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In the more recent footage of the player reanimating the chicken he charges the spell first using both his hands. So what I'm wondering is

-Do you have to charge a reanimation spell for it to reanimate?
-What will the spell do uncharged ? (one hand) will it do anything?
-Does charging effect the duration of the reanimation(e.g charged = 30 seconds, uncharged = 10seconds)?

I'm sure there are other things that I could ask, but It's late so...what do you guys think on the matter?

Well, none of us can confirm any of your questions, but we can speculate.

1. My guess is yes. Reanimating the dead cannot be simple, and seems like a really difficult task. So if you could just do it mid-combat, in a 1-sec cast, it would be too "unrealistic", if you can say that for a TES game. Reanimating requires time, and therefore it needs to be charged (I might be wrong).

2. Uncharged, it would have a severely decreased effect - decreased duration and damage perhaps.

3. Perhaps - maybe other factors come into play such as HP, dmg, speed and so on.

According to this review there is no problem reanimating mid-combat.\
I suspect the person who recorded that used the 2-hand-overcharge just to make the shot look cooler.

Either that, or they just stay 'alive' for longer if you use two hands.

i would speculate that using two-handed overcharge cast would increase the durration and effects, like with all other spells, or maybe it depends on what your trying to reanimate, because they talk about spell interactions and how different spell combinations do different things, im assuming everything can be raised with only a 1handed cast, im wondering if you can combine restoration/illusion/bound items/destruction magic to your summoned minions to charge them with different effects, that would be awesome, aww man now im definately gunna be using conjuration and get that animate spell

SilentPsycho wrote:Either that, or they just stay 'alive' for longer if you use two hands.

Oh yeah probably. I meant he didn't need to use 2 hands to make that SHORT CLIP. The human resurrections in the review last longer then the chicken shot.

So we are talking about ANOTHER new feature in this game. Charged spells. has this been discussed anywhere else?
I now wonder if all the spells have a charged feature. (in addition to the two-handed which alone makes spells stronger)

On topic: What's been said already makes the most sense. Bethy seems to be working alot of the gray, in-between areas of things!

Wouldn't it be cool if for smaller animals reviving them was permanent. Also, when you are at a high enough level, you could do the same to bigger things.

POMC S117 wrote:Wouldn't it be cool if for smaller animals reviving them was permanent. Also, when you are at a high enough level, you could do the same to bigger things.

I was thinking a similar thing...

Imagine raising an army of resurrected NPCs, sacking town after town... I guess we can only hope. xD

I can imagine after beating a dragon maing it come back as a skeleton dragon.

That would rock.

Could you provide the link the the video where they resurrect the chicken? I can't seem to locate it at the moment.

DerangedPickle wrote:I can imagine after beating a dragon maing it come back as a skeleton dragon.

That would rock.

hmmm....

"Phew, I just killed Alduin! Hardest boss ever!

....

*casts re-animate spell*

Awwwww crap...."

Zero_The_Dark wrote:Could you provide the link the the video where they resurrect the chicken? I can't seem to locate it at the moment.

03:45 @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73wX9USpi0

DerangedPickle wrote:I can imagine after beating a dragon maing it come back as a skeleton dragon.

That would rock.

Or maybe a ghost of a dragon

Ah yes, there is only one they fear. His name is...Dragonghost!

SuperNull wrote:

Zero_The_Dark wrote:Could you provide the link the the video where they resurrect the chicken? I can't seem to locate it at the moment.

03:45 (link removed because I'm not yet allowed to post them)

Apparently comcast doesn't like your link and removed the video =/. Anywhere else I could view it?

It's hundreds of years past Oblivion times, so maybe people aren't so good at reanimating anymore. It would be cool if you had to perform like a mini ritual to bring something back to life, like a super super charged spell. Only necromancy masters should be able to cast the spell in seconds.

One reviewer found a "Staff of Zombies", which could reanimate things. (lesser animals, I suppose)

in oblivion we couldn't reanimate animals... hopefully we can now. But in the demo vid, the chickens dead body just sat there.

Tesknowitall wrote:in oblivion we couldn't reanimate animals... hopefully we can now. But in the demo vid, the chickens dead body just sat there.

-cough cough- Staff of worms.

Frogmander wrote:

Tesknowitall wrote:in oblivion we couldn't reanimate animals... hopefully we can now. But in the demo vid, the chickens dead body just sat there.

-cough cough- Staff of worms.

Spoiler:

you get it from killing Mannamarco at the end of the mages guild.

I know ahaha, Ive never reanimated an animal i don't think.... Nope never. Do you have the reanimation spell? and do u play xbox version?

I've only been able to reanimate dead human corpses