Since someone was willing to provide equipment, the players naturally were happy to join the battle without their gear!
After all, binding equipment required contribution points, and multiple war missions had proven that such large-scale battles were most damaging to equipment.
If they could use the Dwarven plain equipment, they were certainly willing to avoid using the special-effect equipment they worked hard to exchange for.
If not for the fact that the effect bonuses provided by the weapons from the exchange shop were quite important, many people were even planning not to bring any weapons at all and just use the Dwarven ones.
As for those fully armed players, most of them had drawn equipment with the [Tenacity] effect or simply had equipment with a golden legendary rating.
This type of equipment was ridiculously durable and not afraid of the turmoil of a great battle.