Pausing using the menu function is a bit different from the use that was in DD, BD and is planned for ED.
It allows you to pause, select your target, choose your skill, unpause, pause, select target, select skill, unpause, etc ...
Giving you great tactical advantage, time to think over the situatation. Hence taking the away a bit the need for fast reAction. But not ED not beeing an Action RPG is for other reasons than merely the pause button.
