Pickpocketing

[Kakero]

yes, I have kill people like that, i got 100 sneak, 100 marksmanship and some constant chameleon effect items. Nobody reported me. Very usefull for certain quest.

you may need to shoot from far away.

[Mellagar]

I always get blamed for someone getting killed. Mainly because I killed them...but still...

[Jelly Sculptress]

Mellagar, I 'm a bit worried about you. Have you considered anger management therapy?? Is there anyone in the game you don't eventually kill?? Little old ladies, maybe?

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally posted by promethius9594: ugh, dunmer dont make great theives. If you arent very far in the game, restart and make a khajiit. I can't imagine being able to do anything without my super sneak and security (imagine, i can sneak right in front of ordinators and steal anything i want. pickpocket almost anybody, and i'm invisible to everyone when i push the sneak button... never seen until I want to be seen). Either way, if you dont start over. Save game while youre in the council club. Walk to the middle of the bar so that when he greets you he turns his back to the wall and faces the center of the room. This is important because others can spot you pickpocketing just as easily as he can. move around behind him and try to steal the key (push and hold sneak for a bit. if the invisibility icon shows up, all the better, but it isnt necessary since others can see you, but hopefully not the target, hold your target over the character and push space to open his 'inventory' which is things you can attempt to steal). If you fail, reload. You get alot of experience for sneak out of succesfully pickpocketing this guy, so its not worth bribing him if you want to work up your sneak skill.

Hmm, I always thought Morrowind was a play as you select game. So if all of us that play Sneak/Thief/Assassin types were all Khajit, then we'd have a Khajit invasion. I beleive the challenge is to be at odds with the role.

Hmm, maybe that's why my Orc has a hard time sneakin and stealing! But it's FUN!

[promethius9594]

well, yes, technically so... but there are also obviously different races who specialize in each type. namely, khajiits are good thiefs/assassins, while bretons make some of the best casters. you can cross class if you like, but it makes the first half of the game somewhat difficult until you can work up your skills to a level that they would be automatically if you selected the race which best fits the skillset you are looking for.

[Felix The Assassin]

Ah, yes, yes, young grasshopper, 'difficult' is the key ingredient. Once you have played this game through several times, then you will enjoy the difficulties of playing against the critters abilities.
For it is way to simple to create a critter of astronomical propotions when playing into the said critters direct abilites. It is whence thy play directly against them, is when you will finish the game at level 40 or so.

[promethius9594]

yeah, well, i'll give you that the game is easier by playing to your species abilities, but thats what a difficulty slider set to 100 is all about, right?

[Felix The Assassin]

Touche. However, once beyond level 22 or so, and Str somewhere in the 200's, the difficulty slider has nil effect. Actually I never knew it went under 100.

[promethius9594]

hahaha, yeah, but my strength isnt that high. i finally saw fit to train in heavy armor, but my skill is still too low, so i can't make as powerful of enchantments using daedric armor to increase my strength. the best strength artifact i have is a ring of insane strength for plus 1-47 pts constant effect. i know i could do an amulet too, but i have that space reserved for a constant effect healing amulet, which is a much better bonus than strength.

and yes, i realize that at this point even on difficulty 100 i am nearly invincible. i only say nearly because once i got knocked out by a low level character (somehow paralyzed me and from some bug i couldnt treat it). anyway, she paralyzed me permanently somehow, and then beat me with her sword until it had been completely used up (condition = 0) then proceded to beat me with her fists until i had gone through both sets of armor. still, my amulet of healing kept me alive. so i was like, SWEET. my block skill had gone up 15 ranks, and my light and unarmored had both gone up 10 and 7 (respectively). after an hour or so of sitting there paralyzed but with full health being beaten by fists (even though naked) i realized that my character wasnt ever coming to again, but would forever have to sit there and watch himself get pummeled. so, sigh, i had to reload.

the only other time i've died recently was when i summoned a golden saint to trap in azura's star and used my blight staff (does 200 poison damage + 1-16 pts normal damage). well, golden saints not only resist magicka, on rare occasions they can reflect it. before i knew what was happening, i had hit the golden saint three times with the blight staff, dealing it between 3 and 48 damage, and dealing myself (from the reflected spell which for some reason i did not resist) a guarunteed 600 points of damage. needless to say, i lost that fight. fortunately, i always save before summoning a golden saint to soul trap.