Quote Originally Posted by Fouluryu View Post
Annoyance, a gil sink, & a absurd reduction in character performance.
I can't comment on the annoyance part of your complaint since i havent played since before the new dark matter, however as for your other 2 statements;

I dont see repairing being much of a gil sink right now, unless players are artifically keeping dark matter prices high.
As mentioned above people will repair a lot of items your rank for a few k's, which is very cheap, you just need to stand in an area where theres a good amount of crafters around.
Incidentally the new dark matter repair resources likely increased the amount of (secondary)crafters that carry around repair materials as well.

Damaged items barely suffer from damage taken to durability in my experience, ive only ever had my items been in red a handful of times after all.
It takes quite some time for any item to get red..provided you dont use items a good deal above your rank or not of your favored class. (not sure why anyone would even do that, apart for cosmetic reasons)

So, any questions? ^_^