Should crafters be able to repair gear with mats?

Budnick · July 2014

Would you like to see this added to the game? If i can make the gear, why cant i repair it? they can make it so the more damaged a piece is the more mats it takes upgrade mats included.
For set pieces that drop from mobs and dungeons or trials, they can make it so you need all 8 traits researched of the same type of item to repair it.
what do ya think? yes crafters should be able to repair items or keep it vendor repairs and kits only?

Cody · July 2014

Yes

makes no sense at all that I cant fix my own stuff. if I can make my VR12 Daedric medium armor set, why cant I fix it? "my armor is broke, guess ill make a quick stop to the local town chef and get it fixed!"
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SirAndy · July 2014

Yes

NookyZooky wrote: »

makes no sense at all that I cant fix my own stuff. if I can make my VR12 Daedric medium armor set, why cant I fix it? "my armor is broke, guess ill make a quick stop to the local town chef and get it fixed!"
????

Bazzakrak · July 2014

Yes

Personally I am one of those that would also like to se some sort of permanent decay on items when repairing/using them.

Pele · July 2014

Yes

Agree. Great ideas, OP. I'll add some of my own.

- Instead of using upgrade mats to repair, introduce a new repair mat that must be used with the same mat the broken gear is made of to repair.

The number of repair mats used would depend on the broken item's upgraded level and gear level. E.g., a legendary veteran item would require more repair mats to repair than an epic vet item or sub-vet item.

This way would keep precious upgrade mats out of the repair process, allowing you to keep them for creating items.

- Add a new skill that enables a crafter to repair items. Said skill can be unlocked at level 50, giving maxed crafters another specialty and possible means of revenue if they can repair gear for less than the cost of a vendor repair.

- Craft repair kits from existing mats. Repair kits can be tiered and based on the material it is made of or a one-size-fits-all repair kit because inventory space is limited.

GFBStarWars · July 2014

Yes

Yes:

-Repairing an item will cost 15-20% of the upgrade material used by original crafter, dropped set cannot be repaired. (Remember is a gold sink right now)
-Items to be repaired will require capped crafting skill and knowledge of trait used/ trait required if set.
-Increased normal repair cost, increased rarity of upgrade material

Hammerswarm · July 2014

Yes

Reward people who take the time to become, and master crafters.

Pendrillion · July 2014

Yes

This is a no brainer right?

ShedsHisTail · July 2014

So... Repair kit? Or repair mats?

Is it just me who doesn't really see the difference here?

Srugzal · July 2014

Yes

ShedsHisTail wrote: »

So... Repair kit? Or repair mats?

Is it just me who doesn't really see the difference here?

Repair kits are not harvestable, they must be purchased, and they can be expensive.

The point is that a crafter with the skill to fabricate something logically should have the ability to repair it. Mats are only one mechanism.

Sasky · July 2014

Yes

Perhaps it'll also push more of a market for refined materials. As it is, you don't gain much over NPC vending them.

Cody · August 2014

Yes

ShedsHisTail wrote: »

So... Repair kit? Or repair mats?

Is it just me who doesn't really see the difference here?

repair kits can only be bought, and are pretty expensive(450 per kit adds up considering you have 7-8 pieces that need to be fixed)

ShedsHisTail · August 2014

So, you want to be able to craft repair kits.

AlexDougherty · August 2014

ShedsHisTail wrote: »

So, you want to be able to craft repair kits.

This is the issue, ZOS won't get rid of a gold sink, if it's a major problem just load up on repair kits.

Srugzal · August 2014

Yes

ShedsHisTail wrote: »

So, you want to be able to craft repair kits.

No. The issue is being able to repair damaged items directly, and not crafting something to do the repair.

deathmasterl_ESO · August 2014

Yes

Seeing as I've come from a number of MMO's this topic stuck out to me so I'll just provide something from one of the ones that I play.

Star Trek Online has unique system that where if you die you get an Injury to your character or starship(MVAM Prometheus FTW :P). Since it doesn't have armor degradation like ESO does that's the system that it uses. But I'm seeing this as a way that we could do a number of the things with Crafting. Each Injury that happens to you provides a -Stat effect to appear until you can heal yourself, repair your ship, or use regenerators/components to heal/fix yourself.

For Repair Kits to still be a gold sink for ESO have them make it so they have to repair "Injuries" for your armor out in the field.
Add a crafting Repair that crafters can do on their own for set resource amounts depending on the overall dmg to the armor.(Can fix their own Armor DMG, and Armor Injuries depending on their skill lvl)
Armor "Injuries" and Armor Dmg are two different things.
Make Armor "Injuries" only appear in hard Veteran Content IE: Trials, Veteran Dungeon's, etc.
Armor "Injuries" have different lvls of severity for their -debuff's ranging from small stat decreases on the armor, to having major critical failures with what you have. (note: Critical failures can only happen if you let a number of minor failures stack up.
Higher Dmg'd Armor will have a higher risk of getting Armor "Injuries"

Anyways that's just my two cents since I'm kinda stealing it from another games system, but it could be tweaked to allow everything that everyone wants so that it would work.

ninjaoliver43neb18_ESO · August 2014

Yes

Even after spending a lot of time and skillpoints into your chosen skill, you cannot repair your gear without having to do the hourly slog back to the city grocer who somehow knows how to repair voidsteel.

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