Bug — Spells show half animation / no effect (HellFire, ThunderBolt, Straight Shot)

[Vengeance]

Bug — Redmoonevil / others (#bugs): Some spells don’t cast — half animation, no effect (HellFire, ThunderBolt). Straight Shot often anim with no hit. Our reply — Straight Shot: cast with no target when cursor wasn’t on the mob (even with lock-on) — fix built for reboot + client. HellFire/ThunderBolt still under review; please retest after next client/server ship. Source: Discord #bugs · 24 Oct · Redmoonevil / Pete note

[Vengeance]

Thanks for the report. Root cause for ThunderBolt / Straight Shot: client was sending the spell at whatever was under the mouse (often a party member / empty ground) even with a mob locked — server soft-rejects that, so you see half the cast anim and no hit. HellFire / Lightning: same family — they aimed by mouse direction, so a hotkey cast with the cursor behind you fired the wrong way. Fix in client 1.0.70:

• Offensive spells prefer a real attack target (sticky magic lock → locked target), and skip allies under the cursor.
• HellFire / Lightning face the locked mob when you have one.

Patch to 1.0.70 and retest. If a specific spell still half-casts with a clear lock on a mob, reply with class + spell + whether you were in a group.

[Redmoonevil]

still happens occasionly, lightning/firewall wont cast sometimes. Magic shield is the same use hotkey will sometimes full cast sometimes half cast and fail seems more prevailent when running

[Redmoonevil]

happen with firewall all the time unable to chain cast or cast while moving