Helllllllooooo, Everyone.

I recently wanted to play Oblivion with OOO/ FCOM fully modded setup. I wanted to install a good combat overhaul mod, because after all this years I found the normal system quite dull, hack-n-slash-ish, with very little actual player skill needed. You simply tend to spam hits, when opponent attacks you block, then have chance to attack use some magic. When you have little health you can immedietly drink potion.

Been playing a lot of Dark Souls in which a lot of agility, timing of parries/rolls and attacks is important.

So I've been using Duke's Patrick mod for a while with which I was a quite happy for a while, but wasn't sure If it was actually working correctly. Shield with worst leather shield took a half of stamina from my character and most of time I was at brink of total exhaustion.

So now my question is how to properly set up the mod for OOO and Fundament with nGCD? I know that these mods edit stamina/ health and other PC skill values. What other magic overhauls are recommended to get magic in par with melee weapons so they won't be underpowered?

I'm making a new thread because last Duke Patrick's mods threads are from over few years and I wanted to know your 2015 Oblivion players opinions. Maybe there is a newer alternative to this and you recommend something different.

PS. After a little playing with Duke I wanted to try something different. Found a quite simple mod that made melee combat more deadly, stamina much more important in battle, but found it still had this vanilla hitboxes problems, still didn't work for me. In comparison with DP fights with human opponents were very risky, if you lose your guard or so called "momentum" you can die instantly and that makes the fights very immersive.

Seriously, after all this struggle with this mod, when I went to this second mod everything felt like - simply spam this left mouse button and cast some spells if you want.