4 days of PTR wasted due to tempering and masterworking bugs.
normal masterworking on mythic (cannot temper):
= either 1 orange (triple crits)
or 1 yellow (double crits) + 1 blue (single crit)
or 3 blue (single crits)
buggy masterworking on GA legendary:
= 2 orange (triple crits) + 1 yellow (double crits) + 1 blue (single crit)
or 2 orange (triple crits) + 1 blue (single crit)
or… (various mixed variants of stacked masterworks imaginable)
especially 2 orange (triple crits) happening on amulets with passive affixes.
this completely affects dps across all builds and does not reflect the actual gameplay of season 9.
all the “test efforts” , including youtubers’ trillion dps builds are meaningless and cannot be used as reference.
another bug involves the Occultist enchantment after tempering/masterworking:
the selected affix never rolls into another type, just loops the same affix with different intensity.
this blocks proper affix rerolling for testing and could even carry over into live season 9.