Hey.

I have always been using fire spells, namely Firebolt paired with impact for some nice power. As you obviously know, impact stuns the enemy if a spell is dual cast. So whenever I would fire a firebolt (or any other spell), the target would be stunned (usually humanoids kneel for a second before fighting again). Of course when somebody is stunned you can freely bash him like crazy. The problem is Lightning Bolt doesn't do anything on a stunned target. It completely ignores it and just goes straight pass it. Basically, it deals zero damage to a stunned target.

Is this a known bug? Or what am I doing wrong? Every other spell works fine, but shock spells.

Thx

I have never noticed this.

I have noticed (and can replicate it quite easily), that targets that are about to die (kneeling animation), have dodgy hitboxes. Many arrows will just fly through their bodies.

Video link in my sig has an example of this. Bandit chief was near death, kneeled down, and an arrow I shot at near point blank range went right through him.

Yeah, it seems shock spells have the smallest hit box of all spells. I never miss with fire or frost.
And thats kinda lame though

Yea I've seen this happen too.

I saw this happen on my latest character (now deceased), during an extended fight with an Arch Necromancer; I kept zapping her with Dual-Cast Thunderbolts, and while she was kneeling they often missed even though I was targeting her dead-center. Oddly enough, I could keep the chain-stun going if I kept hitting her in a limb or the head, as then she got tossed around rather than knocked to her knees; those are significantly harder to keep targeted in a mobile fight, though, so she was able to retaliate every so often with another couple of Ice Spikes.

makes sense, lightning is thin and fireballs are balls of fire...lightning hits instantly unlike fire and ice spells and is strongest against mages so it should be the hardest to target to keep balance

I generally find that aiming just in front of the direction they are facing works well. So when they are crouching, don't aim for their actual body, but the space that they are hunched over.

But yes, your point is well taken. Enemies that are close to dying are often missed by my shock spells as well.