O_Guaglione on 13/10/2003 at 17:17

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Here's how to get tons of cash legally and train for cheap without cheat codes, just by manipulating the game environment.

PART ONE: GET CASH LEGALLY

Step 1: Join the Mage's Guild and start talking to spellmakers. You will need two spells in particular. You will need to buy one spell that raises an attribute, and one spell that raises a skill. These kind of spells and pretty hard to come by. You may end up needing to do several quests to get high enough in rank so that you can by spells from anyone.

Step 2: Train a good bit in Restoration. If you create a character the right way, you can start off with a Restoration Skill of around 40. This will suffice.

Step 3: Make a spell that consists of:
Fortify Personality x100 Self for 2 seconds
Fortify Speechcraft x100 Self for 2 seconds
Fortify Mercantile x100 Self for 2 seconds
Fortify Mercantile x100 Self for 2 seconds
Fortify Mercantile x100 Self for 2 seconds

The spell can only last for 2 seconds otherwise the case success will be too low. Once you cast it successfully, speak to a merchant immediately before it wears off. You will be such a good negotiator that you can buy anything for free AND be able to convince the merchant to give you all of his/her money. In fact, you can just cast it and not buy anything and just ask for all of his money.

PART TWO: TRAIN FOR CHEAP

Note: The game calculates how much it will cost to train a skill by how good you CURRENTLY are at it. If you are really good AT THE MOMENT, then it will cost a lot. If you are really bad AT THE MOMENT, then it won't cust much. The object to this is to temporarily make youself horrible at a skill for just a brief amount of time.

Step 1 Find another spell that drains a skill. A spell that drains an ATTRIBUTE will NOT help.

Step 2 Train a good bit in Destruction. If you create a character the right way, you can start off with a DestructionSkill of around 40. This will suffice.

Step 3 Create a spell such as this:

Drain Axe x100 Self for 2 seconds
Drain Axe x100 Self for 2 seconds
Drain Axe x100 Self for 2 seconds

Step 4: Train! Speak with ANY trainer that teaches the skill you want to raise. Your stats will always show your skill to be at "1." Even if the person is not a Master Trainer, you can still raise the skill to 100. The game will calculate the cost of $1 to raise the skill every time. Once the spell wears off, your stat will return to the normal value, plus the one amount you have trained. Viola.

PART THREE: AND MORE

Steal Anything: Make a spell that raises your Sneak skill by 500 for 3 or 4 seconds.

Rockin' Potions: Make a spell that raises your Alchemy skill by 500-800 for 2 seconds.

Always Succeed at Enchanting Items: Make a spell that raises your Enchant skill by 500 for 2 seconds.

See the pattern? Even if your character does not have the ability to cast a spell that lets to raise your Alchemy skill by 800 points, create a spell that raises your Restoration skill by only 200 or 300 points for 5 seconds, and you can do all sorts of crazy stuff.

CONCLUSION

The Restoration Skill is the key to a powerful, rich character. You don't have to kill anyone for items: just steal them or buy them for free. Don't pay someone else to enchant a Daedric Longsword that deals 75 fire damage points on strike. Don't settle for crappy watered-down potions from crackpot Alchemists: make a Fortify Strength potion that adds over 800 points to your Speed for over 2000 seconds; make a Restore Magicka potion that regenerates over 100 Magicka points per second for minutes on end; make a Levitate potion that lets you soar across the entire island!

Let me know if this sucks or not. It worked really well for me.

The Huntsman on 13/10/2003 at 21:12

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Nice work -- to me, I guess the only point of using tactics like this would be if you wanted to get good quickly so you can finish the game fast.

Once you pass the early stages of the game, your character quickly becomes so uber that you don't really need anything like this.

theImmortalThief on 14/10/2003 at 15:12

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Not me. :)
I actually will rate this as one of the better threads I've seen recently.

Zaphod on 14/10/2003 at 18:25

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Just from the title, before I clicked on the thread? Definately. After reading it? Still kinda, yeah. Only because tips like those have been posted at every Morrowind site on the intarwebnet since a week after the game was released.

Striker on 15/10/2003 at 00:13

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I said 'Anyone else think this was spam', not 'Anyone else think this is spam'. I saw the title and was half expecting 'Get cash leagally, train for cheap, enlarge your penis, cheap valium, I know the Nigerian President...' ;)

-Striker