Armor repair / durability bug? Costs are up

ivelbob · June 2021

Is it just me, or is armor durability dropping a lot faster recently? I am going through multiple repair kits a day. Repair costs are actually getting pretty significant.

whitecrow · June 2021

I thought I noticed the same thing.

K9002 · June 2021

It seems to be that way since Blackwood update. I have to stop for repairs at least twice in a day even when I'm not dying. A single vMA run requires at least one repair break now. Deaths from fall damage and slaughterfish burn about as much durability as before. It's taking and dealing damage in combat that got worse.

SeaGtGruff · June 2021

I haven't noticed that, but then I don't engage in enough heavy-duty play to require daily armor repair, and I don't keep track of how many days I can go before needing to get repairs.

My guess would be that you've been doing more content that happens to do more damage than the content you'd been doing prior to Blackwood, either because the Blackwood bosses and mobs do more damage than the bosses and mobs you were fighting in the pre-Blackwood zones, or because you've been doing more dolmens and public dungeons than usual in your efforts to level up the companions and improve their rapport with you.

For that matter, the weekly endeavor that requires us to kill 30 world bosses probably has a lot of players trying to clear more world bosses than they normally do in any given week, especially-- in my case, at least-- those world bosses that players may have skipped previously because they were more difficult than the others.

TrinitySinn · June 2021

Have noticed! I figured since new cp system was introduced where there is a part for reduce cost of repair, the normal decay and repair was increased otherwise.

LoneStar2911 · June 2021

I’ve definitely noticed this. I thought I was crazy. I use an addon that automatically repairs gear (and notifies me in chat) when it gets to 1% durability and I’m going through repair kits super fast.

Mythreindeer · June 2021

I posted a thread on this 2 days ago which was disappeared from the forum. Clearly the increase to armor damage is intentional. Perhaps to increase crown repair kit sales? Bad form that would be.

Grandchamp1989 · June 2021

I really hope they revert it back to the old system...

Trials and Arena's can be a bit of a pain now..

b101uk · June 2021

I am sure there is something in one of the CP trees that reduces armour repair costs.

myself I repair a little and often every time I sell to an NPC merchant, as I save repair kits for when I am taking lots of damage from groups of mobs when farming XP for a couple of hours in the same place and I cant be bothered to leave.