Hand to hand and drain fatigue effects are pretty powerful. Pair it with a strong weapon after stun and the hits you land are guaranteed to do more damage It's super useful against a few npcs in full cladded ebony armor, minus Gaenor of course (700 luck is busted).

Love me the Dwarven Crossbow because I can just kite and click at enemies until they die

me with my 0 int 0 per character with a bajillion strength and endurance from cancermaxxing

I enjoy these videos, even though I generally know pretty much everything you're gonna tell me before watching. It's a 20 year old game, ig. 😁

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Morrowind is such an unbalanced game that it doesn't really matter which weapon type you choose, unless you're doing a challenge run and purposefully avoiding exploits and overpowered stuff. Just pick whichever weapon type you think is the coolest.

It's totally fine if know what you're doing. leveling up non-major skill to get bonus to needed attribute and then leveling up alchemy to get to next level is a nice strategy (be it 5-5-1 or 5-5-5). It takes self-control to play this way and I understand if someone would label it as "grinding".

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Love your content! One of my favorite builds is hand to hand. It’s pretty easy to level to 100, with the speed you gain dodging attacks is easy and once you reliably KO opponents training another weapon type for bigger damage is easy once your enemy is unconscious.

In my experience marksman weapons can also score sneak criticals way more consistently

There are about three metrics about weapon types. 1) How common it is 2) How good the Artifacts are (spoilers) The things like damage per hit doesn't really matter as DPS is pretty close, and its not like 10% damage difference would be that big of a deal in morrowind anyway. Two most popular and probably the best weapon skills are Long Blade and Short Blade. Countary to what people may think at first, Long Blade actually includes both two-handed and one-handed weapons which is great for variety - and it has the most Artifacts, playing blind first playthrough with rarer weapon type could be frustrating since vast majority of the artifacts wont fit you, which isn't a problem for Long Blade. Short Blade on the other hand has only one-handed weapons and have some range and attack speed negative changes when compared to Long Blade, but it has the most common magical weapons and are way lighter - which makes them great backup or enchant juggling weapons for either applying multiple over time effects or just to let charges regenerate naturally as you switch weapons. It also has great artifact. Shields are great as they block 10% of melee attacks at minimum, grant bonus armor and are an extra powerful enchant slot, and since Morrowind doesn't have dual-wielding, all one-handed weapons could be supplemented with shields, possibly a shield with a constant strength effect that would boost their damage (and increase carry weight so the heavy shield doesn't weigh you down that much). Two other notable weapon skills are blunt, due to you-know-which artifact being a thing, and because Ebony Staff for some reason has the highest enchantability out of all weapons in the game (even bigger than Daedric Staffs), which also makes it great for things like on-hit enchants or enchant juggling - and it has a lot of weapon type variety too. Axe includes both 1h and 2h weapons but arent neither common, don't have a lot of magical weapons nor artifacts, don't have exceptional artifacts and not have much identity other than "a tiny big bigger damage and longer swings". Spears are pretty cool with the range, but have very moderate damage and are all two-handed meaning no shields. Marksman is painful and so is Hand to Hand. One thing that no-one mentioned in the comments is how all weapons skill-up based on numbers of attacks that hit the target, meaning that Short Blade will level the fastest and things like 2 hand Axes the slowest -- not that it is a big deal since weapons skills level really fast (especially if you play on higher difficulties with enemies having more hp).

I always go short blade, get the demon dagger from Ra'Virr and use that until i can enchant a ring with bound dagger. 0.1 weight for all weapons is pretty good. Damage is more than enough to trivialize the game.

Well, there is a thing about Hand to hand. So you can damage health in the beginning if you apply Paralyze on your opponent.

Hand to hand staggers enemies a lot so you could cast a slow destruction spell and defend yourself with fists while the spell does the damage, as an alternative to just running away. Very effective strategy until reflect happens and then it becomes very annoying

Best weapons are long blades, so.

AHEM....... BOUND WEAPONS.... N'Wah. The Bow, Spear and Axe can fit on a constant effect ring, and are the best, plus, take the ring off and pop it back on, POOF, instant repair, This has been a PSA from your local old fart gamer.

i would say that getting only one weapon type is a waste, if you want to focus only on 1 then long blade would be the best, for 2 i would say short blade and blunt because there are many artifacts out of these. My builds usually run all melee skills these days lol

Every time i do koghrun i accidentally get to red mountain every time I remember when i first played i thought I was near aldruhn and got absolutely desomated by the ash slaves

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If you can reach 100% magicka immunity and 100% immunity in one element (and also 110 enchanting) for me the best weapon is the ebony staff with: Weakness magicka 100 Weakness fire (or the elemnt you are immune to) 100 Fire damage 100 damage You are immune to the damage being reflected and the damage is so big. Wekaness to magicka 100 makes fire weakness double as strong so the enemy is not 200% weaker to fire. 100 fire damage against a 200% weak enemy is 300 damage. Of course this is if the enemy has 0% magicka and fire weakness. Since there are no enemy with 100% magicka resistance you will always deal damage. Also nord start with 100% forst immunity you only need 100% magicka resistance.

Bloodcrazed Orc with a fat fucken battleaxe...

I think that's the most obtrusive sound when you're playing and we hear them attack from the sky those damned vulture birds that seem to attack you relentlessly whenever you got something going on. Tes3. luv

HtH dmage scales only by raising skill itself, so it has a very limited use. You can knock out people with HtH, but you should have another source of damage too. I'd say HtH masters are dangerous to the player, as they can stunlock your arse (it's especially dangerous to low level characters).

Short blade, more specific: daedric wakizashi with enchantment

Marksman's damage comes from your Strength, while its accuracy comes from your Agility. Makes sense, but the problem is you'll need to train another weapon skill or Acrobatics to actually increase your damage.

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Axe skill synergies very well with Conjuration. Deadric Battle Axe is normally one of the heaviest weapons in the game, requiring a lot of strength to carry and fatigue to swing. But since bound weapons don't have weight, you can have a high damaging weapon with little to no downside

You did a good job covering the skills but didn't give Bound weapons the attention they deserve. Daedric damage, plus 10 to their skill and come fully repaired every time you summon them. The only real downside is you can't enchant them with extra effects but you really shouldn't need more with the damage they can do. The khajit merchant in Balmora sells a cheap Tanto and Spear that also let you summon their Bound versions for sixty seconds and a more expensive one for swords. That said, if you make an enchanted item yourself, you can summon a bound weapon for 19 seconds (not many fights will last longer than that) for only one point of charge and that point will regenerate before the summon effect wears off so you can even use a rat or mud crab petty soul to make it.

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Many will go after me for saying this, but custom monk classes are the one thing truly keeping Morrowind together. Add H2H with magic and name the spells you make into special "monk attacks," like naming a paralysis spell 'Stunning Strike'. If fighting multiple enemies, drain their stamina, and soon you'll be playing Whack-A-Mole to knock them down again and again. Add darts to the mix just to tick everyone off for good measure. Anyone who can say they beat a god to death with nothing but their bare hands is a certified badass. Who doesn't love fisting their opponents?

Pretty sure Short blades have the 2 highest dps weapons in the game with an enchanted daedric wakizashi at #1 and the fang of haynekhtnamet at #2 and you still get the stunlocks on top of the dps. If you get enchant to 110, each attack only uses 1 charge so that becomes negligable, only other weapons that might edge out in dps is ebony staff spam but idk about that.

I hated hand to hand, until I tried a no inventory challenge run. I ended up grinding on a mudcrub until like 60 or so in Seyda Neen, and then had a great time afterwords. Getting them stunlocked is so satisfying.

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H2H is a good option for your character if you dumped Strength (assuming you're using vanilla H2H rules) since its damage is based purely upon skill level, though it is still advisable to pull out a 'real' weapon once they can't fight back. Sneak attacks obviously will also ramp up your damage, and H2H makes it easy to stand behind them (though it can be difficult to tell exactly where 'behind' them is when they're laying sideways)

I use a spear until my endurance is 100 then I use whatever weapon I actually specialized in. Or conversely just use a conjured weapon cause the +10 makes up for the lack of skill early game as long as you manage your stamina.

Hand is more of a self defense tool, as enemies with no fatigue are next to useless. Pairing Hand to Hand with a weapon skill or offensive magic is a good call. Also, you can combo hand to hand with damage/absorb fatigue. You can even get it into negatives preventing enemy from getting up entirely. Also, nice comment bait. Bravo.

Hand-to-Hand is definitely not for beginners, but for those who're more experienced with the game, I think it can actually be a lot of fun to use. OpenMW does admittedly add the "Strength affects H2H damage" option, but even in vanilla, it feels very neat. I ran a Scoundrel character last year, with H2H/Marksman and the Lover birthsign (SRAB tweaks it to be half as effective/only drain 100 fatigue), and the whole build worked surprisingly well - as long as I made sure to properly prepare myself. Since Paralyzed enemies count as being "knocked down", it bypasses the need to empty the fatigue bar, so you can just use Lover's Kiss, down a restorative, and go to town. It also pairs really well with the paralyze Short Blades - jab an enemy once with the knife, then start throwing hands to preserve the enchant charge.

If you can damage your opponents strength, endurance, agility, and willpower to 0, one punch will knock out your opponent permanently. You could also paralyze an opponent then punch them to simply do direct damage to health. And if you want to do a good hand-to-hand build, imperial is the best race with the Star of the West ability, further more any spell or enchantment that damages or absorbs fatigue help significantly with downing opponents faster. You could also eventually get a fortify skill spell from tribunal or Bloodmoon to fortify hand-to-hand to deal more fatigue damage with each punch.

Long Blade. Great damage, decent swing speed, is the most common weapon type you can find, scales well from early to end game, and most unique weapons are from this category (and very powerful as well). My personal favorite is Short Blade because I like daggers, always play mage characters and enchantments make them really good, too bad the endgame damage is quite low.

The pension thing had me doing a triple take

Dai-Katana(大刀) is Japanese, and means "Big Fucking Sword". Fuck off if you want more translations.

Marksman is the best late game because infinitely farmable Dwarven Darts. Overall though the best skill is probably Blunt since it's a compilation of every other skill. Staves have Spear Range + Near Dagger Speed making them insane at stunlocking, and the highest enchant weapon in the game. Warhammers are only very slightly weaker than Battleaxes but sport 1.5 range instead of 1 (spears are 1.8) Goblin Clubs are pretty overpowered as far as generic enchantable gear goes. And Sunder and Aevar's are arguably the 2 strongest artifact weapons in the game.

One thing I'll say about axe is that even though finding new axes is hard, you really only need Cloudcleaver (axe from that quest with the naked Nord north of Caldera) for the whole early to mid-game.

Hand-To-Hand might not be the most effective. It is, however, the most amusing. 👉Top 10 most annoying Morrowind quests. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYvSioaPqb1_prM

Well... Guess mine is broken. I have the quest to speak to Savlian at the Wolf's Head but when I go there he's not there, just the old man sitting there looking at the fire.

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Everyone on Vvardenfell is corrupt.

If memory serves you can make a Telekinesis potion with Scuttle and Bone Meal.