Luckily this mod by Utopolyst fixes the issue, and it does that in a very elegant way. I always found the fact that soul gems have the same color whether they’re full or empty and whatever class they belong to a bit underwhelming and counterintuitive. You can find it here alongside with the command list. It’s definitely good if you need to take some screenshots and you need a particular armor for them, or to test retexture and replacer mods. The same goes with the rest of the vanilla armor sets. Want Iron armor? Just type “bat ironf” and you’ll get it without having to look for the IDs of the single items on the internet. Basically it adds a set of easy commands that you can type in the console to receive a full set of a certain kind of armor. Many would call this mod by jojo4u a cheat, but it’s very useful in a lot of circumstances. You can check it out here, and maybe be inspired to do your own mods as well. The author simply took the models of some pieces of armor included in the game, modified them a bit, added some decorative runes in a very tasteful way, and there you have a new set of armor that works very well for the spellsword types among us. This mod by Telthalion is rather simple, but it’s evidence that it doesn’t take a degree in Moddology (yes, I just made the word up) to create your own mods. You can download it here, and a separate version with just the shields here. In addition to that the Nexus Mod Manager will keep you updated when the author will upload new versions. The level of detail is simply amazing, so I definitely encourage you to give it a try, especially if you’re one of those players that love walking around wearing low level armor to increase the challenge.

At the moment it includes just an extremely well done retexture of the iron armor and the banded iron armor (shields included), but the plan is to cover every armor in the game with time. Normally I don’t cover mods that aren’t in a quite advanced state, but this one by Hvergelmir is just too good to pass.

Skyrim black sword mod