Best mods and where to get

AnCapaillMor

Picked up skyrim in the steam sale. After playing the crap out of it on the box, i picked it up for the mods. So anyways where's the best place to find them and whats the best mods. Mainly looking to update the textures and new weapons\companions etc. Had a look at the steam workshop but the amount of mods gave me a headache.

steel_spine

The best place for mods imo is the Nexus http://skyrim.nexusmods.com

It's either that or the steam workshop.
However, if the amount of mods on the workshop gave you a headache, the nexus will do no better - especially since you're looking for texture replacers, of which there are about 1 billion :pac:

You could try looking at the top 25 downloaded files on the Nexus (if you want a dozen skimpy armour/unrealistic female body mods, but the quality stuff does get on there as well).

If you give me an idea what kind of rig you're running and what kind of style you like/what you want to mod, I could certainly whip up a list of recommendations later.

AnCapaillMor

Got it going now, basically a mix of workshop and nexus. Nexus seems to be better. Got a 6970 and I5 2500K with 8 gig ram and 256GB SSD and it auto detected ultra. Got a few texture packs and 1 or 2 skimpy mods and must say it's looks impressive.

At the moment, the only texture mods i got running are hd patch from steam and the improved towns(basically riften, whiterun etc with plants all over). Got the UFO mod going which is crazy having 15 followers at a time. BTW don't put the sovergarde armour from sovengarde mod on a male character, i wasn't able to open my eyes for 2 hours after it.

R.W Callaghan

For me Moonpath to Elsweyr is the best mod. Available off Steam and Nexus