Multiple bolts
 

Thanks for adding the missile animation :)

But there is a bug: if you cast a new bolt while the previous one is still in the air, the first one will never hit

Update: the bug is actually worse than what I initially thought: any new spell cast will "cancel" the bolt.

I was actually looking to see if the missile animation was intentional. Was it like that on live? Because I don't remember seeing it.

I remember seeing what I thought were comets flying over the N Ro zone, so yes, it was on Live :-)

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

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.

This is how it looked on live.

http://i51.tinypic.com/243hx7q.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/200urzs.jpg

Bolts are a work in progress. I don't think the spell particle is correct yet.

Aye, I swear they had a trail after them.

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.

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 :-)