Morrowind’s skills shape success in related activities and progress through repeated use, while class placement affects how quickly skills rise. This reference focuses on the source passages’ concrete records for skills and spellmaking: weapon and armor skills, casting skills, Enchant, Alchemy, and Security, plus the rules for combining custom spell effects. It describes recorded functions, prerequisites, and restrictions rather than ranking choices. The Steam listing identifies the PC Game of the Year Edition as including Tribunal and Bloodmoon, but the detailed mechanical passages mainly describe Morrowind generally; they do not establish edition-specific changes to these systems or provide a complete item catalog.
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Do not treat every skill in a class as progressing at the same rate
The skills passage says major skills rise faster, minor skills receive a smaller bonus, specialization adds a bonus, and miscellaneous skills rise slowest. These are progression differences, not equivalent starting proficiencies.
Do not assume hit damage increases weapon skill experience
The weapon skill passage says damage dealt has no influence on experience; successful hits are what advance these skills, and misses grant no experience.
Do not assume multiple On Target effects have additive spell costs
The magic guide describes an additional 1.5x multiplier when another On Target effect is added, so its examples do not follow simple addition of each effect’s standalone cost.
A source-bounded reference to Morrowind skills, spellcasting, custom spellmaking, and selected mechanical effects. It does not attempt full equipment coverage or compare game versions. The Steam magic guide is a player-authored guide, and the skills page notes that it could use cleanup.
Mechanical details come from a cleanup-flagged skills page and a player-authored magic guide; the guide passage is an excerpt and does not supply complete system coverage.
Steam metadata establishes the Game of the Year Edition identity and included expansions, but the mechanical sources do not isolate edition-specific changes or verify every detail against a particular executable or patch.
Equipment names, armor and weapon statistics, exact training costs, and most skill formulas are outside the retrieved passages.
Explanations prepared with GPT-6 Luna and checked against the linked references. These are source-reviewed guides. They do not establish independently tested optimal builds or exact upgrade budgets. How coverage works.
