Kana chants turn off enchanted objects is this suppose to happen?

[84077]

Just noticed that when Kana starts to chant the Blessed Was Wengridh, Quickest of His Tribe/At the Sight of their Comrades, their Hearts Grew Bold, the corresponding buffs on my armour/items turn grey is that usual? seems counter productive or is it grey for another reason?

[AndreaColombo]

This is by design. When several bonuses affect the same thing, only the higher bonus applies. There are very few exceptions to this.

[Aennilya]

I think the problem here is that the player is left to intuit that a Chanter's buffs count as "equipment" rather than "active / modal" when applied to stacking.

[84077]

Thank you for the insight.
Definitely something I dislike about the game, makes enchanted gear little more than fancy baubles. 
Coin already seems rather worthless and now the only viable options I have for my horde of cash is buying ingredients for potions or food stuffs ill forget to use, or collect trinkets that are useless when my companion rocks "master exploder".

 

[celliott]

Hello, all.  We had an issue with Chanter's phrases being counted as equipment, as AndreaColombo noted.  This is a bug, and is known, and is fixed in our current internal build.  It will be fixed in a future patch as well.  Thank you for your support and patience with this issue!

[Aennilya]

Ah, so it is a bug. I couldn't quite make my way to song = item rather than ability, but you never know. (It could count as a consumable, so I suppose it's not that far of a leap to wearable?) Thank you for responding.

 

Edit: sorry I meant chant.

Edited July 15, 2015 by Aennilya