While your opponent is consuming his potion, he can't attack you - at least not with that hand. This application is not from a roleplaying perspective, it would have very real consequenses. Drinking a healing potion would be comparable to casting a healing spell - make your selection in the menu, then carry out the action when time is again passing. As soon as the item is equipped, you can leave the menu - and drink/eat by pressing the correct button, while time no longer is paused. I for one would welcome a new system where clicking on a potion/foodstuff in the inventory did not consume that item, but assigned it to a specific hand, be it left or right. It is as if all characters are equipped with some sort of medieval (yet incredibly advanced) camelbak.
Particularly annoying if your enemy is doing it - to you, it seems like your opponent is swinging away at you, but the golden glow around him reveals that he just drank a healing potion. Time stands completely still while you select and drink/eat your potion/food, and the benefits are usually applied immideately. While being able to cast a spell with a hand that is simultaneously holding a weapon might not be completely unthinkable, the way potion drinking and eating can be carried out as of now is ridiculous.
The next step, IMHO, is to assign the same function to potion drinking and eating. It is no longer possible to cast a spell with a hand that is simultaneously wielding a sword, or a shield for that matter. Skyrim changed magic in significant ways, one of which was the assignment of spells to specific hands. (Sorry if this has come up before, or is completely undoable)
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