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I have Quen at level 4 and the expert talent which says attackers should take 20% of their health as damage.. except no matter what I do I can't see this happening.

I've cast it normally with no charge, fully charged it, charged it half way to where the bar is the widest (which I'm assuming is the best place to let charged signs off?) and nothing happens when enemies hit me. It shields me fine, it's just the damage.

Am I missing something and being stupid or is this a bug or something?

Thanks.
This question / problem has been solved by bevinatorimage
The charge bar is diamond-shaped, but you have to let it get all the way to the right before the "extra" goes into effect. Also, from my experience digging around in the Djinni editor, TW1 is chock-full of misleading descriptions. What I've seen of charged Quen is that is does work, but it reflects X% of the damage back rather than doing a flat percentage of damage... at least, it seems that way. It's hard to tell ingame exactly how much damage is being dealt.

It's possible that your Quen is bugged, because it works for me.
Ah I got it to work!

Seems slightly awkward to pull it off consistently since the signs arn't cast if you wait too long and if you let go too early it doesn't get the effect.

Just finished the game earlier today so I'll have to wait till my next playthrough to make use of the charge abilities properly :D

Thanks for you help.