What Shouts do you actually use in Skyrim?

SHARP546

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I find that I only use one Shout, really. The Become Ethereal Shout. The offensive shouts take too long to cooldown and the others are just useless imo. If you're an idiot like me and refuse to fast travel, Become Ethereal is very useful. For one, you don't use stamina while ethereal so you can sprint for a good while longer. It's also useful when 'fast travelling' down mountains or running like a scared little girl from a boss you aren't prepared to fight.
So, what do you guys think?
 

GundamSentinel

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SHARP546 said:
I find that I only use one Shout, really. The Become Ethereal Shout. The offensive shouts take too long to cooldown and the others are just useless imo. If you're an idiot like me and refuse to fast travel, Become Ethereal is very useful. For one, you don't use stamina while ethereal so you can sprint for a good while longer. It's also useful when 'fast travelling' down mountains or running like a scared little girl from a boss you aren't prepared to fight.
Same. Why use shouts that have stupidly long cooldown and are nowhere near as effective as the weapons and magic I'm carrying? Hell, some of the shouts in the game I've not even tried once, even though I've played for a very long time.
 

Jynthor

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Force Push - I play a melee only character, the stagger effect is useful.
Fire Breath/Ice Breath - Mostly used to I have ranged attacks against dragons, and sometimes they're fun against normal enemies as well.
Other than that, I don't use a lot.
 

RedEyesBlackGamer

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Elemental Fury turns a dual wielder into a god of war and Dragonrend forces those pesky dragons to land.
 

Zhukov

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When I played I only used fus-ro-dah in combat and ethereal form for jumping off cliffs.

I also used elemental fury for a bit, but it doesn't work with enchanted weapons.

Tried the disarm one, but it never worked on anything powerful enough to bother disarming.

All the other ones were kinda superfluous.
 

SoranMBane

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Dragonrend when fighting dragons, of course.

Aura Whisper whenever I'm sneaking, so I know exactly what's ahead of me while moving through dungeons.

Become Ethereal, usually just as a fast way to descend extremely long drops, and sometimes to run past traps.

Fire Breath to cause quick damage if I've got multiple enemies in front of me.

Unrelenting Force, because it is at once iconic, useful, and kind of hilarious.

Whirlwind Sprint to dash past traps or as a means of reaching areas I normally wouldn't be able to reach.

And those are the only ones I tend to use on a regular basis, unfortunately. I should probably vary it a little more than I do. Marked For Death in particular is a Shout that I want to get into the habit of using more often; it can essentially turn an enemy's armor into cardboard, all while slowly leeching away their health. Potentially very useful against damage sponge enemies like higher-level dragons and draugr. Slow Time might also be useful for my mage character. She doesn't have bullet time on her ranged attacks like my archery specialists do, so that could be a good way to compensate and improve her aim (something I think her slightly-crispy follower would appreciate very much).
 

HarryScull

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i use become ethereal to jump of cliffs
whirlwind sprint to evade dragon/mage/archer attacks
FUS RO DAH to keep melee enemies away
FUS to stagger enemies so they are easy targets
and when im bored i use summon storm, or as i like to call it fuck it kill everything
 

Emiscary

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Ethereal for cliffjumping purposes, Slow Time for crowds, Force for lulz. That being said, I played an Orc Werewolf and I very rarely needed to use any of them. Berzerk + Beast Form = dead anything pretty quick.
 

RJ 17

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Pretty much what everyone else has already said...

Ethereal for taking shortcuts off tall mountains.

Dragon Rend to make dragons land and take my lazer-beam-death-ray (master lightning) spell to the face.

Aura Whisper is incredibly useful for playing the sneaky type like me.

I even used the voice throw distraction on more than one occassion.

Actually I never used the MEMEalicious Fus Ro Dah that much.

Oh, and for every major siege during the Civil War, I used the summon dragon shout. It was pretty sweet. :3
 

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Ice Form is a really clutch shout and maxed slow time is one of the most broken abilities in the game.
 

TheCaptain

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Marked for Death against dragons, Whirlwind Sprint and Unrelenting Force mostly for shits and giggles. And Clear Skies for some scenery gawking from time to time.
 

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Dragonrend and ice breath are really the only shouts I use. I have to get those annoying dragons to land. But I don't use them that much, to be honest. I prefer good old mace-to-the-face killing
 

Canadamus Prime

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Fire Breath for quick kills esp if I notice some oil on the floor.
Dragonrend for bringing down dragons
And Clear Skies when I don't feel like wandering through a snow storm.