Can't spend dragon souls! : V

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:59 pm

I have 7 dragon souls and whenever I press R to spend them on a shout, it keeps displaying the message "requires dragon soul" as if i dont have any.. anyone else having this problem? A solution would be great!

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 am

Not sure what button you press on PC (I assume that is what you are playing on), but on Xbox I know it's weird, if you press A (the 'action' button), it gives that message - I have to press X to actually "buy" the new shouts.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:49 pm

Its R on the PC but the thing is i have previously purchased shouts just fine.. it just suddenly stopped letting me.. 7 dragon souls later still not letting me.. its really annoying. As amazing as this game is, its got so many damn bugs!

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:18 pm

Have you actually unlocked the shouts? Are they highlighted now in your magic inventory?

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:08 pm

Its R on the PC but the thing is i have previously purchased shouts just fine.. it just suddenly stopped letting me.. 7 dragon souls later still not letting me.. its really annoying. As amazing as this game is, its got so many damn bugs!

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If you haven't done the quest chain to speak with the Graybeards, I would recommend you do that first. They unlock more shouts for you, and they might resolve your issue. Good luck.

» Sun May 13, 2012 11:34 am

I have 7 dragon souls and whenever I press R to spend them on a shout, it keeps displaying the message "requires dragon soul" as if i dont have any.. anyone else having this problem? A solution would be great!

You don't 'spend' dragon souls per se. Each dragon soul you get 'awakens' one shout, ie it unlocks that shout to be used whenever you want. I'd guess you have a shout selected that has not been powered yet, like you might have learned 8 shouts but only 7 of them are usable. Go into your magic tab and under shouts select one you can use ( off the top of my head I think the ones that aren't usable are greyed out but you can still select them)

» Sun May 13, 2012 11:56 am

you probably already figured this out but in order to unlock a shout u must select the shout that is greyed out, or have a grey word in it before u can press R, to unlock that shout/upgrade

» Sun May 13, 2012 11:30 am

you probably already figured this out but in order to unlock a shout u must select the shout that is greyed out, or have a grey word in it before u can press R, to unlock that shout/upgrade

Indeed, I understand alot of people dont know how to unlock shouts but lets get this straight I do. I have been to the gray beards, i also have grey shouts that require a dragon soul to be A" awakened" my problem is that this is a bug

i have 7 dragons souls and i cant spend any of them on any of my greyed out shouts..

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:32 pm

If you've remapped Ready/Sheath to another key, try pressing that one instead. The on screen directions don't update to reflect remapped keys, and pressing the wrong one gives the error message you mentioned.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:18 pm

You say you have 7 dragon souls.. how many shouts do you have that are not greyed out? Also, your problem may be you got the souls when you had no 'word' for it to empower. I don't think the soul can be spent retroactively like that.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:30 pm

**EDITED AND FIXED**

This problem is in fact due to changing the keymapping of the "Sheathe weapon" button. Initially the button is "R" and changing to any button on the mouse will cause it to not work in menus. Without this button it is impossible to spend dragon souls.

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I am having the same problem as the OP. I have 3 unspent Dragon Souls and have been collecting Shouts for a while now that I cannot unlock. The only Shouts I can actually use are the ones given to me by the Graybeards (and yes I did complete the Graybeard quest-chain).

I have 3 shouts that need to be unlocked; "Become Ethereal (Word learned is "Fade")", "Ice Form (Word learned is "Ice")", and "Kyne's Peace (Word learned is "Kyne")". "Kyne's Peace" was learned before I received any Dragon Souls at all, and the other two were learned after I had received Souls, so it is not a problem of the order in which souls/shouts are gained.

So here is what I do step by step:

Open up the player menu (Tab on the PC)
Select Magic
Select the Shouts tab
[indent]In the lower-right hand corner of the screen the game tells me I have "3 Dragon Souls"[/indent]
Highlight a grayed-out shout that I would like to activate
Press "R" - Game says this button "Unlocks" shouts
[indent]Nothing happens[/indent]
Double-click the Shout to activate
[indent]Error pops up that says "Dragon souls are required to unlock shouts."[/indent]
Press "Okay" twice (because the error pops up again directly after hitting "Okay"
Nothing happens, no Dragon souls are spent, no Shouts are unlocked.

I did in fact remap my "Sheathe weapon" button to a mouse button, but pressing the mouse button also does nothing.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:25 pm

I had troubles spending it on the shout, I kept clicking on the new shout, and i would get a pop-up; I just had to mouse over the correct one and hit the key "r"