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I just purchased a 5th edition rulebook and I was reading about Rending it says on a roll of a six it automatically causes a wound and counts as AP2 and if it automatically causes a wound then what is the point of the AP2?

'Automatically causes a wound' doesn't mean 'ignores armour saves'...

That's what the AP2 does.

haha I knew it told ya so

ok thank you.

yes, as mentioned, the automatically causes a wound is to facilitate low strength weapons with rending being able to rend high toughness things that would normally be immune for example Str 3 or lower cannot wound anything of T7 or higher, but with rending they could if they rolled a 6 to wound