One thing that's bugged me since Morrowind through to Fall3 how about giving us a the ability to use our LEFT hand for weapons.

Since we can now dual wield , can we now equip our one handed weapon in our LEFT hand and our shield in our right?

Seems like we should be able to with the new combat system just would like to get some official word since i prefer to make my character as close as possible to how i am in the real world.

I assume you would be able to equip your shield on the right and sword on the left.

LEFTIES FTW! haha

If you can put one weapon in each hand and they have independent buttons for them it would be silly not to.

Yes you are able to do this.

I sure hope so i begged for this (for some modder) to make this work in Oblivion but no one ever came up with a solution.

BTW if anyone does know of a mod that did this for oblivion please let me know.

Here's hoping its actually in Skyrim, would love some official word however still.

Assuming its avaliable since you can equip weapons in both hands so whos to say you can't equip the shield on the right hand and sword on the left.

Deadly Reflex. That is the mod you are looking for. Not only can you wield any weapon in the offhand, you can also take a 1 handed weapon and wield it with both hands. Totally [censored] epic.

When creating your character you should have to choose whether you are left or right handed.Whichever hand you choose would be your characters stronger hand.So if you choose to be left handed then your left hand does more damage than you right hand.
I think it would add a bit of strategy as far as what you have equiped in each hand.
This also would open the door for an "ambidextrious" perk that you could choose to make both hands equally effective.You should not just start out "ambidextrious" in my opinion.

We know its possible, but we don't yet know if there will be a penalty for doing so. It is entirely possible that the right hand will be the 'main' hand and the left the 'off' hand.

I hope that's not the case.

I have a hard time believing that a left handed person can defeat a bandit, let alone a dragon

"ambidextrious" perk

i like that idea, i don't mind having to use a perk to make sure i can bash with my shield in my right hand and cleave with my sword in my left

does this realy matter whether u see it in one hand or not?

To some evidently it does but being right handed I couldn't care less.

Yes it's about time we had issues of class struggle and dialectical materialism in TES, a subject sadly lacking up to now. And not once has there been an anarcho-syndicalist commune in...oh. I see, it's about handedness not...well never mind , er comrades. :whistling:

Hey I am left handed you :swear:,..................




Yes,if things worked that way in Skyrim,I would be choosing that perk forsure.

One problem I am seeing with being able to be left handed would be the animation for archery,I dont see them making 2 different animations for some reason.

Lefties or Leftists?

what?lol

As long as it starts with "LEFT" obviously!

This is right, nobody should feel left out.

Huh? :unsure:

Are you sure, usually when you hold a weapon and a shield, the shield is ALWAYS on the left hand.

LEFTIES please its easy and clean.

In OXM there is a screenshot of a guy with a blunt weapon sheathed on his right side, meaning he uses his left to weild it. That's confirmation enough for me.

Nerd Time!

The reason right handed weapon use is so prevalent is because it's true. Even a swordsman who is left handed often (but not always) trains with his weapon in his right hand has to do with stance. In a swordsman's stance, the right side, and weapon is presented to your opponent, keeping your heart back in a more defensible position. The more 'squared' sword and board stances also put emphasis in the shield on the left arm, to better protect your heart.

Florentine fighters tend to lead with the right for similar reasons, and two handed weapon fighters tend to have the distance to be square with your opponent, but then, the right hand is your 'leading hand' (the hand higher up on the weapon, which controls it's swing) also happens to be the right.

Left handed fighters, while perfectly able to fight left handed, often learn to use the unusual left handed technique to keep their opponents off balance. Weapons training often assumes that the opponent will be using the right hand as well. A left handed fighter forces the opponent to change their stances, strikes and parries to compensate attacks coming from INSIDE the defensive arc, rather than the outside, as normal.

This evolved into modern weapon usage, where training to shoot right handed evolved from the use of swords and knives.

keep it at right hand, dont won't skyrim getting all wierd on us now

Does it really matter that much?