I very much enjoy a bit of realism in Skyrim so iNeed , Be a Milk Drinker and its retexture mod from classic Skyrim , I ' m A Customer Dammit , Immersive Wenches , isoku ' s Holidays and Wet and Cold are the first mods I always install . After that I grab all of Enai ' s mods aka Apocalypse , Imperious , Ordinator , etc . . for enhanced gameplay and better magic . Then I move on to some visual mods like retextures highly recommend amidianborn book of silence if you know how to use it for SSE , WICO and armor and weapon mods Immersive Armors is a must have . Also can ' t forget Vivid Weathers , RLO or ELFX , still dunno which I prefer and Realistic Water 2 . Immersive Sounds is also a musthave for better sound . After that I just go crazy and look around the nexus and add whatever I think I ' ll enjoy playing with . I always happen to find mods I really like in the latest files section , I check it daily , actually . I believe a lot of great mods go unnoticed because people just go to the most downloaded mods and ignore the smaller ones . Lots of text , but that about summarizes what mods I always install and what I grabbed for SSE .