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Originally Posted by Sense of Duty (Kittens)
Extra Attack(One attack only -%20)[20] might be more appropiate
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I dunno, adding Rapid Fire 3 (+50%) to the basic Magical Bolt build only costs at most 4 points at the maximum level, and even at level 3 only costs 2 points.
You're unlikely to realistically get more than 3 shots out of rapid strike - as you're
also taking penalties for adding those extra shots (on top of the range penalties), so the cost should be even cheaper than the above. Admittedly you do-away with the chance of failure, so you're going to be getting the maximum number of shots you can get whilst keeping your effective skill as close to 3 without going under it. Even so, its still a -12 to effective skill for 3 shots, which even at skill 18 makes it miss anything beyond 7 yards.
All in all, a perk to gain this option should be fair. It stops just anyone doing it, making it something special for you, but also doesn't make it prohibitively expensive to a point of simply making it not worthwhile. Although I'd still caution that said perk should be limited to high investment into this attack, to stop everyone dipping into level 1 and picking it up.
Adding in your suggested Extra Attack (Only Magical Bolt, -20%) but called something like Magical Barrage [20] as a power-up - which basically says you can fire bolts from both hands simultaneously could be fun. Give it the prereq of Weapon Master (Magical Bolt) [20] (which in turn requires Magical Bolt 6) would make you a true artillery mage.
The inability to make any of these attacks deceptive (or more appropriately, Predictive as its a ranged attack) would make it still tough to hit anything with a decent dodge score (especially as dodge doesn't take penalties for multiple uses in a turn). So roguish classes with low DR and good dodge are still the bane of wizards, but this lets you do crippling damage to heavy fighters like the knight who rely on armour and getting up close.
If someone really loves the idea of sinking all their power into a (fairly boring and repetitive) attack that fills the air with crackling arcane power that can wear down even the toughest monster
so long as they're slow enough to not get out of the way, then I say let them. Just make sure they pay the full 86 points to do so (or at least 26 points for the lowest rapid fire option), plus the extra investment into Innate Attack (Projectile) to raise it from its starting skill of 14 (which means an extra 12 points per extra bolt/second with Weapon Master, or two bolts/second if they have Magical Barrage, or 24 points per extra bolt otherwise).