SureAI

The game has been great so far and surprisingly bug free 20 hours in. I just ran into an issue, though, that I hope to find an answer to. I'm trying out the Phasmalist tree by creating and equipping a talisman. But when I try to spectralize a weapon for my apparition, it won't equip. Armor and shields work, but weapons always stay as default (in this case an iron dagger). Any help would be appreciated.

hi, welcome to the forum

the apparition should always use the strongest weapon/armour. (sadly that doesn't always work :/ )
if I remember correctly existing enchantments don't count to that value.

try to take away the dagger, if that doesn't work upload a savegame please.
they're found in (...\Documents\My Games\Enderal)
we'll need the *.ess and the *.skse file;
pack both to a zip/rar/whatever archive, (the forum doesn't accept *.skse)
thank you