So I was goofing around thinking of playing Yet Another Skyrim Mod Run But This Time With Even More Cool Stuff and I am being tempted by this “Legacy of the Dragonborn” mod/add-on - supposedly a “DLC sized” and (allegedly DLC quality) addition to the game with lots of quests, items and content, it looks interesting but generally speaking I’m a bit leery of the additional user content for Skyrim (other than mods), although I know many of the user-add-ons are well regarded.
Any impressions of Legacy of the Dragonborn? Sounds cool - lots of items to find, new dungeons to delve, etc. In fact, the description on the Nexus gives it a distinct vibe of “Last King of the Ayleids” from Oblivion, which as I recall is one of @Gordon_Cameron’s favorite quests from years back. That Oblivion quest was in fact a good one, so I’m tempted by Legacy of the Dragonborn…
Wow, I don’t think I even remember that quest! I did have a lot of fun skulking through Ayleid ruins, though, which might be part of why I think of Oblivion more fondly than many.
It’s really good. The quests are on average better than anything else I’ve done in user-made content (which, frankly, I mostly found kinda janky and underwhelming), but that’s really a side show next to the part where you get an enormous and richly featured museum that is also a player home where you can store all your shit, show off all the cool stuff you find, and there’s a ton of new unique loot distributed around the world to find, making dungeon crawling actually rewarding in a way it isn’t in base Skyrim. Plus enormous convenience features around crafting and so on. It’s real good stuff. And, moreover, it’s compatible with and has museum slots for a whole bunch of other mod content, too.
(Not that all of the user quests involved are good, since it fully integrates Moonpath to Elsweyr, which is pretty threadbare and half-assed apart from having some pretty visuals. But the stuff the Legacy people made is pretty good.)
Legacy of the Dragonborn is included in the super awesome Serenity Wabbajack mod pack. Note it is a Requiem based pack, and it also includes a bunch of quest additions including Legacy. Details:
Using these Wabbajack mod packs has saved me literally dozens of hours of not having to install and tweak these mods by hand.
It is an amazing mod and I’ve only gotten a short ways into it each time I’ve played with it. It’s a bit of an all-in-one but paired with other mods it only gets better.
In short:
A means to put all the items in the game to use. Quite nearly all of them.
A collectors DREAM.
A pack rats DREAM.
Contains its own earned player housing that quite honestly is more functional than any modded housing I’ve used.
Has the best player housing crafting room of any in-game home or modded home, period.
Contains ways to drive you to quests for “reasons.” Including quests of its own.
Gives a good story and expands within the already nice locations in game.
Etc, etc.
Watch a few youtube vids on it to get the hang of it. And though perhaps I like the cheatier inventory side of it, enable the following:
Legacy of the Dragonborn chests outside in-game player housing
Legacy of the Dragonborn chests within in-game cities/towns
And if you REALLY tire of carrying too much all the time:
Enable the spell that gives access to the sort chest.
It’s a mod that pushes you to go do everything so you can collect everything but it rewards you along the way for being an inclusive player. AND, it gives handouts to you if you at least try but don’t get to half of it.
I paid for a membership a long time ago, maybe the third time I did massive modding for something. So I’m not sure it was for life or what but I just continue to use that account. If it explains it further, my account name there is something like Skipper2006 or something.
I will say this, I did a Wabbajack install for Fallout 4 and for the first time, joined the Discord for one of the Wabbajack packs. VERY responsive on those things. I got help for about 3 issues nearly instantly.
Do you need a paid sub? I thought just an unpaid “slow download” subscription was sufficient? Although I’m just doing mods through Vortex not Wabbajack
You dont need a paid sub at all. We are talking about the Wabbajack downloads (A downloader for very large modcollections) where, unless you sub over at the Nexus, you have to click through each of the often over 600 mods that a modlist contains.
If you just download the one mod, or a few ones, you will be fine with the slow download speed :-)
Sorry that Serenity is under maintenance. It looks like it will be fixed in a few days. In the meantime, there is a workaround for downloading the single broken mod. This is a copy from the Wabbajack Discord:
Summary
Create a download folder, this will be the folder used for wabbajack to download all the mods to, make sure this is on a drive that has something like 80gb of space just for downloads. Note you can combine download folders for multiple lists. I have a giant downloads folder on my slower hard disk like D:/Modlist Downloads that’s about 800gb in size.
Place this into the download folder created above and rename it to Better Females Eyebrows-9474-1-2.7z
Bypass the maintenance screen in wabbajack by heading over to the wabbajack folder then into the latest version folder EG:2.4.1.1 and open up powershell by doing a Shift+Right Click > Open Powershell Window Here.
Then paste in this command to download the list ./wabbajack-cli.exe download-url -u https://wabbajack.b-cdn.net/Serenity.wabbajack_916b15c4-77e5-4b8a-b8c5-3ed423c562b8 -o "Serenity.wabbajack"
and double click on it when it’s done downloading to begin the installation.
I would recommend trying the Living Skyrim 2 mod pack. It includes LoD. I had a lot of fun with that mod pack, but now I am waiting for Living Skyrim 3 to be released, whenever that is.
This discussion inspired me to re-install Skyrim in anticipation of starting a new game with one of the mentioned modpacks tonight. Unfortunately, it appears Living Skyrim 2.0 is no longer available on Wabbajack and both Skyrimified and Serenity are under maintenance. My gratification will have to be delayed!
Ah ok, thanks. I may try that if this install doesn’t work out.
In the meantime, I went ahead with the “Qwest” mod list instead. It sounds pretty close to what I want: mostly content fixes, minimal graphics overhauls. But we’ll see…they do seem to have a weird thing with bathing mods.
I started a heavily modded (249 so far) and am really enjoying it. Mods really make a huge difference, especially some of the environmental mods - birds with bird sounds, footprints in the snow, snow dripping off trees due to wind or melting, new environmental sounds, your breath becoming frosty when it get cold, etc. Plus tons of armor/weapons mods. After adding mods, this game still looks great after all these years.
I just picked this game up for Christmas (present for myself!). I’ll hold off on the mods for now but I expect I will end up with many if my Morrowind experience is any indicator. Oblivion, I just couldn’t get into and never even finished the game.
