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Magicka requires thought and concentration. Can you muster both while choking on blood, and the roaring pain of an arrow just ripped through you?
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Perhaps not, but remember rule 1 of adventuring: Never go alone

It's hardly like The Elder Scrolls games subscribe to this sort of thinking, but equally the characters depicted have no problems with healing themselves from the direst circumstances and drinking 10 potions in the space of 0 seconds

I always preferred Morrowind's healing. It wasn't instant, you could drink a potion or cast a spell and you would slowly regenerate health. You could also drink more potions to speed up the healing process

The later games sort of lost this, and as a result are really easy. "Oh, low on health, click on potion 5 times and I'm fine again."