I'm curious to know if anyone else uses shouts in the heat of combat ?

I tend to forget I have a shout or simply not bother with one in combat , and I'm wondering I just how much shouts are used in skyrim by the community and for what purpose ,

Yes I use them. They do come in handy from time to time.

That said, I never want to see them again in TES. IMO they detracted too much from magic.

second that.

Most of the time I forget there even there. Especially because for my main I usually have the VL transformation equipped.

Barely 10% of the characters I create are Dragonborn. In fact, even after 5500+ hrs of playing Skyrim, none have completed the MQ. Still, ones that do gain the ability to use shouts, do so sparingly.

... if at all.

I have only used Shouts when the game forced me to. I think Shouts are the most insipid combat mechanic I have ever seen in a video game. Every time I see a character shout in a video I can't help thinking that the character is burping and knocking people backwards with the stench of his breath. It looks unintentionally funny to me.

I have only done the main quest once. In that game I only used the bare minimum number of shouts required to finish the quest. I did The Way of the Voice on a second character (because Bethesda forced me to) in order to begin Dragonborn. So, all in all, I have probably shouted a handful of times since 11/11/11. That is a handful of times too many for me.

Yep whenever they come off cooldown. I like to spam fire breath a lot for no real reason

Throw Voice, Clear Skies, Storm Call, and Kyne's Peace are the most used shouts for me. I like that Kyne's Peace is Anti-Spriggan.

Slow time, Become Ethereal, Disarm, and of course Unrelenting Force seem to be the most useful to me.

Now for the most useless.

Hey skeever butt!!! only useful for a few laughs once in a while.

I find Fus to be quite useful for moving stubborn followers and minions out of the way or when they get stuck.

Since my one an only Dragonborn up till this point is a mage, I learned to use Become Ethereal and Slow Time to my advantage along with Storm Call for the fun of it, but aside from that I find shouts to be pretty useless.

Shouts are really good. No, I mean really really good. If you use them, that is.

- High level enemies can be killed by unrelenting force and a (small) cliff.

- Become ethereal so you can jump off mountains or activate when you're about to die from a dragon or standing in it's fire breath

- Aura whisper is my most used shout, it detects all creatures, NPCs, undead and even automatons. It works for 100's of meters even through doors. You can even spot draugr lying in wait.

- Freeze an enemy with your cold shout and shoot it to shatter it in pieces

- Mass fear enemies

Some people never use shouts but I must say, even with removed spell creation, the shouts are actually much more useful. Besides the fun of searching for new shouts it opens up new ways of playing the game which were impossible in previous TES games.

On some characters. My latest Dragonborn character was a supporter of Ulfric's rebellion and thought he had a point about his philosophy of the Thu'um. While neither of them had the privilege of seclusion like the Greybeards, and as such had(RP, not gameplay) to use the Thu'um from time to time, he did agree with Ulfric that, even so, it was not to be used frivolously.

I quite often do that too. LOL

yes almost all of them all of them have a purpose and are usefull and have turned the tables many times in what otherwise was ahopeless fight

theo,ly one i rarely use id the disarm shout not because it is a bad shout but usally by the time i get that shout i m well over lvl 30 and usually do not need it anymore

Oh, I know right? I totally get kick out of them running to a portion of a room I'm no where near.

I have one character that will use Shouts very often, named Kyne Stormbringer.

Most of My characters are the Dragonborn, but They rarely use more than a handful of Shouts.

Most dissapointing Shout, Battle Fury because of the reliable CTD it seems to create in a Civil War Battle.

I used to use Disarm a lot, until every Imperial Soldier became an Archer with the Perks to be very effective at killing the Stormcloak Reinforcements at the Spawn Points on a character.

Having a character become Encumbered by Steel Arrows is very unpleasant.

My character doesn't use them. She's too small to shout. She's a mystic archer, not a shouter.

That said, I'm glad that shouts are in the game. I think in a land where magic is so important that it is nice that burly Nordic warriors have a rather natural way of using some magic. I like the challenge offered by foes who use it.

You're never too small, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRd9PGmAQUE.

No, Shouts are just a form of magic that is hardly effective against the enemies you fight. The only useful shout is Dragon Rend, and even that has its limits.

If you want to use magic, just go with Restoration, Alteration and Destruction. Assuming they are far more useful than any shout will ever be.

I don't think I would label shouts as being ineffective or useless against any foe. In fact, they can be considered to be stupidly overpowered. While most of my characters are not Dragonborn and few of them used shouts, the one or two that did pursue the use of them found them to be of devastating effect.

I mainly didn't use shouts because the few characters that did have some interest in them was more focused on other skills and not due to the lack of shouts being powerful.

I always do.

If your current armor rating isn't enough to handle the enemy, end the fight quickly with elemental fury.

You want to clear a bandit fort with ease? Storm Call.

Dealing with a dragon priest or an enemy that is too strong for your current level? Dragon Aspect.

Marked for Death and Slow Time are also great.

Vanilla version: The only shout I used the most was Become Ethereal, the rest were either already spells in the game, were weak as hell or were just plain useless.

Modded: With mods that changed the Speechcraft tree so that it powered up shout damage/duration/decreased cooldown, shouts ended up being used a hell of a lot more. Shouts that were useless became powerful tools, I love using Frost Breath on a group of bandits to kill off the weak ones and slow down the rest or doing the same with Dragur but with the Fire Breath shout, having some of the stronger ones run around in panic ect. As for Storm Call it became amazing since the lightning strikes no longer struck friendlies and only hit enemies. And then there's Dragon Aspect... *flys away*

If I'm in a serious battle, yea. Otherwise just no.

Dragon Rend is the only one I really use, the rest are more of a novelty to me unless I'm using my old Tongue character who only uses fists and the Thu'um.