Destructive skills not working can anyone help?

Colonel_Brandon

I’m posting this to find out if anyone else has the same problem or had the problem and found a workaround/fix.

While playing this afternoon (UK Time) with my Night-Blade I discovered a problem with slotted skills, in particular the ‘Destructive Reach 1’ and ‘Force Shock 1’ skills both from the ‘Destructive Staff’ skill tree.

One has a range of 17Mtrs and the other 28Mtrs so I had hoped to use them for long range ‘softening up’ of NPC’s. But unfortunately neither of the skills work and I don’t know why.

All my other skills work as designed and as I approach an NPC when in range ‘light up’ ready for use but the two skills above resolutely refuse to activate and stay firmly ‘dimmed out’ .

I have tried swapping them to different slots, mapping a second button as the trigger, changing weapons to see if that made a difference and also logging out and back in but nothing works.

So anyone, are the skills bugged, have I missed something, any ideas please?

yodased

Only thing I can think of is you have to be withing range and targeting a mob for the spell to work. You can't cast the spell without an active target

Colonel_Brandon

Yes, both of the above were fine as I mentioned in my post, I even enlisted the help of my son who also plays the game and he was a baffled as myself as to why they didn’t work. I only really noticed it when I has my ***** handed to me in a dungeon so many time I was raging at the screen in frustration.

yodased

uhm I really don't want to have to ask this, but you have a destruction staff equipped when you are trying to use this skill right?

Apologies if that insults your intelligence just trying to help

Colonel_Brandon

Not at all, it was one of the things my son suggested, we tried a staff, a bow, and various melee weapons just to be sure but the damn things just stayed dimmed out. I even tried some of my other skills in the same slots just in case my keyboard was having a ‘hissy fit’ and they all worked fine.

At the moment I’m open to even the most outrages (within reason) suggestions to come up with ‘why’.

Thanks for your comments.

ArRashid

critters in front of you.

Thanks to the REALLY DIRTY "FIX" to Consuming Trap, spells are now grayed out if you point your mouse on a critter, or close to it (you don't have to even see it).

Pretty much messes casters, because even self-casted skills like Igneous Weapons and Fragmented Shield are not usable while there's a critter in front of you. Thanks, devs!...

Colonel_Brandon

Hmmm, not heard that one before will have a look in the morning (if we still have power expecting a thunderstorm overnight), off to bed now, thanks for the input.