Quote Originally Posted by Maeka View Post
And it would help a ton as far as alts go, it's the #1 reason why I won't play alts much, because then I think about how much leveling I would have to do, just to reduce repair costs and annoyances (since you can repair to 200% durability which makes it last twice as long between repairs), I end up going "meh" and losing interest in the idea of playing an alt.
It doesn't reduce costs significantly since you still have to buy the right Dark Matter. We don't tend to remember that we have to pay for that. Based on repairs I was getting with an alt that wasn't able to repair their gear, the cost is similar though repair yourself is slightly less because of the greater efficiency. I didn't start leveling DoH on that character because of repair, I did it because I missed being able to craft on her to make gil.

And it doesn't actually repair to 200% durability. It adds 100% durability when you repair yourself as opposed to the mender repairing to 100% durability. If my gear is at 40% when I get around to repairing it, it will increase to 140% not 200%.

But it absolutely does reduce annoyance. You don't need to remember to visit a mender and you're not going to have the "oh crap" moment when you join a group in an instance just to notice your gear is at 15%. You can repair on the spot and not worry (again assuming you haven't run out of Dark Matter).