SaveVsBedWet
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1. I did manage to dual wield axe and sword. It was a bit random so I had to make the decision before entering combat.
I read your whole thing and must say, glad it wasn't just me who came away with my same impressions. On this one here though. You were able to dual wield without a "spell" being bought that makes you do a combo move? Were you a Redguard and got to do that because of a race bonus or was it something else? Perhaps mine was a spell because Dr. D'Irsei is a Breton?
Also, are you saying you were actually able to swing right and left hands independently at will like the single player game? How when there aren't independent keyboard or mouse mappings for each hand?
Did you figure out a way to directly change the weapon in a particular hand, or to put the weapon you want in a particular hand mid-fight? A goblin gave me a beating while I tried to cycle my old poor quality axe for a better axe of the same material but couldn't do it until finally grabbing a two handed maul which cleared both hand slots and then re-arming the two axes I wanted in order, right hand and then left hand. That's really going to be tough with 70+ people on the screen and any number of them noticing that your character is either standing stock still in the middle of battle or constantly having weapons appear and disappear.
I was a Nord, but binding a weapon in each hand was a bit of a lottery for me. Thinking about it, I selected dual wield in the skill line when I was exploring the menus and got the twin slashes spell which is instantaneous. But it was still a pain getting a single handed weapon in each hand.
Changing mid-fight always went badly for me. So I stopped trying.
Yup you went the same way I did. I got dual slashes, and then leveled up again and it which gave me a 4 attack combo. Funny too is that the upgrade got added as a new spell and took up its own slot. So then I had the option of doing the dual slash or the Pearl Harbor Job attack (which I must admit is really funny even if it doesn't appear to be hurting people). It dropped nearly everyone within two applications.
I ended up either using the bow or maul OR using the weapons I walked into a fight with in each hand. Either dual axes or an axe and a mace. Never changing until alone. That sucks. Especially if bound weapons have charging systems like the single player game, and even as it stands now with weapon degradation. Nothing worse than being jumped with weapons sheathed and finding out mid-fight that you should have dropped everything and ran to a weapon smith or Mages Guild or secured and filled soul gems before...heading to the outhouse.
Yeah...