How to Warrior - Build and Start Guide for Morrowind

playing a warrior in morrowind isn't easy in fact playing morrowind in general isn't very easy especially if you're a new player so today i'm going to teach you how to set your character up to not only learn the ways of the blade but also how to collect some key items that we set you up for early success and enable you to remind everyone why people in the 80s thought this was what peak performance looked like you were dreaming what's your name what's my name judd well that is a fantastic question because as always you have to start with an incredibly powerful non-cliched totally original name uh so i will go with rambu right totally original other names you know acceptable for warriors uh keeping uniqueness in mind conant daximus maximus meridius john mcclone i mean just to name a couple right just to name a couple so when we're talking about creating a warrior there's really only two classes that particularly stand out and these are going to be our nord and our red guard now let's start with the nord if we take a look here first at the specials your nord is immediately gonna appear to be more of your defensive minded tank-based race if you want to go for like heavy armor you know powerhouse of just built of iron and steel something somebody that just cannot be run over nord is going to be your character right off the bat we have an immunity to frost 100 so if you plan on going to soulstein plan on doing the blood moon dlc a lot of enemies up there have frost damage so they're going to be particularly strong in that region of the map additionally they have a 50 resistance to shock which is going to be great storm atronach very strong enemies in the game especially in the later game when they start spawning naturally in the world they also have woad which like the breton class they have an innate shield built in which honestly is kind of funny because the bretons actually have a slightly higher shield than the nords which is a little odd seeing as nord's obviously more of a tank focused class and then beneath woad here we have thunder fist which is going to be frost damage 25 points in touch so actually a pretty strong spell in the early game there are not a lot of creatures out there that have resistance to frost besides you know fighting other nord npcs themselves let's move over here and take a look at the skill bonuses and you'll see that our nord is obviously going to be more geared towards the axe and blunt weapon um i i would probably recommend axe they're a little easier to get early in the game to have like really strong axes whereas really strong blunt weapons typically come from either you know quests or exploits uh just thinking about you know mason lag ball thinking about scourge uh intel fear from dbf fear and then spear is decent but not a weapon type i typically recommend unless you're specifically trying to be at that at that long reach there's just not as many of them in the game you don't have as many options to choose from when you're specking your character additionally we have two boosts here one to heavy armor one to medium armor slightly more to medium armor but five five uh skill points you know we're kind of splitting hairs here with the nord out of the way now let's move on down to the red guard and where the nord as i mentioned is more of our tank the red guard is much more of our offensive focus master swordsman and it's the class that i actually used in my adventures with eric gordon let's play uh back in the day on this channel if you're interested in things like that you know just scroll through the video history over there but let's start with the specials we have uh resist disease is 75 again as i said in my last video on how to mage this this just isn't very exciting there's tons of cure disease potions in the game so common diseases are more of a nuisance than a serious detriment we do have resist poison which is somewhat nice there are traps in morrowind that work with poison and you know getting getting poisoned over time from a magical user although not the most common spells certainly some of the most deadly so that's kind of nice to have but the real selling point on a red guard here is probably the most overpowered racial ability in the game bar none bar none let's take a look to find out why we have fortify agility 50 points 60 seconds fortify strength 50 points fortify speed 50 points fortify endurance 50 points fortify health 25 points all for 60 seconds and this is with no downside no negatives you get to use it once a day and of course you can just rest 24 hours to get it back all the time so what is this really doing well it's increasing our chance to hit with raising our agility it's increasing the damage we're doing and carry weight with our strength it's increasing our ability to move and kite around in combat with the increase to the speed it's increasing our fatigue pool with our increase to endurance and of course restoring and increasing our health pool 25 points with our fortify health so all in all this is just everything a warrior character wants in a single buff if you've never played with the journal in russia before i really cannot overstate how overpowered it feels especially in the early game now let's move over to the skill bonuses here we have a lot of fives and 115 so we have athletics five axe five blunt weapon five heavy armor five medium armor five short blade five but the real star of the show here is longblade 15 and 15 is the highest skill bonus that you can get from simply picking a class in morrowind so immediately looking at a red guard if you want a master swordsman if you want to emulate you know aragorn or inuyasha because there's katanas in the game i mean what whatever your favorite uh fandom swordsman is this is your class to do it now i'm sure some folks watching this video are gonna be like coffee you did a warrior playthrough as an orc why are you not talking about orcs and i'll tell you why i'm not talking about orcs they're not a bad choice nords and red guards just simply come one cut above them first let's look down here at our specials you'll notice that immediately off the bat they don't get a ton they only get a resistant magicka and then an ability called berserk the real drawback here is berserk and as you can see it's kind of just a really bad adrenaline rush we have fortify health 20 points 60 seconds fortify fatigue 260 seconds and then we have fortify attack 100 points for 16 seconds but we do have drain attribute agility 100 points for 60 seconds on self what this means is you're going to be really easy to knock down in combat your agility is what actually keeps your character from getting staggered so if you knock your agility down 100 points you're super susceptible to getting knocked over in combat and then let's look at the skills over here very defensive focus with only a boost to axe everything else relating to armor but i will say if you want to tank and focus on being that kind of immovable object play style the immunity to frost and the resist shock plus woad that the norton has and their special abilities is gonna give you a lot more mileage so that being said uh for right now i'm gonna go ahead and pick a nord because you know i think i think they're pretty fun thunderfist is great and i like the way that this default guy looks with those face tats pretty brutal great i'm sure you'll fit right in i'm sure you'll fit right in um got a lot of face tats well i i guess this is kind of a prison colony i mean that's what they're doing with me or maybe mumble rap is still like top tier and pop culture in marlin all right the second step here to creating our warrior is obviously creating a custom class and we're gonna go with the terminator you know our we're rambu so we got half of the action movie stars covered now we'll go over here to schwarzenegger land and channel him for our terminator title here so obviously specialization you're going to want to pick is combat just going to give a boost to the stats that you can see here in the list and then you're going to want to pick your favorite attributes as strength and endurance now endurance is slightly up for debate you could say that agility is slightly better but to me endurance just edges out agility because of this second point here and that it raises the health that you gain per level so you want as high in endurance as possible if you're trying to min max your health pool because the higher it is early that means the more you health gain per level up every single time for for your whole playthrough so if you start with a higher endurance once you hit max level your health pool is going to be way higher than it was if you had a lower endurance you started and that's why to me endurance just edges it out because if you want to be tank heavy armored character you want to be a true warrior and terminator you know massive pecks gotta have a large health pool to do that i think juicy pecks and large health pools are directly correlated with each other that's all i'm saying so for me you gotta go endurance although there is a relevant argument for picking agility all right so moving on to the major skills i'm gonna pick axe you know going in on that that tin boost that we get from being the nord and also axes are just freaking cool i don't know if any of y'all have seen lord of the rings but gimli best best character all right so moving on i'm gonna pick one armor skill that i want to focus on i'm going to go medium armor and then here's where you can kind of get creative if you want i recommend taking athletics as a major skill this is going to let you move a little faster it's going to let your fatigue decrease slower when running and then additionally i like to take speech craft when i'm playing a warrior because don't get lost in the first impression when you see speech craft here this does not mean diplomacy right we're not being diplomatic speech craft in morrowind also affects your ability to taunt and to intimidate which are incredibly warrior things to do i mean i don't know if you've ever seen conan but that that guy he does a whole lot of intimidation and taunting his best in life crush your enemies see them driven before you hear the lamentation of the women and there's a great exploit that you can do in morrowind where if you're good enough at speechcraft you have a high enough personality then you can actually taunt npcs into attacking you and you can then kill them and take their loot for no penalty definitely sounds like a pretty barbarian thing to do and then finally here i'm actually going to take marksman because sticking to the warrior theme we don't want to depend on magic for our range damage we do want to have the ability to land a couple shots from far away and engage or leash out certain enemies that we want to attack or honestly just freaking deal with the cliff racers that get stuck up in the sky and just leave the combat music running the whole time now moving on to the minor skills this is when a lot of customization can come in it depends on again what you think a warrior is i recommend taking restoration or alchemy so you can at least pop up that massive health pool so you can make potions or heal yourself additionally block if you're going to be using short and sealed and not two-handed you could take one more other weapon type here as well if you want to switch around and try different things but just keep in mind that when you get to the late game in order to level effectively get those last couple levels since uh each level in morrowind is 10 levels of any major minor skill you are gonna have to switch weapons or kind of hybridly uh use two at the same time using one seventy percent of the time one thirty percent of the time you you will actually have to level that skill in order to level up so just keep that in mind alternatively here you could take mercantile good on any character security since we're not going to be using any open spells because we're a warrior type character not a spellblade that'll be coming in a in a different video and then finally something like acrobatics so you can be more nimble when you're moving around or fighting groups of enemies alright so there you have it the class terminator and now let's move on to the birth signs now for the birth sign here there's one clear standout option again going off my earlier point about endurance is the lady let's look at the abilities so first we have fortify personality 25 points and now this is going to be a big deal because this is going to play in with the speech craft that we took when creating our custom class is going to make it easier to intimidate and taunt folks and then additionally at the bottom here we have fortify endurance 25 points which is going to again raise our maximum health pool and then raise the health that we gain at every single level so i'm gonna go with the lady the warrior is kind of er kind of basic not very exciting very beige choice the ladies the way to go so as you can see here rambu the nord terminator born under the sign of the lady and where i'd like to really direct your attention to is endurance of 85 right at the start this is going to give us a massive health pool massive fatigue pool and then it's also going to prop us up to be incredibly tanky and get an incredibly high health bonus every time we level all right so first things first before even heading to rlas and pawning off our platter what we're going to want to do is come over here to the lighthouse and grab an actually great starting item especially if we are playing the nord so what you're going to want to do is come over here see that little stump over there jump right on top of it and then boom iron shard axe chop 1 to 32 1 to 24 1 3 with 0 to 7 points damage on touch a great item to start out with let's actually go and test it out here on this mud crab let's see what we got oh come on there we go i mean i hit it with a thrust which is one to three points of damage in almost one shot it so pretty pretty good pretty good item to start with all right now that we've got our shardax we're gonna go head over to rlas and pawn off a bunch of gold because we are going to need a nice little gold reserve for something later on but i'll explain that in a minute all right buddy open wide rla i heard you were furnishing a new home again for the thousandth time god you must be getting sick of this 432 gold there's that mercantile and speechcraft coming in i will take that thank you very much rla now that we've passed off uh the old kitchenware to hourly we're going to head over to balmora and then once in balmora we're gonna head over yonder to the eastern guard tower and now if you've played morrowind for a while you probably know what i'm going after but if not this is going to be a great starting item if you took the red guard as your race so we're gonna head in head up the stairs here oh man look at that man the guards are kitted out i forgot they had all this all this firepower laying around all right so the item that we're coming here for is actually sitting right here this is the sword of white woe but we need to get the halalu guard out of the way in order to grab it so he can see us let's uh go over here wide out in the open but with just enough distance so i can run away let me grab that crime's reported he's chasing us i let him downstairs now i'm gonna pay the gold and then we need to hurry right quick back back grab it and then boom he is none the wiser oh would you look at that sort of white whoa doesn't even miss it we can flash it in front of him doesn't care there you have it sort of white woe 17 000 gold drain health 1 to 10 points for 30 seconds on hit so nice little damage over time enchantment on it if you're playing a red guard highly recommend picking this up pretty much as soon as you start there's no reason not to all right so there we have a great starting weapon for our nord and our red guard now let's figure out what to do about some armor and to sort out a great easy way to get some medium armor we're going to head over to the mages guild and then we are going to travel to caldera and visit gorak manor but surprisingly not talk to the creeper i'm listening i'm listening as well you know that guy this guy kind of looks like a paintbrush doesn't he i don't know why that just randomly popped in my head um oh ignore that guy all eric the red over there is uh actually foreshadowing for a future twitch stream that's coming up and video so be on the lookout for those now once we get into gorak manor we're actually going to head up to the top floor and then next to duma grolag is going to be a mostly full set of orcish armor there you go let's take a look here orchestra is actually some of the best medium armor that you can get early on in the game so getting almost a full set here is incredibly useful and another thing that's awesome about uh you know stealing the old things over here at gorak manor is for some reason the locals don't seem to care at all for these orzomers so stealing from here or even murdering anyone in this building is actually not considered a crime so do with that information uh what you will all right so now we have the sword of white woe we have some medium armor we have a nice frost axe to start out with our nord uh but one thing is missing we need something with a badass constant effect so what we're going to do first is go to vivec and then we're going to hop on the boats and sail our way up to narmok now that we've arrived in narmok we need to head up north west until we reach car tag point well not exactly card tag point but an island just off the coast of card tech point oh okay now it's just a matter of time the first cliff racer i'm surprised it took us this long to find it to be honest there was one in balmora but the guard was doing us a solid in attacking it thankfully all right there we go a one down countless countless thousands to go oh my god not another one see i spoke it into existence i should have kept my mouth shut oh god you live and learn folks i need i need to remember not to thrust this thing does not have very good stats for that let's look at it again yep one two three not the best all right now we're at car tag point here uh we can actually just head right across this little straight and that right there is the door to ilanibi where the best gauntlets in the entire game reside oh come on slaughterfish oh god two babies whatever will we do there's a formula shortage don't you know stop having kids also though how do you run out of baby formula like let's be real come on come on people all right here we go illa nibi carcass of the saint and it's actually a pretty uh pretty lengthy little dungeon here and one that you would be coming in for the main quest later on so if you're trying to save that for yourself uh then just kind of ignore this part of the build but if not this doesn't disrupt the main quest in any way uh you'll simply just be getting uh a fantastic item early wow there is nobody here look at that i just walked through i'm walking through this whole first area i haven't seen a single person okay this is really ominous i wonder if this place is empty if you haven't advanced to the main quest at the start oh well that makes this even easier then oh nope okay here's one guy we have no fatigue so hopefully this goes well look at that damage let's go all right i contracted with her not a big deal i we'll deal with that pop a little ibuprofen you know shake it off it'll be fine moving into morocc's spine here basically all you want to do is keep moving in deeper as the gauntlets are in the last area oop another dreamer here two hitting folks not even fair oh gotta crew of them there we go axe to 46 they are doing no damage look at this sorry boys a nord in medium armor is too strong in the early game well when you have 85 endurance i mean what are they gonna do oh dead adventure what do you have probe and a lockpick exciting guy all right here we go this is to the blackened heart sounds like an awesome death metal album i've probably listened to the black heart a couple times i'm gonna head up into the ominously lit passageway and then here we are in the souls rattle and this is where we'll find our god let's look left look right nothing over here nothing over there can't rest because there's enemies nearby give a couple seconds get some fatigue if i remember correctly i think there's one of the main enemies down here a dagoth i believe oh nope just a couple dreamers ow shouldn't they be super susceptible to frost because they're naked shouldn't cold be more effective against them all right there we go get the local naturalists out of here all right and then we need to come in here go to the left you'll see this little metal trough with a bunch of uh actually pretty pretty decent scrolls another loot and then sure enough fists of radical with a joint armor rating of 90 we getting 45 points from each as well as constant effect fortify agility 20 points from the left and fortify strength 20 points from the right so let's go ahead and throw these on as you can see our strength is now at 70 and our agility is now at 50. so we're going to be dealing a lot more damage and we're also going to be landing a lot more hits so if you're running heavy armor really any armor it's worth having these on and while we're here you know let's let's check some of the other items here we got uh we got glass on glass boots for 8 000 oh we got a six house amulet 2000 gold not too bad and i guess if you come here off of the main quest there's only dreamers it seems like they don't actually spawn any of the really high level enemies and it looks like degoth gary's is not here yet so if you want some high level items really really easily just come here at level one like i did just now and you'll walk out with literally the best gauntlets in the game not too bad of a time alright so there you have it everything you need to get started as a warrior in morrowind you have ridiculously high int now you have ridiculously high strength and those are both the two stats that are going to drive everything that a warrior is supposed to be good at you also have some awesome enchanted weapons if you're using either axe or a long blade and you have a mix of medium and heavy armor to get you started off on whichever build path you would like to go now additionally if you're a heavy armor player i recommend you check out one of my other star guide videos in game in 15 minutes as that shows us raiding the radar and vault and they do in fact have most of an ebony armor set in there i just didn't want to duplicate that here in this video in case folks had already seen it but there you go your characters made you got a good name a couple incredible items and you're off kicking and screaming as you saw this is an incredibly tanky build an incredible way to start off on the path to badassery so thank you so much for watching be sure to subscribe down there and i will catch you on the next one [Music]

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Length: 23min 27sec (1407 seconds)

Published: Sun May 22 2022