casting thunderstorm with weapon swap staff doesn’t persist when switching back to main setup.
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You need atleast one skillpoint in Thunderstorm, then it will work.
This is not a bug, you dont know how the game is working.
how is it not a bug? energy shield and cold armors can precast. im pretty sure holy shield can also be precasted. this seems to be the only precast that doesn’t work. I’ve played for 20 years but you’re right that i have no idea how this makes any sense.
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You have skillpoint in youre energy shield and cold armor in skilltree right?
You need to do the same with Thunderstorm IN THE SKILLTREE.
You must have to spend 6 skillpoints in the lightningspells skilltree to use Thunderstorm.
Lets say, when you play barbarian and summon iron golem and wolverine from OATH runeword weapon,when you swap weapons and youre second slot dont have another OATH, the iron golem and wolverine disappear. Thats because barbar dont have these skills .
Same with sorceres, when you dont have Thunderstorm skill and you swicth back to youre main wapons from youre prebuff which have Thunderstorm and youre main dont have it, Thunderstorm disappear.
When you realy played 20 years as you say, you could know this.
This is still not a bug , simple user error. 
my brother, cold armor and energy shield precasting works without a point in the skills, same with enchant from demon limb. all of these are buffs that stay on your character when removing the item, its actually the reason why people even want cold armor on a CTA staff so they dont have to waste a point for it. thunderstorm seems to be the only buff that doesn’t do this, the animation is still on the character but it just doesn’t work.
this is like if your BO went away after you switched back to main weapon.
yes i’ve really played for 20 years and if “Skill level applied when cast, which affects base lightning damage, strike interval and duration.” then yes this is a bug
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It’s a long known fact back from the 1.10/1.11 LoD days that casting a skill WITHOUT a single hardpoint in it tends to behave unstable and will expire a lot faster vs. the same skill with at least one hard point.
A good example to this is a Valkyrie triggered by Peace armor. You may wear that armor and trigger it’s Valkyrie even at clvl 29 (when you can’t even have a hardpoint in the skill) but the summon tends to simply disappear over time, without damage taken.
This was fixed in D2R, just FYI. Valkyrie from Peace now lasts forever even without a hard point and on non-amazons.
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expires a lot faster? well obviously because it wouldn’t be as high a level… afaik there is no other skill that ever had an issue with being used without having hardpoints. fade works fine even after completely removing item you used to get it, bo buffs, all the cold armors, enchant, energy shield, shadow warrior… pretty sure tstorm worked fine with a switch in lod as well because i always opted for a switch with tstorm and shiver armor it’s only in d2r that i noticed this bug recently.
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