LE Cast spells with weapons

[thewitchmaker]

Okay, shoot me if this has already been done, but I propose a mod that allows you to cast spells even when you're holding a two-handed weapon or dual-wielding one-handed weapons.

 

Mostly, I just find it to be a massive pain in the ass to have to switch back and forth between, say, a battleaxe and one spell. It leaves me completely vulnerable while the unsheathing animation is running right after switching back.

 

Now, I'm a primarily offensive fighter. I do not do a whole lot of blocking. My idea would be to still be able to use a spell with the right mouse button (or left, or whatever i dont care) while using your 2-handed weapon with the other. Hell, i dont even need a special animation (although that would be cool) you can just use the blocking animation and cast a spell from that position.

 

I'll take a risk and say this can't be too terribly difficult to achieve, but I honestly don't know. pretty much everything is difficult to achieve from my point of view, understanding scripting/programming about as well as a hummingbird understands string theory (hell, I don't even understand string theory).

 

Any consideration would be great, thanks.

[Valkasha]

What makes you say this isn't difficult to achieve? Do you have experience making mods?

[lofgren]

It's feasible for aimed or self-targeting spells, which is most of them. What I'm not sure about is how you would tell the UI which spell you have "equipped." It might make more sense to create a series of enchantments like the bloodskal blade that allow you to cast spells with the weapon equipped.

[thewitchmaker]

It's feasible for aimed or self-targeting spells, which is most of them. What I'm not sure about is how you would tell the UI which spell you have "equipped." It might make more sense to create a series of enchantments like the bloodskal blade that allow you to cast spells with the weapon equipped.

I didn't think about that. But yeah, something like that would be perfect. Like, swords that you can apply spells to that use up mana instead of stamina for power attacks. Again, I'm clueless here as to what is doable or not. I know you can already enchant things, but I'm thinking more like ranged spells like your basic flame attack. Maybe just applying the same animation that staves use to other 1-handed weapons?

 

/shrugs

 

i dont even know.

[Lotus97]

You can do it with this mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36328/?

You can even adjust the cost and/or set a cooldown to make it balanced.