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24 окт. 2014 в 18:01 How to play a good Mage?

Not too long ago, I just noticed that I've only ever played a fighter type character in Morrowind, so I wanted to give a Mage a shot. The problem is that I am a complete noob when it comes to Mages. I level very slowly and I die very often because I have terrible health. I had written myself a list of spells that would help me out, but I either can't find them in-game or I can't afford them.

I realize that Mages are godlike at higher levels, but what spells can I get that can keep me alive at low levels? Spells that are cheap too, because most spells are damned expensive. I'm trying to resist the urge to give myself a million gold with the console. :P

Also, if there is any advice on preferable birthsigns and majors/minors, that would be welcome. Thanks.

EDIT: Well, I found a guide on making money in Morrowind so hopefully that will solve the spell buying problem. Still, any advice will help. :)

Отредактировано stevej713; 24 окт. 2014 в 18:26 24 окт. 2014 в 18:51 Work on your alchemy skill also so you can always have a supply of health and magica potions. 24 окт. 2014 в 21:46

Being a traditional robe and fireballs kind of mage is not really all that great in Morrowind for many reaons. Being a character that is well versed in enchanting, alchemy etc. however is incredibly powerful. (In fact there are a dozen ways in which it can break the game alltogether and just make you invincible.)

If you play a mage in vanilla Morrowind without any magicka regen mods you basically have two options on how you can effectively do it. You either use Alchemy to fuel your spellcasting, or you use Enchanting. Both have up and downsides.

The straight up Mage:

A character that is designed to be a mage the way you'd imagine one, with a lot of spell abilities, high mana modifiers, and a lot of intelligence is basically not playable in Morrowind. You'll blow your magicka in a few spells, then have to rest for 50 hours to get it back. Don't even bother with this unless you mod the game, instead try one of these two:

For an Alchemist the Atronarch is the best starting sign. It gives you 50% spell absorption which is incredibly powerful, a huge mana pool to draw from, and the stunted magicka doesn't really matter much if you get your magicka from potions. You will want a big mana pool because any regen your potions provide that goes over the max is simply lost.

An Alchemist plays the most like your traditional mage type, just with a significant potion habit. You'll be guzzling potions all day long on this character, which really doesn't add much to the fun of the game, which is why I personally prefer simply using a mana regen mod.

Potions can also be used to cheese the hell out of the game because you can drink them while the game is paused while you're in your inventory. That makes most fights that would otherwise be hard incredibly easy. They also have the ability to break the game by creating potions that buff your ability to create potions and then using that to create potions that buff it even more and so on until you can brew potions that give bonuses in the tens of thousands and last for weeks at a time. As always in Morrowind, how difficult the game is largely comes down to how much cheese you like on your adventure.

For an Enchanter really any sign works, with the best choices probably still being Atronarch or The Lady. An Enchanter works principially different than an Alchemist or Mage in the regard that instead of casting spells yourself you will try to create charms for all of your spells. Every ring you find you turn into a spell carrier, have one for absolutely everything. Your fireballs, your summons, your heals, put it on an item.

If you do this you will eventually hit the point where your enchanting skill is high enough to where you can power a practically infinite number of spells out of your collection of charms. If they ever do run out of energy you just soultrap some enemies and refuel them. Stuff you kill becomes ammo for more spells. You can get a special soulgem called the Star of Azura that is never used up when you reload items from it, which at that point means you genuinely just have infinite energy.

The other insane advantage of playing as an Enchanter is that charm items do not have a cast time. Any items that has an on use spell simply fires that spell off every time you click the mouse button, and that makes spells from charm items much more powerful than spells that you cast by hand. The most measely useless attack spell is insanely powerful if you can fire it off like a machine gun, and healing or shield spells are a heck of a lot more useful if you can easily cast them without enemies interrupting you.

Enchanting or Enchanted items in general can be used to break the game in a variety of ways too. For example wearing a combo of items that grants you 100% sanctuary simply renders you immune to all damage.

General mage advice in Morrowind:

Don't think a mage doesn't need high Endurance, in fact, this is the stat you should max before anything else because it's the only stat that doesn't have a retroactive effect. Basically endruance sets the number of hitpoints you get per level, which means that every level you get where your endurance isn't at 100 is hitpoints you will never be able to get. Max this stat as fast as possible, it should sit at 100 when you hit level 10 at the latest, or your character will simply be gimped, mage or not. This is also why The Lady is such a good starting sign for any character.

Most of the toughest enemies in Morrowind have the ability to reflect magic back to you, which is the main reason why magic in Morrowind is questionable when you intend to use fireballs as your primary means of attack. The one spell that gets around this problem is the Absorb Health spell, since hitting yourself with an Absorb Health effect will drain your own health right back to yourself, so no harm done. If you want to shoot a high level enemy with spells this is the spell to do it with.

A lot of the spell effects in the game are really broken, for example Burden is totally worthless. It adds weight to the target, but has a duration after which the spell stops working. This means you need an insanely expensive and powerful Burden spell to actually cause an enemy to be unable to move. It's much more practical to cast a Damage Strength spell on them, which permanently decreases their strength, and stacks as often as you cast it until the opponents strength hits 0 and they are permanently unable to move. Same goes for things like Damage Intelligence vs. Silence.

One of the first items you should make yourself in any game of Morrowind is a Belt that is enchanted with permanent Regenerate Stamina x 5. The first Golden Saint soul you get a hold of should be this item, because it will permanently rid you of that pesky stamina bar and its adverse effects on your performance.

Unarmored is broken in vanilla Morrowind, in case you wanted to go hardcore and play with a robe on. It only gives an armor bonuses if your character wears at least one point of actual armor somewhere. The morrowind patch mod fixes this though.

If you like to stretch the definition of unarmored a bit, it is perfectly possible in morrowind to enchant items like extravagant shirts with, for example, a permanent bound cuirass spell. It's a heck of a lot easier to get than real daedric armor too.

Learn restore spells early, that whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ move where you put people at 0 strength is something that can happen to you as well when fighting certain enemies. Having a spell that restores even just 1 point to all stats is a good investment to keep that from hounding you.

Soulgems are largely found in chests in caves, and the kind of soulgems you find in those chest is determined by your level. That means, if you clear out the caves early in the game because its easy you will be sitting on a pile of petty and small soulgems which would all have been grand and greaters if you had explored those caves later.

Calm Humanoid is one of the most powerful spells in the game, because it can get sentient creatures to stop attacking you alltogether and instead talk to you. It may not be as flashy as simply blowing them up, but believe it or not, there are some NPC in Morrowind that will attack you on sight, but actually have a lot of interesting stuff to tell you, teach you or sell you if you manage to calm them down.

Morrowinds skill learning system doesn't really care what kind of spell you cast and whether you're hitting anyone or not. If you want to deliberately raise magic skills its best to first go to a spellmaker and construct a training spell that costs as little magicka as possible Summoning a ghost for 1 second for example is useless in a fight, but for raising your conjuration skill its brilliant. Also spells like that tend to cost next to nothing, like in the 20 gold range.

And my biggest piece of advice: Just get a mana regen mod. Yes, it's possible to play a mage through Enchantment or Alchemy in Morrowind, but those weirdly end up being more overpowered and broken than to simply rig the game to give you mana back. At least if you're looking for a challenge with playing a mage it's a lot more interesting. Having slow mana regen instead of trying to completely circumvent your manapool with potions and enchants amusingly enough actually leads to the only viable way to play morrowind where your mana pool really matters.