Equipment and outfit management

[tomomi1922]

There are some mods out there to manage multiple outfits for followers, but there is no outfit management for player? I searched up and down, and, at least for Skyrim SE, the answer is no. We have to put up with slowly switching outfit, piece by piece. Weapons and spells can use the favorite menu, but there are only 8 items bindable to key 1-8. They can't save set of weapons (like sword + shield).

But I just found out there are ways to manage outfit, if you have SkyUI. I want to put this out there since this is never obvious via Google search. So it's right there and I never noticed until now. SkyUI allows 8 different slots to configure entire outfit set (complete with weapons, spells, shouts). Set 1-4 already bound to F1-F4 by default. Set 5-8 are not bound by default, but can be bound. Just keep in mind F5 is auto save by default. This does not interfere with 1-8 favorite items, so we can have both.

Now I am able to configure myself to have a sniper set, mage set, healer set, etc.... even city outfit set. It helps out a great deal. I can go through a battle without so many pauses. I can start out with my sniper set (with bow, arrow, and equipment + archery), then switch to melee/mage set at the press of a key when enemies get close. And when things get too thick, I run away switching to healer set (with Heal spell on both hands) for some quick healing, then switch back to my combat outfit again to return to the fight. All of these can happen within seconds.

This beats the hell out of having to pause and manually switch equipment. Fights should be fun, not tedious.