you the freedom to use a lot of different armor pieces and not lose out on your level progression and as long as you aren't powergaming it should be fine.

Ravenius...I would not ever put athletics as a major because it levels to fast and will end up gimping you in the end.

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I think that one of the best things about Morrowind is that as Frylock said you have to look for the places you need to go instead of them being shown to you on the map and the compass guiding you there like a lost little child who can't think for himself. That is one glaring thing that really erked me about the last two releases, the amount of hand-holding is utterly rediculous.

So a little more about my character, he has just arrived in Balmora and spoke with Caius and Joined up with the mages to gain some power. wanted to make a lightly enchanted ring to add some firepower but the cost was way to high....I thought there was a way to enchant things yourself without having to pay someone???

Yeah, you're right.

In my mind I was kind of thinking that I would've moved block to major, put speechcraft or mercantile as a major, and removed heavy/medium armor and long/shortblade, and then made Athletics and either speech or mercantile as a minor, but I didn't really want to go through explaining all of that.

i've always liked mixing the heavy with the medium because some time i will find a peace of armore that is say medium that turns out being better than the peace of the same type that is heavy.
and i'm already level 10 so i really don't want to restart lol. did that once last year cause i had to barrow morrowind non GOTY version from my teacher cause my friend lost my GOTY version 2 years before that. but then i found it and for some reason it wouldn't carry over like it was supposed to so i had to restart. and flew through ever thing i had done in about 2 weeks when i had been playing the other one for about a month and was actually doing better than i was even tho i did every thing exactly the same.

but it was a pain in the ass cause i hate restarting a game half way through i was up to the point were i was doing the hortator quests