kiya, 'targetting' critters like that are weird, no? had no probs like that when i played mage.
Yes, it's strange, but I only had this the very first time I met a bee/wasp/boar - and it was reproducable in every game I played. As soon as I had used melee attack I could use meteorstrike and from then on my mage seemed to "know" the creatures and killed them right away with that spell.
Kiya
