Spells: Mage Bolt Line

[Lyrik]

Didn't it also fail if it passed through players / the ground before reaching its target?

[nilbog]

I played a mage a good bit on live. Here's what I remember

Originally Posted by Lyrik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Didn't it also fail if it passed through players / the ground before reaching its target?

Originally bolts didn't even require a target. You could face a direction, and cast. From what I recall it would even hit npcs that moved in its path, thus creating aggro that wasn't your original intent. Also, if it was chasing an npc target, if one got in its path, it would hit it and never reach your intended target. If following a target, it would go on forever until it hit something, including its targets corpse, if they died before it got to them.

Originally Posted by Malakriss [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You would have to be facing your target to begin casting, if you had any terrain in the way of the bolt it would fail, but you also had the random chance it would hit the target twice for some unknown Z-axis reason.

I think it did need some type of conic radius to start chasing a target. As in you couldn't be facing opposite your target, but you also didn't need to be lined up exactly with them. I remember the Z axis double nuke as well. If levitating, and very close to the target, it would sometimes hit twice.

[Darklake]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally bolts didn't even require a target. You could face a direction, and cast. From what I recall it would even hit npcs that moved in its path, thus creating aggro that wasn't your original intent. Also, if it was chasing an npc target, if one got in its path, it would hit it and never reach your intended target. If following a target, it would go on forever until it hit something, including its targets corpse, if they died before it got to them.

That's ringing a bell - didn't arrows also act like that? I'm sure I remember as a baby ranger in GFay missing a bat and hitting a guard instead.

Might just be old age playing tricks with my memory :-)

[Haynar]

Originally Posted by Darklake [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's ringing a bell - didn't arrows also act like that? I'm sure I remember as a baby ranger in GFay missing a bat and hitting a guard instead.

Might just be old age playing tricks with my memory :-)

I thought I remembered arrows doing something like that. I cannot remember though.

Haynar

[RKromwell]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I thought I remembered arrows doing something like that. I cannot remember though.

Haynar

The big problem with arrows, other players could block your shot. You had to have an open path between you and the target.

[Deezie]

Originally Posted by Darklake [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's ringing a bell - didn't arrows also act like that? I'm sure I remember as a baby ranger in GFay missing a bat and hitting a guard instead.

Might just be old age playing tricks with my memory :-)

I know this was at least true for pvp in arenas. Any projectile thrown and hit a player in front of the target worked. But I never played a class that regularly used archery/throwing so I can't be sure about pve.

[Lyrik]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I played a mage a good bit on live. Here's what I remember



Originally bolts didn't even require a target. You could face a direction, and cast. From what I recall it would even hit npcs that moved in its path, thus creating aggro that wasn't your original intent. Also, if it was chasing an npc target, if one got in its path, it would hit it and never reach your intended target. If following a target, it would go on forever until it hit something, including its targets corpse, if they died before it got to them.



I think it did need some type of conic radius to start chasing a target. As in you couldn't be facing opposite your target, but you also didn't need to be lined up exactly with them. I remember the Z axis double nuke as well. If levitating, and very close to the target, it would sometimes hit twice.

All of that sounds correct to me.