Because you only get the bonus spells when actually using the weapon. As soon as you switch to another weapon or deequip the item then the bonus spells vanish. This makes the sword useful mainly as an offhand weapon.
Nah, never died...got a mage/thief...only reason i can figure is it happens when i sneak ahead of my party and click on the weapon to backstab a mage...
Remembered that some scripts automatically deequips/reequips weapons in your quickweapon slots in order to find out what weapon that is the strongest at the given range. Try changing scripts and see if that helps.
Originally posted by Thomas: Remembered that some scripts automatically deequips/reequips weapons in your quickweapon slots in order to find out what weapon that is the strongest at the given range. Try changing scripts and see if that helps.