This is something thats bothered me ever since Skyrim came out. Why turn Detect into a hold spell? Its just unnecessarily inconvenient to have to constantly walk around charging the spell, but its even worse of you're sneaking, and don't have silent casting.

I have a mod that removes this, but still. Why even make it work like that?

Mayb because of shout?

It certainly burns through magica fast as well.

So they gimp a spell that worked fine already, just to make shouts look better?

That.. Might actually be the answer. Damnit Bethesda..

Wasn't magic all together different in Oblivion? It seemed easier to use.I never played Morrowind. There is a chance im wrong but....didn't Oblivion let you hold a weapon in hand and a shield in the other and still cast spells? Slightly unrelated...but I hate the way I am so inclined to never use shields or two handed weapons anymore because of that. Always wondered why they made it that way....not to mention how simple it would be to modify the favorite system to make switching spells 100x more easy and quick. Im on the console....probably get some flame for this but a Bioshock 2 style spell changing system would have been amazing I think...at the very least let me push LEFT AND RIGHT and have 3 different favorite menus for different things.

Yes. Magic was a seperate button from attack, and block. You could switch spells, and cast them while having a Weapon+Shield, or Two-Handed weapons.