Guild Wars 2

The Boon Duration bonus on the Giver’s Armor set is too darn low! It’s easy to see the comparative ease of getting boon duration from a number of sources, such as traits and runes.

From traits
+1% Boon Duration = 10 Toughness/Vitality/etc

From armor runes
2x Superior Runes of Water and 3x Superior Runes of Monk applies a +30% boon duration and 100 healing
5x Superior Runes of Soldier applies a 215 Vitality/Toughness bonus. Thus:
+1% Boon duration = 3.83 Toughness/Vitality/etc

An entire set of Giver’s armor applies a poor +6% boon duration in exchange for sacrificing 225 Toughness/Vitality, etc, which makes:
+1% Boon Duration = 37.5

Boon Duration on the Giver’s armor is ten times less efficient than boon duration from runes and about 3 times less efficient than boon duration from traits.

What Gives?

We could speculate for ten years, in the end the choices made in this game are as mysterious as why the sun rises and sets. Grin.

Really though, the reason is pretty obvious, lets just go with that. We do not want any hurt feelings. Wow, i didnt know that was in my pocket!?

Qorthos.9782:

Boon Duration on the Giver’s armor is ten times less efficient than boon duration from runes and about 3 times less efficient than boon duration from traits.

What Gives?

The question is “What doesn’t give?”
The answer is “Giver’s!”

Graill.8596:

We could speculate for ten years, in the end the choices made in this game are as mysterious as why the sun rises and sets. Grin.

Really though, the reason is pretty obvious, lets just go with that. We do not want any hurt feelings. Wow, i didnt know that was in my pocket!?

The reason was to make a useless set of armor?

A’net gave the recipe to you, so that you may give it to others. It’s the holiday spirit! You’re not supposed to actually wear that armor, silly.

Well using a full combination of Giver armor + Giver Jewelry, you would have around +24% boon duration.

However, since the jewelry is a magic find item, one has to wonder whether or not ANET actually intended this to be a serious armor set or if it is an inside joke?

On one hand it seems like an obvious joke. On the other hand if someone digs through dev tracker long enough… They intend us to play with “well-balanced” stats including magic find… shudders. I don’t want to correct people who specialize in game-design, so I hope they don’t genuinely intend us players to use it.