diff --git a/common/ruletypes.h b/common/ruletypes.h
index 400c5f30f..8d4a53daa 100644
--- a/common/ruletypes.h
+++ b/common/ruletypes.h
@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ RULE_BOOL(Spells, HOTsScaleWithHealAmt, false, "Allow HealAmt stat to affect HoT
 RULE_BOOL(Spells, CompoundLifetapHeals, true, "True: Lifetap heals calculate damage bonuses and then heal bonuses.  False:  Lifetaps heal using the amount damaged to mob.")
 RULE_BOOL(Spells, UseFadingMemoriesMaxLevel, false, "Enables to limit field in spell data to set the max level that over which an NPC will ignore fading memories effect and not lose aggro.")
 RULE_BOOL(Spells, FixBeaconHeading, false, "Beacon spells use casters heading to fix live bug.  False: Live like heading always 0.")
+RULE_BOOL(Spells, UseSpellImpliedTargeting, false, "Replicates EQ2-style targeting behavior for spells. Spells will 'pass through' inappropriate targets to target's target if it is appropriate.")
 RULE_CATEGORY_END()
 
 RULE_CATEGORY(Combat)
diff --git a/zone/spells.cpp b/zone/spells.cpp
index 08c77b737..96d2b74ce 100644
--- a/zone/spells.cpp
+++ b/zone/spells.cpp
@@ -179,6 +179,24 @@ bool Mob::CastSpell(uint16 spell_id, uint16 target_id, CastingSlot slot,
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	//Goal of Spells:UseSpellImpliedTargeting is to replicate the EQ2 feature where spells will 'pass through' invalid targets to target's target to try to find a valid target.
+        if (RuleB(Spells,UseSpellImpliedTargeting) && IsClient()) {
+                Mob* spell_target = entity_list.GetMobID(target_id);
+                if (spell_target && spell_target->GetTarget()) {
+                        // If either this is beneficial and the target is not a player or player's pet or vis versa
+                        if ((IsBeneficialSpell(spell_id) && (!(spell_target->IsClient() || (spell_target->HasOwner() && spell_target->GetOwner()->IsClient()))))
+                        ||  (IsDetrimentalSpell(spell_id) && (spell_target->IsClient() || (spell_target->HasOwner() && spell_target->GetOwner()->IsClient())))) {
+                                //Check if the target's target is a valid target; we can use DoCastingChecksOnTarget() here because we can let it handle the failure as vanilla would
+                                if (DoCastingChecksOnTarget(true, spell_id, spell_target->GetTarget())) {
+                                        target_id = spell_target->GetTarget()->GetID();
+                                } else {
+                                        //Just return false here because we are going to fail the next check block anyway if we reach this point.
+                                        return false;
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+
 	if (!DoCastingChecksOnCaster(spell_id, slot) ||
 		!DoCastingChecksZoneRestrictions(true, spell_id) ||
 		!DoCastingChecksOnTarget(true, spell_id, entity_list.GetMobID(target_id))) {