Oblivion (Remastered) - (S1) (Ep02) - (No Commentary)
1[Difficulty = Modded Expert]
[Mods = Yes - See Below]
Wrapping up our first dungeon, selling the loot and heading off to deliver the amulet.
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Episode Notes:
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We pick up where we left off and clear the rest of the dungeon.
Once complete I gather the loot and head back to the city to sell all the loot and then deal with my needs.
Heading east I finally get to the blades leader and deliver the amulet. From there we get a mission to find the last heir.
Next Episode I'll likely head back to some of the dungeons passed, as well as join the guilds in the nearby town.
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Season Note:
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This will be a run mainly focused on completing the main story, as well as all the main guild questlines. As such I've designed my character to RP make sense to be in all of them
I am using quite a few mods in this run. They're a mix of QOL and feature mods. For the full list, see the mods section below. One of the main ones is a rebalance of the difficulty levels to be less insane a spike as default. The one I have chosen makes expert a nice balance of tough enemies without making them complete sponges.
I'll reserve the right to add/remove mods, adjust difficulty and settings as I go.
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MODs: [All from Nexus]
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Additional Map Markers
Adds missing map markers for things like player homes.
Alternate Sprint - Closed Palms
No odd lean forward sprinting
Attack Canceling
Does what it says
Auto Upgrade Leveled Items - On Level Up
This way I don't have to worry about when I run missions with leveled rewards.
Baka Achievement Enabler
Does what it says
Bound Weapon Perks Addon
Bound Weapons and Armor Improved - Bound Spells Last 60s
Improvements to Bound Weapons/Armor to make them more viable.
Buy Enchantment and Spellmaking Altars
Allows you to purchase the above altars for all player homes as an upgrade.
Core Survival
Adds in an Eating/Drinking/Sleeping system to the game, as well as some RP options.
Delete Spells
Does what it says
Descension
Majorly reduces the drop rate of Weapons/Armor from dungeons, adds in magic arrows and increases non-weapon/armor drops to compensate.
Difficulty Slider Fixed x2
This adjusts the weird ramp up in difficulty that vanilla has. The one I've chosen makes me deal .66x damage and take 1.5x damage on Expert. I've found this is a good balance in toughening fights, without turning my attacks into limp noodles and the enemies into sponges.
Display Souls
Shows what souls are in soul gems
DodgeIFrame
Does what it says and adds some brief I frames when dodging.
Enemy's Weapon Stays On Corpse
QOL mods that makes weapons appear in a corpses inventory as expected.
Extend Weapon Range - DE
Adds back the range on some weapons to make things like great swords not match longs words.
Faster (And Slower) Skill Leveling - 0.75x
The version I picked has my skills level slower at .75% of vanilla.
Merchant Gold Rebalanced - 3x Upper Class Edition
QOL mod that increases the base gold of merchants, but not to extreme levels; with richer merchants having more than poorer ones.
NL-Tag Remover
Does what it says, removing NL text from modded stuff.
One Button Dodge
Allows you to map dodge to a single button.
Player Horse Improvements 1.5x speed
Added this one mostly as a QOL. It makes horses faster, but also makes them not agro everything around them. Would prefer them to not be essential, but there isn't a version with that atm.
Purchasable Varla and Welkynd Stones
Simple QOL adding them to 1 merchant in the city and at a hefty price.
Respawning Nirnroot
QOL so I don't have to worry about running out or blocking quests.
Smart Souls - Enhanced Soul Trapping
Makes soul trap theoretically put souls only into appropriate level of gems.
Timed Block
Adds in a bonus to properly timing blocks
Realistic High Quality Skin
Young Textures Revamped
Younger Elven Female Voice v2
Young Dunmer Head Fixed
A group of mods to change things about characters.
There are a few more, but they're background mods that enable the above. One I want to call out is the Selene Dunmer mod. I used it as the base for my Dunmer, then modified it (basically to save time). Then I wrote down all the slider numbers, for making my own in the tutorial.