jmroy81891 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Ok so my proposal is being able to use a staff as a weapon for both magic & clobbering. This way mages have the ability to block aswell as bash enemys when they get to close to stagger them! The staff's skill could be influenced by destruction so it can benefit the mage, any other ideas guys? I think this idea would be really cool and add a whole new aspect to mages :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amycus Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I think the largest problem with that would be how to configure the controls. Even if you do it so that left mousebutton shoots a spell and the right blocks, what should be the button for melee attack? Not bashing the idea itself, but I think it needs to be properly thought out beforehand if it is going to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erenyx Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I think the largest problem with that would be how to configure the controls. Even if you do it so that left mousebutton shoots a spell and the right blocks, what should be the button for melee attack? Not bashing the idea itself, but I think it needs to be properly thought out beforehand if it is going to work. Really? Which button to assign to what? Maybe I'm missing some thing but probably any other f***ing button on the mouse or keyboard would work. A combination of any ctrl/alt/shift click would work fine or make it easily customizable for the player to decide. Even holding down BOTH mouse buttons would be very practical and familiar to most people. Use the controller? Hold both triggers to fire an enchanted staff with default melee controls. This idea has a lot of potential. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amycus Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) I think the largest problem with that would be how to configure the controls. Even if you do it so that left mousebutton shoots a spell and the right blocks, what should be the button for melee attack? Not bashing the idea itself, but I think it needs to be properly thought out beforehand if it is going to work. Really? Which button to assign to what? Maybe I'm missing some thing but probably any other f***ing button on the mouse or keyboard would work. A combination of any ctrl/alt/shift click would work fine or make it easily customizable for the player to decide. Even holding down BOTH mouse buttons would be very practical and familiar to most people. Use the controller? Hold both triggers to fire an enchanted staff with default melee controls. This idea has a lot of potential. +1Well, simply using another keyboard button could work, but it is essantially going back to the old Oblivion usage of magic. So sure its possible, but it would suffer of the same problem that was in oblivion (where you could use a spell by pressing the "C" key, and using a weapon didnt change how that worked): Using spells primarly would feel really clunky. That was at least why all my oblivion characters only used magic as support. Its also the same reason to why they didnt let you block while dual wielding swords. Simply hard to get the controls to work in a comfertable way. That being said, might be an idea (like you said) to make you either block or use a melee atack while holding down both mousebuttons. Edited March 2, 2012 by amycus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpio9 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Well if Skyrim had spears (support, models, anims...) than it would be easy to make - take one spear or staff, duplicate it, make one melee and other cast magic.Create hotkey that (when presses) changes between two (spears or staffs) when equipped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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