So many spells have been taken away from us when we moved to Oblivion, some of them were rather useless like Lock and some were extremely over powered like Sanctuary.
But the others in my opinions were extremely useful, Jump, Levitation, Slowfall, Blind and Sound can become spells you can learn but then maybe Detect Key, Detect Enchantment, Sanctuary, Intervention and Mark/Recall can be obtainable only with a scroll (you know, one time scroll, after you do the spell it is destroyed), this way people won't become super powered or make the game too easy by just going back to the nearest shrine etc. every time they run out of health potions.

What do you think?

Mark/Recall NEEDS TO BE IN THE GAME!!!!!

Slowfall and levitation would be wonderful as well.

Lock, being able to lock a door would be insanely useful (NPCs must respect it, though)

Blind would be a god-send for thiefs, though I'd prefer a darkness spell.

I don't think Sanctuary would work, unless they go back to the hit/miss chance from Morrowind, wouldn't mind it if they do, though.

I never understood the Sound spell. What was it's purpose?

decreased the chance of a spell being cast, it distracted them while casting.

Yea, I agree, Mark/Recall is a must be, I remember the thousands of time I was encumbered and quickly used Recall to teleport to the shop I used mark in.

Levitation was so fun! and Slowfall saved my life many times

I mean except for locking the door if you are running away I find no use for it, you can use it to get your Security stats up but really nothing else....

And yes! Blind would be amazing for myself, I like playing the stealthy characters so it would surely help

Intervention to a chapel or such, and mark/recall are a must.

Levitation is pretty important too, but it should be a rare, expensive spell. This really allows you to have awesome dungeons as in Morrowind
Jump can somewhat replace levitation if it's strong enough. So if Bethesda decides not to have levitation included, they should really have a strong jump spell instead.

The problem is, without them significantly altering fast travel, it won't :cold:


It could act as an impediment between you and enemies. Locking a door would buy you 10 seconds per 25 lock points or something.

Intervention would be over used though, unless they make only 5-10 scrolls in the whole game, this way you can use them only in real dire situations.

I'd like to see the return of the the teleportation spells (Mark/Recall and Interventions) as well as Levitation. I think they make travel more convenient, especially when deep in a dungeon and you just want to teleport out instead of walking out, or when trying to get across a mountain.

It would also be an interesting thieving strategy, now that NPCs have schedules. Walk into the shop during the day, cast mark, leave, then recall into the shop at night! :clap:

All of them.

Genius :intergalactic:

Agreed.

*CoughScrollofIcarianFlightcough* :whistling:

Fact: the only spell effects that shouldn't return are passwall and pitfalls, and that's only because they would probably make the engine go wonky.

I used it as a continue mark in duengons.

You forgot poison magic.

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The problem is, without them significantly altering fast travel, it won't :cold:

Not completely true, you could use recall/intervention while in combat. Couldn't do that with fast travel. Helps out when you found yourself facing a foe that was a much higher level than yourself.

This, especially the bolded.

But I'd love to see better animations to levitation, make the legs completely obscured by light/smoke and have the character float instead of run on air.

Everything from Morrowind except for Poison. I prefer that to be related to Alchemy.

I agree, this way you really aren't that invincible as a Mage:P
You can just poison everyone and wait until they die If i'm not mistaken that was the effect right? you just keep loosing health until you die?

If levitation is in it will most likely be very limited. they don't want you flying past all their content.

That's right, they want you to fast travel past it.