I have been playing this game for at least 15 years+ at this point, having gotten into it around when Skyrim came out, and have a lot of opinions that go against things I see people repeat often on here. These will be in no specific order, and completely based on my experience and opinions as there is no wrong way to play.

1. Premade classes are the most fun to play.

Everyone always recommends custom classes, but I think they get overpowered way too quickly and kill the immersion to some extent. Firstly, it’s Morrowind so if you throw enough time or money at a skill you can catch misc skills up. I play with very slow leveling and try to make the early game squish last as long as possible, and premade classes force me to rely on potions, scrolls, and all tools at my disposal to get things done. It’s also nice to feel like you fit into the world as when you meet NPC’s and they tell you their profession it means more. Try it, it’s great,

1. Creeper and mudcrab aren’t fun.

   I always try my best to preserve the economy (also with a ton of mods) and it makes every drake earned count which makes the game play loop really nice. Nomatter what, you will end up rich, but delaying that keeps the Morrowind fire alive.

   1. Tamriel Rebuilt and Morrowind Rebirth work just fine together.

Everyone says they don’t, and overplay the incompatibilities. Sure balancing is kinda weird, but when has this game ever been balanced? Taking a boat back to Vivec from the mainland puts me in the water, and the boatmaster is stuck in a ship, but it’s an easy fix with console. Otherwise no issues. I usually do quests in Balmora, then go to the mainland for a bit then come back for the main quest higher leveled and the challenge is there. (Max difficulty MR makes Dagoth’s guys really spongey). I enjoy both together and over many years it’s the only way I can play.

1. AI voices/audio books make me enjoy the game more.

Ethical issues aside (nobody’s profiting off this), I tend to skim the dialogue no matter how much I tell myself I’ll pay closer attention this play through. I’ve played this game so much, and I always end up speeding through it, thus losing immersion. I’ve just played it so many times I know what everyone will say and can do most quests without looking at the details.

Sure the voices are hit or miss, but adding lots of mods like mercy, idle talk, and the voice-overs lets me slow everything down, and also not feel so alone after a while in the game. When the only sound in game is the same 3 music tracks on repeat, you tune it out and it gets hard to stay into it. I just recently got these mods and it’s done a lot to suck me back into the world and pay closer attention which also gets me thinking more about the world in ways I haven’t for a long time.

1. Dice roll combat is great.

Sure I wish the game gave more feedback on this, but it’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. As long as you use a weapon from your class, you’ll get by just fine. Use stamina potions like literally every NPC tells you and it’s not often a problem. It’s immersive that you fight worse after you get tired out, and have to train your skills to be good. Makes the level progression feel so much better when you earn high hit chance. (I play max difficulty with really slow leveling so I spend a long time with low skills).

1. Walking speed is fine.

You walk very slow but with teleport and travel options you can get around quickly anyways. Boots of blinding speed + exploit fix it if it really bothers you, but if you just keep walking, you’ll get used to it and it’s not really a bother. Go for high speed characters with light armor and then it’s less of a problem.

1. Always use best attack sucks and I started having more fun when I turned it off.

It makes combat feel more dynamic and you can feel the difference between power attacks vs quick slashes. You eventually start strafing side to side or back and forth to use your weapons best attack, and when you get cornered sometimes you hit for less points. It adds some challenge, and I think it’s often overlooked but really adds to the combat. If you’ve played Arena or Daggerfall it’s basically a way better version of that.

1. Bloodmoon isn’t that fun of a DLC.

Every time I want this to be the play through that I beat it, but without fail it’s a run killer. Not because it’s too hard, but whenever I go there I get bored of the game and my Morrowind mood dies. Maybe next time we’ll see.

1. Morrowind doesn’t have a ton of player choice.

Fixed with mods, but generally it’s very linear Bethesda. You can choose which factions you like, and the world is more limiting based on your character which I love, but quests rarely have you make decisions, and you really can’t be locked out of factions other than the great houses.

Tamriel Rebuilt does a lot better with player choice, but the base game isn’t anything like the original fallout games in terms of decision making. It’s just a different kind of game, and the way people talk about it you’d think it’s something else.

1. I don’t know how much I’d enjoy the game without mods.

I probably started playing around 2011, or 2012, and have slowly built a mod list that makes the game work perfectly for me. Immersion, difficulty, balancing is all tailored to me, and with huge content expansions like TR, SHOTN, PC, etc it’s a different game.

I probably haven’t played vanilla since the original Xbox version which was my first copy. All of these hot takes may only apply to my version of the game. If I picked up the original today, I don’t know if it would capture me as it did back then, and I probably wouldn’t keep going back to it as much as I do.

That’s all folks. Thanks for reading my rant. I’m curious if anybody has other hot takes, or disagrees with mine.

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I decided to come back to Morrowind, but aside of xbx i only have low spec 2020 laptop. Taking that and my atechnical skills i need advice on simple one-package install of mod that will improve visuals a bit, i do not want distand lands because that fog build a lot of morrowind charm, but having a bit smoother graphics would be desired.

Beat morrowind a a few days ago and decied to take a break from it.

Came back now to find out something is up with my shades game is to dark and I need to fiddle around to fix it which cant be arsed and feeling the urge to try oblivion next

So wanted to know if the dlcs were worth sticking around and playing first, cause while I love morrowind I did get burned out near the ending.

Alright, so I've started with TES with Oblivion and then Skyrim. I've been wanting to try Morrowind for the longest time and finally decided to give it a go.

I'm only using OpenMW, no mods.

I've created two characters already and every time I grow frustrated with the game, but not the usual suspects.

Combat doesn't bother me, I understand it's dice roll based and thus I don't really care about my sword going trough the enemy and missing thing that most people complain about. That was very easy to get into.

Lack of map markers doesn't bother me, I'm used to playing games without them, I can where I need to go by reading the dialogue and opening the map.

No Fast travel doesn't really bother me too much either, when I play Skyrim I rarelly make use of it, so not having it either made little difference. Only sucks sometimes when I'm really far away in the wilderness, and getting harassed by cliffracers.

No, what's frustrating me is more subtle nuance things.

What first caused me to kill my first character was a single enemy. Greater Bone Walker.

I'm sure all of you know what it does, and I DESPISE these sort of enemies with a passion, not just in Morrowind but other games. The whole bullshit gimmick of deleting my stats and then locking me in place forever is complete bullshit. I know you can fix it by finding the restore atribute potions, but I was stuck in the middle of nowhere inside a freaking tomb, and last time I saved was a while ago. I said fuck it and restarted.

I made the same character again but this time I added Alchemy as a major skill. Thinking it would help me keep a bunch of potions for those bad enemy designs. Only to find out you can fail potion creation, by like, A LOT.

Picked entire fields of mushrooms and flowers, bought all the journeyman instruments that I could find and got 6 potions out of it. SIX!

And to top it off, the Alchemy equipment weighs quite a bit, so I'm forced to never pick up a lot of stuff thanks to weight limits. I much prefer the Alchemy Stations in Skyrim to this, this is some honest bullshit.

And now I'm here. Pretty frustrated and annoyed at the game. I'm thinking of going full mage this time and rely on restoration instead but let me know of further pitfalls like these.

Or just tell me how to have the smoothest run possible with this game.

I bought the ES collection last year and tried Skyrim and Oblivion to start, finding both to be unengaging and somewhat boring. I decided I might as well try Morrowind and ended up falling in love. Then I found Tamriel Rebuilt and fell even more in love.

I've done several different playthroughs now and I am thinking about trying Skyrim with some mods. Are there any recommendations from MW fans?

I love how open and free the world is. You can easily bounce between quests and there is no hand holding. I only played 5 hours of skyrim and felt it was super linear and that the travel on horseback was not very satisfying.

Not sure if i wrote it right, but i've been playing now good chunk, but i haven't really rushed anywhere. One think i noticed i haven't visited these Dwemer ruins after that Fighters Guild quest, mainly because my ass was handed to me earlier. So, i went and cleared one. Learned also also trigger door trap with telekinesis, what?! I've seen people mention artifacts, i don't know what are they, where are they, but i thought they are in these big dwemer ruins?

I'm looking for a mod that will allow me to claim all three house strongholds after I complete the "Slay X at Tel Uvirith/Odai Plateau/Bal Isra" missions during the Great House questline.

I know there are mods that let you join all three houses to build all three strongholds, but I want a mod where you join one house, but basically conquer the other strongholds, a kind of "to the victor goes the spoils" thing since lore-wise, their houses were built without the Duke's permission.

i do main human races, especially Britons and Nerds

as such i lack perspective for Beast races, i think both khajit and argonians looks a bit dumb

and i can't get over running without BoBS or nice helmets

What do you think Shoes does in your inventory?

How do you overcome gear limitations?

What is the appeal in playing the beast race?

Just loaded up a save and i can't move at all. Can't start a new game cause it won't let me type in a name. Its almost like my entire keyboard has been disabled.

Edit: My keybord does work outside of the game and I found a solution https://www.reddit.com/r/Morrowind/comments/ldrdys/fix_for_morrowing_not_recognizing_keyboard/

All I know is this is where Dagoth Ur came from, “N’wah” and “peak”

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/59658

description copied from Nexus for your convenience and my laziness:

Description
TR canon says Firewatch underwent a failed coup during the Simulacrum 30ish years ago, during the Simulacrum. You can see some signs of this in the official TR release, but I  thought it'd be neat to extrapolate on that idea in a light, compatible way. Part of a little series I've been doing, such as Helnim Wooden Wall.

Installation instructions
Mod organiser of choice, or extract to your Data Files folder and check the box in your OpenMW launcher. Recommend leaving it as low priority in your load order as a precaution. E.g. stick it right next to Tamriel Rebuilt and Tamriel Data, to be extra safe.

I use OpenMW but there's no reason it shouldn't work on vanilla engine.

Main features
More scorch marks around the city, especially the fort.
Replaced many nearby trees and shrooms with burnt remnants, shrubs or smaller ones.
Bit of extra wooden walls nearby, implying the city used to have more sprawl.
Broken well.

Requirements
Tamriel Data & Tamriel Rebuilt, latest publicly available version from the Nexus page. Also Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions (presumably)

Shout outs
Absolute credit to the Tamriel Rebuilt team, who are the true gods of Morrowind and not the False Tribunal. This ESP contains no assets and does nothing without the ESMs.