I don't think I've seen anything that shows a mage riding on a horse and shooting fireballs. ._. Horse Combat is done by knights, silly billy.

Dude, that's cold. The life of such a fine and proud beast is invaluable!

Right.. My magic that doesn't make any noise is going to spook the horse opposed to me running head on at a giant only to dodge at the last second and swing..

I wasn't being rude to the devs, although I can see how you could have gotten that from the way I wrote that post out. I praise them on many occassions and am thankful for everything they do, but it doesn't change the fact that they could have easily added magic into the feature. However, it seems to me like they rushed it and left magic out of it so that they could get it working before Dawnguard comes out.

Lotr. Gandalf must be a little to ba for you?

Give me examples of all these different magic animations? Master spells aside.

Only thing I can think of is a conflict with the animations or it being overpowered but neither are very good reasons

As for those asking about Staves, they are unusable unfortunately. Tried it as soon as the patch went live.

This is a fantasy game, nuff said.

It is pretty lame, i can understand the AoE argument, but in that case like REL said you would just have learn from that mistake, just like you would if you jumped off a cliff on your horse... What do you thinks gonna happen?

Getting pretty tierd of people bringing realism into this... This is a fantasy rpg game with fantastical creatures, and among all things magic, this game is about as real as LOTR is.

Damn... Bethesda is just determined not to let me role as Gandalf aren't they? Can't find any pointy hats, can't have a big enough beard, no white horses for me to pretend are Shadowfax (Hello, Frost) and now I can't even try to fight a dragon while using a Staff of Magelight.

Granted, I doubt that last part would work out too well, but I could also use the Secret Fire, the Flame of Anor, or maybe even the Flame of Ud?n.

Also, is the court wizard in Dragonsreach a subtle tribute to Gandalf, considering his last name and the stuff I just quoted (Farengar Secret-Fire)?

Honestly, my theory is that they had alot of codes and scripts to deal with and program to get magic working on Horses, it could have created more problems/bugs in the end, and therefore they did not want to include it in the initial release (leaning more towards it being too time consuming), therefore they excluded magic so they could rush mounted combat into the game before Dawnguard came out, which they've succeeded by the looks of it.

Dual-casted spells can only be cast while stationary, so I highly doubt it would even be possible to use while on horse. A moving firestorm would be kind of silly, really...And probably pretty hard to code.

In any case, they will hopefully add it in at a later time. Maybe in the next expansion they will add tons of new magic features and add magic while on horse as one of those features to market their new DLC?

I say it's just because people at Bethesda are the true Nords and they simply don't believing in magic. haha.

if you use shadowmere, AOE spell wont make a difference

I found out while you can't use staves on horses, you can dual wield a weapon with a stave in your off hand. You can't use it, but it makes for a nice Gandolf effect XD

Nice!

Could it be an issue with aiming ranged magic? Does the game treat a ranged attack like a projectile? Is there auto-aim on ranged magic the way there is with arrows?

There's auto aim for arrows? Since when?

There is. It's subtle enough not to notice, for the most part. It becomes really obvious when you try to snipe a limb poking out from behind and obstacle and the arrow arcs towards center mass, hitting the obstacle. Another time you will see it is when shooting at an enemy partly visible behind another one. The arrow will choose the enemy in front.

Learn something new everyday. And here I just thought the hit boxes or whatever they're called and the shapes of objects didn't actually match up, so you couldn't shoot through an obvious hole in the rail guards.