If you didn’t play WoW back then: Levitate’s animation used to be visually apparent, with one foot hanging slightly below the other, and pointed towards the ground. Now you literally just raise up and stand in the same position as normal.
Would it really be that difficult for New Blizzard to restore the old animation?
Unbreakable video as reference :
Working like in Vanilla
Which race are you trying it on? Because if you’re a human, you never had the one-foot-up look. Check the screenshots from back then: classic . wowhead. com /spell=1706/levitate.
Or maybe the animation is from TBC?
Regardless of human or not, even with a human you can see the feet are pointed towards the ground.
The levitate animation was not the default standing animation for any race / gender combo.