03-14-2003, 11:36 PM
Based on Jarulf's post, you would not expect a lightning animation to spawn. Hence the need for an elemental bow to make the animation. I'd guess that means that Sparking Mail would only work with *lightning-based* elemental bows, but maybe I'm the one whose misinterpreting. It would be totally impossible to test by pure gameplay: in addition to the reasons you have brought up, lightning arrows do very unpredictable damage because of the multiple hit issues.