woodelf penetrating arrow doesn't work

[unalein]

Hi folks,

just started a woodelf and wanted to use multishoot and penetrating arrow. Multishoot works finde but penetrating arrow doesn't work. The game doesn't allow me to use it at all. Any ideas?

[Reijiro]

Work both fine by me, but I have the same problem with Plant Cage and Transformation.
Glad to see I'm not the only one

[Reijiro]

I did some research.
My character can't cast the spell Plant Cage, when she casts Knockback Arrow only a basic arrow comes out and when she casts Transformation, after the animation, nothing happens.
I tried creating a brand new character, same race, same difficulty and I managed to cast all combat arts without a problem.
I tried exporting my main character and start a new game with it, but it carried the same problems.
I verified the integrity of the game files but nothing changed.
I uninstalled the game and installed it again (while keeping the save files) but nothing changed.
My conclusions are that it's a really buggy game (In my physical copy, I can't remember if it was just for a character, all of the potions were only of the biggest size) and sometimes it can screw a character over without being able to do anything to fix it (afaik).

[Reijiro]

Originally posted by 711green:

Ok.
Since I really like this game and I am at my 5th walkthrough I wanted to clear up this missunderstanding and since I am playing as wood elf now I had a chance to do a bit of research.
So I spent 4 skills to get that transformation spell and here is what I learned:
1 - it transformes enemies around your character.
2 - when I tried to use it on level 26 enemies - nothing happened.
3 - I teleported to Bellieve and tried it again on some level 2 wolves - it works like a charm.
I will add more info when I will be able to check the Plant Cage spell.
:CapitalDome:

dude I know how it works, it simply doesn't on my main character due to a bug and that's the same ♥♥♥♥ that happened to OP

[Reijiro]

Originally posted by 711green:

it's just never happened to me.
What if you share your save file and I see if it works with my game and then rewrite it?
This may fix the problem.
:CapitalDome:

I literally trashed the whole sacred folder (aside from the 'save' one which contained 3 .pak files that corresponded to the 3 save slots) and still had the same problems once I reinstalled it, so I don't think your game would have been any different. Besides, as I've said in my first comment, I already "solved" them by creating another character, proving that they resided in the save file, not in the game.
Anyway, I've already given up and deleted my main character, hoping that it won't happen again.

[unalein]

Thanx for your replies. I just started a new char and now it works as intend. Never had the problem with my old physical copy of the game...Finally I can play my favorite build again

[mltnschroeder]

AFAICT, transformation only works if the spell is at least Enemy_level / 5 (rounded up).

Example: So if you want to transform lvl 28 enemies, your transform spell needs to be at least lvl 6 (i.e. 28 / 5 = 5.6 ... roundup to 6).

Plant cage seems to work similarly. Since some bosses have much higher level than normal opponents, that is probably why it doesn't seem to work on bosses.