u/PaleoclassicalPants

I absolutely adore city and town overhauls, and how much more interesting they make a lot of the core experience of the game. I tried out Skyrim Unification Project, and while it delivered in that regard, the list had absolutely horrendous performance (even in the wilds) even with solid hardware.

I guess my question is that if there's a list that runs like Nordic Souls but has a lot more going on in the city and town overhaul department.

This is not intended as a complaint post, but more asking how others get through act 1 on a fresh start. I have multiple thousands of hours, but have not leaguestarted a monk since 0.1, and all my other monks have been twink-leveled later.

I've tried multiple avenues of setups in act 1, and nothing is clicking too well except off-classing either maces or elemental spells (Spark+Flame Wall+Frost Bomb).

Frozen Locus has great aoe and freeze potential, but is really clunky because it's mainly gated behind either hitting it multiple times with default attack, or having to back up about 10 feet to land the final spike of Glacial Cascade every time you use it.

Similarly Killing Palm + Falling Thunder is effective, but requires very annoying micromanagement of mob hp to get culls before you can have basically any clear at all, and just flat out doesn't work on bosses without adds.

Staggering Palm is great, but only really shines once you get either Ice Strike or Tempest Flurry because you can't trigger it quick enough to do anything meaningful with it before that, and default attack locks you in place too much. Tempest Bell exists in the same space as well, only really shining once you get the fast aoe strikes of either of the 2 spammy T5 skills.

Once again this is not intended as a complaint post, I'm just genuinely confused if I'm missing some skill combo or support setup that can make act 1 easier on a fresh start. The rest of the campaign is largely fine.

Anyone have any good setups to help early on?