my horse needs this

[TniEradani]

<p>The other day, in TD, a GM was giving away parrot illusions with glide.</p><p>And, for a change, the glide worked on your mount. OMG I want this soooo bad.</p><p>I remember when silver lining used to work while mounted and I could jump and not get that disruptive damage noise all the time. </p><p>And now as a Dark Elf, I've got float, but not on my mount. So I make sure and buff it before getting the horse out and when I'm jumping off something, say the cliffs in BBM to the TD griff, I cancel the horse and have float. But not always - it randomly cancels and ... I'm dead.</p><p>Sooo, since I've been /bugging this randomly cancelling float for months and they seem to not be able to fix it - why not just make float [etc] work on our mounts.</p><p>It is soooooooo nice being able to jump off things with your horse and experience the horse jumping.</p>

[Lethe5683]

I still don't get that float ability... why should elfs be able to float?

[Cusashorn]

Dark Elves, High Elves, and Erudites get a float ability due to thier racial affinity to magic.

[Britefire]

my guess....telekanises ((yes, i know i spelled that horribly wrong)

[Lethe5683]

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Dark Elves, High Elves, and Erudites get a float ability due to thier racial affinity to magic.</blockquote>But then shouldn't mages of any race get that as well?

[Aneova]

the Float ability works on on the carpet mounts

[liveja]

<cite>Trisscar@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Dark Elves, High Elves, and Erudites get a float ability due to thier racial affinity to magic.</blockquote>But then shouldn't mages of any race get that as well?</blockquote><p>Dark Elves are undoubtedly allowed to float, because D&D Drow Elves have Levitate. While obviously they're not the same Dark Elves, I'm betting the influence holds true.</p><p>I have no idea why High Elves & Erudites get it, while Mages do not get a Levitate buff. It seems to me that if it's an "affinity to magik" than Mages should get such a spell.</p><p>As a Rogue, I'm not especially happy about all the races that get a superior form of Safe Fall as a racial ability. I don't mind leveling Safe Fall, & it works fine, but there are 5 races of which I'm aware that can exceed Safe Fall at level 1.</p><p>Is it perhaps time to make some of the more powerful racial abilities level based, i.e., you don't get Hover/Float until you're higher in level? I don't know how that would work with Fae/Arasai, tho <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[DrZ3]

<cite>Aneova@Kithicor wrote:</cite><blockquote>the Float ability works on on the carpet mounts</blockquote>my dark elf warlock has the 10plat + status carpet mount from north freeport mage guild and i can say for certain float does not work with this carpet mount, i die all the time falling in BB while passing out ATK donno if it is becuae of the carpet but if float works on yours i want my coin and status back <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Cusashorn]

Just because you're a magician doesn't necissarily mean that your entire race has been practicing magic for countless millenia. For Dark Elves, High Elves, and Erudites, magic comes second nature. Everyone else has to practice and learn it first.

[woolf2k]

<cite>Trisscar@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite><blockquote>I still don't get that float ability... why should elfs be able to float?</blockquote>cause dark elfs are a bunch of faeries and faeries can float...<p>be tough , be hardened, be a barbarian!that's what stuff of life's about!</p><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />ps. I like dropping like a ton of bricks of the cliff and taking the damage... argh!I just get back up and shake it off!

[Gilasil]

<cite>Flaye@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Trisscar@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Dark Elves, High Elves, and Erudites get a float ability due to thier racial affinity to magic.</blockquote>But then shouldn't mages of any race get that as well?</blockquote><p>Dark Elves are undoubtedly allowed to float, because D&D Drow Elves have Levitate. While obviously they're not the same Dark Elves, I'm betting the influence holds true.</p><p>I have no idea why High Elves & Erudites get it, while Mages do not get a Levitate buff. It seems to me that if it's an "affinity to magik" than Mages should get such a spell.</p><p>As a Rogue, I'm not especially happy about all the races that get a superior form of Safe Fall as a racial ability. I don't mind leveling Safe Fall, & it works fine, but there are 5 races of which I'm aware that can exceed Safe Fall at level 1.</p><p>Is it perhaps time to make some of the more powerful racial abilities level based, i.e., you don't get Hover/Float until you're higher in level? I don't know how that would work with Fae/Arasai, tho <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p></blockquote><p>There are some nice abilities.  My Iksar has water breathing (got it at 10 though).  I like it a lot and wouldn't trade it for float.   A lot of the racial abilities are crappy but there's some nice ones in there.  Iksar have an optional ability that reduces falling damage by 25%.  I didn't take it.</p><p>It wasn't all that hard to get safe fall up to a respectable value.  Nowadays there's few things I can jump off of and not survive.  Most times I jump off something I don't even get damage.</p>