Aspect of Wolf helm is coded like a food buff

[DaVice]

The (+15 Str Dmg) buff from Aspect of the Wolf helm is still acting like a food buff, which makes it impossible to utilize any food buffs while wearing the helm. This was tested on my private, dedicated server (steam), with no mods.

• Equip wolf helm to gain +15 strength damage buff.

• Eat a Hearty Feast to get +12 follower damage.

• Notice that one of the following two things happened:

  1. The Hearty Feast buff of +12 follower damage replaced the wolf helm buff.
     OR
  2. The wolf helm buff of +15 strength damage immediately overwrote the food buff and you no longer have any food buff.

The Feast of Jhebbal Sag seems to be the only exception and is working as intended. It’s water breathing buff does not seem to overwrite the buff from the wolf helm (or any other feasts).

I reported this during the last TestLive before 3.0 was released.

Bugs - Aspect of the Wolf Helm and Food

TestLive build: #398570/34354 Currently various Feasts offer you a food buff (which I absolutely LOVE). However, if you eat one of these feasts the status effect overwrites the “Strength Weapon Damage +15%” from the “Aspect of the Wolf” helm. This seems to happen on the player character as well as thralls. The only way to get the helm’s bonus back is to re-equip it, except re-equipping any armor pieces negates any active food buffs (which in itself seems like another bug, more on this later). A…

[Tephra]

This is probably intentional, as you can only have two active buffs at a time now (waterbreathing is not a normal buff and is handled separately).

However, I dislike it and think gear should provide a third possible buff. Biles are also currently useless because they can’t stack with food either.

[rolee9309]

Gear SHOULD, as they did, but no weapon grants any buff (some exceptions with heat/cold resistance) now. Hoorray…
But the helm should provide separate buff from foods, it should be considered a regular armor buff in my opinion.

[Tephra]

@rolee9309

no weapon grants any buff

Unless you upgrade them with biles.

@rolee9309

it should be considered a regular armor buff in my opinion

It has to be different from a normal buff as armor buffs are capped at 10%.

[rolee9309]

My mistake, I was in a hurry, so wasn’t that explanatory:
So, weapons by default don’t grant bonuses such as Mastodon killer, Vein cut, Lion slayer, their unique abilities are gone. You could put biles on top of that.
I mean under regular armor buff is that it won’t be overwritten by a food buff.

[HEREX]

I confirmed this the first day of 3.0. Truely disapointing as i wanted to see if i could make a viable heavy build for pvp. The wolf helm is a great pice for heavy but right now complety useless, even for thralls where it was a staple.
Funcom really needs to pause with adding content and focus on updating content and bugs that have been prevelent for years.
Update/ overhaul weapoms and armor bonuses. 2h axes are borederline useless when compared to any otger weapon, they dont even get any armor pen bonus when crafted with an edgesmith, wtf?
Old armor sets are essentially outdated and irrelavent compared to newer sets with better stats.

[Solome]

From what I remember, I may be wrong here, but Edgesmiths follow the original armor pen of a weapon x Edgesmith formula. So if the initial recipe has 0 armor pen you will get 0 armor pen after crafting.
That’s quite interesting developer’s decision.
That’s why the majority of players use Bladesmith +armor pen kits/oil combo.