"Command: Drop" no longer working for Everburn?

[gurugeorge]

Started a new character the other day and tried the time-honoured method of getting Everburn by switching in Shadowheart's Command spell and Command:Dropping Zhaik, but although the spell hit according to the combat log, the b*stard held on to the damn thing and didn't drop it!

Is this some sort of glitch or have Larian done it deliberately? I've looked through the patch notes but I might have missed it. Anybody experienced this? Anybody know anything?

[Tax evasion]

Show the log. I'm using the classic "but it works on my end", but then again, show logs.
"Command : [...]" hits automatically, the question is if the NPC makes the saving throw or not.

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by gurugeorge:

Started a new character the other day and tried the time-honoured method of getting Everburn by switching in Shadowheart's Command spell and Command:Dropping Zhaik, but although the spell hit according to the combat log, the b*stard held on to the damn thing and didn't drop it!

Is this some sort of glitch or have Larian done it deliberately? I've looked through the patch notes but I might have missed it. Anybody experienced this? Anybody know anything?

must be your mods. It worked for me yesterday.

As the others said, check the log. If Zhalk resisted, he won't drop the blade.

[TurksTeeTime]

Originally posted by gurugeorge:

Started a new character the other day and tried the time-honoured method of getting Everburn by switching in Shadowheart's Command spell and Command:Dropping Zhaik, but although the spell hit according to the combat log, the b*stard held on to the damn thing and didn't drop it!

Is this some sort of glitch or have Larian done it deliberately? I've looked through the patch notes but I might have missed it. Anybody experienced this? Anybody know anything?

I did it less 12 hours ago. Still working

[OnlyOffensive]

same, did it yesterday on a new run, its working

[gurugeorge]

Bah, must be something weird my end. The combat log showed him failing his save, so I don't know what's going on. My mod load is kind of medium (couple of hundred mods) and mostly QOL/visuals, but there are some mods that affect weapons that might be the culprits.

[northernwater]

Originally posted by gurugeorge:

Bah, must be something weird my end. The combat log showed him failing his save, so I don't know what's going on. My mod load is kind of medium (couple of hundred mods) and mostly QOL/visuals, but there are some mods that affect weapons that might be the culprits.

That's medium load?

[EricHVela]

Dang. I never thought to try that. When I come back to the game, I'll definitely try that. (It seems so obvious in hindsight... and seems like it shoulda been just as obvious in foresight, too.)

[gurugeorge]

Originally posted by northernwater:

Originally posted by gurugeorge:

Bah, must be something weird my end. The combat log showed him failing his save, so I don't know what's going on. My mod load is kind of medium (couple of hundred mods) and mostly QOL/visuals, but there are some mods that affect weapons that might be the culprits.

That's medium load?

Yeah some people have many hundreds of mods - there are a lot of modular class and sub-class mods out there and lots of bitty cosmetic mods, you can easily load up with a whole bunch of stuff without even changing gameplay that much. (Ofc BG3MM makes it easy-peasy to keep track of them all and keep them in order with separators and all that.)

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ANYWAY, I've semi-figured out what it is. I discoverd (from loading a pristine save from the Balduran saves set on Nexus) that Everburn in my games now has the cheeky extra property of being "so bound to fiends that they can't be forced to lose their grip" of it or words to that effect.

I only have one weapon mod (Vanilla Weapon Rebalance), so I suspect it's that, though of course it could be some thing any modder put into the game for a chuckle.

Very witty :)