It's not all that bad, gil comes so easily in leves and behests that everyone has tons of gil anyway. On that note, how long did it take to get that 2,400 exp back after dying in FFXI? Solo it took quite some time unless you were able to kill VT mobs at 75 fast enough to chain. Otherwise you had to stand in town, get a party together and go do some exp'ing to gain it back. The way I got round this was not to die so often. Sure sometimes I did die, but it was unlikely to happen because I was always a 'survivor' solo artist xD That said died plenty of times tanking as a naked MNK in Salvage ^^ anyway! my point is it should be time consuming and should waste some resources. Although I agree that it's annoying that gear slowly gets broken even when you don't die, that is something that should not happen, or atleast happen 10x slower.