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Lure of the Heavens (Su): Your connection to the skies above is so strong that your feet barely touch the ground. At 1st level, you no longer leave tracks. At 5th level, you can hover up to 6 inches above the ground or even above liquid surfaces, as if levitating. At 10th level, you gain the ability to fly, as per the spell, for a number of minutes per day equal to your oracle level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments.
What is the official rule on this (the bold part)? Do you hover around without actually touching the ground, which seems to the be what it is should be based on the level 1 part.
If it uses standard levitate, then it is the most useless ability every with no horizontal or vertical movement beyond six inches.
I read it as you can move as normal, but you are six inches off of the ground.
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Lure of the Heavens (Su): Your connection to the skies above is so strong that your feet barely touch the ground. At 1st level, you no longer leave tracks. At 5th level, you can hover up to 6 inches above the ground or even above liquid surfaces, as if levitating. At 10th level, you gain the ability to fly, as per the spell, for a number of minutes per day equal to your oracle level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments.
What is the official rule on this (the bold part)? Do you hover around without actually touching the ground, which seems to the be what it is should be based on the level 1 part.
If it uses standard levitate, then it is the most useless ability every with no horizontal or vertical movement beyond six inches.
Well, if you read levitate, it says you can go laterally by pushing off a surface or someone pushing you. So, when you come to that chamber with the trapped tiles, I'm sure you'll enjoy being pushed across the room. Or if you call into the water, you won't drown. It's not meant to be uber-powerful.
Levitate
verb (used without object)1. to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity.
Hover
verb (used without object)1. to hang fluttering or suspended in the air.
These are the actual definitions of the words used in the description. So if you don't take the levitate spell into account at all, the wording itself describes no forward movement. Fortunate for me I have a pretty cool DM and he has house ruled that you basically feel some sort of surface or pressure under your feet. Therefore causing you to be able to walk, be tripped, take falling damage etc. It seems more balanced that way in my opinion.