Please get rid of repairs.

[Alhanelem]

That's great for you, but it doesn't change the fact that making money in this game is basically the easiest thing in the world. You can make back what you spend on repairs in under an hour.

I don't know about you, but to me that's a lot of time to dedicate to earning gil for repairs. Maybe for someone rich like you it's not much of a factor, but for me it's a significant cost and I avoid it via player repairs whenever possible.

Experience loss. With this system, I can just strip when exploring dangerous areas and only suffer damage to the stick sword I picked up from an early quest.

Except the first time, you're usually fighting through dangerous areas, not exploring them. So you fight naked to save repair costs?

And while death is by far the biggest contributor to gear damage, weapons wear as you use them and armor wears as you get hit. You'll need repairs eventually even if you bend over backwards to avoid the death penalty.