Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen this a lot, lately…

It seems to be a common misconception that armor doesn’t affect stats in PvP. This is true in the absolute sense for helm, shoulders, and gloves (you don’t need to wear them). This is also true in the sense that the PvE stats of the armor are not of consequence.

However, wearing or not wearing chest, legs, and boots DOES affect your toughness attribute. That is, it doesn’t matter if you wear level 1 armor, but you need to wear something in those three armor slots or your PvP attributes (in-match) will be affected.

What should you do about these people who queue in ranked without armor? They are playing with ~600 to ~800 toughness (depending on armor class) less than what they could (and should) have.

edit: sorry for the double post :()

tell them. hopefully they will change their ways.

choovanski.5462:

tell them. hopefully they will change their ways.

if only life was this simple

report them as you do with other kind of trolls

Admittedly, this was a poor question. I generally believe that people do this out of ignorance, and so informing them is the first best response while reporting them may not may not be appropriate depending on the circumstances (i.e. their state of ignorance and/or intent).

The purpose of this post is the make people generally aware of the fallacy that “only amulets affect PvP attributes.” Amulets are the only way to modify your attributes, but certain armor matters for your base PvP toughness stat.