Repairing seems so useless right now.

[Hoobala_Boobala]

My only desire is that they remove the dark matter requirement for repairing gear yourself i.e. so self repairs are completely free --> your bonus for actually levelling the crafts!!

Repairs via npc are so cheap and fast, and repairing gear yourself so time consuming and inconvenient, that even though I have all disciple of the hand at 50 I have never repaired a single piece of my own gear, and I think that says a lot for how well implemented the self repair system is...

Bonus for durability for self repairs is also a nice idea and would work with current dark matter system.

Other ideas for bonus of self repaired gear:
small bonus to item stats for self repaired gear (would need balancing so less likely to ever happen)
bonus to spiritbonding rate once self repaired


Players need a bigger reason to self repair than tiny and sometimes non-existent savings in gil that can be made so easily with all crafts at 50 (especially when it costs TIME)