Healer's gear drops to 0 during instance, they have no dark matter...

Why exactly is it not possible to help a party member whose gear all breaks during an instance? Let's say your healer is so new to the game that they don't know about dark matter and repairing their own gear during an instance, like what just happened to my party. It would be really nice to be able to go, "hey, I have all my crafts leveled, let me repair that for you, no charge!" or, "hey, I have all this dark matter on me, let me give you some!" It's impossible to carry on with a completely broken healer or tank, and it's impossible to help them out, so the only options become either vote dismissing that player for really no fault of their own, or vote abandon rather than make that poor healer take a penalty, again, for really no fault of their own.

TL;DR we really need to be able to repair others' gear or trade them some matter during dungeons. Seems like a pretty reasonable thing, and we used to be able to, so why can't we anymore?

....But it is a fault of their own? It's their responsibility to ensure their gear is repaired well enough to last the dungeon.

I agree we should be able too. But saying it's not their fault is wrong.

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Originally Posted by Ryshel

Why exactly is it not possible to help a party member whose gear all breaks during an instance?...

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I would like to be able to repairing others' gears. But the reason in above exmaple is not strong enough. ^^;
As there is still chance that no one have dark matter or no one is able to repair,
so maybe SE will put a repair NPC at the entrance instead of allow repairing others' gear...

I would love for other people to repair broken gear because I don't carry dark matter...

Short answer: We need this in the game...we need to be able to trade items to players and also repair them if they need it.
Long Answer: When I know I am running something there is a mental checklist we all do...right???!
1. Do I have the food I need and enough?
2. Do I have x-pots for my job? Draconian if you are rich and running endgame world first.
3. Is my gear in good enough condition...for me that is over 100% with hopefully 199% or close to it.
4. Do I have 99 class 6 and 99 class 5 items for repairing (never remember what they are called, just buy them off the vendor in your house)
Yoshi-P would say, "Git Gud"...LOL Come everyone, have some accountability and be prepared...always!!!!

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Originally Posted by Mikedizzy

Yoshi-P would say, "Git Gud"...LOL Come everyone, have some accountability and be prepared...always!!!! LOL please look forward to it!

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Fixed that for ya

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

so maybe SE will put a repair NPC at the entrance

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I would love to see something like this.

Agree, would like to see a repair npc in every dungeon.
We also should be able to trade any item in a dungeon imo.

Why don't we erase the whole gears' durability while at it? Or is this to prevent botting?

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Originally Posted by AriaEnia

Why don't we erase the whole gears' durability while at it? Or is this to prevent botting?

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It's a gil sink to take money out of the economy

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

It's a gil sink to take money out of the economy

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This can't be really the reason, because expenses are really, really low, especially compared to all this gil-rewards (challenge log, adventurer in need, stuff for GC seals and sell at MB).
Plus the opportunity to buy dark matter* at even lower cost per repair and durability draughts for GC seals available.. it makes repairing quite irrelevant as a gil sink.

I think it's more 'cause in a fantasy rpg it's just common to repair your gear. ^^


*side note: The players who really make huge ammounts of gil (i.e. crafter) are the only ones who don't need to spend their money for repairs. ;D

Still waiting for a feature to sell repairs in instances for VERY CHEAP PRIZES :p

Having repair npc in dungeon would defeat the purpose of gear breaking to some degree. But I agree, rest of the party members should be able to help, preferably, to fix the gear, to their capability.

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Originally Posted by Mikedizzy

Long Answer: When I know I am running something there is a mental checklist we all do...right???!

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Oh I know; I run through that checklist myself. But like I said, in this particular instance, the player was brand new to the game and didn't even know about dark matter or anything. Hence why being able to help them out would be nice.

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Originally Posted by Neophyte

This can't be really the reason, because expenses are really, really low, especially compared to all this gil-rewards (challenge log, adventurer in need, stuff for GC seals and sell at MB).
Plus the opportunity to buy dark matter* at even lower cost per repair and durability draughts for GC seals available.. it makes repairing quite irrelevant as a gil sink.

I think it's more 'cause in a fantasy rpg it's just common to repair your gear. ^^


*side note: The players who really make huge ammounts of gil (i.e. crafter) are the only ones who don't need to spend their money for repairs. ;D

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Nope, that's the real reason. NPC vendors, repair NPCs, housing, and market board fees are gil sinks in place to get gil out of the economy to minimize inflation. Repairs were WAY more expensive at 2.0 but got toned down drastically since it was a new game and 90% of the players didn't have all their crafts at 50 to repair their own stuff.