Well I created something I called a Vagabond that specializes in speed, agility, and using that with swords. Threw down a minor in security and basically I want to be Errol Flynn. :P

One of the most fun parts for the OCD audience was min/maxing the levelling. Choosing skills that you didn't get racial bonuses for, so that you could eke out those last few levels on the high end; making sure to get a 5 point Endurance bonus for your first 10-12 levels to cap your health gains.

Morrowind had a sort of side-game, a meta-game if you will, going on that was wholly optional. I appreciated the hell out of it, but there's no way I'd recommend it for most people =) The metagame, that is. I recommend Morrowind heartily.


EDIT: typo

Don't forget specialise in medium armour and kill assassins from tribunal straight away. And get speed boots. Then the game is pretty easy. I had a house full of daedric weapons and armour first run through, at which point I gave up as couldn't remember.what the plot was :o)

Did you wear green ? Did you actually redistribute your wealth to OTHER people ?

Nonsense. For proper min/maxing you'll never choose a primary or secondary skill that can increase passively. Must. Control. Every. Detail!!!!
[url= Seriously, it's a sickness. ][/url]

Right now I'm just trying to find the list of stuff I installed in case I ever need to reinstall the game. :P I know I threw in something for leveling and graphics that offers me a bunch of options in the opening screen, but I'll be damned if I know what they were called. XD

Oh, hey, seriously, pro tip time. Copy your entire Morrowind folder, the whole thing, into a backup directory, and zip it up and throw it on a disc or an archive drive. If you ever need to reinstall or migrate to a new machine, you can just do a vanilla install then copypasta on top of it. Morrowind's great like that. It'll save you time someday.

Are you perhaps an accountant by day? The medium armour is best protection vs weight in the game, so it is a form of maxing.

I'll just leave this here.

[url=Light armor's really your best bet in the end game, but I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm being silly...sort of. To fully min/max (which I don't do because I'm not quite that OCD) you would need to be able to control every single skill increase, which would be possible with passive skills in your major & minor, but harder. Since the game doesn't distinguish between 100 skill in a major and 100 skill in a misc, there's no reason not to have your armor skills as misc. Though I almost always have Heavy Armor as a major when I play - because I rarely wear heavy armor, and can thus easily control how often I'm going to get hit on a body part wearing heavy.][/url]

I can't believe how many little details in the game all add up to create such a unique atmosphere. For example, I was walking around in first person in an ash storm and all the guards had their hand up covering their face from the storm. I thought that was really cool, but then when I went into third person, my character was also shielding his face from the ash! It was so neat. This game is immersive.

Why do so many people insist that you have to metagame in Mw? I never did.
Morrowind is one of the games that doesn't require metagaming in my opinion because you can get almost all relevant information in character.
Seriously, I don't understand you. I had a lot of fun in Morrowind without thinking about efficient leveling.

Wow. Just became Nerevarine, and got my first 100- in short swords. This is so much fun, anss I'm only 24 hours in. I've only done main storyline, so it may be time to slow down. I was suprized at how, well... easy this game is. I've never been frustrated against an opponent I've fought, and with my ebony short sword, anybody falls within 10 hits. I could make 113,000 gold from Creeper in Caldera from all my glass loot and artifacts I've collected. But it's all still fun, I earned all this myself and so don't feel bad about it like I'm cheating. Hopefully it will get more challenging thouhg. Whew, well I'm going back to Morrowind now! :D

I really have to install this game again and finish it properly, I never beat it without cheating because fooling around with the console commands was too much fun as a kid :P

Do take time to slow down and play side objectives. Seeing the world from perspective of various factions, one of the great houses and smaller NPCs actually goes a long way towards giving the main quest a lot of additional context and connections you would not have noticed otherwise.

It really won't. Morrowind isn't a hard game once you get going, though it *can* be a hard game to get going. Once you've gotten to where you're at, you pretty much have unlimited money and you can kill just about anything at any time. Mostly you'll only die from bad falls and the occasional surprise gangland assassination when six high-level Daedra show up. At this point, you can sit back and just explore all the amazing detail of the game.

If you have the two official expansions (and you should get them if you don't) then there'll be quite a lot of fun to be had in Solstheim and Mournhold. Enjoy ^_^

EDIT: GODDAMMIT Fenix this is like the fifth time you've ninjad me. Teach me your sneaky Czech ways!