Chef Archive
Thread: Chef Apron Bugged! :( or is it
It's a known issue with just about any skill tapes. If a piece of clothing already gives a bonus to a certain skill (whether that bonus is from a built-in enhancement like the chef apron, from the tailor including BE tissues during crafting, or previous tapes) adding a tape for that same skill doesn't stack. You end up with whatever bonus was higher. So in your case, the existing +5 was higher than the new +4 tape, so it stayed at +5. If you had a +6 tape, adding that would've made the apron give +6.
Don't bother submitting a CSR report on this, they've already taken the stance that there's nothing they can do about it. Our only real hope is that this gets fixed and the tapes are "remembered" by the game database. So on that glorious day, you may log in and see you are the proud owner of a +9 apron.