Guild Wars 2

Currently, getting rolled by mobs/laser walls/mines is a wee bit less fun than it used to be.

The first piece of armor you break does not render broken. Break a coat? Still see the coat.

I had a CoE group that was VERY… umm… “inexperienced”… and after about 6 wipes on Alpha, I did see the elementalist was without pants. So maybe that’s saying if you break enough stuff, you’ll start to see armor finally disappearing?

Another strange anomaly I noticed:

At the end of a rather great CM run, I attacked Frost maybe a little too hard and died right at the end of the fight. No big deal, my guildies only had to put up with missing 99% of their DPS (fiiiiinneee… 75%… 50%… 30… whatever!) for the last few seconds of the dungeon. Despite my arrogance, they are always kind enough to rez me back up. Alas! After months of not repairing my armor my coat was broke!

We left the instance and appeared back in Queensdale. They could see my extremely attractive and manly ranger shoulders in my party icon, but my coat was still on in the game. So I did what any good man-chest model would do, I popped a tonic and turned into a tree. When I realized I had no business being covered in bark, I returned to my human form and behold! Bare chestedness! For a split second! …For a split second… My coat reappeared. I hung my head low in defeat and continued my modest life.

There is a difference between ‘Damaged’ armor and ‘Broken’ armor. You will not see armor disappear and lose the stats for that armor until they are actually in the state of being ‘Broken’ and not just ‘Damaged’.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damaged
There are two stages that equipment can go through that require repairs: damaged and broken. Damaged armor has no direct negative effect, but if all equipped pieces of equipment are damaged, items will begin to become broken. Broken equipment provides no defense or attribute bonuses, but upgrade components continue to provide their normal effects.

StinVec.3621:

There is a difference between ‘Damaged’ armor and ‘Broken’ armor. You will not see armor disappear and lose the stats for that armor until they are actually in the state of being ‘Broken’ and not just ‘Damaged’.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damaged
There are two stages that equipment can go through that require repairs: damaged and broken. Damaged armor has no direct negative effect, but if all equipped pieces of equipment are damaged, items will begin to become broken. Broken equipment provides no defense or attribute bonuses, but upgrade components continue to provide their normal effects.

I know about this and I can say with absolute certainty that damaged is not what I am referring to.

Red broken shield icon.

I understand what you are referring too as I recently had a similar experience. I had completed the final boss fight on the last Living Story achievement and wiped more than a few times doing it.

When I checked my hero panel it said that my chest piece was broken (red icon), but my character was still running around Rata Sum in a fully rendered armor set. So the chest piece was showing even though he should have been bare chested. So yes, I do recognize your post.

Hmm, I wonder if it’s chest specific or not.

I’ma go pop in SE by myself and die in that fire a buncha times for science.

So I found that the armor renders broken until you hit a loading screen. Culling may reset it too.

It seems as soon as you unrender→rerender someone with broken armor, it displays intact. No confirmation on culling though, just a theory. However, mapping out is confirmed to cause the bug.