Originally Posted by
Culfinrandir
Not really, all they'd have to do is introduce a function that, once gear repair gets to a set percentage, dulls the gear. No new models & not really an added effect, merely a shift in the colour wheel (actually, a shift in the chroma). To make it even easier still they could just turn the gear a set colour at a defined repair level.
These abilities are already in the system as we can change colours via dyestuffs. The server would be, in essence, dyeing the gear at the preset percentage. Should be very simple with a decent game engine, which we are led to believe SE has.