Wizard "Spiral" Spells
 

My wizard hit 40 recently, and I have been wondering what all the spells do.

The "spiral" line of spells (Fire Spiral of Al'Kabor, Shock Spiral of Al'Kabor, Force Spiral of Al'Kabor..) seems like targeted AEs.

I always thought they were a Conical AE - so i started playing around with the spell.

(i think via testing) that the Spiral spells currently work how the "quad ae" line of spells works (Pillar of Fire, Column of Lightning, Circle of Force, etc.), or so I think.

I found some evidence that they might should hit up to 5 targets, and thought it was really interesting because the Spiral line of spells seems to be pretty useless.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...html?spell=731

check the comments from 2003 from multiple users.

this page says it is a quad AE with interrupt

http://wiki.takp.info/index.php/Wizard

We don't play the game the way the devs intended. As such, the entire al'kabor line is rendered pretty much useless:

https://www.graffe.com/forums/showth...bor-Spell-Line

-Mcoy

I have killed spirocs in semi decent groupable kunark gear with the spiral line 5-6 at a time tho the spell only does hit 5

the knockback is challenging a bit

it's useless in that it's more effort than worth it to get value out of it

you can still also use kabors in a pinch to quickly kill a quad when u don't have the appropriate quad/circle spell

Thanks to the large radius it pulls an entire camp of mobs?

Wizards got did dirty on live thanks to early nerfs. I read all aoe were meant to be unlimited targets. Also their duration stuns lasted 5-8 secs.

if kabors was a low agro clicky targeted ae spell stun with a higher mob cap with some low dmg it mighta been fun ) especially as a pulling tool or something

we could have had a line of wizard only staffs we crafted :p

butt yea def move this thread to resolved it should have been posted in the spell casters section

Is there any update on this? Al'Kabor spells seem to only hit 4 yet all evidence I've seen states they should hit upwards of 5 on PVE servers (unlimited on pvp). I can hit 4 along with myself for 5. But cannot hit 5 separate NPCs in one given instance. I'm not asking for the pre-nerf unlimited state but if they were to hit 5 mobs, it would give it at least a shred of viability to the spells.

I actually remember these hitting 5 targets but could never find any evidence to support my memories. I always thought snare was supposed to hit 5 targets too. You'll see that it can land on 4 + yourself. My theory was that it was meant for wizards to be able to kite 5 targets, which justifies the worse mana cost.

It should hit 5 AND be a huge splash compared to the other quads.