No crafting equipment damage

I find it annoying that during crafting my gear breaks down all the time... Or that I'm in a dungeon with a tank that suddenly sais "I forgot to repair my gear, its broken". Can you plz add an option that auto repairs your equipment (at maybe a slightly higher cost)? I would keep the Mender NPC, but add a temp (30-60 min) buff like "gear breaks down slower or no gear damage" if you repair manually.

Also, can you please increase the crafting stacks so we can make 999 ingots at the same time instead of just 99?

something I think is really necessary is if we could repair people equips.