2014-01-18, 12:44 PM
A1: It sadly does not. I have 107% buff duration, and when elemental adapting triggers, it last only 30 secs.
A2: It became a passive buff. Contrary to popular belief, before the RED patch, buff mastery affected Epic Adventure, making it last 90 seconds. Now, It does not affect it. No other changes where made to buff mastery afaik.
A3: 25% ignore def. at 20% chance.
A4: I don't know if it applies for the full hits of a skill, or to specific lines of a skill. In my experience, it may be singular lines, since i have noticed seldom lines in my CL's attack to be just a tad higher than the rest, but this may be to a lucky break of the RNG in the mastery calculations. I have not seen a full hit of CL being much more higher than other adjacent hits, obviously observing this when my damage is relatively consistent (AA aim is at max, and infinity is not on). The answer of this question requires extensive testing in high PDR bosses, where 25% ignore def. would be more noticeable.
A2: It became a passive buff. Contrary to popular belief, before the RED patch, buff mastery affected Epic Adventure, making it last 90 seconds. Now, It does not affect it. No other changes where made to buff mastery afaik.
A3: 25% ignore def. at 20% chance.
A4: I don't know if it applies for the full hits of a skill, or to specific lines of a skill. In my experience, it may be singular lines, since i have noticed seldom lines in my CL's attack to be just a tad higher than the rest, but this may be to a lucky break of the RNG in the mastery calculations. I have not seen a full hit of CL being much more higher than other adjacent hits, obviously observing this when my damage is relatively consistent (AA aim is at max, and infinity is not on). The answer of this question requires extensive testing in high PDR bosses, where 25% ignore def. would be more noticeable.