Why durability loss on return is stupid

[Altano]

So you prefer to loose something that (Could have) taken people a good chunk of time to attain, as compaired to something that anyone can get fixed in a rather short period of time?

Different strokes I guess.

To me it's less hassle. Especially since, for example, dungeon mobs yield SP. I play enough with friends that the experience loss wouldn't matter; it'd come back without trying.

[Preypacer]

To me it's less hassle. Especially since, for example, dungeon mobs yield SP. I play enough with friends that the experience loss wouldn't matter; it'd come back without trying.

I always looked at it from this perspective:

1. I'm leveling up and gaining xp far more than I'm dying and losing it - and in much greater amounts.
2. I typically go a week or longer without dying... Getting back the lost xp for the odd death might take a couple hours tops.
3. If I'm with a group where folks are making careless mistakes and getting us killed, I'm not going to be sticking around with that group beyond one or two deaths.
4. A couple hours, tops, to get back lost xp in a game that I have already spent and/or likely will spend hundreds of hours, over the course of many months overall is a drop in the bucket. It's xp. You get it back.
5. If someone is dying so often that they're spending more time getting back lost xp than they are moving forward, they're doing something very, very wrong.
6. If someone knows they're going to be penalized for failure, and the idea of being penalized is *that* severe to them... then maybe they should re-evaluate the wisdom of undertaking unnecessarily dangerous tasks in the first place. Get help. Level up more and do it when it's safer.

I've seen people give some really exaggerated claims of "losing days of effort". Either those people are leveling *extremely* slowly, even by casual standards, are repeatedly making very dumb mistakes, or they're grossly exaggerating for more impact. Even in Lineage 2's "hey day", when xp loss for dying made XI's look like a slap on the wrist, it never took "days" to get it back.

I personally prefer xp loss over gear damage for one reason... at least with xp loss, getting it back involves actually being out fighting stuff, doing quests, etc. Gear repair potentially means having to stop what I'm doing, go back to town or try to seek out someone to make the repairs for me... I'd much rather be out getting the xp back during that time. That's just me, though.