You mean weird like flexing your muscles and a undead skele rises out of the ground? Or weird like clenching your butt cheeks and making a storm suddenly swirl around you?

Tessitura wrote: »

Why cant we dodge roll and break free with magicka? Just asking.

you dont cast spells with stamina, you use ancient secret combat techniques that you activate with your bodies energy

I argue if you give birth to a shadow assassin baby that it takes a lot of stamina. You don’t know where those summons are coming from

Recremen wrote: »

Tessitura wrote: »

You mean weird like flexing your muscles and a undead skele rises out of the ground? Or weird like clenching your butt cheeks and making a storm suddenly swirl around you?

That's totally canon though, lots of weird martial techniques are floating around Nirn. If anything ESO is closer to the lore in terms of the janky hooha heroes are able to pull off if they hold their blade Just So.

Well, then if we are talking about canon, you can use magicka to run faster, jump higher, swing a weapon quicker, etc.. why not use magicka to dodge?

The truth is the thematic difference between magicka and stamina in this game is terrible, because the whole system was half-baked (at best) during launch and stamina combat was ad hoc after the fact due to popular demand for a true "warrior" archetype that was missing from all the magicka based classes.

danno8 wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

Tessitura wrote: »

You mean weird like flexing your muscles and a undead skele rises out of the ground? Or weird like clenching your butt cheeks and making a storm suddenly swirl around you?

That's totally canon though, lots of weird martial techniques are floating around Nirn. If anything ESO is closer to the lore in terms of the janky hooha heroes are able to pull off if they hold their blade Just So.

Well, then if we are talking about canon, you can use magicka to run faster, jump higher, swing a weapon quicker, etc.. why not use magicka to dodge?

The truth is the thematic difference between magicka and stamina in this game is terrible, because the whole system was half-baked (at best) during launch and stamina combat was ad hoc after the fact due to popular demand for a true "warrior" archetype that was missing from all the magicka based classes.

Sure, just cast a spell to run faster, like Race Against Time. Oh wait that takes up an ability slot. I guess a magicka dodge would do that too, probably. Since that's just how spells work?

IneedaDollar wrote: »

Breaking free could be explained somehow but magicka dodge rolls would be a little bit weird.

I think instead of dodgerolls they implemented like a very short teleport that was the same distance as a dodgeroll (kind of like streak) that costs magicka instead of stamina would be cool and would make sense for a magicka dodge ability. Definitely feel like that would cause so many bugs though.