DraQ
Arcane
Resting is free and most of the time you can rest between battles as much as you want.And it's an exploit how exactly? A character with ability to absorb, but not generate their own magicka summons an extraplanar being with its own magicka supply and coaxes it to cast spells they can absorb.
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable in-universe workaround to inability to regenerate magicka.
Perfectly reasonable in-universe exploit, you mean?
Not only it removes consequences stunted magicka completely, it also makes regenerating magicka easier than it would be with any other birthsign. No need for mana potions ever (unless you want to spam spells, cause you can do that too now), no need to rest for mana ever. You can insta kill all enemies with your custom spells and regen after every battle.
Look I've done it all and I get it. You can do all sorts of fun things with Morrowind mechanics.
The point is that it becomes boring very quickly. I don't care if it's in-universe. If it breaks game, my advice is not to do it.
Potions are much more convenient than atronach workarounds, and can be prepared fairly easily (even though restore magicka is much rarer effect in MW than in later TES games) so I don't see anything gamebreaking in summoning a ghost or daedra* and convincing it to juice me up.
If you have some blunt weapon aptitude you can also obtain Mace of Molag Bal to serve as your charger.
Daedra are much more efficient magicka sources, especially if you can tailor the spell to your resistances - a Nord sorcerer, for example will be best served by a frost atronach, a Dunmer one or a wearer of Dragonbone Cuirass or Ebony Mail will probably want a flame atronach instead, an Argonian can use Daedroth and some quick reflexes when it hurls lightning instead of poison, etc.
Of course it's best to enchant some portable trinket with the desired summoning spell to make yourself fully independent from your personal magicka reserve.
Of course it's best to enchant some portable trinket with the desired summoning spell to make yourself fully independent from your personal magicka reserve.