#2. Is that accurate? Because that's going to fubar pretty much any possibility of a viable battlemage build. Swing/Block, sheathe, cast, unsheathe, swing/block, repeat? That's absurd.

What are you guys talking about? I think it's only normal you can't cast spells with both hands occupied. As a battlemage, you can just store your axe for a second, cast, then take it again to strike. It's much more realistic and will make battlemage battles slower as they should be. They're no barbarians.

hmm this is a good point actually

Doublepost, weird :S

Yeah, I heard that you have to have 1 hand with a weapon and the other with magic, so I believe that you are unable to cast spells while wielding a weapon and shield, or dual wield weapons.

Too bad, Spellsword is my favorite type of play.

Not really, all you had to do was use your imagination and role-play, the dialogue not freezing and being real time? I could care less, it doesn't effect whats being said.

ugh, because IRL a battlemage is able to cast spells while wielding a shield and an axe.......... LIGHTNING BOLT, LIGHTNING BOLT..... SLEEP!

1-i agree
2-makes sense to me
3-i agree
4-haven't seen the game in motion yet, don't judge it by mag scans. But then again what would you expect when its coming out on the same consoles as before?

you can quick swap anything in or out of either of your hands, it makes sense that you cant cast a spell with no free hands but at the same time you could and you would just aim your fist that was holding your weapon which looked weird. I think it will be ok.

Only if combat is drastically different than Oblivion and there are far fewer enemies pounding on you at once--as in no more than one at a time. If staggers and knockdowns are in again (no reason to assume they aren't) then that will just compound the problem.

not to meantion how easily some of these things will be modded out.

#2 This makes sense to you? Well one improvement in Oblivion was that you could cast spells while wielding a weapon, it was way easier to play a hybrid class with magic/combat. I was disappointed that this was cut out.

Some of us only have a console :sadvaultboy:

this is why computers win.

Yes, it makes sense to me that you can't cast a spell while both hands are doing something else. If you have a shield in one hand and a sword in another lets face it you are more combat oriented anyway.

You want the ability to cast spells while dual-wielding? Bye-bye, balance...I really hope Bethesda never implements this feature.

When wielding a weapon yes. But how would it make sense to be able to cast a spell when wielding two weapons. That's what the magazine was saying, I think.

Well that's why the option to have stuff like that would be there. I know a lot of people don't like those types of things and I respect that. So instead, at least make the game moddable to the point where us modders can implement things like that. There is a Morrowind Crafting mod. Not sure if there is one for Oblivion, though.

What is this "bullet time" I keep reading about? Anybody know?

And on casting with hands equipped, I think a magic caster should be able to hold a staff and cast magic from that, or from the other free hand, or from both hands, in the sense that a staff helps to channel magic through the user better. i.e. harnesses the magic flowing from Aetherius through the mundus into the character's body, etc....



Yeah, which is why I hope they can compensate for you console players by giving a lot of options during gameplay setup.
I'm a PC player but I can sympathize for console players not being able to do the things we can do on a PC.

^^This^^ Gotta love mods.

They could just make the spells 10-20% weaker when dual wielding. The thing is that this game is about choices, but I do not have the possibility to choose to be a dual wielding, magic casting character.

I remembered when TES was about being and play how you want to.

But Rolf the Uber can have no weaknesses!

Since when are battemages and spellswords the shield-carrying type? Shields are for tanks. A spellsword gotta use those shield spells, stay out of range or dodge. :shrug:

do we know how bullet time will be implemented, I didn't really read the pages I just creamed myself at the screens.

And you, kind Sir, call other people trolls?

Edit: Concerning not being able to cast without a free hand: I still like the MW system, it was like getting mentally prepared to cast a spell. So that's the least important thing for me.

I never did such a horrible thing!

As I said.

They could just make the spells 10 - 20% weaker when dual wielding. The thing is that this game is about choices, but I do not have the possibility to choose to be a dual wielding, magic casting character.

I remembered when TES was about being and play how you want to.