This seems to happen almost every time. I cast Cure Light Wounds, click on a character. Then the whole animation plays out, except of the last part. No healing is done.
Look at the log in this image: https://imgur.com/a/DPMUwUe
You can see that Ember did cast, but the spell had no effect (didn't heal MC).
What's going on?
Posted Aug 17, 2022, 9:17 PM UTC
Hard to tell by the picture. Any chance you’re just not reaching them to deliver the touch spell? If you aren’t, you’ll hold the charge for next turn as long as you don’t do something that discharges it.
Well yes, I had to take a move action to reach them, and then a standard action to actually cast, no? Isn't that standard? Pretty sure that's how it used to work before in this playthrough.
Cast the spell first. You'll move up to touch range automatically. If you're gonna move first, make sure you're almost missing the target with your destination point. Yes, it is still buggy.
I'd say you generally want to move manually, as the game frequently bugs out and eats your move action if you try to cast from outside touch range.
There's an ongoing bug where sometimes the char won't move, they'll just cast the spell and then sit there which wastes the turn.
In my experience it seems to be triggered most often if I click the char portrait rather than the model but it's inconsistent either way.
Thankfully once I get started on the mythic path it stops mattering since my healer has ranged cure.
It's a common bug with both PF games. Can happen with any touch spell on Turn Mode.
If you're out of touch range, the actual heal won't register until the next round. And if you keep moving the target away, it may even be longer.
Assuming certain Mythic Feat I give every healer is not active.
Ah this is strange. I thought I'd expend a full round action: move to target + cast touch spell.
The casting action always precedes the touch. So it's cast touch spell, attempt touch.
The real problem is that you are playing turn-based instead of RTWP.
Technically, the same problem can happen in RTwP. But it is more rare.
Honestly, all my healers take Boundless Healing as their, at latest, 2nd Mythic Feat. So this is never a problem in either mode.
Just wait until you get to Breath of Life level! 🙃
Please report it as bug. It's really annoying. You will find that if you change your mind about healing someone (because they died)
It's really annoying. After playing a magus I understand why the devs created the system the way they did - if you miss your hit with shocking grasp you haven't wasted the spell. But that system shouldn't apply to healing spells. Yes, healing spells can be used against undead but 99 percent of the time that's a bad move.
Or make it toggle for the 2 players who like using cure spells to kill undead.
It's a known bug that casting a touch spell and then moving towards the target does not always deliver the spell.
It's been here since Kingmaker. Seems to be a kink with the engine/base coding.
Only way to avoid is by moving into range first or sometimes selecting other characters.
If you end the turn, the spell will be under the abilities tab, ready to cast without further expending spell slots.
It might be the same bug I run into. For whatever reason if you cast a cure wound spell, but aren't within touch range, your character will not move into range. The game then doesn't allow you to discharge the cure spell as a free action that round, even if you move into range after the fact.
Its super frustrating, seems to be cure spells only. At least offensive touch spells dont suffer the bug.
Ive gotten around it by always moving the caster into touch range first. Shitty, but it prevents a loss of a turn.
You can get around it by selecting other characters, then re-selecting the healing character, and now when you hover over an ally it should turn into the spell as a free action.
I will try this next time, see if I can avoid losing a turn when I eventually forget to pre-move the healer.
Another workaround to avoid losing the turn and the spell is to put the crossbow that gives your healing spells reach into your second slot, and then switch weapons if you ever forget. Good luck!
Almost a year and they haven't fixed this. Come on Owlcat.
It’s been there since kingmaker lmao