What was up with the Wizard Al'kabor line of spells?

[TarukShmaruk]

Every Wizard from live to p1999 knows these spells are complete trash. Horrific in their inefficiency, the only spells you'd actually use were the pillars.

I always theorized that they used to hit all targets without a cap - thus the cost - and were nerfed with their cost never being adjusted.

What was weird is that they kept making these spells into Kunark and beyond.