I'm sure it would look silly . . . but not as silly as dual wield shields!
I'm actually afraid that the ability to dual wield staves will make mages a bit overpowered . . . You can find some powerful enchantments on those things, and just imagine the chaos of having two Apotheosis staves and blasting away at everything that moved!

How dare you disrespect Confused Turtle mode! Next you'll start ragging on sword-chucks.

Ahaha, one of my characters is going to be a Confused Turtle battlerager. He will run around with no clothes save a helmet and his two shields, and he shall run across the terrain of Skyrim, shield-bashing all that oppose him -- after getting suitably drunk off the Nordic equivalent of Mazte of course.

As opposed to the ability of warriors and thieves to dual wielding enchanted blades? As opposed to the ability of ANYBODY to dual wield staves, since they aren't governed by a skill?

Well, if you first cast 100% elemental weakness spells on the target Apotheosis could dish out a hefty 200 damage in one strike. Two Apotheosis' would a) negate the need to cast the weakness spells for ridiculous amounts of ranged damage and b ) would make 400 damage if you were toting around elemental weakness spells. You could blow away Minotaur Lords with that kind of firepower :gun: :shocking:

As for the class I suppose it wouldn't matter. Dual-wielded staves in general sound like a lot of ranged damage. Not that I won't enjoy abusing this . . .

Im not worried about what makes sense. Im worried about what comabat system affords me the least stress.

Wrong.

Morrowind let you summon as many monsters simultaneously as you wanted.

I was unaware of that. But still. If duel weilding two spells makes you summon two skeletons, you could, with the oblivion system, double cast, and summon two skeletons. (if they let mutli summons in skyrim and brought back the oblivion system.

If I understand what you're saying, you're thinking that dual wielding a conjuration spell in Skyrim will confer you the benefit of summoning 2 creatures at the same time?

I don't really care what they choose to do with that in regards to dual wielding a conjuration spell in Skyrim, cause almost anything will be better than Oblivion's conjuration system.

Although a cool idea (I think) would be to allow the player to summon up to 5 creatures, and dual wielding a conjuration spell would buff a single creature with more health, str, spells, or whatever, and you could summon up to 5 of these suped-up versions of that creature (or 5 different suped-up creatures).

Indeed, I would assume that the original poster said that dual wielding conjuration spells would be pointless under the assumption that you couldn't have more than one summoned creature at any given time, but we don't know that. Maybe when dual wielding conjuration spells you can summon two creatures, one with each equipped spell, or combined the spells to summon a stronger version of the same creature, and I'm not sure how mysticism fits into this (Especially since mysticism doesn't exist any more.) or why alteration spells should be pointless when dual wielded.

I'd say that we really don't know enough about the dual wielding mechanics for spells to judge them, but in any case, if you want to play a battle mage, then you should just wield a sword in one hand, and a spell in another, which of course means you can't dual wield spells or use a shield, making a concequence to choosing that approach. Now, I'm not sure if I necessarily like that or not, because I liked being able to cast spells without putting your weapon away in Oblivion, but that was partially because Morrowind's system required you to awkwardly switch between having your weapon drawn and entering a "casting stance", whereas the new approach sounds a little less awkward and more tactical, but that aside, saying dual wielding spells could be "useless" seems to mostly be an assumption made based on how spells worked in Oblivion, and how they work may have changed in Skyrim, so we can't rightly make such a statement until we know more about how magic works in Skyrim.



But we don't even know if such a powerful staff will exist in Skyrim.

Dual wielding spells will be fun.

Left hand : continuous fire stream spell
Right hand : short duration paralyze spell used to keep targets in the fire stream longer, or strong heal spell to soak up damage they apply on me in melee, or strong shield spell to mitigate this damage

The ability to have two spells active at the same time if it's available would sure open up some interesting combos