[POE 2 EA] "Feathered Fletching" notable passive doesn't work

Feathered Fletching reads "Increases and Reductions to Projectile speed also apply to damage with bows"

So I combined it with the support gem "Acceleration" with gives 40% more projectile speed, and it didn't make a difference. According to the skill info, the damage per hit and DPS were unchanged by that support gem.
I also tested to see if it does more damage on monsters regardless of the tooltip numbers, and also the damage itself appeared unchanged.

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Still didn't work
Tryed it with items and nodes on tree - they working. Support gem - not.

Noticed the same issue when using it on my ranger.

More Projectile Speed is not an increase nor decrease, so it won't work.
This node affects only Increased/Reduced modifiers

I doubt it a semantics issues with "more/increase". Seems more like an oversight or a bug

No, it doesn't seem to be a bug. The passive states "increases/reductions" which is the same wording as "increased, reduced" for every single passive. "more/less" are different modifiers that are multiplicative but increased/reduced are additive.

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GnGEmpire#0632 wrote:

I doubt it a semantics issues with "more/increase". Seems more like an oversight or a bug

I'm with this interpretation - is there an official stance yet?

Wording gives room for either.

There is no bug with this interaction. GGG have been transparent and very consitent with the fact that more/less is a different multiplier to increase/decrease.

I'm with OP and it should work:

I have 100% increased speed on quiver and 40% more is 140% so i should see the 40% difference
(not 40% more but 40% increased damage)

Wording with more and less does not matter here because we are not talking about it giving 40% more dps in vacuum but boosting the pre-existing speed increases on gear.


So if you had 0% increase on gear this should give 0% bonus
but with 1000% it should give 400% bonus

If it really does nothing then it is wasted support slot and needs to be re-designed.

I can appreciate where you guys are coming from, but I would urge you to throw your eyes over this video which explains the breakdown of multiplier calculations.

https://youtu.be/73oglkCBuiM?si=aV9PCOSZqk0Ky0kg

Whether you agree or not, GGG have decided to code the game this way and it has worked quite well over the history of the game.

I am just grateful that they are very particular about their wording and let us know what exactly is a More multiplier and which is an Increased multiplier, as many other games I have played in the past have been ambiguous or downright lazy when it comes to consistency with damage calculations.

The wording "Increases/reductions to projectile speed..." means EXACTLY that, so the new quiver implicit that gives ARROW speed is not beneficial to this node, but the explicit modifier "increased projectile speed" on a quiver would.

I understand that you may not agree with the mechanic but it is the way that GGG do it, and requires a lot of attention to detail on their end so that there are no abuses of oversight on dmg calcs.