I hope I am not troubling anyone by making this thread here, but since the last install that include the most mods I ever installed in Morrowind many things seem changed and I want to experience as much as possible while having as much fun as possible.

And I got myself into a dilemma when I started to make my new char. I want to play as a mage to join my favorite house, Telvanni, and get my favorite fortress ever. But I usually play with a sort of battle mage, in oblivion and in morrowind. But now with GCD my perspective changed, and I am not sure if I should make a pure mage or a mix that I usually play. I have the dodge mod that makes unarmored useful, but I would miss all the future enchantments on a heavy armor. But if I have heavy armor I should have some major skills that would add strength too, right?
So I was thinking to choose between a high elf, Atronach, Battle Mage, Favorite Attr strength and int, Majors Long Blade, Heavy Armor, destruction, restoration, alteration, Minors Armorer, Conjuration, Alchemy, mysticism, illusion
Or a Breton, Apprentice birthsign, favorite attr strength and willpower with the same majors and minors
Or a high elf, Atronach, mage, with favorite attr intelligence and willpower, Majors Destruction, restoration, conjuration, alteration, alchemy, Minors Enchant, Illusion, Short Blade, Mysticism, Unarmored

The difference that I noticed between the three was that the breton has the smallest amount of magicka, about a quarter of what a pure mage would have, but his magicka regenerates, and also has the advantage of greater armor rating because of the heavy armor. The High elf battle mage has a high amount of magicka, but it doesn't regenerate. The high elf mage has a lot of mana but with no heavy armor I am afraid that I won't enjoy the game, because its satisfactory to get a piece of rare ebony or daedric armor that I could actually use. Extra the battle mages could join and advance in the Fighter Guild and Imperial legion, besides the mage guilds, but I am not sure if I could get far with GCD. Do you know how far I can get with this skill selection?


So what do you think, you people that have a lot more experience with modded morrowind than me? What would be the most fun choice? Or what should I change in my selection?

Another advantage of Bretons is that they have a high magic resistance, whereas High Elves have a big weakness to it.

I think the first one would be fine, I've played a similar character before and it worked fine for me. The only thing I might change is that imo Armorer isn't really all that useful, it just means you don't have to carry as many hammers at a time. But if you don't have anything better to use instead, there's nothing wrong with it. Also, it's really not a problem that your magicka won't regenerate. Just find a ring or amulet of Summon Ancestor Ghost and you'll be fine (attack it so it casts a spell on you, which restores your magicka.) Or summon it with a spell, but that might defeat the purpose of using it to regain magicka.

Imo, the biggest thing with GCD is that you can pick the skills you want to use and then just play the game without worrying about it because the skills you use and need will be the ones that increase. That's how it works for me anyway. Just play whatever character you think will be the most fun.

So you say that I should choose the breton Apprentice Battle Mage, although he doesn't have so much magicka?

@ Ghanima

Thank you for the advice . And another question because you use GCD, do you use the Hard settings esp? is it worth activating it to make the game feel harder?

With regenerating magicka, it's not a big issue.

Yes, but I don't have access to stronger spells that I could make.

No problem I don't personally use the Hard settings, so I can't really give advice on that (I don't think I've ever even tried it). If you tend to think that Morrowind is already pretty easy then you might want to use it. Maybe use it this time and not on your next game (or vice versa), and see which you like better.

But how did you feel the difficulty of the game with GCD without this plugin? Easy or just right?

I think it's about right for me, but then I use a lot of other mods too. I guess it's probably a bit on the easy side? But it works for me because I don't have time to play very often. From your questions it sounds like it might be a good idea for you to try the hard settings and see how it goes.

Edit: On the other hand, if you just started using a bunch of other mods that make the game harder (like maybe BTB's mod, from what I've read anyway) then you might want to stick with the normal settings, especially if you haven't played with the other mods yet.

Hmm, I think that maybe I will try with the hard setting and see how it goes. I dislike being overpowered.

One thing to keep in mind is that with GCD magic characters are much weaker in the beginning, because your health is usually lower, and doesn't go up as fast.

Yeah, but IMHO there's far more attractive High Elf women than Breton women. Gotta go with the hotties.

Try playing High elf + Atronach. It's fun and you will have a TON of magicka.

Just make sure to get magicka potions because GCD will not regenerate magicka if you used the atronach birthsign.

I will choose High Elf Atronach Battle Mage then and see how it goes, and even if I am weaker at the beginning, at least I will have heavy armor and a trusty sword and shield to keep me protected. Thank you every one for the advices! :foodndrink:

@dagoth_jeff
I agree, high elf women are far more attractive :laugh:

Something I forgot, you might want to take a look at http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1031661-galsiahs-character-development-gcd-bug-report thread if you haven't already. I probably would use either Gluby's or Huskobar's latest version (IIRC I'm using Huskobar's). I think both links are on the last page of that thread. AFAIK though the errors with GCD come up pretty randomly, so you might not ever need the patches. And I don't know if they work with the hard settings esp, since I never used it.

Thanks for the link, but I don't know if I should change this version. From the thread the problems fixed didn't seem so serious. Those random errors are game breaking or just annoying?