Well it doesn't really matter if it is a liquid or not. it is the molecular structure of water that is relevant.

Panda: In Bioshock there was salty-water. i.e. a salt, Natriumchloride, is dissolved in the water and thus the water contains plenty of Na+ and Cl- ions which makes conductivity possible.

Well I guess you could make pure water from lakes and so on in Skyrim conduct electricity for the sake of gameplay, but I don't like it. Heck, even the gameplay benefit would be marginal.

Yeah. It works in Bioshock because enemies are just fodder, you don't actually get anything for killing them. You get rewards for killing enemies in Elder Scrolls, and being able to simply grind through everything by standing in water (which I'm assuming will be all over the place) will make combat a little too unfair for the enemies

I'd definitely go for an AoE effect though (within a certain radius of course, some bodies of water are quite large) and possibly some damage magnification. The environment would be a good factor for changing up combat. I'm also a fan of the other post that suggested freezing enemies in place if they are standing in water. It sounds like the frost trap variant spell we'll see in Skyrim. Skyrim will also feature flammable surfaces that will burn for a period of time if you light them on fire. Give damage bonuses for standing in that fire, even.

Although killing people like this was one of my favorite things to do in Bioshock and Splinter Cell I voted no simply because if you start adding this level of realism to the shock spell then you have to add it to the others as well, eg frost spell turns water to ice etc. It would be cool but would take more development time that what it is worth....in my opinion.

Makes sense to do so. Water conducts electricity does it not? Then by all means. Could be a great way for fishing too. :shocking: :tongue:

YES PLEASE That would be awesome.

Electrify water? Yes.

Boil water? Yes.

Freeze water? Yes.

You forgot "Poison water" :mohawk:

Poison water? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!!! :foodndrink:

That covers magic and stealth. What do fighters have?

Turn water into swords and fists?... I dunno....

Hit the water really hard to produce a shockwave/tsunami.