There were so many times when I played this game early on that I wish I had been shown this video. Hope this helps some others as well!

Balmora is like my happy place. In a world where cliff racers, daedra, and bandits are always out to get you, it's nice to have a comfortable place to rest like Balmora, where you already have everything memorized by heart.

I think a comparably worse situation to a greater bonewalker reducing your strength to 0 without any way to restore it is when you are doing the tribunal temple pilgrim quest and at the ghostgate shrine when you have to give it a soul gem it takes azura's star from you inventory and destroys it

For alchemist types mixing gold kanet and stone flowers results into a potion of restore strength. Stone flowers are plentiful around Caldera and gold kanets can be picked along Vivec-Balmora road, plus some other places too. You can easily make enough of them to last for a life time.

i'm new to all this morrowind stuff but from what i can tell it is nice to have a ring with slowfall 1 point as constant effect to negate all falling damage and another ring with 1 point in levitate as constant effect so you don't need to be casting the spell of carrying potions

Balmora is just... Like the HUB. With 2 guilds and multiple shops in proximity. Easy to memorize. It's easy to always go back there. :) Plus my boy of the blades resides there. How can you resist that ripped body of his?

Ald Ruhn is my starting city. The Merchants all have high disposition to you after one easy Quest. And it s Tatoin

I've played the game 3 times and always use Balmora as a home base. It's compact and big at the same time. No one likes getting lost in vivec.

You can get free unlimited levitation by going to a building across the river in Gnisis. You'll find a dead guy with Boots of the Apostle near some daedra.

-lamp, the one you can put down during fight and it keep glowing -booze for warriors. gives some more time to fight bonewalkers -probe! i play since morrowind came out and sometimes i still forget open lock spell doesnt get rid of traps -Soultrap, preferably as some quick weapone to fill gems with power to recharge my fireball helmet -comfy pillow, who doesnt need one?

Another benefit of raising your Personality stat is Illusion magic runs off PER, meaning that Telvanni Bug Musk can also be a buff to your casting chance for a wide variety of useful spells like Invisibility, Paralyze, and Silence

The alchemist in Ft. Moonmoth usually has 3 Telvanni Bug Musk for sale.

No arguments on having a few cure disease potions and Intervention scrolls handy. As an alternative to carrying repair tools I'd suggest Summon Bound Weapon spells as a spell or enchanted item gets you fully repaired weapon each time you cast. They don't need a long duration as not many fights last that long when you're using a Bound Weapon. Also, if you use Short Blades, you can easily carry 3-4 daggers and it will still be less weight than the repair tools. Reference Greater Bonewalkers damaging Strength and Endurance I make a restore attribute spell for each attribute 19-20 for one second (it may take a couple of casts in some cases but they do get the job done). They only cost 1 mana point and you can cast them with fairly low Restoration skill. I still carry a restore Intelligence potion as, while it's rare, I have had my intelligence knocked down to zero and no mana means you can't cast the restore spell. Reference levitation a Levitate for 1 to 1 magnitude for 10-12 seconds, either as a spell or an enchanted item will get you up to most ledges or over a mountain range blacking your path with a few casts. It's especially useful for stealthy character as you can't sneak while levitating so this short duration effect will let you get back to sneaking sooner unlike the potions that can take a while to wear off. I'd also say a Water Walking and Water Breathing for 12 seconds as custom spell/item will save you a lot of aggravation in the long run. Reference the teleport spells see spoilers below. The Mage guild quests in Ald'Ruhn are pretty simple to complete (mostly fetch quests with one where you need a magic or silver weapon to kill a Scamp) and one of the rewards is both a Ring of Divine Intervention and a Ring of Almsivi Intervention. The trader in Caldera will always have an Amulet of Recall for sale (along with an Amulet of Opening to unlock up to 20 points and a ring that gives 10 seconds of invisibility). You'll still need a Mark Scroll of a Potion of Mark from Nalcarya in Balmora.

If you have money or enchanting skill, while it's not *essential*, I feel like this particular fancy gimmick is a life-changer. Depending on if you have access to Golden Saint souls easily or not, can change how this works, but effectively what you want to do is enchant an item (I usually do a pair of pants) with a simple enchantment of either: Restore 2-4 Fatigue per second for 30 seconds, or a constant effect Restore Fatigue 4 points. What this effectively does is create a long lasting enchantment that nullifies the Fatigue cost of running; which means you'll very rarely go into a fight with no fatigue. The cast on use version is so cheap as far as spell points spent to use them that you'd actually be hard pressed to drain the enchantment charge on them entirely; the constant effect is much harder to achieve, but once you do, you can run literally forever. I call them Marathon Pants or Infinite Momentum Pants.

Your videos have helped me so much. Played as a child and only recently started playing again. Its confusing but you help us alot

you can ALMSIVI or Divine away while over encumbered then drop your stuff. Don't leave it in the dungeon.

Balmora is home

Best towns: S+ tier: Balmora A tier: Seyda Neen, Caldera, Sardith Mora Fun RP tier: Dagon Fel In Tamriel Rebuilt the best town is Old Ebonhart, if you can withstand the 15 fps lag. Vivec and all Telvanni settlements are horrible, although I love Telvanni.

I found Repair Prongs to be lighter, cheaper, and repair more per unit of weight and cost.

Mortar&Pestle, because ingredients are all over the place and being able to whip up a quick potion on the fly is handy.

Mark and Recall amulets can be acquired by working through the mages guild quest pretty early on as well

With Telvanni Bug Musk and other Fortify Personality-effects, there's a bug where once the effect wears off, any person who saw you while the Fortify Personality effect was on will actually have their disposition be *lower* than where it was before. OpenMW fixes this glitch but for those playing vanilla Morrowind or with MWSE (there's a lot of mods that rely on MWSE and IIRC it's still not compatible with OpenMW), it's probably better to just use Charm or Fortify Speechcraft instead.

You can buy bug musk in Balmora from Ajira at mages guild. Couldn't agree more on greater bonewalkers

Balmora is home. Balmora is life.

Great Bonewalkers (or whatever they are called) are not even that bad. I made a custom spell for restoring my Str and Endurance for 1 point for 2 seconds, and even with Restoration at 16 (so pretty basic, nothing special) and 30 Int and Wisdom I can cast it with a 20-something cast chance. You can also sleep to restore magica even when overencumbered so this certainly helps. That's how I got out of a similar pickle in a dungeon.

Hard to explain the Balmora vibe, it's a safe space. Windhelm has the same feeling to me as well.

Discovered Morrowind recently and it has such charm. Glad I found a clear headed KZfaqr that makes content for it to help me understand it and hopefully beat the main quest.

There is a certain pair of boots that most people use and are very fragile. You need a repair hammer for those.

WAIT THERE'S A SEARCH BAR IN THE INVENTORY?

So true man!! Thanks for all you do!

Ah, that intoxicating scent of bug. Impossible to resist.

When I had to do the necromancer of vos quest I got bonewalker’s in the dungeon and loaded a save……which lost me the entire run north to vos from balmoral. Took me like a week to come back to the game I was so mad!

Really glad i found this hidden gem of a channel, both helpfull and entertaining!

>Has Eltonbrand and almost a billion gold at level 1 Checks out.

That "Hotel California Feeling" about Balmora is why I cave and make a player home with legitimately sanctioned murder via a quest...

I came back to Morrowind to finally attempt a real, solid playthrough. The first spell I made, testing out the system, was a fortify personality 100 points for 10 seconds spell (I now realize I could have made the duration much shorter). Hoping it would be as powerful as it sounded, I named it "Cheese"

I was playing recently and, as you described, got my Strength nuked by a Greater Walking Boner. Thankfully I had a couple of strength potions to bring it close to normal, then the Amulet of Mighty Blows to get 60s of extra Strength. Thats how I learned that even if you're going for a warrior-type build, *always* have some form of utility magic - either Mysticism for Intervention, or Restoration for Restore Attribute

Pro Tip: If you don't have Mark+Recall use you intervention spell before you drop all you stuff on the gorund. It will be easier to get it all back fom outside a temple or shrine than inside a bon0ewalker infested dungeon.

Getting yourself stuck in open water without water walking and getting slaughterfished is almost as bad as greater bonewalkers. Almost.

Balmora is love, Balmora is life.

I never knew about the bug musk. Nice tip. Morrowind my altime fav game thank you. 🙃☕❤❤❤❤

Thanks coffee. I just started Morrowind 2 months ago and a subbed to your channel after this

Some game channels don't play or get into the game as much as portrayed. You know it's a true Morrowind player when they bring up that greater bonewalker lol. They suck so BAD. Nothing worse then being deep in a dungeon unable to move unless you drop close to.. or sometimes.. everything. ( Depends on how much your hit with that particular move). Even with all the safeguards.. get em at a distance if you can.. ( I hate when they are right behind a door you gotta open)

I remember as a warrior class I would make armorer a major skill so I can repair my stuff

This was pretty cool. Helping everyone out lol even the pure warrior types

No! Without Greate Bone Walkers Morrowind wouldnt be the same, they are needed for the full expierience.

Restore fatigue potions is a good thing to have for new players. Though an alternative is to just wait an hour before entering every area you know you'll be fighting in. And waiting before every barter situation since fatigue effects how well they'll sell to you

There's too many comments to read through so IDK if it's been mentioned but much of what you purchased can be gotten for free from the mages and fighters guild chests just by joining the respective guilds. You don't even have to do any of the quests. And there's a chest in most of the guild halls around Vvardenfell.

You convinced me...as a magic only player i died serveral Times cause i oom or my recall spell failed :D better buy scrolls! Youre not alone btw...Balmora´s Global Taunt is heavier then any other City in any Game...cool City, great Video, Ty Sir :D

Best build : nord, atronach, major skills enchant alteration restoration conjugation alchemy, minor destruction , whatever you want .

You can make spell Fortify Personality (soultrap on target 1s+Fortify Personality on self) spell so you don't need Telvanni Bug Musk

Mark, recall, divine intervention, almsivi intervention and cure disease are always spells I learn

Enchant an exquisite ring with a Golden Saint soul to cast Constant Effect Invisibility, restore 4 points of Stamina and Night eye a few points. No on can see you. You can run continuously. The darkest dungeons are bright enough for you to see. Enchant another ring with cast 100% Chameleon on self for 5 seconds. If you open a chest or door while invisible, cast chameleon from this ring first, open it up and then remove the CE invisibility ring and replace it so that you remain invisible.

There are a couple conjurers that summon greater bonewalkers and have weapons with enchantments to lower those skills withing 30 seconds I had 0 carry weight and literally was 100 in strength

Most of these are not needed at all, I'm surprised I didn't mention that in my first comment from like a year ago. 1. Bug musk is unnecessary. For bartering just click "Offer" as fast and as much as you can, and they'll eventually accept if it's not a ridiculous offer (just don't close the trading window before the trade is done, or the disposition will be lowered). For general (permanent) popularity use quicksave and admire until the disposition is as high as you want it. 2. As I mentioned in my old comment already, attributes and especially diseases can be easily restored/cured with simple spells that even a non-mage character can use. You will *not* need to heal a disease in the middle of a fight, and it shouldn't be necessary with attributes either. Just don't get hit by bonewalkers, it's not that hard. 3. Same goes for levitate, just make a 5 second levitate spell and use it however many times you need it to reach the desired spot. With such a short duration, even non-mages can effectively use that spell. For almost everything in the video, spells make way more sense than potions. Instead of wasting half your carry capacity on various potions, just buy a couple to restore magicka and use spells for all the things mentioned above.

0:40 The answer is YES

Don't forget the mark and recall amulet and I think ring. I have em right now for Chuck Norris

First time playing morrowind and I fought someone who summond a greater bone walker. I sat there for 10 minutes after killing them trying to figure out why I couldn't move. Now I'll be prepared 😅

Love the vids

I should probably do at least one of these things you recommend in the video. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

The only worse experience than the greater bone walker - getting to the one imperial cult quest iirc, where I needed many rat meats (100ish) and I had just sold them to buy some sujamma to face Umbra. Reliving that much time collecting rat carcasses is a blight upon any player.

Yes idk why but balmora is always my safe house it tends to just have the easiest services to reach most trainers you need. least confusing city layout and access easy fast travel services a temple so you can telport back without useing recall also has some overpowered gear thats super easy to get. Full masters alchemy set and grandmasters mortar and an ebony sword of white woe worth 10000 gold

Greater bone walker, more like name of my existence

#1: Ashes of Lord Brinne

Coffee is still My Hero

Love the zelda shop music in the background. Very nostalgic. Might qet my switch online subscription going so I can play that again.

0:40 also me

I just get the spell variants of the potions you mentioned. I save inventory space and money in the long run

Balmora just has most types of traders and trainers in easy to access/close proximity... has a silt rider and the mage travel

Exactly Balmora is my hub. Every playthrough I make my home in Balmora. It's got everything you need. Tho Sadly in my current playthrough Ajira got taken out by the dark brotherhood, and I didn't realize it, until i went back to sell my sugar.

I grew up in Balmora. It's like a second home 😂

I can't say I ever bought the bug musk. It's easier to just get 100 alchemy and make your own if you need it. Then you'll also have enough potions to sell to traders and what not to get enough gold to do what ever with. With that in mind it's worth it to steal master alchemy equipment in Balmora. You can get a grandmaster mortar and pestle at the same place and that will work for the entire game and you can steal them with 0 stealth skills since there are blindspots. Even warrior builds need alchemy. Sujamma is super common and can fix your loss of strength temporarily. But you shouldn't drop your loot in the dungeon if you are just going to teleport out. Most alcoholic drinks will work, just some are heavier than others. You also can use them to whallop someone if you just feel the urge to do that. In lieu of those teleport scrolls, an invisibility potion/amulet or something will break aggro of enemies and let you retreat. As will 100% concealment with sneak + chameleon. Which makes the amulet of shadows useful. Pretty sure you can easily get that early game even if you can't kill both of them, just kill the one with the amulet, loot it, use it, and walk away. Fiend weapons come with bound weapons on them, the devil spear is particularly useful. Bound weapons do break down, but just requipping them or resummoning them starts them back at full. You won't waste money on reparing your weapon and you will never have to worry about it breaking, just keep an eye on how much juice is in the item as you can run out if you don't recharge it/rest periodically until your enchant skill gets high. You can always carry two of them, if need be. The bound weapons will also harm ghosts and they are of daedric quality. Potions of cure paralysis are useful as well is a recall potion as both can be used while paralyzed where non-potions cannot. If you are going to cure paralysis you have to wait till their items run out of juice or have several potions on hand. I don't use security as alteration is easier and more useful. So scrolls of open lock are useful so you don't waste magicka. Before long you can enchant a shirt or some pants or something with 100 open lock for 50ft on it and open everything in half the dungeon. Bind it to a quick key as it will be used a lot. That's also useful for thieves since you can do this from a distance where as the scrolls are touch spells. You can open trapped stuff with telekinesis. Even the basic spell is enough. The Curiass of the Savior is fairly useful and relatively easy to get. It makes it easier to use the BoBS, but you can just make a spell for equipping the boots. I wouldn't call the BoBS essential, but it makes the game more fun. For an advanced technique: Set your mark at a specific merchant with 10,000 gold. Recall to that merchant, use almsi intervention followed by divine intervention (ideally from enchanted items), and you will now be in Wolverine Hall. Zip on up to the mage guild and travel to a town with for a merchant with 5,000 gold. This will alleviate any debt problems you have as you can barely spend 15k faster than the merchants restock their gold.

Diseases are one of the main reasons why I prefer playing as redguard (plus their ability is quite nice)

im always in balmora too. my hoarder house is there to drop stuff ill never need.

@ around minute 5-ish: Just make spells that restore attributes. Same for the cure disease thing.

Balmora is cosy

Sujamma, Soul Gems, Blight Cure, Ekash/Ondusi Scrolls

"Greater bonewalkers suck because you have to drop your loot, AlmSiVi out of the dungeon, then make your way back to the dungeon for your loot" *laughs in Mark and Recall* I think I'll drop my items right here on the floor of my manor house

Hello there, I know I'm a bit late on this but I know an actual worst experience in Morrowind. Its an unique blade named Fury. It damage permanently your armor skills if you pick it up. What a funny experience.

Clearing throat… …make a pair of boots enchanted with constant effect levitate for five points. You can basically fly anywhere and everywhere. Your all welcome.

thank you for acknowledging the sheer annoyance that is the greater bonewalker!

Bugmusk? Man, just craft a 1 second Fortify Personality spell. Bigger and better effects, and completely free, with good cast chance.

for me my hotel california are sadrith mora and the urshilaku camp

OK, it's not a low-level stuff, but hear me out. Slow Fall 1 pt, constant effect. Negates ALL fall damage.

the absolute worst experience for me was dropping all my gear after fighing a greater bonewalker. Then returning later to find a LOOT BAG spawned onto of my rings making them unable to be clicked on EVER again.

Balmora is my fave Morrowind place ever lol

Personality isn’t really important when you can just make a one second fortify personality by 100 spell, extremely cheap to make and use

All roads lead to Balmora

On the note of the greater bone walkers if you're a mage go to the shrine in balmora You can buy a restore attribute spell there make a spell that restores strength and endurance Also one with restore personality to get rid of the negative social side effects of having a disease in this game Now if you want to harvest the power of a bone Walker for yourself make a spell that damages strength 10 points for 5 seconds with a decent destruction level would be acceptable And now you can literally prevent enemies from being able to carry the clothes on their back and kill them with some range spells a bow or a spear

could you mark item name to time in video?

Ayo was that Kanius Westus In intro??

I'd rather have a restore str/end spell than consumable potions.

i created a spell with 300 points of mercantile and 300 points of personality. merchants give me anything i want for free...

Curvy body armor.

Everyone for the love of god do not equip the sword, “Fury” whatsoever. Fuck that shit, especially if you’re playing vanilla MW

Dude i leave my mark in balmora

I literally bought the house in balmora cause i keep going back there lol

I went to save my progress, and my game crashed. The tips I need, you can't give me.

jmmmmmmm, YES. .. .. . I Think I will just SUMMON many of the things you hate Most. Many customs spells. Each summons bonewalker. And they have SUFFIX 1, 2, 3, 4, etc; .. ... . "we're Coming for you , BARBARAH ?!?!??!" ~ the Zombies??? hahahahha

Have you ever actually played the game? Almost every item you mention is available for free, why chase around for divine and/or almsivi intervention scrolls when you can help yourself in any mages guild, Similarly hammers are available for free in every fighter's guild. Restore strength and endurance potions can be found by looting crates in Balmora, Vivec and several other places. As for bug musks you only need one for a particular quest late in the game, use spells or create an enchanted ring, less weight and works at least as well.