Charge items not respecting charges.

[Kuma]

badly written title but whatever

If an item uses, for example, 3 charges to cast a spell
and my item has 5 charges left

and i cast that spell

i expect it to survive with 2 charges

instead, it destroys the item

is this intended behaviour.

[Rigela]

I'd imagine so. 3 charges would leave it with 2, which isn't enough for it to use its property, so counts as 0 and makes it go byebye.

[Kuma]

I'd imagine so. 3 charges would leave it with 2, which isn't enough for it to use its property, so counts as 0 and makes it go byebye.

right but if it has 5

and i use 3

i expect it to remain with 2

not go poof

do you see my argument

[Xerah]

This has always been the case in NWN

[Rigela]

Sure, but that's not how it works with NWN. It has less charges than it has to activate its ability, so the game thinks it's a useless item so decides to be helpful and gets rid of it for you.

https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Charge

Whether it should or not is different, and I can see wanting to keep an item still with as little charges on it as possible with some items, but that's why you make sure to keep it at one charge.

[Kuma]

This has always been the case in NWN

ugggghhhhh

alrighty

[garrbear758]

This has always been the case in NWN

ugggghhhhh

alrighty

Best thing you can do here is submit a bug report to beamdog or post it on their forums.

[Kuma]

It'd also potentially allow for spell component pouches to not just explode on final charge