Ability to Repair other players damaged or broken gear

My thoughts:

1) Make the repair completely free of charge (gil or dark matter) for the crafter but make it 'a fee payable to Hydaelyn' that comes out of the person needing repair's pocket. No chance whatsoever of money trading.

2) Repair only to 100%. The crafter is getting nothing out of the transaction so why should the repaired person benefit from the crafter's 'special service'. In effect, the crafter is acting as a temporary 'Mender' NPC.

3) Do not allow the player with broken gear (or better, <25%) to progress past the starting circle until either they repair it themselves, get a fellow team mate to repair it or leave, if none of the previous options are available. There is *zero* point to a player with broken gear doing a dungeon as it negatively affects everyone.

4) Make it so that the player must request the repairs & can only do so during instanced duties.

Just implement a stacking visual debuff that shows how many gear items are completely broken and social pressure will take care of the rest. Maintaining and upgrading gear is basic stuff and we shouldn't make features which allow people to be sloppy about it.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cakekizyy

Kinda a bullshit excuse. People that don't enjoy crafting should have to slug through it for field repairs instead of letting teammate who might love crafting do repairs for a fee or exchange of required mats?

---

It's that exactly. They're using it as an incentive for players to level their own crafters since there's very few incentives to level crafters anyway. Felt that if other players could repair other player's gear, there would be even less interest in leveling one's own crafting jobs than there already is. Because why level them when my friend or FC mate can repair my stuff for me and craft for me.

I personally though am on the side of it being BS but that's why they aren't doing it. They really feel it will affect the crafting community that much.

Would love to be able to do this.

Let me add this thread to my incomplete list of threads with the same topic:

Mar 2016 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Repair-Option
April 2016 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ystem-Auto-Tip
Aug 2016 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Repair-Option
Dec 2016 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...or-broken-gear
Mar 2017 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-People-s-Gear
Jun 2017 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Repair-others
Aug 2017 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Request-Repair
Oct 2017 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-remove-repair
This Thread http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...or-broken-gear

While this is obviously a hot enough topic to continually pop up, I'd personally rather see SE completely remove repairs and durability from the game, instead of seeing more dev time wasted spent trying to help negligent/forgetful players with this issue.
It fails as a gil sink since patch 2.1 added gil to dungeon mobs specifically to counter the cost of repairing gear. I think removing gil from dungeon mobs would be a more effective gil sink at this point.
The absence of durability would not be a lore breaking/immersion ruining change for any reasonable person.
Less inventory slots filled with dark matters.