Is this like a summoning ritual?
Locking in modifiers and gear-swapping is behavior we’ve curbed in the past (ex. pets becoming unsummoned when gear swapping to prevent stacking pet gear then changing out to another set). This is essentially the same thing, but you are stacking power onto a buff and then changing to other gear.
This effectively nets you more modifiers than your gear permits and is, quite literally, an exploit of game mechanics. So we’ll definitely be investigating a solution to this.