Attributes drained with no reason?

Birdsfly · Post by **Birdsfly** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:30 pm

During the last days, I have discovered an error. Instead of the 150 speed, and the 101 agility I have gotten trough picking them when leveling, have been degraded to 80 speed and 81 agility, with no cause that I can find. I'm not sick, have no effects on me, other than the Effects You normally get when you are a Dark Elf born under The Lady.

Can the loss of attribute points merely be a result of aging? OR is there a such thing in Morrowind? Please help me, and tell me how to solve this!

Thank you.

moltovir · Post by **moltovir** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:09 pm

Probably you are attacked by a creature with an innate draining attack, most likely a Bonewalker. Try a restore attribute spell, scroll or potion.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:27 pm

Do the attributes look red? That would indicate, as Moltovir suggests, a curse. Could be an item, could be a monster. Try a potion or spell as he suggests, and if the problem reoccurs, remove all your goods first, then try the potion or spell--and leave the items off for a while, to see if the curse comes back.

Birdsfly · Post by **Birdsfly** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:00 am

How do I see if an item is cursed? And aren't curses suposed to last ony a short time? This problem has been constant for about 6 hours real time, playing.

Where can I find a scroll of remove curse or something, that has a constant effect?

BTW, there are no indications of a curse on me, I guess that should be showing as a RED icon by the Water Walk, Levitate, Resist Fire, that stuffs icons?

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:40 am

Damage Attribute spells last forever even after the red icon disappears.

Remove everything that boosts stats from your body, then use a shrine to restore attributes.

Gromph · Post by **Gromph** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:19 pm

Yeah like if you have met up with a bonewalker than you would have lost endurance and strength, um speed and agility, there is some guy who does it, cant remember but either way the effects are permanent, use potions or shrines or Light of Almelexia if you have mostly conpleted the Mournhold quests

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:30 pm

The shrines in Balmora's temple have several options, as I recall. Even more, the shrine in Vivec.

Opalescence · Post by **Opalescence** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:34 pm

Also, a rather annoying bug is that if you've got, say, a Str enhancing item, and you're STR gets drained, you can only heal up to your original strength. Example: You have 20 Str, you have a +2 Str item on. You get drained for 4 Str, leaving you at 18 str. The temple can only heal you back up to 20. The only way you can fully heal is to take off ALL your stat-enhancing gear that's enhancing stats that have been drained, THEN restore attributes, and then put your gear back on.

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:18 pm

if you dont remember getting attacked by a monster than someone else probably went on your character

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:27 pm

[QUOTE=Sean The Owner]if you dont remember getting attacked by a monster than someone else probably went on your character[/QUOTE]

No offense meant, but could you please explain this?

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:30 pm

if you dont remember getting attacked by a monster that would drain your attributes then maybe someone in your house(other than you obviously) went onto your character and messed him up

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:43 pm

Okay...well, that was a point mentioned repeatedly earlier in the thread.

We also dealt with how to remove that condition.

Ragin Cajun · Post by **Ragin Cajun** » Tue May 11, 2010 2:09 pm

Just had this happen to me to. Worst thing I've fought thusfar is a few bandits (Fighters Guild quests) and some Alits and Nix-Hounds. My Personality and Luck were WAY down. Had to do

Spoiler

two 35g cures at the Balmore temple (don't remember the spell but it was the last one on the list).

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Tue May 11, 2010 7:33 pm

It sounds like you had either a common or Blight disease, happens a lot in Morrowind. Try buying a cure disease spell from the Orc in the Balmora Mage guild, potions are fairly common, and if you join the Tribunal Temple the use of the shrines becomes cheaper, advance in the temple and eventually it's free.

Be aware that there is a glitch in the game which complicates restoration of attributes. Basically if you are wearing an item which fortifies an attribute, and then it gets damaged, you won't be able to restore it fully, or even be able to see immediately, that it is damaged. You have to remove the fortifying effect before you can restore the attribute, either by restore attribute, or if it's caused by a disease, cure disease.

The above bug, and many more, can be fixed by using the Morrowind Code Patch

Ragin Cajun · Post by **Ragin Cajun** » Wed May 12, 2010 5:38 am

Nice...I'll get that this afternoon.