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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

MW3 Perk System Explained: Vests, Gloves, Boots

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Craig Robinson

While Call of Duty has traditionally had a fairly simple perk system with perks allocated to different slots. However, Modern Warfare 3’s perk implementation is changing slightly, with each one being associated with a different piece of gear. While, in essence, perks are allocated to the slots, each item slot now has additional visual changes to your character, alongside other minor changes to match the type of item you are using. Throw in some vests, which affect your resistance to damage alongside changing the perks and loadouts you run, and you have an entirely new system in MW3. Here’s everything you need to know about Perk in MW3.

All MW3 Perks Explained

Here is a MW3 Perk list, explaining how the new MW3 perk system works. Image via Activision.

As alluded to, the traditional perk system is gone and replaced with perks being on items. Each item carries over the perks you typically associate with CoD games and grants some other benefits, too. You’ll find most traditional perks are spliced into one or two item types, but in others, you can see similarities or exact for 1 for 1s. We’ll highlight some examples in the tables of all MW3 perks below.

MW3 Perks & Vests

For the most part, players will be able to equip at least one gear, boots, and gloves perk, and make a build from that. However, there is another slot that plagues can change on their loadout that gives them some other MW3 perks, along with altering their lethal, tactical, and other perk slot availability. For example, the Engineer’s Vest will offer players 2 Gear perks alongside the usual Boot and Glove perks. However, this comes at the cost of losing your Lethal. Meanwhile, the Gunner Vest removes your gear’s perk in favor of giving you the Overkill perk built into the Vest. We’ll profile the vests and their peaks, along with the loadout changes below for clarity.

As you can see, there are some Vests that grant similar perks available on other item slots. Building a loadout is certainly more complicated than normal, but those who figure it out can really get a better class or role in a team to perform like never before with your MW3 Perks feature.

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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    Activision Blizzard
  • Platforms,
    PS4, PS5, Steam, XB One, XB X|S
  • Genre
    FPS
  • Guide Release
    2 November 2023
  • Last Updated
    1 December 2023
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Modern Warfare 3 is the next installment in the Call of Duty franchise and was developed by both Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games. It features reimagined maps from the original MW2 which was released back in 2009. This guide for MW3 contains the following:

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