Cant decide on character.

Cebrus on 9/6/2002 at 23:37

This is the third character im thinking about. Two previous ones are all thieves, and my third will be a sneaky type of fella too. Ive just decided on his stats and i need some evaluation now.

Wood Elf

Main stats
Intelligence
Agility

5 major skills
Sneak
Security
Acrobatics
Speechcraft
Marksman

5 minor skills
Light armor
Mercantile
Athletics
Alchemy
Alteration
Illusion

the thing i dont like about this fella is that theres only one weapon skill. Id love to fit a Short Blade in there somewhere, but i feel that all the stats i have right now are pretty good.

heretic on 10/6/2002 at 01:11

You might think of choosing conjuration instead of alchemy or alteration..or better yet lose mercantile, bound weapons are worth it if you want more choices in weaponry for a stealthy type.

Tuco on 10/6/2002 at 03:21

wood elves are stupid looking

Zerker on 10/6/2002 at 13:11

I would say drop illusion for Short Blade, once your sneak skill increases a good bit, your illusion spells aren't needed... plus as a Minor skill, it's not going to increase much. You really need a melee weapon as well, you can't live on Bows alone

davpod on 10/6/2002 at 18:53

Plus you have 6 minor skills.

Shadowbob on 10/6/2002 at 22:14

Pick the coolest looking one. If your really keen on them, find a racial ability that you like...

The skill bonuses are only really useful in the beginning... truth be told, you just have to steal something sweet in the early stages of the game and racial abilities are a mute point...

djdaveoc on 19/6/2002 at 20:46

The first character I ever used was a Wood Elf Archer with the sign that gives you a boost to Speed. (Sorry, forgot and don't have the manual with me) That character was fast and great at fighting with weapons and shooting. However I had almost no magic skills, my thief skills were pretty poor as well. Also I had little or no personality and nobody liked me. So I dropped that character at around level 12 as I had not done many quests and had mostly just wandered around and practiced fighting.

My second character is also an archer which is my favorite by far. This time I made a high elf for magic capability and I picked the sign (forgot name again, see manual) that gives you a large boost to both personality and endurance. My new archer has more health, fatigue, magic, has better thief skills, and is better liked which is important early in the game. I think this second character is going to progress much easier through the game because of all these benefits. I am spending a lot of time looting and I'm concentrating on increasing security, sneak, and enchant skills as fast as I can. If you have any character that can steal well, open doors and chests, enchant to make bad-arse items, and fight and cast magic even remotely well you will fly through this game as fighting is easy to increase through practice and magic plays a lot smaller role during the first half of this game. Even if you are weak, if you can make great armor and weapons by enchanting you will be hard to beat in combat and you will have so much money that you can train any skills you may be lacking in. :o

JST_2_NSANE on 26/6/2002 at 00:44

u need some scorcery in ther but one word of advice crossbows rule........................................................

Tuco on 26/6/2002 at 00:54

2 words of advice, 'crossbows suck'

racial bonus/minuses aren't mute either... being totally whipped on by magic but having a shitload of it (High elf) is a lot different from being immune to frost and resistant to fire (nord)... Nords are my favorite...

Shadow is right though, pick whichever you think is the coolest looking one.

Hanse on 26/6/2002 at 02:06

hehe, I always play thieves in nearly every RPG type game I play. I dunno, I stick with what I'm good at...

My thief wood elf (who is NOT stupid looking) ;)

Inline Image:

http://hanse.ttlg.com/images/morro1.jpg

Despite the fact that in this screenshot she's holding a bow, I find I rarely use it. Most of the time when getting into a fight, your opponent is on you too fast to make the bow terribly useful. As a result, my marksman skill is quite low although short blade is 82 or so at the moment. I've been trying to use the bow more often if only to raise the skill enough make it worth using...

The only magic I'm trained in is restoration (so I can cast healing and neutralize poison spells and such) and mysticism (because "mark" and "recall" are the most useful spells EVER). Other than that, she's got all the standard skills you'd expect of a thief/elf... sneak, acrobatics, marksman, etc...

Since I've only ever played Morrowind with this one character (so far) I haven't a frame of reference to compare, but what you've worked out there seems pretty decent and even... although yeah, I would get some kind of melee weapon skill in there. But I don't think you need to necessarily *choose* it, do you? Can't it be one of your "Other" skills (that long list at the bottom that always starts at 5)? If you use it enough, you can always bump it up just as high as the others. Or you can do like I did with Restoration and Mysticism... buy the training. ;)