Who cares, i can change it to use Touch instead...
Not by your logic it wouldnt. If you agree that its the same for lightning, then fine, if not then you´re simply trying to get the lightning spell for cheap.
You´re arguing that you can use lightning that way, lightning does NOT go straight or in the direction you point it, end of story. The only way you can make, or rather actually TRY to make lightning strike where you want it is to place something conducting or with the opposite charge close enough. And there is zero guarantee that it will still strike where you want it.
Predictable lightning, and you think that is less unnatural than shooting a thread of fire? I can create a thread of fire for real, not a very long one(well in theory i could that as well) but it can certainly be done.
I could never ever hold lightning in my hand and make it strike where i want.
Thats not a problem at all. Just make the "firing thread" thin enough and you wont even use 1% of the total amount of fire for it.
Who said anything about NOT having identical effect on the target? You´re totally forgetting your own rules lawyering. The thread is only needed to connect my Touch to where the target is, the damage effect is identical to PoF. I only need to touch the effect at all, nothing more, by YOUR logic.
Read above.
The reason is that you´re reading and interpreting everything just to have it be convenient to how you want it to work.
I very much doubt you will find anyone else who agrees with you about this.
Ah, and here you actually give yourself the answer to your previous two questions and misconceptions.
Thank you, you just justified my Touch Range PoF again. Because its logic is identical to what you said above.
A lightning can be at least leagues long.
Why? You make it go where you want without using anything to control it without adding magnitudes for unnatural. And for your information, a lightning bolt CAN go through doorways and cave entrances quite well, even closed doorways even if its rare.
So your perfect control without Rego is actually monumentally more unnatural.
Make that from stormy clouds above and i might agree. I would still add 1-2 magnitudes for making it strike where i want.
You DO realise that the reason why people talk about "out of the blue" is when something happens that is EXTREMELY surprising? Because lightning from a clear blue sky is also EXCEPTIONALLY rare.
Yes, but then you´re creating natural lightning, over which you have zero control where they strike.
You´re doing some extreme rules lawyering and im yet to see anyone actually agree with you on it.