5 (more) Underrated Spells in Morrowind - Try These Spells! 

Cliff racers are canonically the most annoying enemy because wiping them out was considered sufficient enough for sainthood.

*kills Dagoth Ur in the first chamber* *Dwarven door opens.* *Lock on touch 1 point* *Leaves* "Problem solved."

Lock 1 is also good for early game lockpicking leveling, I usually go to the Canton where the assassins are, and before it in the warehouse room I use it on all the containers and sacks and start grinding. You get as much xp opening level 1 as opening a level 100 lock.

I usually just carry a bunch of Sujamma with me. Their strength boost is enough to one-shot most enemies, plus you can carry a ton

Also as a note, the spell summon greater bonewalker slaps because you get a three for one combo special of a tanky summon and two damage attribute spells for the price of one spell

In regards to your comment on balancing, I prefer their approach in Morrowind, allowing the players the option to make it unbalanced if they so choose. Obviously the other games had exploits, but the freedom this game had with spellcrafting and enchanting was top notch. I often used a short bound weapon enchant that summoned on hit.

Lock is a great way to thwart the Dark Brotherhood assassins. Lock the door of the room before you sleep & never get interrupted again. Locking the door to a bedchamber in the Balmora Fighter's Guild usually results in the assassin loading on the far side of the door. Depending on how you stand & the angle at which you look at the bed to rest, the assassin can load in the bed, stuck & unable to move. Lock your stronghold door & set a recall point inside and you'll never see them again. The lock only applies to one side of the door, so you can exit your stronghold normally. You know what is just as much fun as immobilizing your pursuers? Hit them with a 1-point levitate effect & watch as they begin treading water to try to get to you. Played an archer & that was his bread & butter spell.

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Morrowind vet here, probably clocked close to 10k hours over the couple decades it's been out. I'm amazed to learn bits here and there from this guy. Never been much of a wiki user, prefer to learn by doing.

One of my favorite playthroughs involved a light armorered spear wielder who used enchanted items. I had made a spear that damaged strength on hit. I was fast and i was mean, whittling down enemies to nothing using my reach and speed combined with that enchantment. God it was a fun character build

Some of my favored spells are Drain Skill 100 pts for 1 second on Self, and Fortify Skill 100 pts for 1 second on touch. Then ANY trainer, is a master trainer in whatever skill you selected. Also, since your skill is drained to 0, itll only cost 1 gold to train it. Then when the spell wears off, you get to keep the gained skill point. Fortify Personality 100 pts on self for 1 second and Fortify Merchintile 100 points on self for 1 second is also useful for getting better deals at merchants

Hey this was super helpful considering I just started a pure-mage playthrough, I miss when magic had an answer for everything. Wish some complexity was brought back to the series.

Telekinesis is really good for thievery. Whether its for directly stealing stuff (with chameleon) or helping you unlock stuff.

Restore attribute, 1 point for 10 seconds, with all 8 attributes in the 1 spells. I make this spell every playthrough and its a life saver!

One thing to note about bound spells is that the items are weightless, so you are not encumbered as much (so you move much faster than carrying equivalent daedric equipment around). Next thing is that you can constant effect enchant 4 pieces of equipment on an Exquisite Ring, so 2 of those rings give you pretty much a full daedric set. They're also light armor. Very "balanced". :D

Dude I was never able to stick for longer to Morrowind but I'm watching your vids ever since you popped out in my feed, its amazing that there are still youtubers like you that revisit these old gems. Keep the content going. I will start playing OpenMW on my handheld soon, can't resist anymore😂

I always have some alchemy ingredients with restore attribute as it's first effect. It may not seem as efficient as the spell but when playing a focused stealth/warrior builds, it helps to know which region grows what herb so you can heal attribute in a pinch. Currently playing with an alchemist only build. Relying on herbs to restore/fortify health stamina, magica & attributes, opened a whole new world for me. As far as I'm conserned, Marshmarrow's health regen is just another way to breathe underwater. ;)

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Personally the Spell that i always pick is Jumping. Its so fucking good ! Everybody talk about yeah levitation , but when you master the 50 point of jumping for 30 second ( thanks the apprentice birthsign ) you become a true anime character. Bound weapon is also absolutely glorious , Bound Spear is a way to stay out of reach of the ennemies while poking them with ease

I once locked all hostile inhabitants of Corprusarium in a single room, being able to freely loot all the chests without being bothered. And damage strength is my favorite spell for raiding Daedric ruins. Just immobilizing everyone inside and looting all their stuff in plain sight. Also, the most disrespectful way to win all guild-master duels in the Arena: cast damage strength, use vampiric ring and watch as the sucker is going down like a noob.

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Very nice video! I was pleasantly surprised to see that I haven't thought on any of the spells you brought up. Thanks!

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5:29 me who always plays pure mage in every tes game ever on every playthrough: i dont have such weaknesses

Some of these are much better on enchanted items than when used as spells. I made a character that used an iron mace enchanted for bound mace for 59 seconds on strike. Every time I hit an enemy, it would replace my weapon with a massively buffed Daedric version that costs no fatigue to swing. You can put 5-10 points restore attribute for all eight attributes on a single expensive ring. Having it on a magic item means that even if your intelligence is drained to 0 or you’re out of magicka and you can’t rest where you’re standing but you can’t move because your strength is 0, you can still cast it and get your stats back.

As a guy to loves to play mages in games, I have a love for all the spells. The Bound Spells for Weapons, and for Armour, can be one of the best "Oh Shit" buttons, to save your hide. They also can help you level the skills up without having to rely on a trainer. Since the Bound Spells gives you a Fortify Skill along with the weapon and armour, this allowed you to easier hit enemies, which in turn made it easier to level that weapon group. Restoration overall is amazing, even with cheap spells, they can save you a lot (Like Cure Common or Blight Disease and even Remove Curse, these can save your hide in many ways). Turn Undead, Demoralize Creature or Humanoid (Even with the bugs), can be extremely helpful, specially when you are not ready to fight. Damage Attribute spells are extremely overpowered, if you know what it does. Example: Str = Unable to do damage you, unable to carry anything making them overburdened. And less Fatigue. Endurance = Less Fatigue Regen, and Less Fatigue in total. Agility = Less chance to hit, less chance to dodge, less resistance to being knocked down, and less Fatigue. Intelligence = Less Magicka (And a ton of other stuff) so less casting. Luck = Gaenor's Bane (He has 770 Luck). Willpower = Less resistance to spells and less chance to cast spells, and less Fatigue. Speed and Personality doesn't really do much to NPCs. So if you can make one spell that can damage Str, End, Agi, and WIll that can do up to 100 points of damage, then you practically need to blink in their direction and they fall over, and if you an add in Int to it, then bam, you have just made every single enemy in the game, practically useless. Lock has so many utility functions, not only can you block a door, but you can also train your lock picking with higher and higher levels for easier leveling. You can alter a patrol through a fort, so you can "lend" stuff that they would get angry about. You can lock enemies into rooms with a bit of trickery.

Great choice of spells! Another cool vid right here.

Gonna spell craft all these effects together thanks for the recommendation for my next Swiss Army knife mage build

I cannot stop watching your videos, highly informative for someone who just started morrowind, thank you for the videos and entertainment!

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Let's goooooo, love ur vids brotha.

Thanks for these cool videos

You can pretty much put all of your bound items as constant effects if you enchant your clothing with the effects.

the best custom spell imo is a 1-5 mag 30 sec absorb intelligence spell with range maxed. use it in a crowd w atronach+altmer and you can get 500 extra magicka for basically free

i started my first *real* morrowind playthrough yesterday using your spellsword class as a base and it's so fun, cheers for the new video :]

Always a great day when a new Morrowind video from CNG comes up in my notifications! Cheers and keep up the quality content!

Every time I watch one of your videos, I start a new character, great channel

had a laugh. nice, informative and funny video :D

for everyone who wanna try to play with the "pursuit" mod or a hardcore challenge, lock is a fantastic to play around aside form that ... its good alteration leveling and security training

Reach is amazing since you can open things from a distance or without making the trap trigger or steal from across room without benig seen

I really got to hate GBWs on my third playthrough, when I decided to abuse corprus by sleeping for many nights and getting an insane strength boost that stayed when I was cured, only to be shaved down to a mere 100 by a GBW with no hope to ever restore it above 100.

Bless you for talking about Morrowind this deep still.

I still use the bound longsword long into my play through. With a good conjuration stat, and if you’re already trained in long blade, it increases longblade by 10 points while using it. So your hit chance and damage per hit is increased in a pinch.

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But your going to have to open that door anyway and if you can't win without running a locked door will not help you 2 times. What I would recommend is find a summon spell and enchant a ring with it. When your in trouble equip the ring and run as your summon body blocks.

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Funny thing; There is a room in the Ald’ruhn mages guild that I would use as a base and throw stuff in, (literally just drop stuff on the bed) lock the door with that spell, and open it every time I came back with stuff. I would then throughout my play through upgrade the magnitude to ensure no one could get in. This was ,of course, before anyone knew tips and tricks or how things worked in the game so I was just doing like real life eh? 🤣

Bound bow is as good in Morrowind as it is in Skyrim. I love Morrowind's armors health bar. And how clothes are indestructible.

I usually do bound armor, with extravagent or exquisitive gear using Shield enchants where possible. Not hard to get an enchanted permanent full set of it by level 14 or so.

Great video

God i love the moon runes/symbols used for magic spells.

Custom area of effect absorb health spells with a duration can be really useful, healing you + damaging enemies, can even suck health out of your summons and enemies at the same time. Its also an exploit, but as atronach birthsign, you can summon an ancestor ghost, turn them hostile, and absorb magicka from their spells to restore your magicka

While I never used bound armor I love bound Weapon ! They are great training because of the fortify and are so good for low strengh character because of they sont weight anything

Another thing I found was when I wear a constant effect attribute boost over a period of time, I would eventually lose the points from my boost. For example, the Mentor's Ring boosts INT and WILL 10 points. Eventually the constant effect will turn into my normal attribute score and I will be damaged 10 points of both attributes after I take the ring off.

Lol the moon sugar skit at the end had me rollin 😂

He's right, I cast bound weapon once in 2003 and went "oh I have to cast it again? nah I can't be bothered" then proceeded to spam my 23% cast chance fire bite on dunmer and spend 20 minutes reloading lockpicking. And I still do that. First impressions are everything.

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Lock to escape is outshined by the unholy Recall potion, it works even when paralyzed, i've put my mark on the alchemist at balmora (which also sells mark potions) since she has it restocking so i only need to bring 1 and then buy hers immediately after recalling, 0 mysticism and 0 alteration required

about frenzy humanoid, i think you can kill people without a bounty if you taunt them repeatedly, making them fight you. it's like challenging them to a duel, and it's explained how it makes sense in the lore

Coffee! Your vids popping up in my recommended was so timely. I had an itch to get back into this game recently and BOOM the man himself appears in my feed. Just wondering, what are your openmw settings? Maybe you could do a video on it. Was also thinking you could make a vid about the different guild questlines in MW. Can't wait for your channel to blow up!

Hey. Coffee, I appreciate your videos. Not only because I started playing Morrowind again. 🙂

Haven't played Morrowind at this point I think for a decade! But Turn Undead was also great for dividing and conquering. hit all but one of the undead enemies with it and destroy the last 1 rinse and repeat.

you can use the lock spell to practice your lockpicking as well

Man single handily reinvigorates my love for Morrowind, being indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands because his guides showed me how to be broken, thanks man, awesome content!

Thanks

The “daedric weapons” that ra’vir sells in balmora are insanely good starter weapons just for casting bound dagger

those are some good tips

In the tomb where you grab the skull like third main quest there is a chitin dagger called the dagger of judgement with pre much a dread curse enchanted effect makes your early game squshiy rouges or mages l have a better fighting chance against warriors

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Man, I don't think I've ever seen a real Morrowind channel that actually digs deep into the lesser known mechanics of the game. By lesser know I mean that few people of the mainstream TES community would know about.

Damage speed is good for a laugh as well. It doesn't freeze enemies like damage strength but they move in super slow motion.

Thank you for the info, I'm just getting into MW. I got a lot of years in D&D and I'd like to offer a thought about the lock spell. Locking a pack out of a room is good in a pinch, I can't help thinking about pathing blocking. The spell seems cheap enough a thief type could sneak into a place to clear it out and be able to reduce chances of random PCs waltzing in and ruining the fun.

Restore health 1pts constant effect. Restore strength x pts ring. 70-100 weapon skill. Absorb health weapon. Increase strength / sujamma. Smash smash smash. Game ends.

So with the lock spell you could use it passive-aggressively; by locking a patrolling guard in a room he visits while you rob the place

I made a target 1pt levitation spell that slows down enemies as well, but the problem is sometimes when they die in interiors they fall through the floor and I have to "magically" remove collisions to loot them.

Because I've been one of those players who removes the ladder from the Pool in the SIms 3, in Morrowind I like to get in the water and have my enemy follow me in, and cast Damage Strength on them, and/or a really powerful BURDEN, and leave them under water.

Greater Bone Walkers and their crippling spell is pretty savage but I also like it. Enemies that present unique challenges are kinda cool, IMO. It's rare for games to have the balls to seriously cripple you in any long-term way! I mean the NPC's tell you to get Divine Intervention Scrolls for a reason!

Cool. I'd like to play Morrowind again. I played it on the XBox "back in the day" but never finished it because of the glitches, which jus got worse the further into the game I progressed. I think a game-breaking glitch ended my playthrough. My favorite spell I made was a cast-from-distance unlock spell - I could pick locks on busy streets from a safe location - so cool when it worked! Oh man, what a game - and I've never finished it! 😔

These spells and certain others are the reason I play Morrowind modded for balance purposes and keeping with a difficulty curve that cannot (mostly) be napalmed at level 1.

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1:37 still have to make Antonious Stark with bound gear at some point.

Levitate 1pt for X seconds on target is a good one to slow enemies down. Also, speed and magic projectile speed are tied to a races weight, this makes male orcs the fastest with the fastest projectiles.

The best spell effect in the game is drain health. It allows you to damage someone's health while also restore your own at the same time. Not only that, no enemy in the game (as far as I know) is resistant to this spell effect. On my high level mage character I farmed golden saints for their sweet, sweet souls but they resist fire, frost and shock effect but they sure as hell weren't resistant to getting their health drained.

Or use lock to lock them in while you cast absorb health on touch x pts for x seconds in 50' radius on the door you've just locked.

That’s why the Summon Greater Bonewalker spell is goated

Cuatom spell: turn undeaf + fortify speed

last one. lock is ok but you can use recall, which is much better cuz you can use the same way as lock and be safe but you dont need to use doors, and its helping with play, means time safe

easy bonewalker couter: be a breton, take the atronach birthsign and aditionally you can get the Cuirass of the Savior's Hide

Hey coffee, I may be outright overlooking a video that answers all my questions, but nonetheless I'd like some information and as best as I can tell, you or one of my fellow lovely subscribers to your channel are likely the best source for said information. This may be a bit long winded, but just for context: I've put thousands of hours into oblivion and Skyrim, ive modded both into nearly unrecognizable games at one point as well. Morrowind is different though, I owned it on original Xbox, but I'm 28 years old now, and I played Morrowind mostly at around age 7-8, somewhere in mid 2002 (I had a really really cool uncle who had impeccable taste in games and purchased Morrowind for me almost directly after it's release, unfortunately though I was too young to truly appreciate the game.) So basically the majority of my experience was screwing around with making classes and trying/failing to steal every single thing I could, then making it just far enough out of the first city to get the "superman scrolls" as I called them and then I'd proceed to jump into low-nirn-orbit and do my best to land in a deep body of water. I have little other experience aside from making it once or twice to balmora and exploring enough to find the sword of white woe and the armor that the city guards wore. For further context, I'm an RPG nerd (thousands of hours in wow, tons of time in the soulsborne games, Kotor, GW2, rift, Warhammer reckoning, kingdom hearts, dark cloud, yada yada) So basically what I'm wondering is, for someone like me who has a bit of nostalgia for Morrowind, but very little actual gameplay experience, what mods would you recommend for a good first full playthrough? Thanks to steam sales I have the game of the year edition ready to go and completely unmodded currently. I've looked at a couple like open Morrowind and some shader/texture mods, but I don't want to screw with the original game too much (I particularly want to make a broken godlike character at least by late game by way of superpowered potions and enchantments and hopefully some powerful spells since I want to make a pseudo spell blade (something like a warlock that can spellsling, alter reality itself, fly around, and conjure minions, but still use a mace) Sorry for the small book, I couldn't think of a proper way to shorten it without losing emphasis on certain points

Most bound weapons are incredebly OP in early game but become somewhat obsolete once you get good enchanted items. The bound bow is an exception and in my opinion the best bow in the game. For whatever reason Bethesda messed up the ranged weapon enchanting (cast on strike enchantments do not work when placed on a bow/crossbow). Additionally there are no bows/crossbows with additional damage enchants in the game. The bound bow has zero weight, a constant effect fortify Marksmann enchantment, in terms of damage is identical to a daedric bow and you don t have to repair it. Going further you can put it on your armor or clothing as a constant effect( needs an item with only 10 enchant capacity) I had a assasin build and i put it on my glass greaves. Just unequip/equip the item and you get a beast of a bow. Just be careful not to repair it with hammers or else you will be stuck with a shit load of bound bows in your inventory that cannot be dropped or sold (using cheats will solve that problem) Keep up the great work coffee. Quality Morrowind content in 2023 deserves all the likes.

make a bunch of enchanted items that all have the same or complimentary summon enchantments (like a type of atronach or a group of various undead) cast them quickly one after the other to get a whole army of goons

Did a damage attribute build a long time ago. Nothing quite like everyone calling you names while you do whatever you want around them.

10:18 I see what you did there... locking the guards out so you could taste that sweet moonsugar. These Balmora rehab centers really need to hire a mage for these types of stunts.

I once played a pacifist, not allowed to kill any creature, and played through the Hlaalu quest line. Damage strength was a great spell, unfortunately it didn't stop animals, so I had to use damage speed for those. A 0 speed enemy is not hard to outrun. :) Restore attribute is a great practice spell, so I prefer a weak version.

Turn undead saved my ass when I was getting that bow for those Ashlanders

Seeing the undead flee from you just makes me laugh like crazy.

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Here's an underrated spell for you and everyone, it's what i called a "life hack in Morrowind": Slowfall! Aye, it slows you when falling, preventing you from taking fall damage. But what if i told you that only 1 point of Slowfall is all you need, and the rest is pointless? Get yourself say some exquisite pants or shirt, or whatever you want enchanted, make a constant effect enchantment and put Slowfall for 1pt. on Self on it. Now, you can not only enjoy the joys of acrobatics but also nullify the need for reduced fall damage, or just fall damage in general. You see, the more points into Slowfall, the slower you fall. But with just 1 point, you'll barely notice the effect but you will never ever take fall damage!

Because I used to no life this game as a teen back in the day I found other unique methods. You can make levitate a target spell You make it 1/1 for 40 seconds and it slows the enemy down a lot. I also, as an argonian loved leading people out into the water, making them follow me and hitting them with Burden so they drown. This was even better when you use it with a small damage strength too (Creatures can't drown though.)