A few questions from a returning player

[Estellios]

Yeah those are the crafting abilities I was talking about.

As for the items, they will still be around and remain in your inventory for the forseeable future, but you won't be able to actually obtain them eventually.

The changes I've been talking about should be hitting this coming patch. There's a handy list of what will be coming in 1.20 and what will be coming in the patch after that in the latest letter from the producer.

[MisterWiggles]

ah okay so with crafting abilities, you'll have to do quests to get them later and not just get them with levels. I've seen that link, but I haven't really gone through it extensively to read all the details. I should sometime though.

I did think of another question though. Does repair gear still not do anything? I remember about 10 months ago just before I had quit, I would never repair any of my crafting gear. Reason being on your character sheet, you would still get all of the bonuses even if the durability on the gear was at 0. I haven't done any personal testing, but from the testing that others have done, it shows that durability really doesn't affect gear. It's just there and having 0 durability will still give you all of the bonuses a 100% durability item would. I'm just wondering if they fixed this. I noticed all of my gear is still at 0, but I still get the bonuses. Maybe SE has been too lazy to fix this still?