Celari

I'd say it does yea..I've tried fighting the White Griffon thingy, I can see a significant change in my hit rating when he dispels my buff, which is about 2,3k attack value to around...600 or so unbuffed.

Broken how..? It works just fine for me on 360. Just make sure you unequip your items before you talk to the blacksmith.(The items you wanted to forge of course, not everything)

It will increase the % on the buff, which again increases your overall attack value(which I chose). A good trick to battle stance is to keep it at 1 memorized runes, and rather just have a seperate set of gear with socket, put the battle stance runes into the sockets and put it on, then buff, take it off ,and wear your high attack value/skill set etc. Normally, if I buff with my normal killing gear, I end up at around 900 attack value, if I use my battle stance socketed gear I get 1500 AV for the same regen time as the 900 attack value(which is alot lower of course).