I'm currently playing a Drow Slayer in a WoTR campaign, and I've taken the Drow Nobility feat tree. We've just hit level 5 and I can now cast Levitate at will. I'm looking for creative and interesting ways to use my SLAs since I have unlimited access to them. I'm particularly interested in Levitate since it can be cast on objects, and other willing creatures. Any ideas of how I can use this to my advantage?
Well what's important to consider is how much your GM pays attention to wheather conditions such as wind direction and speed as well as trees to latch on to etc. On our most recent game our Arcanist relied on levitate both for defensive combat purposes (Staying out of reach and raining death with flaming sphere) as well as using it on himself and grabbing on to my much heavier skald to allow him to cross a dangerous swamp and avoiding that stinky swim check. I could definitely see it being useful in more mundane tasks such as scaling buildings or towers or safely getting down pits without falling.
Maybe not always interesting but there's plenty of fun and use to be had and we have fun just role-playing with it
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Levitate an open Bag of Holding, upside-down. Let it drop on anyone getting too close.
In the campaign run by my kid brother (who just turned 48), I'm playing a half-elf with Drow Paragon feat and working on the Drow nobility tree. Just because.
I found one very pragmatic use of Levitate; to use on oneself to get out of sticky situations! Came in very handy when he fell off a pitching boat. Swim skill; 0. Roll; 1. Result; glub-glub-glub. Almost. I made a concentration check by rolling a 20 and my character levitated himself out of drowning.
It's also a useful way to get up sheer walls too. Provided there's no strong winds to contend with!
You could lug around portable cover - a tower shield or similar - without arcane spell failure and maybe without ACP, which might be handy.
Spread a whole lot of caltrops on a tarp, levitate the tarp and tow it around to create a zone of difficult terrain when desired.
Then of course there's the classic falling anvil trap.
Actually making these useful requires luck or a friendly GM I admit.