Combat + Gameplay mods

[Talonflight]

Just curious to see what mods people are running to make their games combat more interesting. Basic combat in vanilla skyrim isn't all that complicated, so I've got a few things up and running.

 

Equipping Overhaul (with Realistic Unequip)

SkyrimSouls - No menu pause (to prevent me from devouring 99 pounds of cheese in combat)

PerMa - general stat and damage adjustment + more combat options

Combat Evolved - minor NPC AI improvements

TK Dodge - dodge rolllllll

Dark Souls Quick Menu - to keep my hotkeys from being too crowded

Mercy - Npcs who yell "I yield" actually run away and stop trying to kill you

I'm sitting pretty at 253 plugins on my Skyrim installation and I'm just trying to think of anything else that could spice things up without making it too hard. Even now I often find myself getting 3shotted (and I'm wearing heavy armor and wielding a shield; shield has saved my life so many times).

[Shivala]

Enhanced Enemies and SkyTweak.

Enhanced Enemies make it so you can add offensive or defensive stats as you see fit, further tweaking the difficulty.

With SkyTweak I customised the difficulty of encounter zones. I made Easy a bit harder, medium somewhat tougher, hard > really tough, and extrahard is superdifficult. This means that Bosses are super difficult but I still run into easy to kill wolves. I love the way you can tweak it.

 

I also added some hard HP (non %) to every NPC. Worked wonders on the early levels to make it just a tad more interesting.

Today I fought a Dwarven Centurion, felt like Dark Souls! Really exciting battle :)