Bone arrow on the army field ?

[Aepervius]

Does anybody knows how it works ? Supposedly you target between two fields and it should "burst" and target the 2*1 fields all units, but it seems to imply do nothing....

Could it be it was bugged and never corrected ?

[アンジェル]

I have seen a similar forums thread before. Was it the one which got mistaken for bone shield?

[Aepervius]

it does not look like bone shield it fire a black cloud toward a target... But I can try it on myself and reload if bad.

[Thicc Mittens]

I could be wrong about all this, but from what I can tell Bone Arrow doesn't work due to the intersection of two things:

1) In crusade battles the game won't let you target an AoE directly on a unit, you have to target an empty square and get the enemy with the radius. At least that's how it seems to be working for me when I use Fireball - I can move the cursor over an enemy and they highlight red, but it's actually still targeting the last empty square I moved my mouse over on the way to the enemy and the AoE is centered there, not on the enemy.

2) The description for Bone Arrow says it is a 1ft burst. It seems this means it's treated as an AoE spell (so the targeting behaviour above applies), but 1ft doesn't appear to be enough for it to reach adjacent squares.

As a result you can't affect anyone with the spell - you can only target an empty square and its radius isn't enough to hit anything outside that square.

In the case of the targeting it seems like a bug that we can't target/centre an AoE on an occupied square, and in the case of Bone Arrow it's either a bug that it's an AoE at all, or a bug that its radius is too small to affect adjacent squares.

[Saga of Ilthire]

Appears to do nothing. Mine also says All creatures along a -2147483648 foot line

[Kanzaki Iejir]

I'm having this issue aswell, with the same negative length foot line.
It worked perfectly well a few patches ago.
I've assumed it's simply borked, and will be fixed later.

[seeker1]

Originally posted by Saga of Ilthire:

Appears to do nothing. Mine also says All creatures along a -2147483648 foot line

Impressive. So it travels a near-infinite amount of length in negative space!

[corisai]

Originally posted by seeker1:

Impressive. So it travels a near-infinite amount of length in negative space!

It less then 0,004 AU (~645k km). Far away from being "near-infinite" :P

[seeker1]

I was speaking metaphorically in game terms, not astronomical distances.

[DemonWhiteFang]

I know this is old but I was having the same issue recently, thought what a crap bug, and saw a random tip the other day that said to stop an AOE spell from auto locking onto a target hold in CTRL and while casting the spell to turn it off... thought nothing of it until realising this is AOE and if you hold in CTRL and select a target it works fine :-)

[pete3great]

Originally posted by DemonWhiteFang:

I know this is old but I was having the same issue recently, thought what a crap bug, and saw a random tip the other day that said to stop an AOE spell from auto locking onto a target hold in CTRL and while casting the spell to turn it off... thought nothing of it until realising this is AOE and if you hold in CTRL and select a target it works fine :-)

necro + the games loading screens will tell you this over and over and over.

[paulyy_y]

Originally posted by pete3great:

Originally posted by DemonWhiteFang:

I know this is old but I was having the same issue recently, thought what a crap bug, and saw a random tip the other day that said to stop an AOE spell from auto locking onto a target hold in CTRL and while casting the spell to turn it off... thought nothing of it until realising this is AOE and if you hold in CTRL and select a target it works fine :-)

necro + the games loading screens will tell you this over and over and over.

necro but literally the game loading screen never mentions this in the context of the army field fights + this ability is broken at latest version and doesn't work regardless of using ctrl or not. hope this helps.