do weapon/armor traits stay active when the gear is broken?

CokeVoAYCE · June 2016

huh?

ValkynSketha · June 2016

No.

Epona222 · June 2016

You now get a red helmet icon at the bottom of your screen when one of your pieces of armor is broken. You don't actually need to repair them before that (they still give full protection up until they are down to 0, this is different than how it used to be thank goodness!)

I tend not to bother repairing low level gear because I will likely replace it before it breaks entirely. High level gear you will have the money and desire to repair. Make sure you go into a dungeon run or other group activity with your armor in good health, no-one want to wait for you to repair stuff mid-dungeon. You can also get repair kits from blacksmithing/clothing/woodworking writ rewards, but wait until an item is broken or nearly broken before using the repair kits.

CokeVoAYCE · June 2016

Epona222 wrote: »

You now get a red helmet icon at the bottom of your screen when one of your pieces of armor is broken. You don't actually need to repair them before that (they still give full protection up until they are down to 0, this is different than how it used to be thank goodness!)

I tend not to bother repairing low level gear because I will likely replace it before it breaks entirely. High level gear you will have the money and desire to repair. Make sure you go into a dungeon run or other group activity with your armor in good health, no-one want to wait for you to repair stuff mid-dungeon. You can also get repair kits from blacksmithing/clothing/woodworking writ rewards, but wait until an item is broken or nearly broken before using the repair kits.

i was just asking cuz i was leveling with broken purple training gear and it seemed to be going slow. thanks

Epona222 · June 2016

CokeVoAYCE wrote: »

Epona222 wrote: »

You now get a red helmet icon at the bottom of your screen when one of your pieces of armor is broken. You don't actually need to repair them before that (they still give full protection up until they are down to 0, this is different than how it used to be thank goodness!)

I tend not to bother repairing low level gear because I will likely replace it before it breaks entirely. High level gear you will have the money and desire to repair. Make sure you go into a dungeon run or other group activity with your armor in good health, no-one want to wait for you to repair stuff mid-dungeon. You can also get repair kits from blacksmithing/clothing/woodworking writ rewards, but wait until an item is broken or nearly broken before using the repair kits.

i was just asking cuz i was leveling with broken purple training gear and it seemed to be going slow. thanks

Yeah once it is fully broken, repair it - you can repair individual pieces rather than a repair all deal if you are in a merchant UI and go to the repair tab at the top. I've been using this a lot for many of my characters recently - since vet level removal all my alts are at max but I can't fully equip them right now - but may be able to in a few days, so am repairing their CP40/CP70 gear pieces individually to fix those most broken, rather than just hitting R in the vendor screen to do the lot.