Can't cast spells most of time

Probably a good 70% of the time I can’t cast spells at all. I can NEVER recast any spell once I’ve succeeded in a cast until 4-8 hours later.

I was wondering if it was me… but suddenly I succeeded in casting the batwing spell… it lasted about 30 seconds and then I could not cast again at all. Logging off didn’t matter … the only time the spellcast animation would begin with the floating runes again would either be the next day or a good many hours later.

Most of the time the runes don’t even show up or appear. Is there a flag or some kind of state I can view to determine if spells are disabled?

It seems very similar to when I log in and find my stamina wont restore itself without sheathing and enabling a weapon. (often times in the middle of combat GRRRRRRR!) I thought it was my internet… nope updated and upgraded to different networks.

I thought it was my computer… switched to different OS and computers with massive resources available… so it comes down to timing/gameplay. I wear heavy armor with a mace and I’ve noticed that timing my attacks alleviates it somewhat in battle… but usually when it’s really bad, rebooting and relogging will reset it back to normal.

None of those workarounds fix the spell casting issue that is generally flip a coin if I want to cast a spell. Messing around with logging or rebooting usually leaves me 30 minutes later with no relief… so active sorcery spells are sometimes available… (no it’s not corrupted attributes affecting gameplay… it’s same with or without corrupted attributes.) I’ve tried specific procedures… getting myself corrupted or starting with blank slate… It’s a hit or miss.

Is this by design or just a really crappy implementation of the subsystem? I don’t remember casting spells being this intermittent.

It’s also not related to the rubberband issue that happens at least 10-15% of the time whereyou are stuck in rubberband until you relog or `/suicide to reset.

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Just to double check, you’re not overencumbered when trying to cast a spell, right? And not using Beast of Burden and “overencumbered” either?

This does not happen to me frequently but every once in awhile if I’m casting bat one after the other it simply does not let me.

The runes come up, I can select Call of Nergal and then my arms go down and nothing happens. Seems only server reset fixes this.

Sometimes after the second cast, sometimes after multiple.

I have never been able to determine the cause but my suspicions lie in how the server I am on calculates the information.

Are you on a multiplayer server or single player?

As for your stamina not regenerating, if you’re logging out attached (emote interacting) to a bed, chair or other interactable, stamina does not regenerate. Don’t do that if you are.

Quick update. Nearly all of this behavior is on multiplayer PVP servers and I haven’t checked PVE or solo yet. I haven’t played those since I came back from a long 2023 hiatus.

I also started checking procedures so it’s not beast of burden/over-encumbered or emote issue. At one point I re-statted to corrupted attributes with same results.

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