Regarding XP Buffs... (Destiny)

by EffortlessFury , Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 16:15 (2550 days ago) @ bluerunner

XP boosts, including both consumable items and passive bonuses like the Well Rested 300% bonus, were always applied after this system and never resulted in early slowing of XP. They should be unchanged by the disabling of this system and will continue to provide their stated increase in XP gain.

If you apply a 300% boost and then a 50% cut, that's the same as a 50% cut followed by a 300% boost. It's still technically cutting your gains because you chose this activity. Yes, it was to keep XP levels somewhat balanced across different activities types of different lengths, but as the data shows public events were triggering the throttle entirely by themselves.

Still a major bummer. Even as an accident this kind of mistake has an irrecoverable effect on time spent. (note the use of "effect," without qualification of the amount or individual's own subjective importance ascribed to that effect)