What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:
According to description, Wings of Destruction weapon should guarantee a status effect to all dragon allies on cast but, in reality, it does not - I tried in different game modes with different dragons on my team and there never was a status effect applied.
How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?
Ever since release of Wings of Destruction weapon.
Steps to make it happen again
Use the weapon in battle.
Yeah, sorry to hear that it doesn’t work. I bought it but haven’t used it, and am not surprized by things like this any more. Unfortunately, this won’t be considered to be a bug as it didn’t “break the game.” If it doesn’t “break the game” then it’s a low priority annoyance, at best, for the devs. They might get around to fixing it in time for the next Dragon’s Claw week. You’ll have to use another weapon for now if you want all of the effects to work. Thems the breaks. Sorry
A few months ago maybe, a similar thing happened on Switch but it was a raid boss event. The shop offered Ogre, not a raid boss troop, not even the right kingdom(which is why i cant remember which raid boss event it was), but on Monday there was mail with 50 gems, 1 copy of the troop and a little oopsie message. I wouldnt expect more than the same here except no troop.
The quality control of new troops and weapons appears to be degrading. Phantom Fox was supposed to do Mana Burn + magic of the caster, but it only does Mana Burn (no bonus damage). This was reported 3 months ago and still isn’t fixed.
This feels a lot like attempting to fix a year 1996 calendar. Sure, it’s neat that the development team will possibly take the leap year into account, use other weekdays than Monday and add the months missing after September. It’s just that in the year 2023 such a fix will have as little impact as repairing an event weapon intended for an event that already ended quite a while ago.