This bug pertains to Brutal, Savage, Cruel and Black Ice Enchantments.
With typical Enchantments(radiant, azure, silvery, dark) they are applied as item stats. However With the above mentioned enchants with 2 or more stats they are applied as a buff yet add gear score. This creates an issue where these enchants that give a higher gear score at higher ranks does not seem to be true. Say your are a GF and are conq spec and put a black ice enchantment in an offensive slot you expect:
example - Black Ice Enchantment Rank 8 gives 120 power, 65 recovery, 65 critical strike in offensive slots.
With conq spec you would expect the 120 power to be now an extra 240 total with the other half being applied as a buff. But no that 120 power gets applied as a buff instead of actual item score power that would get doubled(via reckless attacker).
So any enchant that gives more than one stat is bugged and does not work as an enchantment should if comparing to radiant, azure, silvery, or dark. This problem applies to other feats that work with stat enhancement, 15% bonus defense on GF is also affected when using cruel, and black ice enchantments. This means that anyone using these type of enchants is unable to get the most out of them since they are inherently bugged to act as a buff that just adds gs and nothing else. If this is intended then you are better off using regular enchants if you are adding a particular stat via enchants don't use hybrid enchants.
this is not about extra gear score on a gf at all. This involves any class with feats that say improve a stat by 15% read my whole post instead of jumping the gun. This problem deals with that the stats you get from any of these enchants cannot be further improved from feats. Reckless attacker is different but somewhat the same problem as it doubles power from your gear yet with any of these enchants that give power it is not doubled. for example I put a black ice enchantment that is rank 8 (120 power 65 recovery 65 critical strike) I should expect just my 'power stat' to increase by 240 and my gs to improve by 250, yet I only get an extra 120 power in terms of a buff and not gear score score like a rank 5 radiant which would give 120 power and thus add 240 to my power stat. this is a serious gimp to anyone using these and not realizing that these enchants do not work with certain feats that improve said stat. same goes for gwf with the feats that improve power from recovery and armor penetration, the extra recovery or armor pen from these type of enchants will not improve their power at all.
The highlighted red boxes are showing which pieces of gear I have with rank 8 black Ice enchants and I highlight also the deflect stat which is getting +130 buff instead of it going to the actual item score.
and before you ask my companion is dismissed as well.
I can report that I slotted a black ice enchantment to a piece of gear on an augment companion today. It did not get the stats from the balck ice enchantment, nor did I get the stats from the black ice enchantment.
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The highlighted red boxes are showing which pieces of gear I have with rank 8 black Ice enchants and I highlight also the deflect stat which is getting +130 buff instead of it going to the actual item score.
and before you ask my companion is dismissed as well.
definitely bugged...