Morrowind talk:Drain Attribute

Drain Intelligence

What is in need of verification? Yes, this works. Yes, it's an exploit and it's unlikely that BethSoft intended it to be used in this way. Yes, some people consider it cheating. Personally, I'd drop the note about it being cheating, and leave it for the individual to decide.--Gaebrial 09:03, 26 October 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for the confirmation. This note was added by an anonymous editor and I couldn't confirm it at that time, so I added the "needs verification" mark. Since you can confirm this (and I believe you are right), I'll remove the mark. --DrPhoton 06:30, 28 October 2007 (EDT)

Leveling up

See the skill raising 100+ exploit on Morrowind:Drain Skill. Anyone know if this works for attributes on level up with damage or drain? Also posted on Damage Attribute page. 32.158.72.205 04:44, 18 June 2009 (EDT)

Drain Intelligence exploit?

I just made a Drain Intelligence 100 pts for 1 sec on self spell and casted it when my magicka bar was half-full. I've tried it multiple times and it doesn't restore the bar to full. In fact, I actually lost magicka from casting and did not gain any afterwards. I am playing the Steam GoTY edition. --142.161.32.72 06:02, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

This actually works, you did something wrong. The most probable cause is that you are a Breton (or have Resist Magicka effect on you for another reason) and your Drain 100 Int didn't drain 100 Int, but only like 50 or so. Sethiel 09:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Drain Intelligence Glitch

(moved from the Drain Intelligence above, since that conversation is three years old) I suppose this is about the addition I made (I think I was logged in when I added that) about the net gain of magicka? You can verify as you wish, but it might be good if you verified before you question and remove something (you could just cut-paste it to talk or something). I'm way too unexperienced with this wiki to get the info about who exacly removed that and how to restore it, could anyone do it please? It is verified enough.) Sethiel 09:57, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I found the note about the reason why it was (re)moved. I don't know why, it was under the Fortify Magicka article for long enough. How is this any different? Sethiel 10:01, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I put it this way: I wanted to contribute (my first time), so I extended the idea of a note in an article, wrote the math for it, link to relevant pages and all. What I got is the original note was moved and all my contribution to it was removed. The question if the effect is a glitch is subjective matter (but the last note in the current article about dropping INT to zero is as much a glitch as the removed part). The question if my contribution expands the former idea and adds more thorough explanation, is NOT subjective. You can think this belongs to glitches (which I don't agree), but I don't see why you would delete my part. If this is how you react to attepts to expand informations on this site, then this is my last contribution. I have absolutely no need to write something just to see how someone just discards it for no reason. Sethiel 10:16, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

There's no point posting three times in 20 minutes when nobody has replied to you.

It's not subjective. You're gaining magicka through the use of a Drain spell, which is unquestionably a bug in the game. As such, it was moved to the Morrowind:Glitches page. Going into as much detail as you did isn't very helpful to be honest. People aren't going to sit down with a calculator before trying this kind of thing out - they'll either use the glitch or not, depending on whether they enjoy cheating or not, and the maths involved isn't going to affect their decision.

UESP is a very welcoming site, but it has a reputation for holding accurate, important information and I'm afraid you'll have to take your cue from more experienced editors as to what is important. If you don't feel able to handle that, then maybe it isn't the site for you. rpeh •T•C•E• 10:40, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

If you think that pointing out another way for an existing (already present on this site) method of anything isn't important (because the fact that Drain Intelligence works as well, and even better, was NOT included to the moved section in glitches), then I agree, this is not a site for me. My idea of "welcoming" is way different. Sethiel 11:05, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Obviously you should feel free to add anything you think is important to the section on the Glitches page. rpeh •T•C•E• 11:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Please add your info to the Glitch page. You can click on the History tab on the page you originally edited and then click on the previous edit to bring up your old page if you want to copy-paste to the Glitch page. I just was not sure how to merge the info you added on the multiple pages. The math is not important, but the net-gain effect should be documented there. --Brf 13:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Drain Personality

There are quests in the Imperial Cult and Imperial Legion that, if completed successfully, allows a player to increase the disposition of the locals up to a fixed limit. By using Drain Personality, you can start from a lower disposition, which maximizes the disposition gain when the effect expires.

For example, I have a base disposition of 45 with the citizens of Pelagiad. After the quest, by talking about Beluelle's silver bowl, I was able to raise it to 65. However, after using a 6th House Amulet, I was able to raise it further to 75. I'm positive the same can be applied to other similar quests eg. the haunting in Caldera or rescue Madura Seran in Ald Velothi.

I was gonna add this to the main page but changed my mind; not sure if it's noteworthy. Salamangkero (talk) 16:04, 28 February 2024 (UTC)