Equipping the trait while actually wielding a shield on one of your weapon sets will result in an about 1750 extra hp on both weapon sets. Further increases armor by 100 for both weapon sets after you swap from the weapon set with shield to the other weapon set. After swapping off the set with shield and back onto it the amount of armor gained while on the shield set goes up to about 400 (excluding the 100 extra armor on both sets) which means an about 500 armor boost.
On that note i’d like to mention the damage reduction gained by toughness seems quite low at a higher level. I have been testing ~3100 armor compared to ~4100 armor which resulted in an approximately 8% dmg reduction.
Pls note these numbers might be highly inaccurate as it was merely a test on chieftain :P
I noticed this aswell in the morning and sent a report ingame but when I logged in for some WvW and got full buffs, I got some ridicilous boosting. Do notice that I’m mostly running ascended dire armor/trinkets with some carrion items added and Radiance, Valor, Virtues traits. If you get stunned, interrupted, etc. the buffs are gone until you change back to your shield. I’m hitting 900 on carrion sword normal auto attack and 1100-1400 burn on 3 stacks and could facetank Siegerazer without going below 50% health…
EDIT: Actually it seems to reset back to normal everytime you get a boon on you but as soon as you switch weapons, you get increased stats.
