Breaking Morrowind with Enchanting

Summary

In this strategy-heavy gameplay walkthrough, the player explores how to defeat powerful figures like Amalexia from *The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind*. By using health fortification items, powerful enchantments like *Drain Health* and *Absorb Health*, and high-speed tactics, the player optimizes their survivability and damage output. They emphasize exploiting game mechanics, including kiting enemies and carefully timing buffs and healing spells. The player humorously hints at using alchemy as an alternative, all while pushing through the Tribunal questline to face the gods in a highly tactical battle.

Takeaways

• 😀 Fortifying health using multiple items with different durations ensures a continuous health buffer, allowing for effective healing after buffs wear off.
• 😀 The goal is to equip four items that each fortify health by 44 points, ensuring survival through the battle with healing spells to restore health.
• 😀 Azura's Star would have been useful for soul trapping, but it doesn't affect enchantment power directly—more charges only increase the number of uses, not the power.
• 😀 Drain Health enchantments, when combined with Absorb Health, offer a way to deal temporary damage while healing yourself, making them an excellent choice for battles.
• 😀 Magicka resistance is crucial in avoiding some of Dagoth Ur's magic attacks, allowing for a smoother battle against him.
• 😀 The Daedric Sanctuary Amulet provides a quick teleportation method to Magas Volar, allowing the player to quickly return to Tel Fyr.
• 😀 Yagrum Bagarn, the last living dwarf, is key to repairing the Wraithguard artifact after acquiring the necessary books from vampire citadels.
• 😀 Using a combination of Fortify Health and healing spells allows the player to survive and manage health during intense combat with powerful enemies.
• 😀 To fight Amalexia, the protagonist must first complete several Tribunal quests, including retrieving Baralzar's maze band to gain access to her throne room.
• 😀 Amalexia is a formidable opponent with a variety of resistances and healing buffs, but using health absorb spells can counter her strength, especially her fire-based attacks.
• 😀 The protagonist’s focus on speed and kiting tactics—avoiding direct combat—ensures efficient progress through the Tribunal quests and easier boss encounters.

Q & A

What is the main strategy the player uses to survive and defeat powerful enemies?

The player employs a strategy of stacking multiple health fortification buffs, using healing spells, and switching between different items with health-draining and absorbing enchantments to outlast enemies. This is combined with kiting to avoid damage while healing up.

Why does the player focus on fortifying their health with multiple items?

The player fortifies their health with multiple items to prevent the health boost from wearing off all at once. By using different items with shorter durations of health fortification, they ensure that they always have some health fortification active, allowing them to heal back to full health before the next buff expires.

What is the significance of Azura's Star in the script?

Azura's Star is mentioned as a powerful item for soul trapping. However, the player doesn't focus on using it because they are not interested in enhancing enchantments, as the power of enchantments is limited by the item being enchanted. The player’s goal is not to use soul traps but to deal damage and absorb health instead.

How does the player plan to deal with the powerful Dagoth Ur and other enemies?

The player utilizes 100% magicka resistance to avoid damage from Dagoth Ur's attacks, and then uses a combination of health absorption and powerful enchantments to deal with him and other enemies. This approach reduces the threat of magic-based attacks and allows for sustained combat.

What role does the Daedric Sanctuary Amulet play in the player's journey?

The Daedric Sanctuary Amulet allows the player to teleport to Magas Volar, where they can engage with Lord Drega s Volar. This item is crucial for quickly returning to Tel Fyr, which is part of the player's plan to repair Wraithguard and advance in the game.

Why does the player mention farming another tower shield from a golden saint?

The player wants to farm another tower shield to create an item with drain health and absorb health effects. This allows them to switch between shields for increased damage per second (DPS), enhancing their combat effectiveness against enemies.

What is the purpose of the Drain Health enchantment?

The Drain Health enchantment deals temporary damage to an enemy. If the enemy's health is lower than the drain's magnitude, they die instantly. The player uses this enchantment in combination with absorb health effects to maximize damage output and survivability.

How does the player deal with Amalexia and her squad of hands?

The player kites Amalexia and her squad of hands while constantly casting absorb health spells. The player's tactics avoid direct confrontation by using mobility and magic to outlast the enemies, despite their powerful resistances and buffs.

What unique challenges does Amalexia present in this fight?

Amalexia poses a unique challenge with her powerful buffs, including high resistances, reflect damage, and healing per second. Additionally, her combat skills are fortified, making her and her squad dangerous. However, the player counters this by avoiding her fire-based magic and absorbing health instead.

Why is the player not concerned with accuracy in the combat scenarios described?

The player is not concerned with accuracy because they rely on powerful magic and absorb health effects, which bypass the need for precise hits. The focus is on survivability and dealing consistent damage through absorption rather than landing accurate blows.