Must-have mods

[ikilljoo]

I already have OOO and MMM, don't care for Francescos, and not sure what warcry is. however,

could anyone link me to the newest MMM? what is it?

exnems is my favorite body mod, and I, personally, use this

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15802

which is, of course an extension of this

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10171

 

 

Also, I am looking for great environmental mods. Personally, i like natural environments, though i am willing to expand.

I never play casters, so the arbetoreum (sp?) of spells is... not so much

 

a few general questions.

does oblivion take advantage of multi-core processors? because this computer has some issues, like the fact that it can play crysis on medium to high settings, but stutters when playing everquest 2 with anything but high performance mode.

do the environment mods that replace textures with high res ones suck up too much performance?

 

and if it's not too much, i would appreciate a list of everyone's favorite mods with a good, but succinct description of each.

don't worry about mods requiring bethesda things, i have all official mods and the shivering isles, all patched to the latest edition

[arnoldvsthegooch]

I already have OOO and MMM, don't care for Francescos, and not sure what warcry is. however,

could anyone link me to the newest MMM? what is it?

exnems is my favorite body mod, and I, personally, use this

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15802

which is, of course an extension of this

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10171

 

 

Also, I am looking for great environmental mods. Personally, i like natural environments, though i am willing to expand.

I never play casters, so the arbetoreum (sp?) of spells is... not so much

 

a few general questions.

does oblivion take advantage of multi-core processors? because this computer has some issues, like the fact that it can play crysis on medium to high settings, but stutters when playing everquest 2 with anything but high performance mode.

do the environment mods that replace textures with high res ones suck up too much performance?

 

and if it's not too much, i would appreciate a list of everyone's favorite mods with a good, but succinct description of each.

don't worry about mods requiring bethesda things, i have all official mods and the shivering isles, all patched to the latest edition

 

For any new Oblivion MOD users looking for the best MODS

 

I suggest looking at the FCOM / TOTO page for the best MODS.

 

http://devnull.devakm.googlepages.com/home

 

That being said, I've tested many many Mods in the past year and made a list of the ones that are my favorites and really changes Oblivion competely. With these MODS installed the gameplay and graphics of Oblivion will change drastically. I apologize to anyone's great MODS I have not included.

 

Character & NPC

Beautiful People

Improved Facial Textures

Tamriel NPC Revamped (TNR All Races Final Version)

Female Eye-Candy Body Replacer (By Exnem)

Cute Elf Race

Nec Mystic High Elf Remake

 

Gameplay

FCOM (Using Oscuro's, Francesco's, Warcry and Martigens as it was intended)

Deadly Reflex 3.0 (With Mounted Combat)

Attack & Hide (Easier version)

Bounty Reduction over Time (Standard version)

Intial Glow (All version)

Thieves Arsenal

Dude Where's my Horse

Expanded Hotkeys and Spell Delete

House Map Markers

Landmarks

No more annoying messages

No Physic Guards (Standard version)

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix

Streamline 3.0

Oblivion Script Optimization

Unoffical Oblivion Patch

 

Weapons, Armor Packs & Shops

Francesco's Optional New Items MOD

Bob's Armory (Using FCOM for levellers)

300_Artifacts (Min-quest)

Adonnay's Elven Weaponry

Apachii Goddess Store

Artefacts of the Ancestors (Mini-quest)

Alexanders Wings

Banes Fallen Angel Sanctuary

Capes and Cloaks

Eldracs Armory

Myths and Legends (Quest)

Nico's Complete Pack

Stock Clothing & Armor for Exnem

Oona's Outfitters

Realswords (Argonian, Redguard, Orc)

Sin's Expanded Light Armor Kit

The Forgotten Shields

Tda's Scythe Mod

Samurai V4

More Shields

Staves Polearms & Spears

Cheydinhal Petshop

 

Graphics

Qarls Texture Pack 3 (If you have a high end 256 Graphics card you may want the Redimized version, if you have a lower end 256 card use Qarl's pack 2)

Natural Environments

Better Imperfect Water

Illumination Within Revived Optimised

Improved Soul Gems

Better Potion Bottles

Improved Doors and Flora

Koldorn's Ayleid & Cave textures

Real Lava 1.3

Oblivion Book Jackets

Clocks of Cyrodiil

Improved Soulgems

Slof's Horses EssentiaSo

 

Quests

Mighty Umbra

Tears of the Fiend

Secret of Enourk

Lost Paladins of the Divines

Artefacts of the Ancestors

Myths and Legends

Thievery in the Imperial City

Bartholm

Solace

Knights of the Nine (And all other "Official" Mods)

 

Homes & Places

Armory Lab

Bartholm

Frostcrag (And all other "Official" MOD places)

Imperial City Library

Kumiko Manor

Septim Mansion

Snow Dragon Temple

My Mountain Tower

 

Miscellaneous

Midas Spells

Supreme Magicka

Actors in Charge

Akatosh Mount

Adventurers Spells

Encumbrance MOD

Keychain

Reznod Mannequins (also for Exnem)

Sonia (favorite Companion MOD)

Unlimited Rings

Unlimited Amulets

 

Favorite Individual Weapons & Armor

Forestheart

Blades Ceremonial Armor

Blackluster for Exnem

Blood Illusion and Arcania Armors for Exnem

Crimson Eyecandy

Cyros Ordinator

Archmage Battle Armor

Dark Rose Armor (Exnem)

Dark Illusion Armor (Exnem)

Blue Destiny's Armor (Exnem)

Shining Wind

Phoenix Equipment

Divine Pegasus Armor

Vermillion & Silverthorn Robes

Frostweave

Alexanders Wings

Divine Swords

Sauron's Armor Chest

*Anything by Nico (I suggestion the Nico Complete Pack)

[ikilljoo]

Great :) also, i am not new to using mods, but it's been almost a year since i played. The comp was having some issues with overheating, so i uninstalled most things, but it's been fixed. Also, I though beautiful people was incompatible with any mods that added new races, eyes, or hair? and i had been intending to ask how to fix that (don't you merge the .esp's?)

[ikilljoo]

sorry to double post,but it needs a bump. is beautiful people incompatible with mods that add new eyes, hair and races? if so, is the fix to merge the esps? what is the easiest way to do this? what are the limitations to this in terms of the number of mods i could add? for instance, could i get the esp that merges BP, sonyas hair, bab's hair, throttlekittys hair, roberts body, and better redguards, and add new hair and various races etc etc. also, could anyone get me slofs dremora texture for robert's?

[oeneone]

I recommend:

All of Giskard's mods.

The lost spires

MALEVOLENT

Daggerfall memories - Cybiades

Clocks of Cyrodiil

tamriel travellers

[bben46]

I recommend doing a full backup before starting to add mods. That might prevent having to reinstall when something really messes up your game. Then do regular backups to keep it current. Nothing like having a major game crash and finding out your last backup was three weeks ago and your level 56 character was at level 3 then.

 

Note: saves are not backups.

[arnoldvsthegooch]

sorry to double post,but it needs a bump. is beautiful people incompatible with mods that add new eyes, hair and races? if so, is the fix to merge the esps? what is the easiest way to do this? what are the limitations to this in terms of the number of mods i could add? for instance, could i get the esp that merges BP, sonyas hair, bab's hair, throttlekittys hair, roberts body, and better redguards, and add new hair and various races etc etc. also, could anyone get me slofs dremora texture for robert's?

no it is not imcompatible. What you need to do is use Oblivion MOD Manager or Wrye Bash to do an Archive Invalidation to redirect the path of textures. I would suggest OBMM. Click the Utility and select Archive Invalidation then select BSA Redirection and Update Now. That should correct any problems with "googly eyes" for custom races. Hope this helps.