Can someone explain to me why my Priest can't cast spells?

I’m fighting the big elemental guy with the giant battlefield where centaurs are doing whatever. It’s some dungeon from Dragon whatever it is. I am doing a dungeon with NPCs.

I am casting my spells and mind flay is NOT casting. My dots are NOT casting. I can’t dispell buffs. The boss is hitting me for 20k every time he attacks. I’m level 22, and I’m reading the battle guides - none of this is supposed to be happening. Literally I am incapable of beating this dungeon with NPCs because I’m not allowed to damage the boss.

what’s going on?

Edit: I’ve swapped to Heals, and the NPC dps is incapable of killing the boss before the 1 shot attacks are being dolled out by the boss.

Edit 2: Somehow I won after 2 hours.

I do not know which dungeon you are in or i could probably help. I think at some level ( what are they called soul priests?) gets a madness meter and when the meter is at maximum you cant do damage. You have to balance your attacks so the meter never reaches maximum ( its not easy , that is why i play Disc Priest)

Another possibility is you may need to start filling out your talent tree and you damage spells aren’t working properly,

And another possibility is the boss is resisting spell damage, but not knowing which dungeon you are in, I cant tell you what the mechanics are.

I suspect you are in the Nohkud offensive in Dragon Isles, and if I remember correctly , you have to kill the packs of mobs around the elemental boss first , to drop his shield

It looks like I’m experiencing some massive bug. Mind flay is NOT casting on anything 90% of the time.

Whatever dungeon has the open world type of thing going on with the raging elemental and the centaurs.

Like i said , I think you have to kill the mobs around the bosses perimeter to drop his shield to kill the boss. Could be wrong

Boss or trash, it’s not casting. I stand there doing hand movements - no channeling, no damage, and my spell bar is doing nothing. No latency no lag. It looks like I’m getting screwed with a weird bug.

I assume you mean the Nokhud Offensive, where you fly around from fight to fight. Not my favorite instance.

you might have to drop out of the dungeon and see if you can cast again, because I am not familiar with your problem.
If you have the correct weapon , in the correct slot , you should be casting as far as i can tell

Yes, that one. I am getting really angry though with this mind flay bug, I have found a few posts on reddit about how a past fix has screwed channeling spells.


I’ve already had 2 bosses die of embarrassment. Believe it or not the first one died without actually using the mechanic to kill him. The second one died because somehow he took a massive amount of damage in a short time from nobody. I think they are dying because they are embarrassed I am not winning…

It shouldnt matter what weapon is equipped, abilities should still work.

And yes, I’d do what Mort said, and leave the instance and check and see if your abilities are working outside of it.

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I think you need a weapon equipped on priest for damage multiplier

At this point I am going to keep wiping until all the bosses are dead. I’m angry at the game, plus I bug reported it and hopefully the bug team can examine the combat logs. So I am going to give them as much info as possible.

I do have a weapon on my char, btw.

Edit: OMG I just saw, I am perpetually missing every single spell cast. Not one spell is hitting because my chance to hit these enemies is 10% or lower, and all the enemies seem to be at level 70. I’m level 23, and this dungeon isn’t scaling properly. WTFH!?

Sounds like Nokhud maybe?

The last boss has adds that come out, and they will chain cast nasty spells that do a lot of damage… you have to kill them before you can go back to attacking the boss.

Though improperly scaled enemies will certainly be a problem.

I mean at this point I just want SOME loot from the dungeon

Apparently this has been happening before. So yes, definately report it and probably stay away from it, because you dont really gain anything from being constantly smashed in an instance that is bugged.

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ty for the confirmation.

The dungeon is now impossible to complete for me. Teera is 1 shotting me and she has that ability where she targets every player. She kills me twice in 5 seconds no matter what I do.

The bug has defeated me.