Madican wrote:
Been playing Morrowind in order to finally beat it so I can cross it off my backlog.
Out of all my playthroughs I finally managed to beat the person and people in that shrine under Vivec. The one to Mehrunes Dagon. The one out front was the toughest, since my arrows did maybe a tenth of her health so I jumped into the water to let her run around while I kept peppering her before she also came in.
Healed up, went inside the shrine and found out that if I didn't move I would only get the attention of one person. Equipped a set of magic glass arrows I'd found and cut her down. Then I pulled one other person by shooting through the statue's legs for a sneak attack and got him down. Healed up and went after the final guy.
Died lots of times before I stopped trying to do archery with him. Cast Bound Axe, drank an invisibility potion, and sneak attacked him to take 3/4 of his health in one blow and knocking him to the ground. He didn't get back up.
For good measure I healed up again, took the cursed emerald, and beat down the Dremora that spawned. So total loot from the shrine is 4 Sanguine items (keeping Marksman and Longsword), a Daedric Longsword the last guy was using, and an assortment of jewels + gold. I was Level 5.
And this is one of the things that I loved about morrowind. It gave you the opportunity to kill things that are ridiculously high compared to you and actually have a (semi-slim) chance to beat it. No "you have to do X,Y, and Z and then have this certain item in order to do this thing that takes about 30 seconds to do." Shoot, you can attempt to lockpick Vivec's palace (the god, not the town), try to kill him, and if you do somehow, you've just skipped about 90% of the main quest. THAT'S some freedom for you.