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%.

[armageddon]

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

Kind of made sense with the progress of a thief like character. Being able to run and jump ridiculously high and fast made it so you can run from guards. The idea of a Khajit thief was you jump up on roofs and stay out of the guards view.

[armageddon]

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

Fair enough but in Survival Mode you can't use fast travel in Skyrim. Having athletics and acrobatics would make it worth it when you reach high levels.

I like the Fast Travel in KCD which made it so you moved to a destination like a chess piece and there were random encounters that can get in your way kind of like DnD board games. Kingdom Come Deliverance in case you don't know the initials.

[Alex]

Every subsequent TES game lowered the number of skills. Some, like the various languages won't be missed, but removing athletics and acrobatics was a bad choice. However, since the franchise is steadily moving towards being an action-RPG, this simplification was expected. I mean, they even got rid of the primary attributes! Most likely, we'll get even fewer skills in TES6.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Originally posted by 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)

Warlock Ring, Ring of Khajit, and Ring of Wind, all have the "Fast" enchantment, and increase your movement speed by 5%, 10% and 15% respectively. The first two rings can be obtained through the fishing quests, and the Ring of Wind can be obtained randomly through fishing.

Ring of Wind also has a bug where its speed effect increases based on your current illusion fortification, so drinking a fortify illusion potion 100% makes the 15% speed increase go up to 30%, drinking a 1000% fortify illusion potion (through the classic fortify exploit with alchemy/enchanting and restoration) would make the ring provide 150% speed instead of the normal 15%.
The effect persists even after the fortify effect fades as long as you put the ring on during the fortify illusion effect.


There's also two creation content items that have the "fast" enchant. One for a weapon called "Bloodthirst" added by the "Dawnfang & Duskfang" creation, and then the other one is "Boots of Blinding Speed" which is added by the "Netch Leather Armor" creation.

Bloodthirst only increases speed by 7%, although it is a weapon.

Boots of Blinding Speed increases your speed by 100% - with the caveat that it also blinds you by making the screen very dark. The item comes from the original Morrowind where it basically did the same thing.



As for stuff that increases jump height? Nothing adds that as far as I am aware without third-party modding.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by armageddon:

Kingdom Come Deliverance in case you don't know the initials.

When I got lassoed into a drunken ten-minute FMV orgy with a priest and two hookers, I just about gave up on that game. I had to use SAM to *remove* the achievement for it. When I later had to choose which farm animal to have sex with, I had it removed from my account.

They burned down your village and everyone you've known or loved. They killed your parents, and you had to bury them. They stole your father's greatest work ... his sword. Now you must face up to your choice ... which farm animal to screw.

Worst game ever.

[Alex]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by armageddon:

Kingdom Come Deliverance in case you don't know the initials.

When I got lassoed into a drunken ten-minute FMV orgy with a priest and two hookers, I just about gave up on that game. I had to use SAM to *remove* the achievement for it. When I later had to choose which farm animal to have sex with, I had it removed from my account.

They burned down your village and everyone you've known or loved. They killed your parents, and you had to bury them. They stole your father's greatest work ... his sword. Now you must face up to your choice ... which farm animal to screw.

Worst game ever.

WAT[media1.tenor.com]

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by armageddon:

Kingdom Come Deliverance in case you don't know the initials.

When I got lassoed into a drunken ten-minute FMV orgy with a priest and two hookers, I just about gave up on that game. I had to use SAM to *remove* the achievement for it. When I later had to choose which farm animal to have sex with, I had it removed from my account.

They burned down your village and everyone you've known or loved. They killed your parents, and you had to bury them. They stole your father's greatest work ... his sword. Now you must face up to your choice ... which farm animal to screw.

Worst game ever.

Not even close.
There are far worse games out there.