Blizzara spell bug

[Calamity]

You can start casting Blizzara spell on yourself, then you get message that spell failed and you spend your MP anyway.

[Sephrick]

Because it casts an AoE centered on you. If a mob is in range, they'll get hit.


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[Calamity]

Because it casts an AoE centered on you. If a mob is in range, they'll get hit.

What ? Not funny.. You can't cast Fira or Thundara on yourself. How comes you can do it with Blizzara?

[NoctisUmbra]

What ? Not funny.. You can't cast Fira or Thundara on yourself. How comes you can do it with Blizzara?

Blizzara is an instant-cast SELF AoE. You aren't casting it on yourself. It always hits around you. You can't cast it on a mob. It activates around you regardless of who/what you have targeted.

Fire is a Target AoE. It hits the target as well as any nearby enemies. Thus you cannot cast it on yourself.

Thundara is an instant-cast single target spell. It hits a single enemy target, and thus like any other offensive spell it cannot be cast on yourself.

No bug here. Hope that helps.

[Saiph]

Blizzara is an instant-cast SELF AoE. You aren't casting it on yourself. It always hits around you. You can't cast it on a mob. It activates around you regardless of who/what you have targeted.

Fire is a Target AoE. It hits the target as well as any nearby enemies. Thus you cannot cast it on yourself.

Thundara is an instant-cast single target spell. It hits a single enemy target, and thus like any other offensive spell it cannot be cast on yourself.

No bug here. Hope that helps.

100% this!

[Calamity]

Yeah, my bad. Didn't know they changed the way this spell works.

[Sephrick]

Yeah, my bad. Didn't know they changed the way this spell works.

Yeah, basically it's functions is to bind a mob attacking you.

[Deli]

Yeah, my bad. Didn't know they changed the way this spell works.

I can't tell ppl are joking or serious nowadays :O
I thought this spell is like this since day 1 (of 1.20)

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

Crowd control FTW!

[Skirata]

Greetings Calamity!

Thank you very much for posting your concern over the way that you target Blizzara. And it seems that the answers have been provided by some of the other players (Thanks NoctisUmbra and Sephrick!). I'm glad to see that you were able to work out this here. We'll go ahead and close down this thread for you. Thanks again and have an excellent day.