Noobie questions

[sandcracker21]

I am a long time TES fan, and after putting in well over 200 hrs. in Skyrim, I want more content! So I am turning to mods, however I have very little experience with them. From reading around on here I have a good idea how to download and install them, but I was wondering if there are any recommended "amazing" content mods. The total amount on this site is daunting so I thought I would ask. Thanks!

[Jason2112]

top 25 be a good start

[Eckss]

Hi, I expected quite a few of these 'What Mods' questions so I saved this answer so that I can answer consistently each time without leaving any out:

 

I play with a lot of Mods and I've tried and rejected many others. I use all of these (among others) and I'm sure they’re all Must Have/Worth Having.

 

Weapons and Armors

Immersive Armors

Immersive Weapons

Ghosu - Weapon Pack

JaySuS Swords

Crimson Dragon Armor

Open Face Helmets Replacer - Steam only

Magic/Enchantments

Apocalypse Spells

Midas Magic

Weapon Enchantment Upgrade

Burn Freeze Shock Effects

Graphics Overhauls

Skyrim Flora Overhaul

Static Mesh Improvement Mod

aMidianBorn Book of Silence

Elaborate Textiles

Other Must Haves

Guard Dialogue Overhaul

The Dance of Death

Crimson Tide - Blood

Optimizer Textures (use it on graphic intensive Mods to reduce your system load)

Other Worth Having

Dragon Knowledge Spell

Dragon Lair Map Markers

Legionettes

Mine Map Markers

Crimson Quest Markers

Dungeon Quest Awareness

Auto Unequip Ammo

Tribunal Robes – If you play a Mage

Horns are Forever - If you play Argonians

Better Vampires – If you play a Vampire

 

Also check out the Top 100 Most Endorsed Mods of All Time.

 

Eck. :D

[ryegauvin]

well that's a ... long list... I'm sure hes not going to put in all of them. but heres my list. a few items, that will TOTALLY make skryrim 1000% percent better! (and yeah, three zeros)

 

Skyre - Skyrim redone

 

Ultimate favorite mod of all time. hands down. the description on the site does it best. But what it does it that it re does everything. Everything. Combat, stealth, enimies, leveling, everything! And it firkin rocks man!

 

 

Frostfall - Hypothermia

 

A new recent second favorite of mine, it makes weather a factor in skyrim. (so no running into winterhold wearing your nickers!) And it makes the game so much more, real. And in a good way. And that goes along with adding new items and mechanics to the game that they all WORK! ^_^

 

 

DEADLY DRAGONS!

 

Third favorite! It adds new dragons, new AI and makes them stronger! It was geared in mind to stop the dragons being complete pussys... Now they really are powerful enough to bring out the end of the world as you know it! And first the first time being Dovahkiin means something!

 

The dance of death

 

A killmove mod that adds more killmoves, and what not. Muy Bueno baby!

 

 

And then FINNALY

 

 

SKYUI!

 

Ohh man! This is the very best, if you have a PC, this is what you need! its beautiful! Gorgeous... Its an overhaul of the User Interface, making it to be designed for keyboards, its got a better layout for things, a search bar, and now you can see a list! It also had build into th main pause menu so you can change the settings for mods in game! You can edit the settings for frostfall, dance of death, and deadly dragon (hmm what a coincidence... three out four... and one doesn't have settings... hmmmm) (also these mods require skyui to function. see next section for why)

 

 

 

 

So that's MY list. If you take the three of these, youll make your skyrim so much better in so many ways. especially for a veteran like you. you'll kick yourself in the head for months thinking why you never did this before! (seriously, invest in a helmet)

[ryegauvin]

And to go along with all that you''l need two things. the nexus mod manager. and the skyrim script extender.

 

first the SKSE. just do a websearch for it and download the file package. Then maybe take a look at youtube for a tutorial. make SURE the video you look it is a new video. not from a while ago.

 

and that's the hard part. for the next part get the nexus mod manager. Download it. set it up. link it to your nexus account and then when you're looking at mod page, and click the files tab, then you just hit download with manager. and you're good to go! No problem mon! Then just double click the mod you want to turn on and it will set it up for you. you don't want it anymore, uncheck it. And trust me. you do NOT want to handle mods on your own. do NOT do that! I say it again. DO. NOT.

 

 

And then that was the hard part! Now modding is so easy for us it doesn't take more than a second to get some mods downloaded and activated. And you never have to use the file explorer on your computer!

 

 

Seriously though. Don't handle mods without the manager. and make sure you SKSE install skse properly.

 

 

Happy Modding! And I give you an hour before youre addicted to to skyrim for two hundred more hours and have no intentions of stopping!

[Eckss]

well that's a ... long list... I'm sure hes not going to put in all of them.

Why not? I run all those simultaneously and more. It's a list of core Mods. Take a look at STEP, there's even more on that list.

[ryegauvin]

Oh I know, I have a bigger list! but to just sit there for hours and install one after another? That's a lot for one go. You know what I mean?

[dfac364]

im just going to put this out there immersive armors cause a lot of glitches for me, all my armors started turning blue, i realize it was probably a conflict but im just saying

[Eckss]

im just going to put this out there immersive armors cause a lot of glitches for me, all my armors started turning blue, i realize it was probably a conflict but im just saying

It doesn't cause me any problems. Your Armors turning blue like that is a sign that your graphics setup can't handle the load you're putting on it. Try tweaking your .ini files to optimise the use of your graphics capacity by the game. Google Skyrim ini tweaks. There are even official ones by the graphics card manufacturers.