Repair Cost in IC - Ouch! Thoughts?

b.makusub17_ESO · July 2015

Tried out the Imperial City this morning. Didn't realize they have damage turned on in this zone (it might have been just the NPC's). Either way... ran up quite a bill in a short amount of time. Spending hours here could be costly.

What do you think so far? Armor damage good or bad in IC a PVP/PVEish zone.

Enodoc · July 2015

May need further examples. I was assuming it would be the same as everywhere else - no armour degradation against players, standard degradation against mobs.

b.makusub17_ESO · July 2015

I suppose I found, even if I wasn't being killed, I was being hit by NPC's (as they are all over the place) while engaging players from other factions. My initial thought was it seemed to rack up fairly quickly for the amount of time I was in. Perhaps I'm just squishy (very possible) or perhaps not quite balanced right. Just curious what others experienced.

Troneon · July 2015

Really bad having this in pvp area...

traigusb14_ESO2 · July 2015

Damage is from getting killed AND getting XP.. so killing mobs will rack it up pretty fast even if you don't die.

Troneon · July 2015

I think this will put people off if IC is an auto gold sink in high repair costs everytime you go there just because of aoe hitting an npc while doing pvp...

ZOS please fix this....is a really bad idea.

ZOS_Julien · July 2015

Thread moved in PTS section.

Kas · July 2015

i am pretty sure you cannot possibly do so bad that the repair costs will outweigh your income. even without stones, armor decay is from killign mobs and mobs still drop loot. I guess you would have to wipe on mobs a lot to actually achieve a negative balance.

if you, on the other hand, successfully farm and exchange stones, I guess that IC is actually an awesome place to make huge amounts of money (e.g. from some of the 10m+ gold PvE, "relaxed-flower-picking farmers" I know. They'll want new gear and they got the money to pay nice prices

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