Athletics/Acrobatics Skill and Perk

[armageddon]

Athletics: Gained by running anywhere. Encourages exploration. The higher your athletics the less stamina you lose sprinting and faster you move.
Acrobatics: Gained by jumping and falling. Higher your acrobatics the higher you jump and less damage taken from falling. The higher you jump the better you can also avoid attacks from magic, melee and ranged.

Jump Attack (Acrobatics): You can now attack while jumping.
Lunge (Acrobatics): Holding forward and power attacking or attack you lunge forward hitting them.
Flash (Athletics): You take 10%/20%/30% less damage while sprinting.
Avoidance (Acrobatics): When jumping there's a 10% chance you avoid getting hit.
Counter (Acrobatics): When attacking an enemy attacking you deal 10% more damage.
Barrage (Athletics): Your melee attacks and bow/crossbow draw speed is increased by 10%/20%/30%.

[steventirey]

The Elder Scrolls games used to have both an Athletics skill and an Acrobatics skill. Both were removed as they simplified the games.

Edit: Both were in Oblivion, so they were cut for Skyrim.

[wicked lester]

Can't say I miss 'em.

[Skumboni]

Ride a horse up and down mountains to make up for them not being in the game.

[theo]

Originally posted by wicked lester:

Can't say I miss 'em.

If they removed all skills you wouldn't miss them either

[Alex]

Another notepad post lacking any sense. Are you voicing a mod request? Are you appealing to Bethesda? No idea...

[SpeedFreak1972]

I think there are mods that add them .... don't expect anything from Bethesda

[armageddon]

Originally posted by SpeedFreak1972:

I think there are mods that add them .... don't expect anything from Bethesda

I'm using an athletics/acrobatics mod that treat them like skills not sure if I got faster or jump hiigher though. No perk tree though. If I knew how to use the custom skill framework might make one (of course not tied to your progress sadly)

[alexander_dougherty]

Those skills got a bit too much if you maxed them out, you could do superman style jumps, and survive ridiculous falls.... that said I miss them

[Madao]

athletics and acrobatics made sense in Morrowind since you had to run/walk everywhere. you had very limited fast travel options.
after they added fast travel, these skills probably caused more trouble than they were worth so they got removed.
though, the possibility to buff either or both still exists in-game so I reckon the skills are still there, you just can't level them normally

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Madao:

athletics and acrobatics made sense in Morrowind since you had to run/walk everywhere. you had very limited fast travel options.
after they added fast travel, these skills probably caused more trouble than they were worth so they got removed.
though, the possibility to buff either or both still exists in-game so I reckon the skills are still there, you just can't level them normally

What ability in game buffs your jump height?

And I don't believe there's any that increase your move speed either (maybe werewolf? But that's only sprinting speed and length)

[theo]

Originally posted by Madao:

athletics and acrobatics made sense in Morrowind since you had to run/walk everywhere. you had very limited fast travel options.
after they added fast travel, these skills probably caused more trouble than they were worth so they got removed.
though, the possibility to buff either or both still exists in-game so I reckon the skills are still there, you just can't level them normally

The only kind of trouble they could make is some extra work for the developers and some extra confusion for dumb players who get lost in leveling options

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Those skills got a bit too much if you maxed them out, you could do superman style jumps, and survive ridiculous falls.... that said I miss them

And you could run so fast it got stupid if you worked your speed attribute up, but I liked it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3005533506

[Eternie]

The best part were the Boots of blinding speed ... they enabled fast travel (which was set at 200% of athletics) but at 100% blindness. making the screen go totally black such that you couldn't see anything to unequip the boots .. unless you were a Breton with natural magic resistance. .... Ah those were the days (rose coloured glasses )

[theo]

Originally posted by Eternie:

The best part were the Boots of blinding speed ... they enabled fast travel (which was set at 200% of athletics) but at 100% blindness. making the screen go totally black such that you couldn't see anything to unequip the boots .. unless you were a Breton with natural magic resistance. .... Ah those were the days (rose coloured glasses )

You know you can still play it

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Those skills got a bit too much if you maxed them out, you could do superman style jumps, and survive ridiculous falls.... that said I miss them

And you could run so fast it got stupid if you worked your speed attribute up, but I liked it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3005533506

oh yes, you ended up walking faster than you should have been able to sprint.... but it did make getting around easier.