Rework Levitate Animation

Lepermessiah-thunderlord · February 21, 2019, 10:19am

Amongst the myriad of other changes I believe are needed for priests, I would like to see a change to the appearance of Levitate. Get rid of the freaking sparkles and make it so characters don’t lift one leg like they’re cutting the cheese. I do think that you should be able to control direction when falling with levitate and slowfall as well.

Leiloni-area-52 · February 21, 2019, 3:04pm

I never thought of it that way lol. But what bothers me more than the animation is where you go. If you levitate off a cliff you never get a nice straight fall, you fall at a deep angle so you end up far away from where you wanted to go. It’s often inconvenient and makes the skill less useful than it could be.

Lepermessiah-thunderlord · February 21, 2019, 4:12pm

It helps to have a macro set up so you can cancel aura and reapply, that way you can have a little more control over where you land. Globals have a little bit of an impact on that now though.

Vaalrn-silvermoon · February 22, 2019, 8:22pm

The stance doesn’t bother me that much, but I would like it to act more like the levitation animation for Void Form. The levitating lean is cool

Leodegrance-hakkar · February 24, 2019, 3:21am

I want this! If levitate worked like void form, I’d levitate everywhere

Chipper-whisperwind · February 24, 2019, 6:19am

I love the stance. Don’t take it from me you monster!

Sermonator-trollbane · February 25, 2019, 6:03pm

You must have forgotten what it was like before the “new” stance. You just looked exactly the same as normal, just a foot off the ground. I like the new one better.

Ravenborne-azralon · February 25, 2019, 6:22pm

I used to play on Private Servers when I was a kid and my parents didn’t like paying for videogames at the time.

I can’t remember correctly, but I think this was from a private server (correct me if I am wrong): Levitate would move you straight up to the surface if you were underwater very, very quickly. It kind of makes sense and I would like it coming to live (or coming back if it was actually there in the past).

Regarding the stance, well, if you watch DBZ you will see that most characters use a similar stance when they are flying and their feet have no real reason to stand straight. It makes sense for the feet to be dangling like that.