this is always worked like this.
Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »this is always worked like this.
But the majority didn't know it. I'm sure there are other things that some people know about this game that most do not. This game has always been divided between those who know how things really work and those who dont
The tooltips have always been unreliable. We usually rely on the community to inform us via social learning but there is a problem...
Things generally don't get nerfed until a critical mass of people understand how they work, start using it and the meta shifts.
Therefore, if someone is in the know or aware of a powerful skill or passive that doesn't work as the tooltip says it does, they have a vested interest in not sharing this information, because it inevitably leads to meta-humping and nerfs.
This fosters an knowledge based class system in the game that is reinforced by ZOS's habit of nerfing popular meta trends.