Guild Wars 2

Problem:
Equipment Damage Indicator does not properly reflect the armor I am wearing.

Scenario:
If a piece of armor becomes broken, I will normally sell the piece to the merchant instead of repairing it and use a spare set of armor that is either undamaged or damaged. When I do this, the indicator on my HUD does not change. The indicator will not change on my HUD until I either repair my armor or log out. I have attached a screen shot that shows my armor as broken on the indicator but all pieces on me are only damaged.

Is the item in your back slot broken? The 6 items, which are shown on the doll, can break, but also the back slot item can damage/break, without being shown on the doll.

I can confirm the equipment damage indicator is sometimes way off.

I’ve done path 1 of CoF exp several times and always took my gear off for the “frogger-part” to avoid repair bills in case I died. The times I did indeed die, as soon as I put back on my gear the “broken” indicator lit up but nothing WAS broken and in some occasions none of my gear was even damaged. Using the repair anvil at the entrance would not give me the option to repair anything in that last case, but removed the “broken” symbol from my interface.

why would you sell your armor if it gets broken? it would be WAY cheaper to repair it…

It is easier and cheaper to replace the armor than bother with repairing since:

1.) My character is not lvl 80
2.) By the time the armor breaks much better armor is available on TP for minimum markup due to #1.

I checked, nothing in my back slot or my bag was broken and this is not the first time I have noticed this behavior.