I’m shamelessly copying this conversation I had with people on Discord about a fun video I watched about Morrowind. Enjoy!
So I found out one of the funniest things to do with Morrowind recently. I was watching The Old Knight’s video on a tierlist of the races in Morrowind (Very good video, would recommend) and aside from it being a racism tierlist which was pretty funny I found out from it that actually the best race in the game is Orcs. Reason being is their ability, Berserker Rage, which raises your Strength, Endurance and Attack Power, but lowers your Agility to 0. Strength and Endurance makes sense, hit harder, take more hits, and 0 agility also makes sense, means you get hit constantly.
The Attack Power stat is what is interesting, it’s a unique stat that can’t be raised by many things normally, and it works basically as a way to change the chance to hit system for the combat in Morrowind, as Morrowind works on DnD percentage chance to hit logic. Berserker Rage sets the value to 100, meaning you will always hit your enemy, pretty good, and combined with the 0 agility it makes sense, you hit all your attacks, but so does your enemy, a nice trade-off. But here’s where things get funny, you see the Attack Power stat doesn’t just govern combat, because of how Morrowind works, the percentage chance to hit enemies applies also to all percentages to do any action across the game, it’s just affected by the stats that are related to each skill. So lockpicking chance is governed by Security, Potion making governed by Alchemy, Bartering governed by Mercantile skill etc. But Attack Power, because it is a unique stat that basically just sets the value to 100 for percentage chances, means that it applies universally to all chance-based skills. Also, because it’s 100, it means that, for the duration of the ability, anything you can do in Morrowind that has a chance-based system to complete, will always work. So locks will always open, spells will always cast, even arrows fired from a bow will always hit their target
Therefore, alongside just being the best warrior race, because of Berserker Rage, Orcs are the best race for doing almost anything in the game. Also, because OpenMW, the best way to play Morrowind, makes the waiting period for when you stop and rest almost instant, you can just immediately rest 24 hours to reset the skill in an instant. It’s funniest because I’m just imagining the imagery of an Orc coming into an alchemy shop, buying some ingredients, sitting down at a table, taking out their alchemy equipment, adjusting the temperatures and getting ready to begin distillation, and then just flying into a screaming berserker rage and smashing their equipment, to make it 100% chance to succeed in making a potion.
Or even getting ready to cast a teleport spell, and just flying into a rage, shouting and screaming in anger, before eventually teleporting. Video is linked above, very interesting data and information.
That’s all for now, and as always. It’s not just a game, It’s a Life.