This is either a bug or this is related to the trophy thing that is currently on the live servers where crafting trophies are disabled.
Combat trophies, specifically basic and minor do not work.
I tested this by going and attacking a corrupted mob at the mines recording my damage.
Removing 1 of my 3 trophies, returning and attacking the mob.
Removing all 3 of my trohpies, returning and attacking the mob.
Adding all 3 back, returning and attacking the mob.
I have 3 basic combat trophies.
All four samples had the exact same damage from light, heavy, and critical attacks.
IF the combat trophies were stackign incorrectly like the crafting trophies… so what? Why disable all trophies of non major level for combat? A few people who might of thought to exploit that too gain what over other? Instead we all lose 12% dmg which is not trivial.
Tempest Heart is a 55 minute mutator for most people. 12% of that is 6.6m. That puts a group that is regularly clearing at right under 55 minutes at 61 minutes. Over the gold timer. This is not a trivial impact and it severely impacts your every day player.
Couple that with the delayed spawn bug that we’ve had which is really bad right now in Tempest and its almost undoable. The delays during peek hours is somewhere around 4-5m total for the instance (calculated using recordings of runs). Together this 11.6 minutes of a 55 minute run… 21%
Read the patch notes… they disabled ALL basic and minor trophies… Turns out all trophies could be stacked… They disabled them because some of the crafters that are gold selling started crying… honestly, it would have been a cool game feature to stack 15x of them.
Side note if you have the money majors are still working.
“There is also a switch active preventing lower tier trophies from taking effect, while leaving the Tier 3 in bonus in place. This was the least disruptive immediate step for the stack exploit, and we already have identified the data change for the permanent fix.”
This should be a top priority since the trophy system is a big part of pve and crafting side of the game. If minor and basic does not work cause they disabled 1 and half days ago, well can we have at least an update on where are we going to benefit from these trophy again.
P.S Not everyone is rich, or lucky enough to have full major trophy. That a bummer.
Edit : I suspect we wont have any new until Monday to be honest.
Im sorry but the solution should of been to only dusable crafting. Stacing comvat trophies has limited benefit and turning off non majors for everyone is highly disruptive to everyone who wasnt nor could afford to stack them to begin with.
Yea I feel you. I think they were like ‘‘The weekend is coming no one want to do overtime, let’s get a temporary solution until monday’’ and forgot to mention that they wont work on it until monday cause ya know. I never saw either a community manager or developpers answer on weekend