Equipment Repairs universal tool.

[Altena]

Eh. functionality over "immersion" anyday. If a character has the skill, and a tool for the crafting class in their inventory or gearset, what is stopping them from "theoretically" whipping it out of their bag and repairing stuff automatically..

If I was a Dragoon in real life, yet I knew how to fix my helmet, I wouldn't get undressed, put on my crafting gear, put my polearm away, pull out the tool, repair it, then put it all back on again, if it just needed a few beats with a hammer.

There has to come a point where "immersion" is sacrificed for functionality. When it simply makes small tasks more annoying to perform, then that is when "immersion" has gone too far IMO.

Global tool - nah. Just an option to repair stuff regardless what job you are on.

[JillyBean]

For repairing your own gear, as long as the player has spent the time to rank up the appropriate craft, has the appropriate tool and repair material in their inventory, it would be nice if we could quickly repair items without changing out of our battle gear first. It's just a pain to un-equip the gear, switch to the crafting job, repair, then put it all back on.

If I was a Dragoon in real life, yet I knew how to fix my helmet, I wouldn't get undressed, put on my crafting gear, put my polearm away, pull out the tool, repair it, then put it all back on again, if it just needed a few beats with a hammer.

I find the most annoying part is not necessarily making the "job" change to repair my own stuff, but having to scroll thru all my inventory to locate just what I wanted to fix in the first place. I would love the option that we have when we repair other's gear - view our equipment and be able to click "repair all".

This will be entirely different in ARR since it's likely our gear will be tied up inside a gear set. Will we then have to move it into regular inventory, repair it, then re-set up our gear set. I assume not! They must have something in mind for self-repair.... right?


PS: I know some ppl hate when we go all "XI" here, but in XI my WHM could fish on the boat and cook in the same breath....

[Keku]

I find the most annoying part is not necessarily making the "job" change to repair my own stuff, but having to scroll thru all my inventory to locate just what I wanted to fix in the first place. I would love the option that we have when we repair other's gear - view our equipment and be able to click "repair all".

This will be entirely different in ARR since it's likely our gear will be tied up inside a gear set. Will we then have to move it into regular inventory, repair it, then re-set up our gear set. I assume not! They must have something in mind for self-repair.... right?

This is also my issue, is having to change then find all the gear to repair, I would be happy with if I switch to a craft, I can select repair, and it shows me all I can repair that I own with that job. In 1.0 the best I could do was sort by condition and look through all my stuff for it, if like said above I need to deal with that item being in a gear set and can't repair it that would be very frustrating, but if I could just get a list of what I can repair while on a certain job that alone would make it a lot more efficient to do self repairs. Repair all for others makes it so easy, but repairing your own stuff is painfully slow to look for all you want to repair.