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Just ran into this bug this morning. My wizard casts the Light cantrip on himself and the little purple dot appears on his character image indicating that he has the light cantrip active, but there's no actual light emanating from him. Mechanically I'm guessing that once the cantrip is active he no longer suffers the penalties for being in dim light or darkness, but I'd actually like to have the light to navigate by!
Anybody else experiencing this problem? Or is it just me?

The light applies to one of the weapons.

Unfortunately, since Patch 9, it's not necessarily the weapon currently displayed on the character (which, is an issue indeed).

I had to click on the weapon instead of the character (and that's a bit tricky).

Yup, know that, and I looked to see that the light was applied to his quarterstaff, which was the currently equipped weapon. Yet the staff wasn't lit up, and there was no aura of light surrounding the character. It's definitely a glitch of some kind.

Ooooh. I see, yes, definitely a glitch on top of another glitch then 😅. Maybe verifying the files?

Light seems to be working correctly for me: the weapon affected has a nimbus of light and the nearby environment is noticeably brighter when it’s equipped than when it is not. I tested with Gale (who is the only character in my party with the cantrip) holding both a staff and a crossbow. So at least this doesn’t seem to be a universal bug.


I’ve not noticed the spell not affecting the equipped weapon, so I’ll look out for that from now on. But out of interest, how do you target the weapon rather than the character? Do you mean clicking on the weapon graphic displayed on the character sprite, rather than elsewhere on their body? I can’t see a way to target the weapon on the hotbar or in the inventory.

EDIT: I should have said, Light is *displaying* correctly for me. I’m not sure whether or not it’s having the correct gameplay effects.

By character sprite, do you mean the controllable character (so, not any icon or rendering in inventory)? If so, yes, I would put my cursor on the weapon instead of anywhere else.

But, annoyingly...I can't seem to be able to reproduce the bug. But it did happened to me at some point

At least, it's working now for me 😅

I tried clicking on the quarterstaff both in the HUD menu, and in the inventory. Neither worked. When I had Light prepped for casting and clicked on the quarterstaff in the HUD it immediately switched to a pre-attack setup waiting for me to select a target for the quarterstaff attack. When I clicked on it in inventory, nothing happened. It's been A WHILE since I last played, but in the past, I thought I remembered being able to actually click on an item in the inventory and having the light emanate from that. Now the only viable option for me to complete the spell is to click on a character either on the map, or on their image on the left hand side of the screen. I tried casting it both on my main character, and on Gale, and both showed the little purple dot showing that they had Light active, but neither of them actually had any item lit up, nor did either of them have an aura of light surrounding them. If I can reproduce later today, I'll try to grab a screen shot to show what I'm talking about.

[img]https://imgur.com/gallery/AAL42vW[/img]

So, update on this. After my last post when I returned to play, as soon as my save loaded, my PC's quarterstaff was lit, and providing an aura of light. So I thought it was just some temporary glitch. However, I was just playing again, and the exact same thing happened. I've linked a screenshot through Imgur that shows the character's quarterstaff has the Light cantrip cast on it, but the staff isn't glowing, nor is there any aura of light being projected.