Playing as an enchanter in Morrowind vs Oblivion vs Skyrim 

The first clip is too real: 1) Stealth detection is weird in the OG engine, so if you take owned items while standing on furniture, sometimes you get guaranteed chance to steal anything 2) One you've stolen an item from an NPC who provides services, even if you discard said item, any copy of it counts as stolen in the eyes of that NPC and they will immediately aggro.

Even if I didn't steal the soul gem, if a guard catches me, he always takes my filled soul gems as if they were stolen property. Like, I'll have 3 filled grand soul gems, but I get reported during a Morag Tong quest and when I present the Writ, my filled soul gems are gone. Is it because I "stole" the souls?? I don't totally understand the theft dynamics of Morrowind, but now I always store away soul gems before doing anything that might upset the guards.

That first half of the Skyrim clip was so freaking smooth, the chalkboard erase was perfect! Also nice to see Daggerfall being even mentioned, let alone getting its own meme variant.

0:15 Oh wow, I forgot.

This is a certified N’wah classic

Tbh, I kinda missed that it was not emphazied how broken enchanting in Morrowind was. Yes, in skyrim you get ridiculous values on your items. But in morrowind, you could enchant ANY spell on an item. They all had their own mana pool, that regenerated while resting and casting was INSTANT! More gattling spells! Also effects like paralysis on ranged targets, summoning creatures, levitation, I could go on and on. There is nothing that makes you feel more like playing a god than an enchanter in Morrowind. It is no coincidence that in essence, Dagoth Ur is an enchanter (considering that his power come from 4 magic artifacts which he knew how to use).

also it always bugged me how most of the transcendant sigil stones were almost always better than anything you could enchant something with in Oblivion.

The random "How are you?" had me rolling.

damn took me a moment to remember you can enchant with soulgems in Daggerfall... been years since I last saw a item break and release a angry Lich with no cast cooldown on my face

Also Morrowind: Enchant Daedric tower shield with OP Spells and start nuking your enemies.

lmao the walter edit has me rolling

Oh but if you can get a full suite of enchanted gear (even outside of artifacts and unique items) the power boost in Morrowind felt so *worthwhile* compared to the later games. Because you could enchant on cast, on strike, and constant effect, it meant different items could be put to use in different ways. In Oblivion and Skyrim, making all enchants constant effect or on strike only made every type of enchant far more boring and same-y. Morrowind's end-game enchanting felt more like one choice out of many (and one that required a lot more time investment to make work), but Oblivion and Skyrim, enchanting felt like one necessary step the game expected you to reach, and adjusted the difficulty preemptively to account for that. (Obviously I'm not talking about/including the exploits you can do in all three games to make godly enchanted gear)

I like that in Daggerfall, the acquired artifacts can disappear eventually, as it should be. For enchanting, it is good money sink

I have fond memories of desecrating the Hlallo manor in Balmora by using rings of summon skeleton with Umbra to train by (re)filling Azura's Star. That's what I get for using mods that rebalance economics such that Creeper and Mudcrab have no money and all other merchants have higher mercantile skill

Great! Just... great! YOU N'WAH!

That is why I picked one enchanter who is off limits for me to steal from no matter how tempting. That Argonian in Vivec who wants me to drive off the actor in front of his shop. Mostly because he isn't tied to any faction, and the quest to get rid of the guy in front is easy to do even early game and gives you 15 disposition with him if you go nonlethal. Which makes it easy to get get it maxed. I then only use them for enchanting services. Everyone else is fair game though.

In oblivion the sigil stone are actually really weak. To enter and get what it need to emchant we need to be in a certain point of the mage academy, and then the enchantment can be... Really too much OP.

or in oblivion you could get the sigil stone from an oblivion gate. but i will have to say as playing a mage getting into the mages guild for the first time in oblivion was a pain until I figured it out

Dude, what program do you use to make videos?

Morrowind's is more like making a nuke.

In morrowind i just buy the shit enchanted rings they restock after a month via mage guild enchanters i had a dozen shield rings

A skilled enchanter obtains and farms many souls, enchanting bit is the easy part.

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DMG 783? ..like sevenneytree? Like THE best number there is, 73? Is that the thing? Am I getting it? ... ..I'm not getting it, am I..? Welp, remember to smile even if you must force one. Thank me in a few months. BYE! :)

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First. Another great one, keep it up

Wtf is an enchanter

In Morrowind I would make a bunch of spells and potions that builds up my enchanting and luck until I have a 100% success rate or close to it and make some enchanted jewelry that gives +100 enchant and luck which even further helps me to make really OP enchanted gear. I had a ring that would summon a golden saint for an infinite period as long as I kept the ring on and used it to farm grand souls.

Sorry i'm like #667

Back then gaming was peak of non-linear. It made movies and books boring af. You could spend years without discovering other ways to play. Sneaking, stealing, persuading, conjuring, potion abusing... that's only some of alternative ways

The enchanting skill was absolutely ass in morrowind Had to pay others to do it if you wanted anything decent