shadow curse - taking damage despite having light sources?

[HawlEffect]

even though I have torches lit and/or the special legendary lighted mace,... I'm still taking damage anyway. everybody dies within seconds despite having lights. What gives?

this is happening when i climb up the roots from under the Last Light Inn to the inside of a little house. (where the map says "Roots")

[tonysollazzo]

same thing happening to me, the buff just randomly disappears and the curse wipes my party. Stuck on act 2

[antonkukoba]

In my case it's even worse, I let go the pixie, got the blessing from her. Came to the darkness border, then Lae'zel said that she won't go any further unless we do her quest. So I went on her quest, finished it, got back to the shadow lands, and the Faerie's Blessing is gone. I have the Blessing of Selune but it's not helping.

[Zygfryd]

Originally posted by antonkukoba:

In my case it's even worse, I let go the pixie, got the blessing from her. Came to the darkness border, then Lae'zel said that she won't go any further unless we do her quest. So I went on her quest, finished it, got back to the shadow lands, and the Faerie's Blessing is gone. I have the Blessing of Selune but it's not helping.

Ring the bell the pixie gave you.

[Zygfryd]

Originally posted by HawlEffect:

even though I have torches lit and/or the special legendary lighted mace,... I'm still taking damage anyway. everybody dies within seconds despite having lights. What gives?

this is happening when i climb up the roots from under the Last Light Inn to the inside of a little house. (where the map says "Roots")

The game tells you that regular lights only work in some places. (It's a way of railroading you to get more stuff to happen.) You need to get a working moonlantern or a blessing from a pixie. (edit: I misremembered the cleric part).

[F.O.A.M]

the buff you get from isobel and other light sources dont help against some places. isobel tells you that herself. the darkness is to thick. you need a moonlantern or the item from the pixie to survive in places like that house

[KittyKat]

Game tells you if you listen. First areea is ok with torches, after that you need stronger sources.
And by first areea i mean if u enter from the mouintain pass.
If you enter from the underdark elevator, you end up in a tier2 darkness as i call it.
Torches wont work there.

YOu need lanterns

[Dre G Writer]

This is why its important to read the books and notes lying around and pay attention to what people say when they talk to you.

Multiple instances, the game tells you certain locations where the darkness is too powerful that even lights will not work and no fire can burn there.

There's certain ways to get through this as others in this thread have said. It's apart of the whole story of getting closer to the towers by getting through the thick darkness.

[Cornmuffin]

it's a bug, i had all the light sources too, it still shows me with them, and now i cant walk in the shadowlands. not sure how to fix it. everyone here is assuming you're an idiot, but it's just a bug

[seeker1]

Spoiler warning?

OK. So here's the deal. I discovered it myself. The Moonlantern Pixie if you free her gives you her blessing and then you have protection for the "deeper" shadowcurse. Then she hands you a ball to ring/shake. I always wondered what was the point of that, if she's just already cast the blessing on you. Now I know the answer.

If you go back to Act I areas (Creche etc.) her blessing vanishes. When you come BACK to SCL/Act 2 you need to ring the bell to get the blessing restored. It doesn't stay on.

Torches and light sources work for the "lighter" cursed areas, you need a Moonlantern or pixie protection for the "deeper" curse areas.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Cornmuffin:

it's a bug, i had all the light sources too, it still shows me with them, and now i cant walk in the shadowlands. not sure how to fix it. everyone here is assuming you're an idiot, but it's just a bug

The thread is quite old. There are no related bugs to that matter.