We swapped armors. I took high quality South Camp and he took very high quality Castle Rock. Same result, it took me same amount of hits to kill him with pre order or any weapon as before. What was strange is that it took him long to kill me with pre-order weapon wearing South Camp armor so armor itself us not bugged. It's either player that is bugged or wearing any armor you yourself didn't make.

Can some guys in tribes test this please? Have one dude make the armor and trade it to someone else and then test damage (with and without armor).

And just to clarify we did multiple relogs of both chars.

Edit: Are there any hidden levels we are not aware of? I'm much better crafter and much higher level in everything (except combat we are same there) and he just started. But that would make no sense, armor should protect him at least a little bit.