I noticed that the recursive curse does not consitently inflict its Damage over Time effect. This is reduced the effectiveness of this spell considerably. Recursive Curse used to be a fire and forget spell that killed most enemies after 3-4 turns. Furthermore, the effects would stack so you could use it twice on a particularly robust opponent. Also the N dimensional lathe (wandcrafting) menu is bugged and crashes the game. (triggered usually after loading the game, and is permenent.)
I am presuming the game didn't tell you that Recursive was resisted? Do you recall it definitely just... not working for no reason?
I asked a similar question about leylines. http://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/leylines-thaumaturgic-tap.1636/#post-14095 Seems all DoT's are bugged right now, which explains why Recursive Curse is not working nearly as excellently as it used to.
I've had no problems with the lathe in my inventory. But if it's used to bring up the crafting menu and the up/down buttons are pressed, it results in an instant CTD. Necessary to go back to the last save or autosave to resume.