this is the spell effect for those wondering fortify destruction 1 pt for 1 sec in 50 ft on target turn undead 1 pt for 1 sec in 50 ft on target soultrap 1 pt for 1 sec in 50 ft on target levitate 1 pt for 1 sec in 50 ft on target weakness to magicka 100% for 1 sec in 50 ft on target absorb health 100 pts for 1 sec in 50 ft on target (do it in this exact order for best cast cost)
Imagine actually being a citizen in Morrowind if people could achieve powers like this. One minute, you're shopping for wares from your local Khajiit store, next minute, some crazed mage comes flying over your town like the Enola Gay and casts the spell "atomic bomb"
The Telvanni are like that, but they seek dominance so they don't necessarily destroy everything. They would probably try to kill this guy because he represents a threat to their control.
Morrowind is the only game where I can make spells like "beam of die badly," "blast of cause horrible problem," and "fuck you gravity you're not my mom."
I remember brewing my custom "crack mixture" when I was 12 years old. And then I was giving them to NPC's who were drinking it and then they would die from it or get some bad stats 🤣🤣
morrowind mages have 3 stages why is casting so hawdd 😭😭 hey this is actually fun *He has no rules. No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a flag or country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for money.*
There is a 4th Stage, "Fuck Vivec and Everyone Who Lives There, Especially the Fucking Boat Men!" But this is only experienced by mages who spend too much time in the holy city without knowing Levitate.
Yes skyrim comes out with better graphics, but the dungeons are way more boring and no spellcrafting or enchantment crafting and honestly oblivion was just abismal compared to other 2.
@@reddotclips3971i enjoyed both, mainly probably because there's nothing better that i know of. But, tbh, i tried morrowind when i was too Little (and dumb, though dumb still i am) and didn't get 8/9th of the shit that was going on. So, at one point i just started using cheats to jump very high and move very fast. Then got bored. In my plans, The ones i never start or finish but rot in the sewage that is my brain backlog, i'd like to play all the elders scroll in sequence. If not all, at least from morrowind (with some mods for aesthetics, textures and stuff like this, no gameplay modded)
@@MMAVoodoo Oblivion was still a good game, but Morrowind just did everything right no quest markers, keeping a journal and having to take directions from npcs was really immersive along with travel. Besides voice acting and graphics Morrowind had so much more to offer than the following games.
keep in mind that almost no one in the world is high enough level wizard to do this stuff. in Morrowind you are silly weak as a low level mage. if you survive long enough to become powerful, you are essentially a demi-god. A wizard doing the things shown in this video is far beyond the capabilities of almost any wizard in the world. maybe a few but they are pre-occupied with various forms of research. Even the greatest Telvanni wizards are far below the capabilities of the wizard shown in this video. They would be considered mere beginning pupils.
@@virtualmartiniYeah, but I can't go to the aphotecary next door, get super high on a bunch of prescription-free narcotics, and blow up a city in an evening. There's a fun in-game book about a boy abusing magic to become better than people with actual skill, but taken to the extreme. This game is fucking amazing.
@@XDarkStrikerX If you have 100% absorb magicka they can reflect it's even better for you. Problem is if they have 100% absorb (resist/reflect too), you cant kill them with spells
That's what makes Morrowind more enjoyable longterm than Oblivion and Skyrim, imo. In the beginning you suck at everything. In the things you specced as your class and race you suck a bit less. But you really feel the progression until you are an unstoppable force of nature. Yeah in ES 4 and 5 you have your OP builds, but none of them lets you wreak so much havoc as Morrowind, especially if you compare mages. @@kyastrzhembsky7005
This is what Bethesda forgot about mages that is true in any RPG mechanic: mages are supposed to be like demigods when they get to high levels. The reason you play a mage is to dedicate a lot of time to a character so that you can eventually play a god. Mage isn’t supposed to just be a different flavor of killing enemies than warrior or rogue, because when you master magic to this extent you can use magic to mimic the fighting and stealth abilities of warriors and rogues, so your playstyle is unlimited.
That's why JRPGs give warriors and thieves martial and sneaky magic. Sure, the mage can fly and torch an entire army, but the warrior can split a meteor in half with his magic sword, and the thief can become one with the shadows and backstab fucking everything.
@@KopperNeoman Yeah but that kind of sucks because it makes magic cheap and unexciting, right? I mean it’s great for a JRPG because it’s accepted that a common trope in anime is that everyone basically has superpowers, but in a western rpg setting, magic has traditionally been mysterious and rare and that makes it more exciting, and magic is also really hard to master, but if every dickhead can just go around shooting waves of fire out of their swords or teleporting behind their enemies to backstab them, then magic becomes really cheap and boring.
my favorite is drain strength by 100 pts for 1 second spell. Traps human enemies in place and they cant escape. And if youre really devious you can have an enemy follow you underwater then cast it on them.
@@kyastrzhembsky7005man, i hate those enemys that do strength damage since that time they trapped me in a cave. But it was so cool, that i could mark, teleport to the next shrine, heal and return
All that spell casting, and your mana bar only decreased like 5%. I remember making a custom sorcerer build in Daggerfall that gave me 100% mana absorption, so I would create giant damage AOE spells which used up most of my mana, and fire them point blank range, refilling my mana from the splash.
yeah that absorb effect in daggerfall was busted, you could just spam massive dmg fireballs(and it had dmg scaling with level for magic in that one too)
For those who don't know to create permanent summons that actually leave a lootable body behind create a spell with the following. Fortify stat (doesn't matter what stat) "target" for 1 pt, 1 second Second spell is any summon you want an army of. Summon skeleton for 5 seconds. The trick is to fire this at the wall, floor, or ceiling the projectile animation should end before the summon does thus creating a permanent entity. This trick also applies to permanent buffs and stats using the same logic. I discovered this trick back in 08 apparently no one knew about this on cheat code websites maybe someone knows today but there my secret revealed lol.
Back when mages could fly. Man, those were the days. It makes you wonder how this op magic was lost over time when it was so liberating. Wouldn't a certain Telvani mage in his tower on an island in the middle of nowhere still be able to do this? Or did he forget? lol Why can't modern altmer do this? Or even the dunmer? Ah well.
By what I understand, getting to the level of magical prowess your character can reach in game takes so much time, effort and natural talent that it isn't feasibly achievable for most people. Even relatively strong mages in the lore would struggle to replicate the weakest mechanical implementations of high level magic in the series. What you're capable of in game already makes you one of the strongest mages alive, the fact that you can reach that level of power from basic or no magical aptitude in under an in-game year makes you a genuine anomaly
Levitation magic was outlawed by the Empire, and only permitted in Morrowind as one of the terms of the Armistice. No, really, that's the reason given.
@@D--FENS For real? Damn, I had no idea. Why the empire gotta make things difficult? lol Is this explained in oblivion? If it is then it would make sense why I had no idea since I've never played it yet. I went from morrowind straight to skyrim
@@Mestephra As far as I'm aware, the illegal levitation is just an in-universe excuse for the lack of it in Oblivion. The gameplay reason for this is that Oblivion's cities have their own internal cels and the devs didnt want players to fly over city walls and break the game.
I remember falling in love with New Vegas for that reason, because I had grown so used to Bethesdas other games where there's a shit ton of essential NPCs
"Deal with the consequences" lol you mean just reloading or starting a new save, as there's nothing to do afterwards or no way to progress with the game. The complaining about essential npcs is so stupid because in practice it makes no difference except for saving you the boredom and inconvenience when accidentally offing a plot relevant character or something.
@@servus_incognitus the game has autosave. It's not usually that big a deal. It's just nice that they give you the option to end the story in off script ways.
@servus_incognitus you can finish the game while killing otherwise essential npcs using the backdoor method to get wraithguard. Or even if you kill literally everyone you can still beat it if you have good enough spells to tank the damage from equipping keening+sunder.
Morrowind was so epic if you played it when it first came out. Like as my first open world game ever, it was mindblowing how much you could do. Best OG xbox game of all time.
Even today if you put aside outdated combat\graphics it's still a much more better game then Oblivion & Skyrim. Imo, after Morrowind, TES series started to degradate.
@@AsMightyAsBread I have no doubt, I played them my entire life, I've moded them, it's a great games, love them all, but TES3 is my fav. Kinda worried for TES6 after Starfield & lack of Jeremy Soule music...without him TES isn't TES, imo.
@@Vindold I've been grinding morrowind I can see why you say that haha. Oblivion is definitely easier for new people to start to understand why those old games are better though. Cheers :)
Seriously, I get the Gonians were high on hist gene seed and had daedric drip but how dafuq did they manage to fight off Telvanni mages who can casually do this?
Maybe that’s part of why they didn’t get so far north into morrowind the redoran and telvanni lands Plus this is probably wizard council levels of power haha the number of wizards with this power could be in the low hundreds
@@squidmanfedsfeds5301 Truth be told, I think the Redoran warriors were just spectators while Telvanni Ball Z were doing the heavy farm tool disciplining.
They did overwhelmed the Oblivion to the point they had to close the gates in Argonia. I think you should be more concerned about what the fuck Hist did to those Argonians and how scary they are. They sound honestly like each of them is a main boss of a game.
All the other great houses must breath a sigh of relief that the Telvanni are all too intrested in learning about and researching magic than ruling or conquering, can you a imagine a whole house of people like this coming after you?
Morrowind is the game where you can almost immediately have permanent infinite speed by getting 100% magic resistance for 2 seconds and equipping the boots of blinding speed
Unfortunately, the current trend is for games to be "balanced," so that the entire world is in an unrealistic arms-race with the player. Entire swathes of countryside apparently see you, then decide to crank out the best armour in the game from zero resources and hand it out to all the bandits. And for some reason, all the stores are trapped in the bronze age until you level up enough for the iron age to start.
@@dmgroberts5471I agree, but honestly feel the bigger oversight (that creates the lack of OP spells,) at least in Skyrim, was health scaling. Alduin is only about 6x more HP than a bandit chief, making the latter too difficult and the former too easy. Relatively. Adding Morrowind tier spells would make many boss fights such a joke due to this, so I hope they fix that in ES6.
Skyrim fans will call this “broken” because they need their single player game to be competitively balanced for some reason. But the result is actually just that Skyrim never lets you be a master of magic. You’re always an apprentice casting someone else’s spells, never graduating to creating your own.
before my save corrupted,i flew through entire map less than 5 min, could paralyze half of city with one spell and packed all damaging spells into one,with max area and called it "meteor strike"
I'm tired and not feeling so good so I just distracted myself by typing some kind of essay lmao there is a spell called Jump in morrowind that multiplies your regular jump height, then he's probably using the Slowfall spell which also negates fall damage to land. His nuke spell has the fancy visual effects because it's a custom spell that combines many schools and it's made in such a way that it probably breaks the game in order to make such an insane spell castable. Cause some npcs allow you to make custom spells and the cast cost calculation can be exploited (it might just be integer overflow lmao). Though it may be an enchanted shield instead. Maybe the spell cost actually is stupid, but no matter. You can just make a fortify intelligence potion, drink it, make another one that is now stronger, also drink it (it will stack with the old one) and eventually make potions that will fortify your intelligence by for instance one hundred thousand for a couple of real time hours. That increases your magicka. Then make a fortify willpower potion like that to increase your cast chance by about 20000%. You can do this cause alchemy makes time stop in morrowind. The way the nuke works is by a spell effect called Absorb Health along with Weakness to Magicka on the target. Absorb health is from the school of Mysticism. It's effectively a life leech spell where the enemy loses health and you absorb it, that is you get healed by that amount. The Weakness is from destruction and it just increases the enemy's vulnerability to the life leech effect. This sells morrowind as a broken unbalanced mess but truth is, if you're ignorant of the mechanics like I was back in time, I think it can appear fairly "balanced", especially for melee characters if you don't minmax them. As soon as you get into magic though the line between a balanced complementary to other playstyles and being totally unstoppable even without using the likes of this insane nuke spell gets very very thin, especially if you level your speed and acrobatics, you can then just dance around enemies. I never even played skyrim and I played very little Oblivion, I'm used to this.
Cool thing about morrowind is it can be whatever the hell you make it, if you wanna be a high wizard god slaying town murderer you can wipe the place out and forever be wanted by the guards
I remember there was a bug where you could aim at the ground with a "on touch" spell, and it would infinitely stack every time you used it, me and my friend made an acrobatics spell and jumped across the entire map lol, it was on Xbox and it was just a bunch of load screens, then we landed in the middle of the ocean
its a soultrap bug. you basically make a spell that fortifies an attribute or a skill, and does a soultrap on you as well. spells attributes stack and it dont go away. but you can be too powerful in this game without exploiting the bugs
here’s the recipe for those interested: fortify attribute (or fortify skill) for x amount for 1 second on self soultrap for 1pt for 1 second on target this also works with most spells like reflect and absorb in place of fortify
Every NPC could be eliminated even the storyline characters and you could still complete the game. That’s why this is the best elder scrolls game ever.
Magic in Morrowind is closer to how magic is in the lore. In Skyrim it's like "magic can be used to uncover the very fabric of space and time" but you get to cast the same 5 fireballs. In Morrowind it's like: "what's that? Want to leap in the air as a method of fast travel? Want to create a spell that kills someone, then turns the corpse undead, then deals holy damage to murder that motherfucker a second time? I got you pal."
Speak quickly outlander or go away. said a random Dunmer house wife to someone who cured her country of ancient godlike evil and plague storms and mind control and such
The neat part is, if your main damage Skill is absorb health, reflect Magic becomes useless, because even if it gets reflected on yourself, you absorb your own health and therefore get no damage. Clever 😂
Not quite. If you cast absorb health and it gets reflected, it actually drains you and heals the target. Damn those Golden Saints aka Azura's star fuel!
@@PopizzdioJazz No, it absolutely does not do that in vanilla Morrowind. OpenMW includes an option to make it do that, and I assume Morrowind Code Patch or Morrowind Patch Project fix it too, but vanilla absorb health absolutely functions the way OP claims
Correction: reflected absorb health first drains your life and then heals you for the same amount. This is a two step process, meaning it can kill you if your max health is less than your absorb health spell. First hand experience.
I miss games like this so much. Remember how awesome it was to just explore randomly and find the coolest loot. Now everything's about paying the creators money for a shitty skin
@@AsMightyAsBread yeah, I also play old games lately. Found my absolute favorite game in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. I wasn't too amazed by Morrowind honestly but I'm in love with its DLCs, and that of course a lot thanks to getting accostumed to the world in base game. Either way, just don't support shit games. Do support well-crafted, creative, non-cash grabby games, but people be buying the trashiest, unfinished garbage and complain about the state of the industry lol
@@njux1871 exactly! Stop pre-ordering and get free old games that play way better because they were play tested for hundreds of hours by developers that gave a F
Morrowind straight up has the best magic system in the series, of course Skyrim does have flashy cool looking and sounding magic, but in Morrowind you can levitate, long jump, and basically nuke your enemies, which should be possible in Skyrim, thanks to mods you can do it.
Mages are basically Frieza from Dragonball Z in Morrowind. I always loved the swirly graphic when you cast 2 or 3 different effects in one cast... it's like super magic photon torpedoes away! The damage radius just wrecks everything...save often, save smart, or the fabric of yadda yadda killed an essential NPC. 💀
Remembering having in Morrowind a Ring I enchanted with five different summons. Then, if I felt lazy and some bandit came charging I just called five different undead and Daedra to fight for me. "Have Fun with these!"
Morrowind is the game where you can almost immediately have permanent infinite speed by getting 100% magic resistance for 2 seconds and equipping the boots of blinding speed
This is why cannonly formation fighting was never really a thing. One single mage would just fly over your army and destroy the entire thing in a few minutes.
i miss the flying item i crafted in morrowind that let me walk on air like a fucking badass elve mage. Oblivion had such great features too, as the jump height and movement speed with my khajit. As for skyrim... well, at the khajit have a cute fur
What I hate the most about later Bethesda games is that their idea of balancing a game is taking out all the fun stuff from the previous title but than their games are still exploitable as hell so why don't you just keep the fun stuff?
Looks cool. But there is one problem - reflection armor and spells. Then the mage will have to swing a sword just like all the others. At least that is what gave my mage the most problems.
fortify restoration 100pts self 2s, fortify alchemy 100pts self for 2s, make 100x fortify intelligence and fortify willpower potions, fortify restoration 100 pts self 2s, fortify restoration 100x8 self 2s, fortify alchemy 100x8 self 2s, make more fortify intelligence & willpower potions,(as well as levitate, speed, strength and anything else you might need), then proceed to make fortify buff for the weapon you want to use, as well as fortify ench buff to ench it
Nowadays even from lvl 1 I feel like I'm cheating. The game is stupidly easy to cheese. I'm sure lots of ppl love that but it just makes the game boring as all hell to me.
i swear this is the BEST TES game, when you can infuse a levitate spell to a spear and stab cliffracers only for them to fall to the ground with all inability to fly and then continue to destroy them as they lie there helpless is top tier amusement when it comes to such an obnoxious enemy
Custom spells all day. Me an the homies still talk about my super huge fireball spell that i named Aids that killed damn mear everyone in the city on accident or the telekenis spell that lasts only 1 or 2 seconds, long enough to steal anything without getting too close. Good times.
