Breaking Morrowind with Enchanting

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Music used (in order of appearance):
TESIII: Morrowind - The Road Most Travelled
TESIV: Oblivion - Harvest Dawn
TESIV: Oblivion - Sunrise of Flutes
TESIII: Morrowind - Caprice
Old School Runescape - The Guardians Prepare
TESIV: Oblivion - Minstrel's Lament
TESV: Skyrim - Far Horizons
TESIII: Morrowind - Knight's Charge
TESIV: Oblivion - Dusk at the Market
Old School Runescape The Seed of Crwys
TESIII: Morrowind - Nerevar Rising (Title Theme)
0:00 Intro: Character Creation and Such
3:13 Time to Get to Work
4:14 The First Enchantment
5:48 The First Broken Enchantments
7:30 Farming Constant Effect Enchantments
12:00 Absurd, Spammable Enchantments
13:45 I Need More Speed
16:18 Endusal and Odrosal
16:51 Vemynal and Tureynulal
17:22 Getting Wraithguard
20:07 Dagoth-Ur and Dagoth Ur
20:56 Almalexia, too
#elderscrolls
#morrowind
#exploit

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The only limit in Morrowind is your graphics card.

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​@@saber7534it be like that sometimes. Took me a bit to feel like people will barely notice (if at all) english is actually not my native language through text. People say i don't have an accent when speaking but idk about that. I love the english language, i end up speaking it more than even my native tongue (portuguese) purely out of habit, i'm lucky my beloved wife speaks it too. I just wanted to say it's a common thing for people who don't have english as their mother tongue to feel insecure regardless of proficiency, basically, but ended up saying more than was relevant, sorry :p i get carried away by things i enjoy from the bottom of my heart, the english language included.

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[@clausroquefort9545]

breaking morrowind with enchanting? you mean the morrowind equivalent of becoming a stealth archer? true carcinization of playstiles. i always call my health absorbing weapons some variety of The Throngler.

[@plebisMaximus]

Share some of those variations.

[@NeonValkyrieGaming]

" the less words a magic sword has in its name the scarier is it"

[@iamnotjcook]

​@@plebisMaximus"Let me see that Thongler"

[@smithsmith6402]

First time I ever really 'broke' Morrowind was with constant effect chameleon enchantments. At 100% enemies won't even try to fight you, they just run around in terror after getting hit. Mildly disappointed it didn't feature here but maybe in a future video.

[@davidmcgill1000]

It was pretty stupid before they updated the game to fix the constant effect enchantments without consuming a grand soul gem glitch. So many enchantments that just so happen to fit in a petty soul while still being constant.

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The sponsored bit didn't have a BALD JUMPSCARE :( well it did, but he was just a game character

[@operator8014]

I guess sometimes the clones DO handle the sponsorships.

[@TransientWitch]

"Do you think you could do this with Alchemy? ... Probably." No. I think with Alchemy, you'd become so absurdly physically strong that when you struck just Almalexia, the dream itself would end. The Godhead would wake up with one serious headache. Or maybe they'd spontaneously shatter, mind over matter and all that.

[@marauder7209]

The Godhead would jerk awake, having that dreaming moment when you feel like you fall

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[@miqvPL]

POV of Baralzar the witch who starts her monologue and then seeing a magic man scraping the roof with his head shooting magic nukes at her must've been scary.

[@sigmazeta2044]

I think you mistook Barilzar for Gedna Relvel whose also another powerful boss-like Lich you can encounter in Tribunal

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@@sigmazeta2044 And the most broken one from a mod of some sort.

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The way I genuinely shuddered when the lip lick happened

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The Morrowind Magic effect whir is now etched into my brain

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No lie, as a Morrowind fanboy these videos are literally the best. I'm a huge fan, and I hope that I get to see more soon! I think killing every god (Almsivi, Dagoth Ur and the luck-elf from Mournhold) only using skeletons would a god-tier video. Showcase the old "soul-trap permanent summon" glitch and rule the world with your skeleton army. Would donate for that tbh lol

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4:40 When you use a cheese start so strong 16,536 gold pieces is described as "It only costs 16.5k" in a serious manner.

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Splendid, I was looking for something to watch while munching my nachos

[@Dracas42]

"You think you could do this with alchemy? Probably." I don't know why, but I found that line to be comedy gold. I think you just have good delivery with your jokes.

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I honestly thought that it was a reupload of the older JBN vid about breaking morrowind with alchemy. Glad it wasn't though, as it means more content from a favourite chanel

[@twondai2642]

12:35 adding multiple enchant effects in different orders will result in different total costs. I haven't done much extensive testing on this but from what I gather each effect's cost seems to be determined by the school of magic of the preceding effect. It might even be on a per-spell basis rather than school of magic, I haven't bothered testing enough to tell. For example a test I just did shows that applying "restore health 100 pts for 1 sec" followed by "poison 100 pts for 1 sec" has an enchant point cost of 95, while applying the same effects in opposite order results in a cost of 115, so my takeaway in general is that restoration spells should go before destruction spells. It might be worth testing this in-depth if ever you revisit this topic, or maybe there is some documentation on this already but I cba to do my research lol

[@EvelynNdenial]

the spells earlier in the list have a cost multiplier applied, so cheap effects should go first. poison has a base cost of 9, restore health has a base cost of 5.

[@twondai2642]

@@EvelynNdenial oh man that makes way more sense, holy crap lmao

[@DeepseaGaming1000]

can't believe the narratively spurious clone died fighting a mudcrab and couldn't make it for today's episode 😢

[@kikaru25]

I actually stumbled into almost this exact setup by accident, including the 1 second levitate + as much speed as possible for travel. I wasn't speedrunning, I just got tired of attacks with failure chances and decided to make a rocket launcher.

[@Fernisvale]

I sincerely appreciate how you manage to keep the classic landscape of Morrowind alive and refreshing, and the commentary itself reminds me of an experienced walkthrough or guide :)

[@HoneydewBeach]

I remember you mentioned a default spells only run a while back and it is definitely an interesting challenge idea considering how often spellmaking comes up in most of these runs

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7:55 "Twenty seconds is all I need."

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So, I recommend doing the soul gem selling loop. What you do is buy soul gems from a merchant in tel mythral I believe its on of the telvanni settlements you can take a boat there. Then you cast a conjuration spell with a common soul which ancestral guardian works well for. Then once soul trapped to sell the soul gems to our friend Creeper in the orc house. Rince and repeat the process to get thousands of gold in a very short time.

[@Vorox1027]

From what I gather, all of the broken stuff in the Elder Scrolls games always boils down to 2 things: 1. Lack of skill/attribute caps 2. Being able to fortify said skills/attributes Though if you ask me, it's the 2nd bit that makes these especially broken; if you think about it, this would've been significantly harder to pull off if the fortify skill effect wasn't able to be learned.

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

You could probably manage it with fortifying intelligence, but at that point it'd be better to go the alchemy route to get 10000 intelligence for 10 real-life hours, then make powerful enchantments, but then you have the issue of running out of charge too quickly. I guess you could get 100 enchanting and use Akatosh's ring or something.

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I usually skip the "sponsor segments" in videos... but that was pretty amusing, caught me by surprise lol

[@ClearComplexity]

This is how I played the game, I always like being a trader/skills person in MMO's even if it's an afterthought in the game, so it kind of felt like what an OP craftsman would be to create/use god tier enchants as a source of power.

[@hundragant]

I had to rewind to make sure I heard correctly. "I cupped a fart in my hand to make it more embarrassing" lol

[@Intentionally_Irrelevant]

0:29 writing this during the ad read and I remember nothing before it apart for these 2 seconds.

[@xtigerbotjoe]

I’m sure this story isnt true but I remember some green text talking about how OP enchanting was in Morrowind and it ended w the player getting one big hit on the big bad their juiced up mace and the damage was so high it caused the game to crash.

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Honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's true lol

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You know what they say: Don't bring a giant electric scimitar and 6 ultra-buffed warriors with magical armor and swords to a magic gun fight.

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I like how the first Golden Saint you summoned had the shield with one of the highest enchant values.

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[@demantim]

This has fast become part of my weekly routine. Gotta love your comfy Morrowind blankets! P.S.: ooh, one little point of feedback: you might want to use a stereo audio track for your music. Sounds like it's all mono right now.

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I love your stuff dude morrowind came out forever ago and you manage to keep it so fresh with every play through keep it up man your the coolest

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🎉 I really needed this kind of watch right now, thank you for your time and effort with this series

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I just realized Sotha Sil survives during this playthrough

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16:53 the sound effects here had me in stitches 😂

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I think I've played maybe 10 total minutes of Morrowind across my life, and yet I've been binging your stuff this last week lol

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And as a bonus, the spell effect looks really cool as you evaporate all your foes, mortal and divine.

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not even 40 seconds in and I'm already extremely unconfortable. Excellent video!

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Imagine being a literal Demi god, and then some really fast guy just starts zipping everywhere throwing magic bazookas at your feet

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[@dadsmallbuk1]

Maybe the real enchantments were the friends we killed along the way :)

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[@rubyherring]

Wow, I broke Morrowind a bunch of times and I used constant duration Enchantments every playthrough, but I didn't know about that formula and how you just could spam balls of death like they were nothing. Fascinating Video.

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I'm a simple man, I see a JBN vid and am happy for 22 minutes and 50 seconds.

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Is this how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned?

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"Can you beat Morrowind with" Yes you can.

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

You may have misread the title.

[@SargeMaximus]

Been playing this game since release, never knew about that sword! I'm gonna grab it today

[@insensitive919]

Slowfall is pretty useful too. You can put it on a cheap ring with a cheap soulgem and make it 1 point for 1 second and it will never run out of charge.

[@wyvvernstone]

If you set a mark in Magas Volar then recall back there, you can obtain another daedric crescent...at the cost of taking up residence in your new forever home. (Barring console commands)

[@Tork789]

"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!" - alchemy bros

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Splendid, I asked and I received, right in time for lunch too, you are easily my favorite morrowind youtuber and are overall really enjoying to watch, thank you.

[@johnsmith9205]

I used an expesive amulet with constant effect Levitate 1 pt. and it worked for me throughout the game (mq, haven't done the expansions yet). It felt like the cheap (60%) flying mount from TBC, pretty cool. I had it hotkeyed, and swapped between that and another amulet with a constant effect of fortify speed, so that I could run when on the ground. For landing, my acrobatics got high enough that I didn't take much fall damage, so I would just hot-swap the amulet mid-air and it would work itself out somehow. Also, constant effect restore health and constant effect restore fatigue (even just a few points) are broken OP.

[@WinterDominus]

Gotta try it some day. Great vid as always :)

[@DrugsForRobots]

I think itd be fun to do a Merchant run. Must be unarmored, wear fancy clothes, can use enchanted gear, potions, and scrolls. Speechcraft & Mercantile must be major skills. Must buy, sell, barter, trade, and work your way to big $$$. No Creeper or Mudcrab. Only honest jobs, no killing or stealing. Using Sunder & Keening is fine. No cheese.

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[@Cheese_Lord]

Alchemy is equally as insane if not more so. Fantastic video should definitely do an alchemy based one sometime

[@PartovtheFurniture]

Morrowind was my first Elder Scrolls game and I didn't know until today that enchanted items recharge on their own! No clue why I didn't notice in the hundreds of hours I played the game, but here we are I guess.

[@Kolonsker]

This game kinda reminds of a game I used to play when I was a kid called Oblivion

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Loved your ad segment👍

[@wyboycowboy]

In the original game, if you're not using OpenMW, you have to cheat the console to make your enchant 1225 because anything less still results in automatic failure, even if your enchant is 100 it doesnt matter its an automatic fail.

[@anthonybuchanan2608]

phenomenal video as always

[@SpiteOSRS]

as someone who has never played morrowind but loves oblivion, this video made so little sense to me both phonetically and visually, yet I watched it anyways.

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The Sonic SFX pinball corridor got me

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Having killed D. Fir, weird semi-gods, Ra'Virr and a bunch of innocent scribs during your countless runs, you do need a nice reliable VPN (do expect assassins anyway)

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This is the content I crave during my lunch break.

[@artcrime2999]

My first playthrough of morrowind I stole the some dreugh helm and enchanted it with the free filled grand soulgem from Galdibirs desk with a 5-5 fire damage on target and had a machine gun hat that I used to hunt Odrinators for stuff to sell to creaper for training.

[@tygonmaster]

Ahhh....enchanting. It is broken in every Elder Scrolls game and it never ceases to be amusing just how insane you can faceroll the games with it. Truly beautiful.

[@wizardlizard98]

Alchemy lets you achieve understanding of the universe for like 1 second which you use to concord divine brews that shatter mortal comprehension. Enchant lets you maybe not reach the absurb numbers of Alchemy, but when it comes to 10 Second God vs. Permanent "Become AC-130" I think we see the winner. And so did Vivec. Whats left of him. No wonder you needed the dwarf to fix wraithguard after that. Oh my molag.

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aaa yes my favorite alopecia background sounds, gonna be a good day.

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I really want to play this game again but it's got so many mechanics and things in it I feel like I'd be so lost. Even when I have no idea what you are talking about in these videos I still watch though ha

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18:35. yep. batteries are super confusing, especially If you're trying to save money on them

[@ABDJay]

I finished Morrowind for the first time, thanks to you inspiring me, just yesterday. The funny part is I defeated Almalexia the same way you did here. 😂

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First time I get to hear Just Background Noise within the first hour of the video releasing.

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I finally took you up on that NordVPN offer, JBN. I gotta say I'm loving it so far! Also another banger as always. Happy to see such balanced and fair Morrowind builds still alive in 2024

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The commentary on your character's looks is even funnier considering he looks like you :^)

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Very enjoyable. Always looking forward to another video.

[@DanceTranced]

The enchanting in this game is the best in any game I have personally ever played.

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0:21 Me licking my lips self consciously now.

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Once again a thought out funny ad this dude could sell me a stone honestly

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What an enchanting idea

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Wonderful run!

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The parallel universe in which Nerevarin discovered crack

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I doubt with your subscriber base you have the time/lack of life to read every comment. but you, this channel, your respect and knowledge of Morrowind lore, your dry, witty humour, cleverness, blatant (ab?)use of in-game mechanics, attitude, in 2024, still making fucking Morrowind videos after literally two decades, dude, you're cool. The proper, full extent of the meaning of that word. Cool. That's what you are. Love your content, literal tens of thousands of people do. Thank you. You entertain, you scratch that nostalgia itch, you do things that human people across this planet enjoy. Thank you, please continue. Is there a chance you'll apply your weaponised follicle-free autism to Oblivion next? I mean, you've got to contend with molochs of youtube popularity in that genre but there ain't a shadow of a doubt you're competent/good enough to do it right.