Banishment & Exorcism

[Baccalarium]

My small group encounters a few elementals, I switch to a spell penetration dagger and pretend I'm a caster.

After throwing banishment on the elementals multiple times I realize that there's no "save" message popping up on the mobs, I throw it a few more times in next fight and see that even though the spell timer is resetting and I've wasted a substantial chunk of a power bar no messages indicating that it was ever cast show up. I spend the next fight just scrolling through the combat window history; I find nothing in the history to even suggest I pushed the banishment button.

I've seen banishment work, even later on the same mobs in the same adventure. I've tried keeping range from the fight and tried keeping right next to my target. I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong in the cases where nothing happens. It's really annoying when exorcism does nothing other than trigger its long cool down timer with no explanation.

[donfilibuster]

The banishment spell was working for me yesterday, no clue what your issue could be.

[clkpacker]

I've had intermittent issues with spells not firing, even though the SP was spent and the timer resets. I was chalking it up to lag.

[Scarecrow9]

on that note, why cant things be banished/dismissed in the shroud?

[Baccalarium]

Not claiming they don't work as sometimes they do, claiming I am regularly doing something that is causing them not to work in a way that I don't get feedback but still activates the cool down timer and consumes power.

Just hoping someone would suggest something I hadn't thought of before I just stop trying to use these spells entirely.

line-of-sight, cast interrupted, and facing would produce messages and not reset the cool down.
wrong type of mob produces an immune message.
Mob saves vs. the effect produces a save message.

Hadn't considered lag, usually don't have much problem with lag, but will be something else for me to watch for.

[Aflac]

Try turning off Auto Attack if you have that enabled. Seems that messes up my Cleric on a variety of different spells.

There is some hot key I hit that turns it on. I'll notice my spells aren't landing and thats the first thing I check for.