I am thinking of getting Skyrim for the PC. I play it on the 360. So before I get it, I am wondering what are the "must have" mods? Also what mods do you play with and why?

I looked through 10 pages, and I don't see anyone recommended mods like they have in Oblivion and Morrowind. Did I miss something?

Thanks for any replies you guys and girls give.

Davor

The Unofficial Patches. These are the very must have for everyone. They fix an assload of bugs and other glitches. There simply is no excuse not to use them.

SkyUI. Makes the UI far more better and fluent to use.

Unofficial patches are a given. SkyUI is also very popular, and it also has the Mod Configuration Menu functionality, like New Vegas has.

From there it's all personal preference, though. I myself use SkyRe, that overhauls combat and gameplay mechanics and perks. There's other overhaulss that do that too. Also i use Skyrim Immerive Creatures to increase the creature variety.

Ditto on the UPs and SkyUI. And don't forget SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender - http://skse.silverlock.org) and BOSS (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/6/?). Whether you use NMM or some other mod manager is kind of a matter of personal taste, but find one you like and use it. Manual mod management is very painful in my experience.

I'm rather fond of Categorized Favorites with a customizable overlay. The CFM funcitonality (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4862/?) has been somewhat superseded by the current version of SkyUI, so I'd recommend seeing if SkyUI meets your needs first. If it doesn't I'm currently using an overlay made for SkyRe (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25251/?), but it plays quite well without it. You may need to do some serious tinkering with the config file to make it lay out the way you want if you don't like its defaults. It's not difficult, but it can be tedious. Upside is that once you've got it done, it's done and you won't have to mess with it again. Downside is that SkyUI will fuss at you about it (there's a "don't nag me" checkbox in the CFM for SkyUI under "advanced").

Highly recommend "A Quality World Map" (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4929/?); "Alternate Start - Live Another Life" (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9557/?) - one can only endure so many cart rides to the headsman's block; and "Move It Dammit" (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4020/?).

Anything else is going to be pretty much dependent upon how you like to play the game and what kind(s) of eye-candy you prefer (texture replacers, lighting, gameplay fixes and the like). My best advice is to head for the Nexus and dig through the the "Most Endorsed Files of All-Time" (Files --> Top Files). Plug 'em in one at a time and check to see whether you like them with a new game each time you add one (another reason to recommend Alternate Start). Disabling mods in an existing game is a BAD THING^TM, so should be avoided whenever possible.

Aside from that, go for what you like and have fun with it.

This. I think SkyUI requires SKSE which is a must have too. After that it's personal preference, but must have mods for me are: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/14950/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/22650/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37216/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/18465/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16084/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23614/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9557/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16713/?, http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16713/? Slof's Horses -- I think you'll need to go to her web page for this. I haven't seen it on the Nexus recently.

I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of. I started on the xbox too and was (still am) overwhelmed with all the wonderful mods available.