Curse not casting

So out of nowhere, with no changes, my curse is suddenly not casting. My character is making the mannerisms as though it is casting, it is also consuming my mana as though it’s casting, but it is not casting. There are no visual effects on the ground and I do not see any of the effects of curse on the monster. I have not changed any equipment, all requirements are met, I have restarted game multiple times, I have removed skill gems and reinstalled skill gems, nothing is working. If I change skill to weapons slot one, it works, but obviously I have 24 skill points to weapon slot two for curse, but it does not seem to work on weapons slot to all of a sudden. Any ideas or recommendations is greatly appreciated. Again, character makes physical mannerisms to suggest curses being cast, mana is being consumed to suggest curse is being cast, but there are no visual effects on the ground, nor are mobs actually being cursed.

Tia!!

Did you try changing your second weapon/offhand to something else?
Maybe something you have there right now prevents it

edit_ would also check skilltreesince you seem to have different setup for 2nd slot

Have you tried casting it on monsters? I had the behaviour that there were no visuals on the ground, but monsters would receive still the curse. For me the reason was that I got 100% reduced curse activation delay (Focused Curse support plus the Impending Doom cluster on the passive tree). I decided to remove Focused Curse support, because the visuals are more useful to me than instant activation.

edit: ok so you did try it on monsters and it didn't work. I would still try playing with activation delay. maybe it ceases to work entirely if you get more than 100% reduced delay

I have tried refunding all 2nd weapon kill points. And still does the same thing. The character makes noise as tho casting, moves arms as tho casting, mana is consumed, but nothing actually happens

So it now looks like it IS casting the curse, however there is no visual effects on the ground. This is an issue for me bc I play console, and without a mouse and pointer, I don’t know where it’s actually cursing the ground.

So it works, but I can’t control where it casts (bc console) and I can’t visually see and confirm where. So it’s just a meh I guess. Don’t know how or why this started happening out of nowhere

This is the situation I had and it was related to curse activation delay being reduced to 0. But maybe there are other causes for this behaviour