Ember Lance won't work properly

[A Guy]

It's really annoying because 90% of the time when I try to use Ember Lance, he just does the animation and puts his hand up, but nothing comes out. Then I have to try again, but I lose a lot of health in the process because the enemies gather around me. Is this some kind of bug or is it supposed to happen? I didn't see anywhere in the description that it can fail, and it doesn't happen with my other spells.

[in.meinem.turm.]

It happened in 20% of the times for me. I thought it might be a problem with my old toaster that barely runs this. But I guess not.
Do you have the energy shield spell. If so: activate it. It really helps in this game.

[Farlong]

You gotta hold the button down. I was angry at first when I thought I wasted skillpoints, but when I accidentally the whole beam, it all became clear to me.

As long as you hold the button down, the lance will keep firing. I do sometimes have trouble with the lance not showing though...

Just be sure to have enough manapotions. The lance eats mana like no other ;)

[A Guy]

You gotta hold the button down. I was angry at first when I thought I wasted skillpoints, but when I accidentally the whole beam, it all became clear to me.

As long as you hold the button down, the lance will keep firing. I do sometimes have trouble with the lance not showing though...

Just be sure to have enough manapotions. The lance eats mana like no other ;)

I know you have to hold it to continue the spell, but even pressing it once will fire it just a little. But I always hold it and see his hand go up, but nothing come out.

I know it's not just invisible, because if it still worked, all the enemies in front of me would die.

The only way to get it to show is to let go of the button and repress, but the time it takes to do that is wasteful. Also, I have to aim it backwards first to make sure it's not over an enemy, because if it is, it won't let me aim it anywhere else. That is also very annoying, but I have a feeling that is not a bug and was intentional.

[backstepper]

Have the same problem. Just changed my armor and it does not show the lance but still kills the enemys . Would be nice to see it again.
I also don't think its intentional.

[A Guy]

Have the same problem. Just changed my armor and it does not show the lance but still kills the enemys . Would be nice to see it again.
I also don't think its intentional.

So are you saying that it did that after changing your armor? Maybe I should switch out my armor to see if it fixes it.

But it's weird that yours still kills enemies, because mine kills no enemies when it can't be seen, but it still uses up mana. :(

[backstepper]

Just played some more and it appears again after getting to the next floor. Putting armor on or not having it in the slot did not change anything. So im not sure why i had the problem but im glade i see the beam and it makes damage.

[A Guy]

I've had it with this bug. I used a respec potion to get rid of that skill so I can use the points for something more valuable. It's too bad, because it would be a really good spell if it worked properly. Someone should make a mod that fixes it if possible.

[TurtleDefense]

one possible solution:

DISABLE "VSYNCH" in the game settings.

worked like a charm for me

[Webbstre]

It's worth noting that this thread is 6 months old and a newer version of Torchlight is out than was available when this thread was started. ;)