Lightning Strikes

It seems like they're not happening? When I use raincasting in MA, the lightning doesn't seem to do anything at all. It strikes randomly, but doesn't hit any enemies?

not in range from what I can tell...unless they are directly under it then...I have no idea.

Lightning strikes randomly within the cloud radius, or perhaps slightly smaller. But even for enemies underneath, it didn't hit...

Quite odd. I'm not really a raincaster, but I do see what you mean when alchs I party with use raincasting.

Forget it. The lightning DOES strike. At least, it does on weak mobs. I haven't tested stronger mobs yet.

However, I noticed the lightning does not reset aggro. Monsters that have aggro'd me, and were hit by lightning continue to aggro, with no re-aggro. It appears it might reset AI rather than aggro. If it reset aggro, then it should be the case that using rain casting would cause a monster to be unable to re-aggro the caster unless attacked. But that is not the case.

maybe kinda like how golem AI works, you need to target something?

I don't understand what you mean. If you are not targeting anything, lightning will still randomly strike any enemies in cloud radius, and do 1-10 damage not corresponding to the visual lightning striking from the cloud itself.

How does targeting relate to resetting aggro or resetting AI?

OOps, I was talking about summon GOlem Ai and how it requires you to target something to use skills. Throwing that out the window, I don't see any other oddities with rain casting outside of what you mentioned :x.

So to restate the question here-- does raincasting really reset aggro? I've confirmed that it's true that it prevents aggro from enemies underneath the cloud, until they are attacked, but does the lightning reset aggro when it strikes?

It appears that it resets AI rather than aggro, and I ask that somebody else help me test this.

Not that I noticed when I'm in MA with people that raincast.