I'm second-guessing trying to complete Legacy of the Dragonborn.

[InDarkestNight]

I've never made it very far in that quest for a variety of reasons. Now I'm attempting it yet again. Honestly though, I'm getting sick of this mod. Its dominated every playthrough I've done for over 5 years now. I'm starting to feel like I haven't played the game in forever. I'm sick of testing mods, sick of testing builds, sick of restarting due all manner of issues. Besides, the mod has always required me to make decisions in the game I've never liked to make. A good example of this is the infamous Ironbind Barrow quest. I've always found that quest highly depressing and I prefer to avoid it. I went there for another quest which apparently requires you to go through that damned barrow. I tried to just run past the npcs hoping that would let me skip the quest, but it did not. They ran through and slaughtered everything. To add insult to injury, at the end an enemy raised the final boss. I died as a consequence, and because I was trying to get it over with as fast as possible, my last save was at the start of that vile dungeon. I loaded an auto-save on the opposite side of the map and made a hard save. I will not be returning there, for any of the items in there. This is far from the only example of such things either, and its not even the first that comes to mind!

I miss playing with Frostfall and Skytest. I've been wanting to try Last Seed but have never gotten an opportunity to. I want to play Skyrim again. Of course, I don't even know if I could play with frostfall again without weather occlusion. Last time I used those mods was probably in 2017 ot 2018, the last time I played s#*! edition. I used to use a mod called Real Shelter, but that mod no longer works due to it being abandoned. Why oh why does no one fix that? Why does everyone insist on focusing on a garbage game that's been rendered unmoddable? I won't even play that thing vanilla anymore BECAUSE VANILLA DOES NOT EXIST. I don't want that cc s#*! in my game, I never did, and I will never play a single second with any of them installed. s#*! edition is dead to me, why does everyone ignore that? How many mod authors even actually play the game? I've heard its rare. Why don't they stop and actually try to play the game? See the game for themselves that they're trying to mod? Maybe then they'll come to their senses and start supporting the real Skyrim again.

Off-topic, sorry. Not that I'm expecting to get any replies anyway given how rarely I do on this site, especially on the LE page here. Why am I even still trying to play this mod? Because I'm a completionist? Because I don't like being defeated? Because I'm sick of playing through the same quests over and over? It may help if I had another game, but I do not because all others I've owned were either scams or torn from me due to updates like s#*! edition. I hate all of modern technology. I don't even like the idea of trying to make money on youtube, but what choice do I have? Seriously? Besides, I never really liked the idea of making money off of Skyrim anyway. I want to play it, I don't want it to be my job. I've already had to borrow money though in preparation for this, so its too late me to back out now.

Anyway, maybe I need to just abandon this mod. Delete all the files for it I've ever downloaded, block the mod authors, and never ever think about it again. Its ruined the game for me. Maybe its time I accept defeat and throw this stupid worthless mod in the garbage where it belongs.

[IsharaMeradin]

You keep trying to 100% the displays.  I think that is your downfall.  Don't worry about the displays.  Just play the game and let the ones you can get come naturally.  

It also doesn't hurt to set up a separate profile and not use LotD for a while and try different things.

 

[InDarkestNight]

This run, I'm not even trying to do that! I'm just trying to complete the questline so I can see it in its entirity for once. Yes, I've never completed the questline. For comprehension, I've only gotten to the part with the redguard 2 maybe 3 times. Why do I keep failing to get that far? Glitches, incompatibilities, my build not turning out. This one time I rushed the museum by filling the armory completely at the start. Seriously. I did that because I was annoyed with the questline assuming I had done that regardless of whether or not I had. This caused the game to skip over an early quest, after that it never progressed no matter how much I filled the museum. Apparently you cannot do the quests out of order. Lesson learned.

As for ironbind burrow, I did re-try it and complete it, and managed to dodge the ending of its infamous quest at least. Still don't like I had to do it though, or that I'll eventually have to do various other quests I don't like.

Right now though I'm mainly trying to play through all my quest mods for the first time. I wasn't initially planning on even installing LotD this run, but I decided to anyway since it is technically a quest mod. I am having an issue though filling the museum due to my character concept. There's just not too many vanilla quests that make sense for him (mainly due to his build). Either way, I'm past that part, so now I can worry about finding 3 more items just so I can start the next part section of the LotD quest. Amusingly btw, I'm having issues with carry weight even though I'm a cloth-wearing mage with the freaking steed stone! Guess there's no such thing as enough carry weight with this mod.