Guild Wars 2

I’ve heard a lot of speculation about NPC’kittenting harder. But is it possible that this is because the PvE gear being carried over into the mists is bugging out and has a lower armor value than level 80 gear?

Now I know this is a shot in the dark, but it is something we could potentially look into as this armor transferance may also be related to Ranger pets dying too quickly after the patch.

It could be isolated to only low level players. Could be…

The claim is that helm and shoulder items do not contribute to your overall armor value, but maybe that could be bugging out as well?

At the end of the day, the devs should take a look at all those factors including NPC damage and pets dying too quickly.

Seems like people just forgot to take of their tin-foil hats, really.

Shouldn’t be happening, would be an enormous miss if it was. Thus very unlikely.

Armor stats don’t matter, all it does is check of you have on chest, legs and boots and gives you armor based on your class armor proficiency, afaik.

well there is definately something up with the NPCs,
the ele for example casts vapor blade (which hits you twice) it hit for 2 4k hits and then the ele used their arcane skill which hit for 9k,
and the mesmers auto attack hits 4k

but i can confirm that its not pve armour values, it happens to my lv 80 wearing exotics too.

Liewec.2896:

well there is definately something up with the NPCs,
the ele for example casts vapor blade (which hits you twice) it hit for 2 4k hits and then the ele used their arcane skill which hit for 9k,
and the mesmers auto attack hits 4k

but i can confirm that its not pve armour values, it happens to my lv 80 wearing exotics too.

Yeah, again, it was a shot in the dark really.

they’re just nabs…not squishier..but the result is the same

Could be lvl 2’s playing without the benefit of the extra armor provided from helms and shoulders

Honeyboy.9167:

Could be lvl 2’s playing without the benefit of the extra armor provided from helms and shoulders

They removed the armor value from helmet, shoulders, and gloves, and consolidated all of it onto the three parts characters have from level 1: chest, legs, and boots

Proven.2854:

Honeyboy.9167:

Could be lvl 2’s playing without the benefit of the extra armor provided from helms and shoulders

They removed the armor value from helmet, shoulders, and gloves, and consolidated all of it onto the three parts characters have from level 1: chest, legs, and boots

thanks, looked over the patch notes again and confirmed