SORCERESS HELP! Please i'm stumped!

Hi Guys!

I am up to level 70 with my Stormweaver Spark Sorceress...

I recently got a "Chiming Staff" base and have it equipped in my 2ndary weapon slot for the skill "Sigil of Power" Which I do have on my skill bar and cast to enter attacks.

I also have a wand and a shield equipped.

Now my character #1 runs around with the staff in its hand and not the wand and shield and I have no idea how or why? Do my wand and shield still get stats?

I also have a problem where it doesn't matter if it's this shield or any other for example I current have 42% Fire Resistance and 40% lightning resistance.

My shield has +32% fire resist and +40% lighting resist on it and when I equip and unequip it DOESN'T Change the resistances on my character . I've restarted the game....I've un-equipped and re-equipped everything...

What is going on? where's my wand and shield (why does my character run around with staff at all times now) and why does it feel like my Shield adds NOTHING to my character lines it also shows it has 38% block but i my character stats it shows up as 0%.

Help-- Im so lost and about to put the game down for a while i spent 2 days leveling this character up and many hours and now feel like I hit a literal WALL.

THANK YOU ALL for helping below!

Anyone? I'm so stumped? I feel like I have decent gear and should not be getting 1 shot on T1 maps at level 70... Im seriously stumped ....

Just from the description alone I am not sure if I understand correctly. But I assume you primarily want to use wand + shield and only for Sigil of Power switch to staff and then back to wand + shield, correct?

If my assumption is correct, have you selected the corresponding weapon slots in the skill menu? I am not using weapon swap so I am not sure, but in the skill menu there should be two checkboxes where you can enable or disable weapon 1 and weapon 2 for that skill. So Sigil of Power needs to be only enabled for the staff and everything else only for wand + shield.

Then after casting Sigil of Power you would have to use another skill that is set up for wand + shield only to switch back. Or manually switch back with the weapon slot switch hotkey.

Can someone who uses weapon swap double check me on this please? But I am pretty sure that how it works.

Once your shield is active you should receive the bonuses. When your staff is active, your wand and shield have no effect.

Thanks for the reply? im reading the guide and it says NOTHING about actually weapon swapping? This may be part of the issue? Again it's why I'm here! I feel like a wimp lol!

You need to set up the weapon swapping in your skill menu.


Right here, you need to specify which weapon set your skills are supposed to use;
so say your wand+shield is weapon set 1, and you chiming staff is set 2
you need to set all your skills to only the first weapon set with the checkboxes, with the exception of sigil of power.
this will then automatically swap to the staff to cast sigil of power, and then automatically swap back for everything else you might be casting.

this should also solve your resist problem, as the stats on weapons/offhands only apply when they're the active weapon set. it appears like your shield's resist got "disabled" while you're walking around with the staff; they will be back when you switch back to your wand+shield.

Edit: you can also manually weapon swap. the default hotkey is X i believe, you might need to check your input settings

THANK You going to login here soon and check that! NO idea how or why I missed that little check box button. Surprised the game isn't set to Auto swap already and to notice that.

why would the game do that for you though? how is the game supposed to know which skills you want to cast with which weapon? there are benefits to cast more than the weapon-innate skill on a weapon swap, especially with the weapon set passive system.
it only does that in case a skill can't be used with your current weapon set, like if you try to use sunder with your wand, it will swap to a melee weapon set, if equipped.

Fair point! I just didn't understand I appreciate you! First time i've had to use a skill that comes from a 2ndary offhand- I've learned! Will pass this knowledge onto the next haha. No seriously thank you! I feel I won't die on T1 maps now haha!