Skyrim Mods That Need to Exist

[Azure-Supernova]

As weird as this sounds, one that makes you level up more slowly.

To expand upon that: leveling up more slowly, especially in non-combat areas. Everyone who sells stuff in Skyrim (most of us?) will know that sellling stuff makes your Speecraft level. Also it's way too easy to hit 100 in Smithing, Alchemy and Enchanting and the games 10 times easier once you do.

I'm planning a mod myself to add in a 'tag skills' system like Fallout. It'll reduce the rate of skill growth as well as increase the level of skill ups needed to level. But you'll be able to tag four skills to level up quicker than the rest. Combine that with the guardian stones and there should be an improvement on player strength vs NPC enemies too.

On that note where my mod that ties hidden strength and agility attributes to the weight of your character? Why can my scrawny sneaky thief carry as much as my battle axe weilding man-bear?

And the inevitable bump in enemy AI. Mitigating player damage and massively increasing NPC damage is not difficulty, it's an annoyance.

 

[Samuel Goodall]

More spells anyone? Or spell crafting. Maybe also merchants who could afford some of the loot I am finding instead of me having to haul it into my house for the game. Dragon raising would be good... But as has been claimed before the two real necessities are...
Dragons to be less frequent. After being attack by 5 dragons in half an hour the joy wears off.
Hardcore Mode with a way to not make you rival the emperor in personal wealth.

 

[Archer666]

The ability to skin and cook people. And eat human meat. Because if people disliked the childkilling mod, this mod will literally make their heads explode with outrage.

 

[Odd Owl]

Potion/Scroll/Magic Mirror of Cosmetic Manipulation.

I'm one of those OCD players who can spend a hour on character creation, only to discover that the hair style or skin tone I thought looked great in the character creator looks like crap out in the game world. I love games like Saints Row, where you can fully alter your character at various shops around the world. They had this in Fallout 3. I understand that dialogue variants would make it difficult to justify changing a character's race or gender, and I don't think that would be as desirable. But I'd at least like to be able to tweak my characters' hair styles or facial features after creation.

Horseback Combat
Companions on Horses

I second these too. It's senseless that I have to dismount in order to smack the wolves constantly gnawing at my horse's backside.

 

[CrazyJew]

Better UI on the PC.
Fast switch with number keys.
Ability to click items in menus.
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[Odd Owl]

As far as I'm concerned, there needs to be a mod that makes one of your Shouts sound like this.

Two questions. What anime is this from? And what song is the sound clip from? I assume the sound clip doesn't actually come from that scene in the anime. If it did, that would violate the physical limits of awesome.

 

[Red Mammoth]

MODS:
-First person horseback riding
-Additional combat animations
-More racial distinctions (Argonian and Khajiit primarily)

FIXES:
-Vanity cam that works properly with a weapon drawn
-Fixes to animations that don't look right (sneak forward roll)

 

[Jeremy Dawkins]

I believe that it's an animated Highlander film. No idea where the shouting/singing comes from.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

As far as I'm concerned, there needs to be a mod that makes one of your Shouts sound like this.

Two questions. What anime is this from? And what song is the sound clip from? I assume the sound clip doesn't actually come from that scene in the anime. If it did, that would violate the physical limits of awesome.

That's from Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. The song is The One by Lost Horizon, and if I'm not mistaken, it was indeed written for that film. And used in that scene. I haven't seen the movie completely, though, so I can't say for certain.

 

[Prince Regent]

Vampire factions and expansions. But big mods like those take time to make.

 

[Handbag1992]

And eat human meat..

You can do that, in fact you can get a ring that increases in power when you eat people.

 

[Raddra]

This is a far off idea, but a dragon breeding, raising mod would be nice.

In the context of the game dragons are intelligent beings, and your character is a dragon born humanoid.

So this idea is kind of creepy in that regard.

I want a mod that lets me replace the stats / armor of any piece of armor onto another piece of armor or clothing.

So you don't inevitably end up looking like some dark clad chaos warrior and can keep that sweet steel or iron plate appearance with ebony / daedric stats at the end game.

 

[Tartarga]

I demand a mod that allows me to ride dragons. How could they put dragons in a game and not give me the option to make it my ***** and have it fly me places.

 

[Jandau]

I'm more interested in quality-of-life mods myself.

A respec mod would be VERY welcome, at the very least for Perks (though you can manually add/remove them through the console), perhaps even for Health/Mana/Stamina levelups or even skill redistribution (though that last one might be too much).

An enchantment removal mod would also be welcome. Since Enchanting is so powerful, anyone maxing it out will easily outclass any regular enchants. This means that you have to miss out on a lot of cool looking gear because it's simply poop compared to the stuff you can make. For instance, I just go the Nightingale Armor, which is likely the best looking armor in the game. But compared to my custom made Legendary Dragonscale set with double enchants it just can't compete. I'd love to be able to reenchant the Nightingale armor and keep the awesome look while using my Enchanting skill to the fullest.

 

[Atmos Duality]

A mod that punches Todd Howard in the balls every time the game crashes or causes a rage-inducing glitch.

 

[Drake666]

Dark Nights
Brighter Torches
Better PC interface, more minimal
Better Inventory
Horseback Combat
Companions on Horses
Timid Horses
Hardcore Mode like Fallout New Vegas

I've got no qualm with the PC interface or the Inventory system (except the potion names... weiiird) and I don't undestand the Dark Nights... you mean if I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, at night, I shouldn't see anything because there's no moon/light source ? If that's the case, YES! The Kajjit Night Vision would be useful .

Otherwise, GREAT suggestions

For the mods that are present and neat, there's the "Meltdown" mods that let you melt your old weapons and armors... (didn't try it...). Furthermore, that mods let you create ARROWS

 

[Hat-Wearing Man]

Spears/lances in the game, that is all I want, hell if possible I'll make the dam mod myself, and make a legendary Lance Gae Bolg. It really just seems odd that there is a lack of pointy sticks in a game and time period that would benefit from pointy sticks. Even more so considering that some of creatures and much larger than you and therefore pointy sticks are even more of an advantage.

 

[Sight Unseen]

I would like a way to remove fast travelling. I want to explore the world for myself, and sometimes it's too tempting to use that shiny fast travel button!

Also, I agree with Jack and Calumon. I'm amazed personally that cooking wasn't made into it's own skill, and that, as of right now, it's really very pointless.

Also maybe a better marriage mod.

 

[Odd Owl]

Potion/Scroll/Magic Mirror of Cosmetic Manipulation.

I'm one of those OCD players who can spend a hour on character creation, only to discover that the hair style or skin tone I thought looked great in the character creator looks like crap out in the game world.

Oh dear, that pisses me off so much when it happens. And the Saints Row: The Third example is especially apt because my character looked great in the editor, but awful in cutscenes.

Skyrim has similar problems too, but like Oblivion (where it was even worse), you can just use the

showracemenu

console command whenever you want and touch up your face and hair. Just make sure to remove all your items first and not change race while in the editor and all should be fine. I did it twice, throughout the life of my now 100+ hour character, with no ill effects.

Unfortunately, there are no console commands for us console players. Ironic, isn't it?

 

[Count Igor]

Fast switch with number keys.

You can do that.
You put it on favourites (F) and then mouse over it and press a number, thus it's linked to that number.