Thread: Will 2.2 include a "Repair All" option?

NPC repairs are so cheap and present such little friction to the player that yes, even if crafters were able to do repairs for cheaper, the vast majority of players would keep using the NPC menders. Do you really think the average player is going to spend a couple minutes shouting in Mor Dhona or Limsa for a crafter, another 30-45 seconds negotiating the price, and finally another couple minutes waiting for the crafter to fiddle with the repair UI for 10 separate items? All to save a few hundred gil, when they could spend 20 seconds walking over to one of the many conveniently placed NPC menders and have it done instantly? Very few people are going to bother, which is why it's not a high priority for the developers.

To make the feature actually worthwhile, they would need to make significant changes to the repair system in general to make NPC repairs less attractive. The NPC menders would need to charge more and be less conveniently placed, at the very least. If they wanted to go a step further, perhaps NPCs could only do partial repairs, requiring players to find a crafter if they want to repair to 100%.

As things are now, this feature would simply not have very much of a place in the game. It makes sense that they don't want to spend development time on it.