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Upcasting Shadow blade to 3d8 or 4d8, then applying a temporary buff such as a poison, elemental weapon, weapon dipping, etc -- then having the buff be removed (by any means) is reverting the upcasted shadow blade to 2d8.

I'm not trying to be dramatic (maybe a little) but this is hindering like 3 different builds I want to play.

I'm playing with mods but loaded a file without and the issue still happens. Has this already been addressed / being worked on?

Just commenting to keep this current, experiencing the same bug. Any buff removed from the shadow blade reverts it to the non-upcast version of the shadow blade. So far I've seen it happen with the following effects:

- Kagha's amulet
- Elemental Weapon (spell)
- Magic weapon (spell)

as of first hotfix, this bug is still around

Well... at least you cannot drop it on the ground or hand it back and forth between characters. Which you *can* do with the Shadowblade version from Arabella's ring (I've made my own thread about that issue).

Also: I did use the upcast spell-version before switching to the ring's and I noticed that the damage glitch would happen (for *some* reason) even if I didn't apply any coatings, dips, etc. I wasn't able to find out what exactly caused the bug to fire - I did check to see if it was Arcane Synergy items as these could be viewed as applying a buff/condition to the blade, but that wasn't it.