With all these proposed changes to Gear, Remove Repair.

[Renshi]

What game did you play that Crafters did the repairs in?

We are not Crafters! We are Disciples of the Hand, and by that we train our skills in order to aid the others with our fine tact.


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got you there, huh? =)

Anyway, I think I'll check the Dev post...
*checking*
hmm... I think he's right Cair, check this out.

[Arcell]

No, the current repair system is fine. Without the repair system we have no death penalty. Destroying materia is a much worse death penalty that ends in the same way EXP loss does, frustration and exasperation. Anything that makes you outright lose something you spent time obtaining doesn't create a friendly community. It would be the equivalent of destroying gear right now considering materia is converted gear.

All in all, no the repair system is fine. It gives us a reasonable death penalty that actually allows us to push limits without worrying about being kicked in the nuts repeatedly for dying.

[MariyaShidou]

What game did you play that Crafters did the repairs in?

Fallout! An entire skill for repair!

[MeowyWowie]

No, the current repair system is fine. Without the repair system we have no death penalty. Destroying materia is a much worse death penalty that ends in the same way EXP loss does, frustration and exasperation. Anything that makes you outright lose something you spent time obtaining doesn't create a friendly community. It would be the equivalent of destroying gear right now considering materia is converted gear.

All in all, no the repair system is fine. It gives us a reasonable death penalty that actually allows us to push limits without worrying about being kicked in the nuts repeatedly for dying.

+1

/10char

[Airget]

Have Dieing include a chance to break Materia Spirit bond for any gear in your inventory or Retainers inventory. It would make sense its a "Spirit Bond" so dieing and being returned would have a major impact and damage to your spirit. Even if the armor is on the other side of the planet from you.

Honestly that's an awful idea, you would rather get rid of damage gear and deal with lose of materia %? Is it really such a hard objective to repair gear or you know not die? Just deal with it, repairing gear is no big deal if you don't die and actually watch yourself. If you die then of course repairing gear is going to look bad.

Judging from the way things sound it appears that you won't even need 100% repair to turn the gear into materia. I really don't get why people want to remove gear, gear is basically the balance that eliminates the need to lose xp when you die? Are people saying they would rather lose xp then deal with having to repair damaged gear? Would you rather spend gil to repair an item or lose an hr+ of xp gains cause you died to many times?

I don't think the answer is to tough, durability is honestly a low penalty for dying and the aspect of repairing it is so easy. They've added so much to make traveling easier before even adding choco and airships. They've made anima teleporting cheaper as well as make return a 15 min timer rather then 1 anima. Also you now have a homepoint you can set so you know if your gear is breaking, return home repair the gear then just use 4-6 anima to return where you are. The only limit comes to how reckless you are. The more reckless you are the worse durability will look however the better you play you won't even notice the durability of gear til countless hours of gameplay til it decays on it own.

[Felis]

Seriously, I mentioned this in that Rep responded thread.


1. Gear will become Rank Locked over time and through Attrition. Optimal Rank gear will eventually completely disappear except to a few rare holdouts who hoard it. If it doesn't get removed from the databases all together in the future as well.

Sorry, but no
Bayohne has corrected his statemend

Moving forward, gear that is introduced from notorious monsters and other such content will have requirements placed on them as we will be phasing out the "Optimal Rank" system for that loot. With new recipes being introduced in 1.19, the old recipes will be lost and it will not be possible to make that specific piece of gear anymore going forward. (For example, please see [dev1016] where it shows the change from a Hempen Doublet to a Hempen Doublet Vest) So only the currently existing versions that exist prior to the change will feature "Optimal Rank" features.

*Updated: 9/1/11 5:14pm; bold text is new and incorrect text has been strikethrough'd

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post319522

[Abriael]

No. 10char.

[BlackRoach]

If you do this you just threw the whole 65%crafting 35%fighting out of the window. I definatly wont craft a dam thing if no one will buy it and I cant repair anything with it. And yes I like crafting but want more gear to craft, more reward, and no more gear from anything but crafters. Maybe just an item used by the crafters to craft your gear would be all that should drop.

I think this ideas a step in the wrong direction. It eats at the foundation of this game, and with a bad foundation youll just cause this game to crumble.

[Cairdeas]

Sorry, but no
Bayohne has corrected his statemend

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post319522

Read the last line of my OP please. :3