Does FFXIV really need repair? Fix?

[Covenant]

I've read the hintbar that pops when the game talks about "repairs" but honestly what's the point?

I know in Version 1.0, npcs could only repair a percentage of the gear's values, but in 2.0 I don't see the need of player repairs.

Maybe, someone can better explains the functions other than "player economy"?

I think it should be completely eliminated. Or, adjusted to make desireable. Maybe, rather than calling it "repair" the term should be "Enhanced" basically take a % above the 100% value up to 125%. Each 5% above 100% is the grade of Dark Matter required to improve gear "temporarily".

To be honest, whenever I complete a dungeon I just pop over to repair npc and pay whatever the price is no questions asked. It's never an outrageos price. And, I don't have to worry about giving another player my gear to fix.

[AugustusSB]

I agree, IMHO the only utility to repair is to be able to do it within a dungeon or instance. But you can't since you can't change classes. soo.. uhhh

[dspguy]

I think the largest repair cost I've seen is 2000 gil. If they made the player-repair mechanic anything like 1.0, no one would bother. And the one time I was in a dungeon that the tank's gear broke, I can't change jobs to fix. Just remove repair entirely from the game.

[Jinrya-Geki]

It needs to be here so they can get rid of gil. That's only reason why I see it being kept.

[Covenant]

With the last update, SQEX has only given us more gil. Every mob in dungeons drops gil. I wonder how deeple the "wear" system in intergrated into mechanics that they can't "Drop" it.

[Katchii]

Systems like this are only in game as a money sink, nothing more. Working as intended.

[Shinkyo]

I wanted to look into repairing my gear but:
- buy the dark matter is more expensive than NPC menders
- it's super cumbersome to switch classes multiple time to cover all gear types

if SE has any plans to make this functionality useful, they need to:
- allow repairs any time as long as you have the crafting class leveled
- provide a UI similar to the NPC menders where you can instantly repair all gear and that just consumes dark matter instead of gils.

[RavenL]

I wanted to look into repairing my gear but:
- buy the dark matter is more expensive than NPC menders
- it's super cumbersome to switch classes multiple time to cover all gear types

if SE has any plans to make this functionality useful, they need to:
- allow repairs any time as long as you have the crafting class leveled
- provide a UI similar to the NPC menders where you can instantly repair all gear and that just consumes dark matter instead of gils.

You do know the grade 5 dark matter only sells for 80 gil right? The average i90 piece will cost 150 or so gil to repair at an npc if the durability is super low.

I do agree with the repair all option but use our dark matter though. Even a right click option to repair would be good. Maybe limit it to use in the open world to avoid dungeon repairing.

[LineageRazor]

I do agree with the repair all option but use our dark matter though. Even a right click option to repair would be good. Maybe limit it to use in the open world to avoid dungeon repairing.

Why limit to outdoor use only? I say go the opposite way - allow repairs to be done even if you're not currently set to the requisite job (as long as you have it sufficiently leveled). There's no dungeon severe enough that someone's equipment is going to break if they entered with it whole. So, basically, a run can be screwed just because a member forgot to patch up their gear before entering - something we're all human enough to do.

Assuming gear durability is something that's too difficult to remove from the game, this would at least give folks a chance to salvage a run that might otherwise fail due to this oddball happenstance.

[HEC]

And, I don't have to worry about giving another player my gear to fix.

Which you can't do with "used" / (even partialy) spiritbonded gear anyway. The proper way would be to have Repair Requests (the same way as the Meld Requests works now).

Personally - the biggest grip I have with (self) repair system is the "need" of having 5 tiers of dark matter which indeed (if you want to be really economic as of course otherwise you can use simply tier 5 matter for all repairs) means additional 4 losts taken from your inventory. That's purely insane - they should remove all the tiers, have just ONE dark matter and use it as a "currency" for repairs (even simplier would be simply to deduct cost of dark matter from you gil ballance every time you perform a repair) and set the "cost" of each tier of gear accordingly - like tier 1 will cost 1 of the "new" dark matter, tier 2 will cost 2 ... tier 5 will cost 5 "new" dark matters ... Alternativelly - move the dark matter (and if possible also the melding Carbonized matter) to the shards / crystal / cluster inventory tab so they'll not take additional valuable main inventory space. That would save up to 10 slots in the inventory.

And - indeed it would be nice not to be foreced to swap arround crafting classes to do the repairs but once you get into habit doing your own repairs it's not that much of hassle anymore and it's considerable saving too.