Its happened :/ - resorted to new character for Gil.

[CianaIezuborn]

Also to people saying you can't do your own repairs during a dungeon... In what world does gear ever break in the dungeon. My first Garuda run we used the entire 90 minutes and We wiped at least once every 5 mintues... Our healer was bad. When it was over I still had 40% left on each piece of gear... Repair before you que up for a dungeon. You have enough time to switch and repair before you click commence.

The point I'm seeing them try to get across is that dark matter repairs are only cheaper if you're at or near 0%. If you pre-repair at higher percentages before the dungeon it is cheaper to use the npc mender. If you wait until 0% in a dungeon you have to leave that dungeon to repair or carry a back up piece to wear until the end.

This is because dark matter is a flat cost to take you to 100%, where as npc repairs are based off of what percentage condition is missing.

I'm not 50 yet though so I don't know what the break even point is.

[Ryios]

The point I'm seeing them try to get across is that dark matter repairs are only cheaper if you're at or near 0%. If you pre-repair at higher percentages before the dungeon it is cheaper to use the npc mender. If you wait until 0% in a dungeon you have to leave that dungeon to repair or carry a back up piece to wear until the end.

This is because dark matter is a flat cost to take you to 100%, where as npc repairs are based off of what percentage condition is missing.

I'm not 50 yet though so I don't know what the break even point is.

But if you buy dark matter with GC Seals. I mean what else do we have to spend our seals on? I'm out of things to buy in the GC aside from materials. Are we suppose to save them for something? Also I keep capping out and spending them to prevent them going to waste when I run fates. And I can't rank up anymore until level 50 (3 levels more). And when I get here I'll cap out again in a week.

[CianaIezuborn]

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Yeah that's definitely an option, I'm not sure what the rate of gain on GC seals is from fates compared to the rate of decay on equipment durability so I can't really say if it's viable or not though. I'm not at home right now but dark matter is what 1k seals per? So 13k seals for a full repair?

The questions on if this is viable would be based off of how long it takes running fates for you to get 13k seals and how much your gear decayed in the process of it. Take the time that it takes you to get 13k seals and then divide that by the percentage of condition remaining and that should be how long it takes to grind a repair off fates.

You should work in gil gained during fates also at a rate of 350 gil = 1k seals to get a proper picture of it.

So if it takes you an hour of fate grinding to get enough gil + seals for a full repair, and your equipment is now at 80% condition then:
60 minutes / .8 = 75 minutes of fate grinding to earn a full repair

If you're doing fates naked then you won't need to divide the condition and you can just take actual time spent, though if you have to grind fates naked to repair gear I'm not to optimistic about how I'm going to enjoy 50.