Cast with 2 hand weapon

[Muusa]

This has been requested before in some forums, but usually it ends up in discussion about how unrealistic it would be. But then again realism aint something we can use with Skyrim in general.

 

Enyways I'm looking for mod that would allow me to bind spell in different key and use it even with 2 handed weapon equipped.

 

I dont wish to swing and cast at the same time. Just that character would release second hand from sword and cast a spell.

 

Why? I find it extremely annoying to swap weapon and spell all the time in middle of combat. I need to use vampiric drain a lot.

 

I could allways go with dualwield or sword and spell but It not how I designed my character to roll.

[Ark of Truth]

Unrealistic is the right word here.

 

How are you meant to send a spell at someone if you can't use your hands? I don't think the game will allow it.

[Muusa]

Simply, let your one hand free. You dont need 2 hands to hold your 2 handed weapon just to swing with it.

 

So what I am asking is that character woud do following

 

When start casting (Using ...lets sey M3)

1. Stop swinging.

2. Move 2handed weapon to 1 hand and hold it (Unusable)

3. Use free hand to cast a spell.

 

After cast is done:

1. Stop Casting

2. Move 2 handed weapon back to both hands.

3. Start swinging.

 

This is more cosmetic than anything else. I know I can just swap spells and weapon easy but it fells quite lame to do that during the combat.

[Sabo]

It'd go well with http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16351 since in idle, two handed weapons are held with one hand, whilst the other hand could do anything, really. It'd probably work to add two handed animations like that, to one handed, then use a two-handed model for one-handed.

[remois]

A simple way would be using "more hotkey" if I remember well, it will unequip your weapon load the spell and cast it, then when you release the hotkey you'll réequip.

(correct me if I'm wrong)

[Angry Ghost]

The other option would be to allow spells to be slotted to the Shouts button "z"

which is not so hard because Elyssis made alot of mods that do that from creating special attacks to summons.

 

So it is possible and easier than you would think.

[Muusa]

Well basicly, if we think Vampiric drain:

 

How hard it would be fix animation to lauch shout animation with blood drain? Well not excatly blood but you know how it shoot this fancy red light out of characters hands when using vampiric drain.

 

Reminds me about Legacy of Kain:

http://pwrcords.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/bloodomen2pc_003-large.jpg

[R0R0N0]

You can use DarkPhoenix's script and swap the 2h weapon for a duplicate 1h version oncast, but you need a script that hotkeys the action to cast magic (or a hotkey that does the swap and casts the magic)

[BeastInShadows]

once while looking through nexus i saw a mod that turned all 2h weapons into half-swords. like the wield was 1h so they could also us a spell but the swing was still 2h.

i can't seem to find it or id show a link