Spells fizzling even with required skills?

[16ozCappuccino]

I either haven't found the fire protection spell scroll, or have found it and throw it away - but I know you aren't required to find a scroll to learn it... So has anyone got some ideas as to why my fire shield spell is fizzling? I've tried every single starting and end point combination for the spell (not that it should matter). Always fizzles, and it's the only spell to do so (thus far).

I have 5 points in fire and 4 in Concentration. I've save scummed to try 5+5 and it still fizzles. I've tried it with my orb as well as barehand.

My first thought is that it's a bug.

[Lemonwood]

First off, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=327616383 See if you doing it right

Second, If it still frizzling, Do you have an headache... otherwise I don't know :/

[felidae]

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[16ozCappuccino]

Originally posted by Lemonwood:

First off, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=327616383 See if you doing it right

Second, If it still frizzling, Do you have an headache... otherwise I don't know :/

Hah, yeah. I did double (and triple!) check I was doing it right. I've tried casting it 100+ times. No negative status effects on my Battlemage, I've save crystal'd many a time before attempting to cast, and it seems to be just this spell.

[Lemonwood]

Originally posted by felidae:

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I did it this way, make sure you do the full circle

[16ozCappuccino]

Originally posted by felidae:

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Wow, quick someone get the dunce hat. In the 100 odd times I've tried to cast it, I've never looped the rune back to the starting point before casting.

Solved!

[16ozCappuccino]

Thank you!

[delve202]

Yeh, that got me when I was trying to figure out why Forcefield wasn't working. Head meets desk.