DeeBye,Feb 5 2005, 08:52 PM Wrote:Okay, here's a dumb question. How do I find out the level of enemies? What about HP? As far as I can tell, Morrowind gives you zero feedback about enemies' attributes before you fight them. For now, I'd like to just wander around the easier areas and not get surprised by an enemy far above my meager ability.
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Not a dumb question at all.
Levels of enemies encountered in wildlife and most dungeons is scaled to your level. So in effect, weaker enemies will appear while you're low level in the wilderness, and stronger ones will replace them once you level. So don't worry too much about that. You won't really encounter anything that you aren't prepared for (or can escape from), unless you go out of your way to do so.
You will never see a hp figure in numbers. If you attack, you'll see a % health bar in yellow in the lower left.
So in effect, not a problem. Of course, stay away from the expansion wilderness areas (sewers of Mournhold and forests of Solstheim) like Angel said. Feel free to explore the towns though.
As you've probably discovered, there is also a difficulty slider that will adjust damage given and taken. Play as you will.
So, I take the opposite stance of Angel. Feel free to go exploring. It'll only help your running skill. Ahem. Athleticism. I agree with him on exploring balmora first, though. The "main quest" extremely relaxed. There is no time limit to do things in. So feel free to accept main quest from the half naked old guy blade and he'll tell you to go dilly dally around before coming back to do the main quest :)
Hey angel, if you're reading this, have you considered a reduced shimmering or no glow mod for your magic items? The saran wrap feel of enchanted items will be reduced to a nice shimmer, or removed completely.