Account: Porkolt
PC name: Anthony Sarid
My permanent summoning theme has gone down one level (as in, casting a summon creature spell summons creatures as though the summon spell were one level lower).
When I noticed the change, I relogged. No effect. Testing it after the server crashed just now, the effect is still there.
The only reason this could have happened I can surmise is that I activated a -1 level furnomancy summoning tome (which I bought at one of the shops in the Mistlocke market hall). I did not actually cast any spells using the tome, but did activate it with my summoning focus. I had definitely cleared the tome from the focus again.
A bug like this is pretty paralyzing when your PC depends on summon spells!
Click the focus and target your focus. That should clear all chosen themes. Did you do it like that?
As stated, yes.
I don't know what happened, but the bug is fixed, and I'm not gonna be using that summoning tome again.
As per this report (//%22http://www.escapefromundeath.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60001%22): The Furniture-mancy Manual is bugged and seemingly responsible for this problem as stated.
Perhaps the item should be removed from the game if a bug fix is not possible.
At least it would stop people from suffering this problem. (There is also an alternate working tome equivalent focus for Animated Furniture that does not reduce summoning level available IG. Maybe it could just be adjusted to become the tome instead.)