Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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Karlito
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Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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Ever since the patch a few days ago, my doomhowler hasn't been able to trigger buff type spells in spellgems. The dropdown under the spellcasting menu doesn't show up. Attack spells still show up in the attack dropdowns. From my raising this issue on discord, it only seems to be affecting me on this particular character.

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No trigger menu is present despite two glyphs, sharp vision, and fiery corona being present in inventory.
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Re: Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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Karlito
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Re: Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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To address a some common points brought up by well-meaning troubleshooters:
-This issue only affects this one character of mine; the other 4 who can cast spells see the trigger spell dropdown as expected (well, I can only confirm that on 3 of them at the moment I guess)
-This issue has persisted for several days, and my character has had sufficient mp on plenty of occasions. I believe I first noticed this after the 10/24 patch had been pushed.
-All my spellgems are turned on in the weapons tab (also aura type spells don't even show up there)
-Per the screenshot, my gems have charges (and also 0 charge gems would normally show up in the trigger dropdown anyway)
-I've made some attempts to pick up other buff-type spells to see if the issue was related to the particular gems in my inventory with no success.
-This issue is persistent across both my phone and desktop computer
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Re: Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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I built a test character as a generic tricked-out high-level Doom Howler and could not reproduce the issue.

I reset the test character and rebuilt it as an exact copy of your build and could reproduce the issue.
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Re: Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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Further testing shows that spell type has something to do with it.

My Advocate knows Sixth Sense, Reveal, Death Mantle, Shadow Wrap and Sharp Vision, and has a Sharp Vision spellgem in her inventory. I revoked all these spells except Death Mantle, and suddenly spellgems were unusable.
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Re: Character with Spellcraft Can't Trigger Gems

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Further testing: My Dark Oppressor knows all fire spells plus GGE. He could not trigger spellgems.

Removing all of his spells returned the ability to trigger spellgems.

Adding spells back one by one did not trigger the bug until I added Greater Glyph Erasure, which did.

The bug appears to be "characters with GGE but without any non-aura buffing spells can't trigger spells from spellgems".
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I believe this issue has now been solved. Thanks for flagging it.
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