Naked Statement On Mesmer Balance

[BlackBeard.2873]

This only shows a few things:

• Armor does jack squat for most burst builds, as they are either going to be 1-shot or not. All of their survival is hard mitigation, soft mitigation with today's power-crept dps does pretty much nothing.
• Mesmer OP b/c enough hard mitigation that they don't even care about passive damage reduction (armor, prot, etc).
• Playing naked clearly gives you +15% more damage.

[Trevor Boyer.6524]

Here is how damage and armor worn in spvp works in Guild Wars 2:

1. Damage done = (Weapon strength) Power (skill-specific coefficient) / (target's Armor) - LInk: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage

2. Wearing armor in pvp: "Players need to equip chest, legs and foot armor to achieve the base armor value, but hands, shoulders and head may be ignored." - Link: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Structured_PvP Read under where it says Gear & Builds.

Total damage received is divided by the armor value on the character. Now that's some useful damage mitigation.