LE [Request] Dragon Stances

[Nowhereville]

At anytime during combat, the player can shout to change stances into his chosen dragon fighting form. This would affect player stance, how they hold their weapons and combat chains in place of power attacks. There would be multiple stances attached to weapon loadout:

 

- Sword and Board

- Dual Wield weapons

- 2H weapon

- 1h weapon and offensive spell

- 1h weapon and defensive spell

 

Using any power attack or directional power attack will launch the player into a different associated 4 or 5 strike combat chain as opposed to a single power attack. If damage calculated at onset of the attack will bring the enemy's health below 0, then upon completion the attack would end in a slow-mo killmove. If the player is staggered while performing an attack chain he is stunned and the chain is broken. Stamina continues to drain throughout the chain... if the player releases the attack button mid chain, the move in effect completes and the chain ends.

 

Different stances could favour the player with different bonuses and balancing risks:

 

- More defensive stances cutting down on damage taken but weakens attacks

- More aggressive stances allowing the player to do more overall damage but leaving themselves open to counter damage

- Berserker stances upping attack speed and AoE damage but with high stamina drain and low health drain

- Spell Empowerment stances that push up damaging offensive spells but make the player more susceptible to elemental damage

- Defensive spell stances that multiply the effects of those spells but cause a higher magic drain

 

Theoretically there would be 10 different stance chain attacks available to each weapon loadout. One for regular power attack, four more for the directional power attacks, then 5 more for both hand power attacks. Initially there should be one stance available for each weapon loadout, but as the mod progresses additional stances could be added so the player has even more choices to make while using their favourite weapon loadout.

 

Sound doable?

[Nowhereville]

A thought about how to introduce this into the game...

 

Add a monument/statue of some sort that can be activated at High Hrothgar. Different stances would cost a certain amount of Dragon Souls to purchase. I originally thought that adding an NPC would be better, but the amount of greybeards is pretty intrinsic to the story. Possibly placing an NPC in another location and have him as a rogue Greybeard. Possibly even joining the Blades at a certain point in the storyline (I don't want to put any spoilers here) and offering to train the Dragonborn in these stances in exchange for souls. Requirements for stances would be based on perk tree levels... for isntance you would have to have a certain level in one handed and block to be able to purchase sword and board stances.