1. When a player enters belcher’s bluff, all healing from other allies are disabled. A friend cannot heal another friend who is doing belcher’s bluff.
2. Food was recently disabled in a patch.
How does it hold that a person can spend money for a specific buff that can bypass this limitation? If a player is meant to regen health while fighting Irongut, those means should be freely accessible to all players without having to spend real money (or convert gold to gems, which still results in the sale of gems). If a player is not supposed to regen health from outside sources, rejuvenation booster buffs should be disabled upon entering belcher’s bluff.
Anet likely didn’t want to remove the armor stats entirely because…well,
we’ve all seen what happens in games where there’s no disadvantage to taking your pants off.