Can You Beat Morrowind with Only Poison Damage?

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What mods am I using? I'm using the OpenMW engine with their curated "I Heart Vanilla" modlist. It's mostly bugfixes and graphical enhancements.
I'm also using an animation mod for spellcasting. It adds a little more flair to the spells without changing the gameplay itself. www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/m...
Music used:
Various Elder Scrolls tracks from Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim
Incantations (Old School Runescape)
Elven Guardians (Old School Runescape)
Beneath the Kingdom (Old School Runescape)
Images used:
Shaggy Ink Cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus by Andrew Dunn -
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Hapalochlaena maculosa side view by Julian Finn -
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Video used:
Gila Monster by USGS (Public Domain)
• Gila Monster
0:00 Intro and Character Build
4:07 Shopkeepers, Spells, and Gold
9:00 Doing some Mages Guild Duties
23:13 Going to the Skooma Den
43:57 Becoming Archmage
44:35 Dealing with Dagoth
#elderscrolls
#morrowind
#challenge

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Wasn't the stuff about the bacteria from the comodo dragon debunked a while back?

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Why am I here again? I've never even played this game.

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It's pretty good. More broken than skyrim, would be paralyzed for an hour while a scrib eats my ankles again.

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Scribs can have a little ankle. As a treat.

[@MoonMoverGaming]

Now you'll be prepared in case you want to play it one day and use only poison for some reason.

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You should play it bro it's gas

[@SeriouslyNotASpy]

Fights between two mages using touch spells just look like slap fights that end in heart attacks.

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This is the funniest description of magic duel I have ever heard and its twice as funny because its so fucking precise

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So does that mean Mages are canonically Slap Fighters?

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You should play it

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He is the Johnny Sins of Morrowind

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Man I wish I were bald

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​@@Yaeza31that dude is hilarious

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If you're having self doubts because of being bald, trust me, most people don't care about it. I've myself shaved the hairs on my head a couple of times, i know some of the experience, but nobody really cares. Infact, some of my best friends in life were made exactly when i shaved my head hear (it can be coincidence). It can be unrelated, but there's a youtuber Radal, who also keeps himself bald because he had some hair issues. He also explains it in his video so you can give it a try.

[@MettanAtem]

Fun fact about the Jump spell thing: If your health and/or Acrobatics is high enough to survive the fall damage from a 100 point Jump spell, then just taking the fall damage helps raise your Acrobatics even further, because apparently breaking your legs helps you jump better.

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Zenkai boosts are crazy.

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You just build up a leg break immunity over time, thus strengthening your legs to be more unbreakable and infinitely flexible with all those fun new angles they can go at.

[@Yostuba]

inb4 what does not kill you makes you stronger. YOU HAVE GLASS KNEES THAT SHATTER JUMPING 3 FEET I HAVE KNEES OF TITANIUM AND CARBON FIBRE MUSCLES. Jump a 100 foot ledge bounce back up 120 feet, repeat! No duh you'll raise acrobatics this is Tod-Imeanmorrowind logic bro,

[@heckdis]

The Nerevarine was a Saiyan run incoming?!

[@Veruca73]

Pretty sure the number was 126 or 124 acrobatics before no fall damage.

[@Confused_Slime]

Dagath ur: " I'm a god, how can you kill a god?" Neravar: "eat this apple"

[@Gurmudgin]

I mean I personally likes when he says to me that no recall or intervention can save me. Buddy, I don’t even have those spells. I’ve just got a really big stick.

[@wuguxiandi9413]

​@@Gurmudgin Me: What the hell is a recall?

[@1thevm1]

You're on a right track with "Weakness to element" in your damaging spells, but if you also add "Weakness to Magicka" as the first effect (by itself it would do nothing, but it magnifies the elemental weakness effect), it will increase the overall damage by about 50% if not more, because now your magnified elemental weakness will boost the damage effect by a magnitude. Very useful to have for pocket nukes.

[@jando5980]

WAIT WOAAAAAAAAT????? I wonder if weakness to magica can BUFF reflect and absorb magik casted on self...

[@Afrafasti]

Pocket Nuke to the Empire

[@stiken4421]

And put that 100% magicka resistance on self for 1 sec as first effect to counter any reflect effect. And (if you are not playing as nord-ice mage or aragonian/redguard poison mage or dunmer fire mage) slap resistance to used element 100% for 1 sec on self - it costs nothing in final magicka cost of spell, but golden saint or daedra will never be a problem with reflect ever again.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Ah I do love pocket nukes I make a lot in oblivion (though they aren't as powerful as in Morrowind but I can make an instant kill touch spell)

[@sigmazeta2044]

that also made me wonder if the High Elves' innate 50% Weakness to Magic also amplifies their other passive weakness to elemental magics minus Poison? what I know is that I've tried a High Elf character with The Lover Birthsign, using the Lover's Kiss power amplifies the 200 pts Damage Fatigue to Self into 300 pts instead

[@HumphreyHorsehead]

A fun spell for dealing with Cliff Racers, its called Saint Jiub's Prayer. 1pt of Levitate on target for 1 second in 10ft. When you hit a Cliff Racer with it they drop from the sky and get killed by the fall damage. Its fun to use powerful levitate magic to fly around and aggro a bunch of them, drag em up high, and hit em with it.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

That is hilarious

[@DIEGhostfish]

Does not work in OpenMW sadly

[@InsulindianPhasmid2214]

"how do they measure the pain of venom" wasnt there that one professor/biologist who let hemself be bitten by animals and made a scale based on how painful it was?

[@nextgen3ric]

Yup. The Schmidt sting pain index. Kind of wild to think about, that most of our knowledge about extent of pain comes from one absolutely bonkers dude willingly getting himself stung and bitten.

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

There's also Coyote Peterson (Brave Wilderness) here on KZbin who gets stung and bit by a bunch of different animals. He was accidentally bitten by a Gila Monster and said it was the most painful vertebrate bite he'd ever felt.

[@SlipNperiodSlide]

as above, there are at least two people that have done this. unfortunately for them though, the indexes they made aren’t able to be used clinically a problem appears when you realize pain is subjective, not everyone experiences pain the same way nor does everyone have the same tolerance to pain, that and also they obviously can’t test lethal poisons or venoms

[@Arthropodhopper]

Justin o. Schmidt made an index for the pain of hymenopterans sting, he also made a really good book on the subject named “Sting of The Wild”, I recommend reading it!

[@Afrafasti]

Coyote Peterson got bit by a Gila Monster TWICE. He got too close to the 2nd one trying to get some good shots of it.

[@goudcebi]

There is an over powered poison damage based item given during Telvanni questline, called "Ring of Toxic Cloud". It deals 2-60 pts poison damage in 20ft for 10 secs, that would made this run much easier. Anyway, love your work

[@geenoix2357]

It's incredibly funny to suggest an Argonian character who uses only poison attacks to quell a poison-immune Argonian slave rebellion by killing them to the last man. Since that's how you get that reward from the quest.

[@wuguxiandi9413]

​@@geenoix2357The Hist does not care for weak scales...

[@rob679]

Sunder is more guarded because its the tool that draws the power from the heart. Keening flays and directs the the power from the heart after Sunder struck it. So Keening seems to be useless without the Sunder and by itself does nothing to the heart. But when Sunder draws the power and Keening hits the heart multiple times instead of once, the energy drawn becomes unstable enough to break original binding enchantments from the tools.

[@jacksonduruy4303]

Nerevar, I understand that now you are an Argonian that poison is a more viable path of study for you, but does it truly honor the Sixth House and the Tribe Unmourned for you to neglect all other marshal skills in favor of the art of poison craft? Do you really think we can drive the Mongrel Dogs of the Empire from Morrowind with nothing but frost spider venom and whatever you have brewing in that cauldron? That is another thing Nerevar, you've essentially turned Dagoth Ur, the building, into what looks like the largest skooma cooking lab in the realms with this poison obsession of yours. I'm drawing the line here Nerevar, you can kept up your little poison experiments if you like but you must move all your equipment to another building, I'm sure there's some abandoned Dunmer stronghold you can teleport it all to. What do you mean this is anti-Argonian discrimination?

[@jasonburge]

I read it all in Dagoth Ur's (The God) voice.

[@jacksonduruy4303]

@@jasonburge Well that makes sense, since it was written by Dagoth Ur, The God.

[@Suninrags]

*Martial*

[@jasonburge]

@@jacksonduruy4303 Your reply does not honor The Sixth House and the Tribe Unmourned. I shall teach you. When addressing Dagoth Ur (The God), you must show respect by saying (The God) after his name. He's a God. how dare you not address a God properly. What a grand and intoxicating Innocence.

[@NotOnLand]

You have more self control than I for not naming your character Lifts-Her-Tail

[@MarcD627]

I was genuinely upset when you cut off the animal facts. I am now curious about funny lizard bites.

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I highly recommend the channel General Apathy. Ignoring how the name sounds terrible, it's a dude who goes out and finds bugs and critters and tells you about them. It's very well edited and well done.

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something so silly, but your videos have helped me a lot in the last few months. no essay or anything, but i lost a parent very suddenly and your videos have helped me sleep so many of these rough nights. i’m a loyal sub now, now an owner of morrowind, and i can’t wait to see what crazy content you come up with. all the best! 🖤

[@ZMowlcher]

Its actually been found the komodo's venom does do a lot to kill along with the bacterial infection, if not more.

[@KianaWolf]

Yep, it's an anticoagulant. Get bit, doesn't clot, just bleed and bleed and bleed...

[@andrewmeyer3599]

Yeah you just bleed until death from blood loss or the Komodo catches up to you, which is the more likely of the two

[@dumbsterdives]

to my understanding the bacterial infection theory came from the fact that one of their common targets, water buffalo, were too big for the venom to be able to kill them on its own, but have an instinct to retreat into deep water to escape predators, which got their injuries infected. The bacteria in the actual komodo's mouth is no more lethal than any other animal's. Course, don't quote me on this, I might be missing some details.

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[@EnragedPhoenix91]

Speaking as a dedicated Morrowind Jumpmancer, you did well with your jump combo spells. However, for landing, I suggest effects that boost your acrobatics to 125 or higher. Temporary boosts make for a safe landing and can combo to boost a follow-up jump, but permanently getting 125 makes it so you never have to worry about fall damage again.

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In Argentina slang "Gila" is the femenine of "Gil", that means something along the lines of fool

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[@evanwilliams1839]

To my knowledge Gila Monster venom isn't lethal but it is incredibly painful and will make the average recipient wish it was lethal

[@invictus_1245]

That seems like a trend with all the non outright lethal venoms. Platypus venom is supposedly super painful and can cause pain for years after.

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I remember playing through MW as a spellcaster once. Only premade spells and potions. No skill trainers. No merchant abuse. No weapons, too. Was quite a different experience compared to the usual "gilded juggernaut of infinite omnicide".

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Thanks to your videos, I finally decided to play morrowind! Ive just beaten Dagoth Ur today and I’ve enjoyed it throughly. Now I just have the expansions to go through.

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as always great morrowind video! I do hope you keep them coming and also hopefully you can branch out sucessfully into the other games... loved the one you did on oblivion and can only hope you will do more so in the future as nothing can really beat your style of videos which are so entertaining and rewatchable unlike most in the space...

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This channel has finally got me to play Morrowind, and I love it. Can't figure out how to use Quick Keys or make Taunting/Admiring happen fast.

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Your work around for the heart is truly amazing.

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Great vid like always. But to answer your question in regards to Sunder and Keening, basically Dagoth Ur keeps em split apart so that they can be studied, but also to keep someone from just sneaking in instantly, grabbing both while having Wraithguard, and using them on the Heart before anyone knows what's going on.

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Great poison knowledge, very nice video!

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Bacteria thing with komodo is an urban legend. Venom does the damage. Its based on misinterpreted research picked up by pop-science newspapers and missquoted to hell and back.

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i was playing osrs with this on in the background and got really confused by hearing the catacombs of kourend music at 42:20, nice music choice, great videos 👍

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using a short levitation spell is better for a landing than slowfall using an enchanted item instead of a spell makes casting instant

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32:55 so according to my experience across the games; Magic is something anyone can learn and use, but some people have a natural affinity for learning and using it. the reason not everyone learns it is because it takes months or years of practice for a few spells, and mages are already so accessible. its like the reason we arent all chemists irl- why would we be when theres already chemists laying around?

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