Game Mechanics: Double bolts + Zonewide magician bolt nukes classic SCREEN SHOTS INCLUDED

[Suri]

I do remember getting easy double bolts in classic when firing down at aviaks from up above at KFC in South Karana.

Another difference with bolts is that the graphic for the bolts themselves is just a small red baseball sized fireball in P99. In classic it was a big orange ball the size of a gnome, and would often hit the wrong mob if there was something in the way.

[ElemtalRZ]

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[Zuranthium]

Bump, these things to keep in mind especially:

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

I do remember getting easy double bolts in classic when firing down at aviaks from up above at KFC in South Karana.

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.

I remember the Z axis double nuke as well. If levitating, and very close to the target, it would sometimes hit twice.

And a couple other classic properties about bolts:

1.) You didn't have to wait for the first one to land before casting another spell
2.) If the target moved verrrry far away, the bolt would fail and you would still lose mana for casting it

Also, if anyone has any code knowledge that would help the devs fix the broken bolt graphics on p99, that would be super great. They used to look awesome and that was a lot of the fun in using them.

[Yinaltin]

nice find ! i remember those double dmg bolts from my first char. and no it was not just the killshot. aviaks and ot elevation killing always granted a double dmg shot.

[ElemtalRZ]

I'm loving it

[dafier]

Double bolts doesn't happen in P99. One of the first things I tried, several times.

Yes, it had to do with elevation and it didn't happen all the time. Hence why I tried many times.

Doing double the dmg with a bolt for the cost of 1 is crazy nice. So, no matter what you say I don't believe it.

Screenshot or not, they don't actually work like it used to on Live.

EDIT:

Haynar,

On live when a bolt hit and did double damage, it didn't always happen on a death. I remember casting when the NPC was close to 100% and instead of taking 20 or 30% hit on their health it would do 40 to 60%. VERY noticeable. Again, I've tried it about 50+ times and have never witnessed it on P99

[ElemtalRZ]

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[Aelzrith]

I Posted in the other thread, too. Will dig up hardcore evidence.

[ElemtalRZ]

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[Freakish]

The screenshots on that first post link clearly has hill giant being slain by the pet and not the bolt. There's also screenshots from the nuke itself killing the mob, showing the same double message.