Al'Kabor line does not hit unlimited targets
 

These spells should definitely be hitting infinite targets and currently only hit 4.

http://www.ratajik.net/eq/members/VorRata/spells.htm
"AE Spell, does around 180 to everything it hits."

...Saying that it does a certain amount of damage to "everything it hits" doesn't mean it hits more than 4. Ice Comet does 1100 damage to "everything it hits" also, it's just that it only hits 1 mob.

Source:

http://crys.org/everquest/spells/wiz...=25&maxrank=49

As opposed to:

In the case of a real pbae (Supernova)

Al'Kabor is obviously not a direct damage line of spells either which is far beyond any point to be trolled. Next pls.

the A'Kabor line of AE spells never hit more than 4 targets, just like the druid AE's that's why they call it "quad" kiting, you get 4 mobs because that's the max targeted AE's will hit...

Now PBAE's are a different story, those will hit unlimited targets

if i'm not mistaken al'kabor maxes out at 5 targets, why the higher mana cost compared to the other ae spells, excluding pbae's and rains.

Yep that is my understanding too, that line hits 5 targets max.

The reason for the higher mana usage is because there was a stun and push back to the spells. Wizards wouldn't use this spell line due to the amount of mana and stunning of the targets during quadding. Even SoE had a running joke at how bad the spell line sucked due to the mana usage.

It also only hit 4 targets. If you were within range of your target, it will hit you and 3 mobs. It's the one aoe line outside Rains that did this. It's another reason why no one ever used the spell line.

from comments on allakazam:



Also talking to wizards on al'kabor server (eqmac) they've always said it hits five targets, but still rarely worth useing, only when "you need to keep 5 targets down" to quote a lvl 65 wiz guildie there of mine.