How does levitate work?

[Player333676]

I can just move up and down, but that is completely useless.. Can't even grab a ledge or anything.
Also, how can I cancel the levitate spell?

[Another nobody]

levitation feels broken , i cast it on my pally , the mage has the option to move the pally up and down in block like lvls , but the pally cant move , it says no path to destination , a simple 1 block ledge , i use mage to raise pally up 1 and still cant move him to ledge , other characters without levitate can just climb up / down no issue , but the pally with levitate just cant seem to go anywhere with levitate on seems broken to me , if u know a fix for this plz let me know

[Traveler]

So this has never been fixed? Cast levitate on a character and now they cant move, even down. And there's no cancel that I see.

Do I just sit around for 10 min real time till it ends?

[Fullmetal Schizoid]

Originally posted by Traveler:

So this has never been fixed? Cast levitate on a character and now they cant move, even down. And there's no cancel that I see.

Do I just sit around for 10 min real time till it ends?

You can just stop concentrating on the spell. Spell moves target only up or down and it's the caster who controls the movement (would be pointless to cast it on enemies otherwise). In pnp target also can move up or down by pushing/pulling against the nearby wall, but I guess devs had decided to not implement this. For the tower quest you need either fly spell/scroll/potion or to levitate your mage up and misty step them on the ledge.

[Player333676]

Originally posted by Traveler:

So this has never been fixed? Cast levitate on a character and now they cant move, even down. And there's no cancel that I see.

Do I just sit around for 10 min real time till it ends?

The goal of the spell is not to fly, it's for those two purposes:
1) Cast it on one of your ranged fighters or mages to keep them save from melee attacks.
2) Cast it on a melee enemy to let them float and prevent them from attacking you.

It works as intented.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Player333676:

Originally posted by Traveler:

So this has never been fixed? Cast levitate on a character and now they cant move, even down. And there's no cancel that I see.

Do I just sit around for 10 min real time till it ends?

The goal of the spell is not to fly, it's for those two purposes:
1) Cast it on one of your ranged fighters or mages to keep them save from melee attacks.
2) Cast it on a melee enemy to let them float and prevent them from attacking you.

It works as intented.

You can also raise an enemy, best on melee fighter, then cancel concentration on the spell so they take fall damage. How it is implemented I never found much use for it so I choose other spells that are the same level of spell.

[Fullmetal Schizoid]

Originally posted by Ommamar:

You can also raise an enemy, best on melee fighter, then cancel concentration on the spell so they take fall damage. How it is implemented I never found much use for it so I choose other spells that are the same level of spell.

You can't actually, when you drop concentration target just floats down and suffers no fall damage, as per original full spell description.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Fullmetal Schizoid:

Originally posted by Ommamar:

You can also raise an enemy, best on melee fighter, then cancel concentration on the spell so they take fall damage. How it is implemented I never found much use for it so I choose other spells that are the same level of spell.

You can't actually, when you drop concentration target just floats down and suffers no fall damage, as per original full spell description.

I will have to try it again as it was a while ago but when I did it the enemy took fall damage but it was only 10 points so I didn't consider it a very good strategy so I only did it that once. I felt the same way about it as I did pushing an object on an enemy, a cool idea but a lot of things had to be just right for it to be worth it. Usually there are better actions to take so I tried both things once then abandon them as valid strategies to spend time on. The only thing I could think was they fell into an AE spell if they do in fact just float down. It might of been black tentacles as this was soon after release.

[Raul Pateides]

what you wanna do is cast fly on your party members, and levitate on enemies for the lulz.