Can you beat Morrowind with Only Marksmanship?

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. One of my favorite games, and not just because it was the first Elder Scrolls game I played, because it wasn't. My first was Skyrim.

It's so versatile that any play style is viable. Maybe it's not as challenging as other games, but any excuse to play Morrowind again is a good one.

What mods am I using? Nothing gamechanging. I'm using the OpenMW engine with their curated "I Heart Vanilla" modlist. It's mostly bugfixes and graphical enhancements.

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[jjjjj]

For anyone wondering: it IS possible to beat the main quest without having to use Sunder and Keening yourself. In Vanilla and OpenMW with the merchant equip fix off, you can sell Keening and Sunder to merchants, command them, aggro them in the heart chamber, and then carefully position yourself for them to hit the heart instead of you. It's the methodology used to pacifist morrowind

[Enoonb]

For anyone who is looking to troll your enemies in this game: you can cast levitate 1 point on your enemies, slowing them down to a crawl. Very useful for a marksman build.

[HappyBeezerStudios]

At 28:45 she is fighting a slaughterfish but is clearly out of magika, so she's just standing there yelling at the fish.

[eyesack]

The effort you go through on those subtitles has not gone unnoticed. You even gave some easter eggs in there too! Bravo.

[Cofcos]

I think that counts. "Attacking" that heart with something other than a bow shouldn't disqualify the run otherwise lockpicking would also disqualify the run for 'attacking' doors with lockpicks.

[lorddestrustor]

A tip I've always used for the dark brotherhood assassin:

The balmora fighter's guild bunk beds in the lower floor. Sleeping in the bottom bunk closest to the exit has a very high tendency to make the assassin spawn *inside* the other pair of bunk beds and be stuck there unable to move. This makes the fight significantly easier and also usually prevents him from using and thus deleting his ebony dart worth 2k gold.

On the original Xbox version he would only spawn during the sleep that brings you to level 7, so I'd always pay a visit to the fighter's guild for that one levelup.

Disclaimer: this *might* make it way harder to loot him depending on how he falls down, I've had a few instances where he fell cleanly under the bed in such a way that there was no way to loot him at all.

[robertwindshade]

Fun fact! The ebony arrows of slaying from the Bloodmoon are strong enough to kill Dagoth Ur even when he's got his super shield, and it's enough to kill the heart too. Granted, the scripting breaks, and the escape sequence won't be triggered, but you can beat the big bad. Although, you don't even really need the arrows, a hundred sujama will do the trick too, lol.

[CombineHgrunt]

low iq: steal the limeware platter
top of the bell curve: no don't steal the limeware platter, there's way more loot later down the line
high iq: steal the limeware platter

[RupertAndCheese]

One quirk I found when playing was that, when your maximum fatigue, magicka, or health changes, your CURRENT of that stat also changes, proportionally to the maximum.
If you're at max, you will remain at max; if you're at 50%, you will remain at 50%, if you're at 10, 000%, you will remain at 10, 000%.
Fatigue is the only really important one that can be exploited; you have a -/+25% chance of practically EVERYTHING, at 0% and 100% fatigue. This scales beyond 100%, if you're at 200% fatigue you get +50% chance.

Your maximum fatigue is determined by like 4 or 5 different attributes, if you use magic to temporarily reduce those attributes to 0 from 100, except one of them to 1, your max fatigue goes from like 500 to 1. If you then use fortify fatigue by 100, you temporarily have 101 fatigue. If your maximum then goes back to 500, you will have 50, 500 fatigue, and a preposterously high multiplier to your chances; when the fortify fatigue 100 expires you lose 100 fatigue, it doesn't care what your maximum was when cast. You can repeat this process as many times as you want, adding more and more. Works for magicka too but less useful.

You can TECHNICALLY use this for health, but from memory the only way of changing your maximum health is leveling up, so you can only increase it by relatively small amounts, and not on-demand, so it's pretty useless.

[TankorSmash]

I don't typically watch the "can you X in Y without Z" type videos but since you put the answer in the thumbnail I clicked through and glad I did. Thanks for putting this out that

[aroniea]

God, every time I come back the "HELP, A BEAST! HELP, A BEAST!" kills me

[Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin]

Throwing weapons actually don't do as low damage as the uninitiated might expect just based of in game tool-tips. Since they count as both weapon AND ammunition, their listed damage gets added to the attack twice. Combined with the fact that they only take up your mainhand, letting you make full use of a shield, and they remove the concern for weapon durability, especially when stacking strength bonuses which usually rapidly destroy your instrument of damage delivery, they are a pretty good option for any character that has begun to outscale the need for high base damage (even without extreme alchemy strength numbers).

[YouthRightsRadical]

With your strength drained to zero, you can actually just drop everything you're carrying except money, including your clothes, and then you will be able to move again. You can travel back to a shrine to have your strength restored, then go back to retrieve your stuff.

Personally, I just always learn the spells to restore my attributes and cure my diseases whether I'm technically playing a "mage" or not, since it's just way more convenient to be self reliant when you're adventuring out in the wilderness.

[abox]

I've been watching all your stuff in reverse order since finding your channel. It's excellent! I love your Morrowind content, it really scratches an itch.

[semtux]

thank you for putting the answer in the thumbnail, i hate clickbait in 100 trillion hour long essays. Now im not implying yours is long, i am merely commenting on something i dont like

[ashleykane]

A grand change of pace! Your style is always so refreshing and you always bring something unique to your videos! I like how you explain whats going on! I have no issues with what you play, i just appreciate the JBN vibe! Great video dude!

[nicholasfarrell]

26:53 - don't worry about it; if you return to the Zainab camp later the ashkhan tells you that his new wife told him the truth, but he's just too in love with her to be angry.

[barnsleyman]

little tip: don't steal/drop the limeware platter, refrain from looting anything til you get to the last room of the tutorial with the guy who has the package for caius cosades, then steal/drop the key to the c&e warehouse (there's like 3k worth of easily stolen stuff like 30 moon sugar in there) then go back and loot the tutorial area :)

[DraconiusDragora]

Some notes about the Marksmanship.
1) Arrows and Bolts have Damage that is additive to the bow and crossbow's damage.
2) The arrows and bolts, don't get the Damage Multiplier from Strength.
3) The damages of each arrow and bolt can be found on the UESP wiki.
4) The best Restocking Arrows that I know of is Glass Arrows which deal 1-6 damage, and for Bolts it is Bonemold Bolts which deal 3-4 damage (So with the Bonemold Bolt you have to fully charge the crossbow to get the full damage of the 4).

[mohamedmaatougui]

Technically it is possible, all you'd have to do is sell Keening to a merchant, sell Sunder to another merchant, command or aggro them to the Heart Chamber, aggro them next to the Heart of Lorkhan, command the Heart of Lorkhan so it becomes technically your minion and can take aggro for you, position yourself around the Heart so they start slamming it

And Voilà you technically didn't have to use Sunder and Keening lol