TESV Skyrim and Mount & Blade Warband

[Mímir]

I use a lot of mods. I'd advice "Skyrim Redone" which adds a whole bunch of stuff, including perks and gameplay stuff like better / more difficult sneaking and "Alternate start" if you are tired of running through the same opening over and over again. There's also a mod to get rid of the "eye" when sneaking, making things quite a lot more challenging.

Illusionist magic is also amazing, like it was in all other TES games (sorry Luke, but it really is). The Fury/Calm/Fear stuff can be used to make enemies kill each other while you hide, you can pacify an enemy that discovered you or you can make him run away in fear. Especially if you install "Skyrim Redone" you will have perks that augment illusion magic in nice and lore-friendly ways, plus a wide variety of new spells with other effects than fury/calm/fear. Vanilla Skyrim is really limited in terms of spells, far more than previous TES games.

Mind you, there are some combinations that are hugely unbalanced when using "Skyrim Redone" - for example argonian mages with the histskin power and atronach birthsign, that allows you to regenerate magicka at a normal level, while still having 50 percent spell absorption and 150 extra points of magicka from the start.

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