Yes, if they have the appropriate crafting skills, they should be able to repair their gear without the help of repair kits. Of course it shouldn´t be entirely for free and cost some mats.

Crafting repair kits makes sense... therefore I'm betting it won't happen!

Gedalya wrote: »

Yes! Yes! Yes! We could do this in Oblivion, why et al.. Why not ESO?!

In Oblivion we also had unarmed skills. Not all the nice things carried over.

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Yes, each line should be able to repair using suitable mats, it could be another crafting passive and the cost paid in ingots, wood or cloth.

But armour repair is a money sink so unlikely to happen.

I was going to post the same thing.

BenS1337 wrote: »

No, it causes too much money to be loss late game, and it's too easy to break.

Not understanding that response, but perhaps its a language barrier thing.

What I think you're trying to state is that you believe that a player repairing his or her own kit late in the game would be too expensive?

Simply make it a requirement for certain crafting levels to be able to repair certain levels were of gear, and for the equivalent material to be required to repair the items base material. Iron object repaired with iron ingots, and so on.

I think craft research skills should also passively repair equipped items when player is offline.
Otherwise they are useless when research is complete

The amount of materials needed for a repair should adjust to how much the item has been degraded when the crafter is doing a repair and the cost of the repair should be less than the cost needed to make repair kit of a set level where the kit fixes the item no matter the level of degradation....

Also the repair kits could have a resource level internally so that a sword that was 10% degraded would only use 10 or 15% of a kits resources and a weapon that was 90% degraded would take all of a full kits resource or it might be fixed with a kit with 30% remaining and then take 60% out of a kit that had perhaps 80% at the start and then 30% after ( in this case 2 kits would be used to repair one degraded item when the user might not have a single kit full enough to do the job the kit with little mat left would be fully used up and the larger would still have a bit left after the repair....

A further refinement to the kits would be for them to still exist to be refilled with mats even when empty but the refilling would need to be done by a crafter of the needed skill level then returned to the non crafting user.


Just some thoughts on the topic

Heishi wrote: »

In Oblivion we also had unarmed skills. Not all the nice things carried over.

I KNOW, right?!?!?

I want an Unarmed skill line so bad I can TASTE it.

Ragekniv wrote: »

Crafting repair kits makes sense... therefore I'm betting it won't happen!

It can be part of the Jewellery crafting line when it comes in

Repair it for free? no.
The value of things (like armor) in a mmo is different than a single player TES game and should be treated accordingly. I would be open to another skill line or extension of one as an alternative though.

It's kinda stupid that you cannot even repair your own crafted gear.

Yes, but it should cost tanins. If it only costs leather or metal that means it's basically free because those items are so easy to come by. So if you are repairing an epic medium piece, it will cost you an elegant lining, etc. This could open up a new source of income for crafters as well. For example, at VR12, I have more green tanins than I know what to do with. None of my gear is green, so it wouldn't be used for repairing my own stuff, but I could repair low level players equipment for cheaper than the NPCs will do it.

EDIT: This could also be another skill point sink. 1 SP to repair white items, another to repair green, etc.

aipex8_ESO wrote: »

Yes, but it should cost tanins. If it only costs leather or metal that means it's basically free because those items are so easy to come by. So if you are repairing an epic medium piece, it will cost you an elegant lining, etc. This could open up a new source of income for crafters as well. For example, at VR12, I have more green tanins than I know what to do with. None of my gear is green, so it wouldn't be used for repairing my own stuff, but I could repair low level players equipment for cheaper than the NPCs will do it.

EDIT: This could also be another skill point sink. 1 SP to repair white items, another to repair green, etc.

This would also promote more player to player interaction which is needed imo.

Phantax wrote: »

Yes, but repairs should also have their own skill line.
Repairs should also use materials (appropriate for whatever is being repaired)
As your skill in repairs gets higher the amount of materials needed should get reduced slightly.

So, maybe to make a repair you need to find and use an appropriate crafting station and have the raw or refined materials needed?

So, like right now if you wear heavy armor that repair kit you carry around with you must weigh a ton!