Quote Originally Posted by Culfinrandir View Post
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.
That sounds more like you're chipping away at the paint job rather than actually showing damage. OP wants to see actual physical damage to gear and you can sort of see it with the zombie BLMs and WHMs you fight in the Lost City of Amdapor hard mode.