So, my pale elf main character has a natural 10 damage reduction freeze and fire. I just selected the talent "Scion of Rime" when I leveled up. It's supposed to give my freeze spells +20% damage as well as give myself a passive +5 bonus to freeze damage reduction. But I still only have 10 damage reduction, it doesn't seem like it works like it's intended to. What's up with this? 

It's possible that it works the same way as item bonuses, where only the highest bonus is taken into account.

But that would be silly because those are character traits and abilities, and they should, imo, be additive.

Go to your character screen and scroll down to Active Effects.  Does it list both the pale elf racial ability and Scion of Flame, with the freeze DR from SoF listed as "suppressed"?  If so, then those two bonuses don't stack (ie only the largest one applies).

 

PS: I agree that they ought to stack, and if they don't then it should be changed so that they do.

Edited April 1, 201510 yr by Emptiness

It's sad but thanks for the heads up, atleast I wont be making the same mistake with my pale elf .

It stacks for me. 

 

You must have  the double click to equip armor bug.

 

I have 24 freeze DT from pale elf + secrets of rime + scale armor.