Equipment storage is a blessing.

On a side note, why people (in general) are bitching about repair and gear condition. Repairing is so easy and costs almost nothing, especially for event items which (most of the times) only require level 1 of craft to repair. Nowadays there are gazillions of crafters. Even if your friend cannot repair your stuff, a stranger can. To repair the "seeking repair" items are now so damn easy. Now you can even turn on seek repair for stuff you're wearing. Yet, people are still complaining about it. What? LOL! Even using my gear and weapon so heavily, I rarely have to repair them more than once a week. (Well, maybe except Ifrit weapon which can go from 100% to 0% in just one day if you hoard trains of mobs and whack them all at the same time a lot.) What's the big deal? It just seems so lazy and pampered to bitch about repairing or seeking repair.

Moreover, as a crafter, I can get 100 or even 300 exp for free when I repair people's stuff. So this is yummy free exp, I like it. DMs are easy to find, but if you don't have one, it's sold for cheap at NPCs located at convenient locations everywhere. As for DM4 and DM5 which are quite pricey, we get them for free from so many sources. Heck, I used to sell my DM5 to NPC because I got too many of them off Ifrit.

They simplified/improved repair system SOOO MUCH, yet people still want more (or I should say "want none"). /meh