Why durability loss on return is stupid

[Shai]

People wanted death penalties.

Could they have thought of a better one? Probably.
Think of some better ones and submit them.
I doubt it's entirely too late if you have a real brilliant idea.

Personally, I think it's a fair enough death penalty. I got no real issues with it.
And also I was never really one who wanted a death penalty.
I was fairly neutral on the issue, but I still think it's fair enough. It beats deleveling, I think.

[Petdo]

I think sp/exp loss is most stupid that durability loss ==' go with it. dude.

[AarosLunos]

Personally I'd rather take a durability hit than losing SP. There needed to be some form of penalty for death asides from wasted time. At least its relatively easy to get gear repaired and it is less time consuming than having to regain SP.

[Leknaat]

I'll take the durability loss. It's nice pocket change as a crafter
But part of me feels like it adds up just a little too quickly :/

[Evangela_II]

It's stupid that we need a bazaar slot to put Gil on it

[Tempestmoon]

i am completely okay with the durability loss, but it should be allot easier to obtain those repairs. Maybe a few more NPC's would help, I don't agree with them being at camps though. The SP rewards for DoH for repairs should be greatly increased to match with a material syn th. That will get our DoH's out to those camps to wait for those Players to come back from the grave to repair armor. In addition there should be a better faster way to request armor repair. Perhaps a remove all damaged armor command or ability to set a price for repair while still wearing the item... Either way, make it easy, and get those DoH out there repairing!

[Nightpanda2810]

From patch notes.

A further penalty will apply to equipment durability for players who revive themselves via the Return command.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that in order to not loose durability you can't be soloing?

[SuzakuCMX]

From patch notes.


Is anyone else bothered by the fact that in order to not loose durability you can't be soloing?

I am not bothered, because I can solo and not die.

Plus it keeps crafters relevant. NM/Boss drops are already better than most of what crafters can craft, why do you want to take repairs away from them, too?

[Aramyth]

I am not bothered, because I can solo and not die.

Plus it keeps crafters relevant. NM/Boss drops are already better than most of what crafters can craft, why do you want to take repairs away from them, too?

Well no, but at least let us repair everything at the repair NPC's and stick a few more in each starter city and maybe one at the settlements. It would also help suck some gil out of the economy when people are putting it into repairs from an NPC.

[Viridiana]

From patch notes.


Is anyone else bothered by the fact that in order to not loose durability you can't be soloing?

No, because, again, I'm coming from a game where any non-PVP death meant a 10% durability loss and a corpse run. If you couldn't make the corpse run for whatever reason, you lost another 25(?)% and had 10 minutes of weakness.

The penalty itself in XIV is mild by cmparison; I'd just like to see a more user-friendly repair system.