


to beautify combat, i prefer TK hitstop, violens, pseudo parry animation, pretty combat animations, and lock on. organized bandits in skyrim, mortal enemies, ultimate combat/dragons, combat evolved, crimson tide, display enemy level, and most importantly no spinning death animation all change and greatly diversify your combat experience in the game. alternate start is a lot of fun for those who might be tired of the vanilla intro. immersive HUD is very nice, especially if you like playing in 3rd person, and gives exploring the world a whole new purpose. enhanced lights and FX, or ultra realistic world lighting, are both damn sexy lighting mods that make for some great visuals. open cities removes load screens from entering cities from the main game world, which i find to be a lot of fun. everything to do with visuals you just have to look for on your own because there are a -ton of them outside ENBs, where pretty much anything you can think of has been redone or optimized. thunderchild, ordinator, apocolypse, awakened magicka, summermyst, and lost grimoire all expand heavily on the magic aspects of the game like spells, progression, perks, shouts, enchantments, and how powerful your magicka can be. immersive armors/weapons/patrols/citizens/creatures are all lots of fun and expansive. slongs of skyrim is a pain to install but fun to play with, gives the dudes some super intricate meat sticks. if you like titties in your game you can get a body changer like CBBE or UNP, usually with bodyslide, which also have physics mods that make the ladies jiggle. skyrim script extender is required for many/most mods around anymore, which is very easy to install and use. ENBs are great visual enhancers, and a must have download ENB here with a preset from nexus mods You need to login to view this link this one for special edition skyrim You need to login to view this link.

That being said, there are a few mods i wouldn't like to play without ever again. make sure you're getting mods for the right version of skyrim you have - the newer one is called special edition. i know it sounds like a lot of work, but having your game crash as little as possible is definitely worth it, as opposed to spending 5+ hours at a time finding what mods you want, stabilizing them, getting a functional game, only to have it crash 10 minutes into a playthrough. just find things you like, make sure they're compatible, and before you install anything spend half an hour reading tips and tricks on how to mod responsibly, and how to use tools like TESedit, SKSE, and Wyre Bash. Overall modding is super preferential, i use 150-200 at a time.
