I'm guessing this has been brought up already but could not find it. Please bring back Levitation but under one condition....please get rid of that strange looking walking while levitating !! Your char should either rise up with legs dangling down or in a sitting cross legged fashion.

Now on to flying.... yes that could be a different skill or maybe an advanced level of levitation. Levitation could start out as a simple short way to hover and move through the air and could evolve into a superman style way to fly. Having this capability could also allow for areas to be designed that you can only get to if you have this skill. Imagine dungeons up high in a cliff, and maybe get there using a jump spell as well. If there are going to be dragons and I haven't heard if they can become mounts, but it would be cool to also have sky battles either from flying or dragon riding.

Personally, I do not want sky battles on dragons and the only time I want to fly is if I am falling off a mountain. I could accept having a dragon fly me to an unreachable location (to start or complete a quest). Levitation is ok with me but I really don't care if it is there or not.

I quite miss Levitation from Morrowind, especially when you needed to use it to get places(some dwemer ruins as well as most telvanni Strongholds). I'm not picky on the animation though, I personally see no need to change the "walking in the air" approach.

I would love to see Levitation make a return! :happy:

But I don't know why people want so badly to mount Dragons. They were never really meant to be tamed creature's and few even exist in the Elder Scrolls world. :confused:

I used levitaion all the time in morrowind so I say bring it back.

That was probably my biggest disappointment in Oblivion, when I realized levitation was gone. Getting an aerial view of the cities and landscape was amazing, and of course allowed you to reach otherwise unreachable locations.

Levitation is probably pretty hard on enemies ai... not sure how it would be fair unless every enemy can knock you out of the sky or something.

Levitation should be brought back for sure , I don't get why people wanna mount dragons either honestly, it seems tame and character ruining to me.

Levitation should be back! Don't really care about 3rd person animations though since I play mostly in 1st person, so if they use the default walking it wont bother me a bit. As long as we can levitate, its all good.

If I remember rightly, they got rid of levitation in the MW Mournhold expansion before Oblivion: but I do agree, flying above the cityscapes was a real buzz. I hope it comes back!

I agree with this. Levitation is awesome, and I'm perfectly fine with the walking in the air animation.

The only enemies it was hard on were those using hand-to-hand combat. Archers could shoot at you just as easily in the air as on the ground, even moreso since levitating cut down drastically on your ability to dodge such attacks. Same with mages.

Besides since when is magic supposed to fair. The whole point of using levitation in a battle is to make it unfair. Surely you're not going to complain that you don't want shield or invisibility spells ingame either because they make it unfair for the enemy, what with not being able to see you. (Levitation also cost quite a bit of magic in Morrowind so unless you were a high level mage or stocked up on potions it was more for short bursts)

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Yah there were alot of melee enemies so saying screw them isnt really a solution though... I would like levitate but only if they could make it so it wouldnt trump melee enemies.

Two words: Slow Fall.

I still don't understand this compulsion of yours to not use magic for the purpose of being magical. Fairness is not in the mage's dictionary. I know, I wrote it... twice (the first time I forgot to put the word necromanancer in there and some pen-pusher got all uppity, so I had to redraft it). :celebrate:

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I'd like levitation in the game under one condition: They need to bring back the climbing skill. I want the return of the way to get around without levitation in tough terrain, especially in Skyrim where there are mountains all over. Climbing gear being included would be nice as well.

Check out the Starlover's Log in Morrowind, it's the journal of a dragon rider. I'm not a fan of dragon riding either, but it's already in Morrowind's lore, so people will want it.

Some of those stories... were probably just stories though.

Levitation can stay gone since it's likely that cities will occupy their own cells again. On the morrowind discussion, everyone knows maximum jump and acrobatics spells with a 1 point constant slowfall effect were the best way to cross mountains. Levitation was just to cheese Vivec.

You found that dragon's skeleton in Battlespire.

Yah not the dragon the story about a dragon rider...

(Backing up WKinkade) There are quite a lot of spells that trumped melee users in Oblivion. My low level mage could disintegrate their weapon in two hits. Didn't cost much magic either, and most of the time they were powerless to do anything after that. Mages are usually harder to play as so having "cheap" powers gives you the upper hand sometimes.

I hope that everything is in the same cell (except underground/houses etc.) That would be the main reason to have no levitation in Skyrim I would think.

True there was alot of things... standing on a roof being another one. Id say being impossible to hit is beyond just cheap though.

I'm afraid to say it, but this is one of those times when it's reasonable to say, if you don't want it, don't use it. A lot of people want levitation so if it's possible they should put it in. If you don't want to be impossible to hit, don't use levitation. It's the same thing with 100% chameleon in Oblivion. I'm sure people who think it's not fair to the ai don't have trouble not using it. But a lot of people find it fun, and it's a single player game so it's not as if using 100% chameleon or levitation is going to affect someone else.

IIRC levitation took alot of magic, and alot of skill, in Morrowind to pull of successfully. Most low level mages couldn't pull it off, and if you're a high level mage you've got a half dozen spells that make it impossible to hit you anyway, and a half dozen others that make nullify their hits once they do it you. :intergalactic:

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Seeing as how Fallout 3 introduced http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/gamesas_Tutorial_Optimization (invisible rooms that blocked everything out that it wasn't connected to), Bethesda clearly has the ability to maintain decent performance without walling off cities, which were really the only reason Levitation wasn't in Oblivion.

So, there's no real reason Levitation can't be in Skyrim. And with all the mountains, it's safe to say it'd be an absolute godsend. (As would Slowfall spells and a Climb/Mountaineering skill!)

Yah alot of magicka then.. gulp potion np.