Aberrant fossils bugged in Ruthless

Ruthless HC Trade community suspects that Aberrant fossils are currently bugged. We are able to hit chaos modifiers with alchemy orbs, but not abberant fossils.

This is obviously anecdotal and hard to statistically prove due to us playing ruthless, but nobody in chat has hit any chaos modifiers with them. I have personally started collecting a tab of single abberant crafts (see screenshot) and have a decent sample size.

https://imgur.com/a/s7fAVP4



EDIT: According to the mod weights in the standard game, it is 1:4 to hit any chaos resistance tier with abberant fossils and 1:33 with alchemy orbs. Even if the weights are changed for abberant fossils, it is statistically unlikely for the entire ruthless community to never hit one with a fossil but continue to hit them with alchemy orbs. We suspect that it is actually blocking chaos modifiers. It appears to be blocking lightning correctly.

+1

i also suspect this

possible the weighting increase in ruthless is lower than normal game(aka chaos mod weights not increased 10x?)

i can only provide a very small sample size, but i used ~10-15 aberrant fossils on ghastly eye jewels looking for [minion chance to poison] or flat [chaos damage], and altough i rerolled some jewels i'm pretty sure i did not hit any of those affixes even one time.(!)

poison chance i should hit on average every 6th try, and flat chaos damage even every 2nd try.

same for me though i have not used many fossils yet and chalked it up to bad luck

used a few more dozens on rings over the past few days - not a single chaos mod

For me 'Jagged' (the more likely part) does nothing.

'Aberrant' does not block chaos mods for me - this was made with 1x Aberrant:

See my posts here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3349161/page/1#p24890528

So from my POV results suggest that the 'more likely' has no effect.

There is also a reddit thread about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/poeruthless/comments/10n1b3n/are_fossils_working_as_intended/


Edit: This needs a proper statement from GGG.

I did some more testing. About 20 aberrant fossils on ghastly eye jewels and i could NOT hit A SINGLE mod with a chaos tag (!!!), and there are several of them:

*) minions deal # to # additional chaos damage
*) #% chance to avoid being poisoned
*) 7-13% to chaos resistance
*) minions have 10-15% chance to poison enemies on hit
*) minions have 7-11% to chaos resistance

The probability for this to happen is very very unlikely.

As other people in this thread suggested, the multiplier for [chaos] tags on aberrant fossils seems to not be working (at least in ruthless) and it could even be possible that those affixes are being blocked instead of reinforced.

Please investigate this. Several people have observed this, there was even a thread on reddit about it.