Game Mechanics: Levitate doesn't work..

[Lazortag]

Okay, two things. Firstly, I did go into options and recently lower my FPS down to 60 because i was having a lag issue, and I don't think I turned it back before I had the levitate problem. Now for me, I don't believe the levitate problem got more extreme after I did this, so this is probably not the issue, but your post is still really interesting nonetheless.

Secondly, I thought of a solution while I was in bed this morning: I could zoom in as much as possible in first person (aka, the default view when you log in), have my character face up, and then press F9 until I'm in 3rd person view. I get a weird feeling that this will actually not make me go underwater when levitating, but it might not work.

I also don't know what WinEQ2 or EQplaynice are, so if those help or hurt me in any way, I wouldn't know it.

edit: just to be clear, until (if ever) there's a fix for this, I'm looking for a temporary fix that will allow me to levitate above water while aoe kiting (specifically the water around the spectres in oasis) without going underwater.