It’s not that I don’t care what the devs said, is that it don’t change the reality of how it work. A bug or not, it does stack. So I’ll take advantage of it.
The reason the buff didn’t work as you expected is that defense is not a solid minus X damage. I talked about that in another thread, let me find it and I will link it here.
There you go: Questions about xp and heroes power - #32 by Mai
And, I wanna point out that I predicted Ares! Lol I predicted his critical buff and healing in my first answer.