Replaying Skyrim: Help me out with great gameplay mods.

[Rimarlk]

I've been researching like a madman lately and basically I want a harder, fresh skyrim experience. I played the game all the way through (pre-dawnguard) with a stealthy-mage (so overpowered even on master difficulty) and blew through the vanilla game. It was incredibly fun but eventually it got old. Now I'm planning on playing a khajiit 2h warrior (because I want to! haha I will use crossbows though) but melee combat SUCKS in vanilla. I want a decently fun and dynamic melee system and more variety/difficulty in enemies that stays lore-friendly so here's what I've come up with.

 

Deadly Combat (I tried Duel and hated in and Duke Patrick's seemed way complicated and just didn't fit very well with the game).

Locational Damage by Khamjut (I think that's how you spell it).

ASIS (I have apocalypse installed even though I won't use it as a melee this mod says enemy mages will get these spells = more difficulty = more fun for me I'm hoping)

Skyrim Redone (all modules except the combat one)

Dance of Death killmoves mod

Deadly Dragons

Real Wildlife

Specialized followers

 

These are the biggest ones that affect gameplay all my others are more or less gimmicks. I looked at ACE but wasn't really sure...Skyrim Redone sounded better to me because I want a much different playthrough than vanilla without breaking lore. I'm really considering putting the warzones mod in here just because I hated how such a big war was supposed to be going on and I'd barely ever even run into a warcamp of either faction.

 

Does anybody else have any suggestions for mods they use that I might be missing that vastly improves their gameplay experience? I heard the UFO (follower's) mod was really really good and from my research me putting mods like Deadly and Asis and SkyRe are going to make the game much harder, possibly to the point where companions become a requirement (which I'm ok with). However my reservation is the creator strongly warned against using his mod through a third party launcher (I use SKSE because of some of my mods). Anyone use the mod through the SKSE launcher with no troubles?

 

Thanks guys.

[Spiiros]

One mod! Requiem - old school gameplay

[VorrAkkagi]

One mod! Requiem - old school gameplay

 

I second this!!

 

I just loaded Requiem Dawnguard version and have been getting my keester kicked all over. But then, I'm also using Random Alternate Start, No starting spells and Skill Cap set to zero (forget the name of this mod). Start in a dungeon with no spells and no weapons and just a robe and normal boots. First things first - find a weapon, ANY weapon, and get out of the dungeon! Oh, and with Requiem, a good, new basic offensive spell costs around 1200 gold. So, you have to work for it if you go mage! Getting shot with an arrow is usually fatal, at least at low levels. I've just made it to 10th...

[Cipherthe3vil]

SkyMoMod. Monster Wars. World Bosses. Warzones.

My game world is epic.

 

 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13643

Bound Weapon Redux. Makes bound weapons worth something. I also use a second bound weapon mod... I can't find it, because it's a new month so I can't view the mod in my list, even though I downloaded it two days ago. The only thing I can remember it doing though is making them last longer, and bound bow shoots straight when fully drawn (Seems nice enough to me, since it's a magical arrow).

 

 

Edit: and...

Wet and Cold, Frostfall, Ice Floes - Travel the Polar Sea, Enhanced Skyrim Factions - The companions, Get Snowy, Dragon Soul Relinquishment.

Edited December 1, 2012 by Cipherthe3vil

[Rimarlk]

I liked at that old school requiem mod but it's not compatible with SkyRe. What's the biggest positive of it vs SkyRe?