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I do wonder if it was intended to no longer have gear lose durability when fighting stuff out in the field.
Not that it was a significant money sink given the durability loss was so slow/low, but it feels weird to go to repair after doing a few FATEs or treasure maps (without dungeon procs) and have no durability loss.
Considering the 5.3 patch notes talk about changes to spiritbond & durability I'd say the no loss of durability change was intended.
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...93f6c354e4dc8e
Changes to durability and spiritbond gain are processed after completion of a duty.
* With the exception of treasure dungeons and FATEs, gear will not lose durability nor will it gain spiritbond when a duty is failed.
* This adjustment will not affect durability lost upon incapacitation.
* Enemies defeated in the open world (leves, etc.) will no longer affect spiritbond gain.
Even though that last line does not mention durability, the fact that the prior notes talk about both spiritbond & durability... makes me believe durability is being treated the same for open world content: ie no loss of durability, along with no gain in spiritbond.
The purpose was reducing server stress. In light of that, I'd say removing durability loss from open world was fully intended. Tied it to bigger event triggers so that the server doesn't have to run those calculations so often.