This is a terrible idea. It makes sense in a game like Ultima Online where your sword might only cost 100 gold and a platemail set is 500 to have crafted, especially considering demons are relatively easy to kill for a maxed out character and they drop ~500 a pop. Going up against a player/mob using a hammer causes rapid wear and tear in comparison to other weapon types (the damage done from hammers is so extreme that clothing, which takes forever to decay under any other circumstance, is at risk to be destroyed). Each time a weapon is repaired, it loses a point of durability, and will eventually be completely destroyed no matter how well you attempt to maintain it. No one in their right mind saw "decaying" weapons/armor or the need to repair them as a gold sink. In fact, only players could repair them and all of the blacksmiths I spoke to did them for tips only. Gold sinks were things like spending 500,000 gold to get neon green colored hair.
I *just* now completed my mesmer's 15k armor (I'm also 3/4 finished with my ranger's 15k armor). I bought the first piece almost 2 months ago. I would not have been impressed if my tunic decayed before I could afford the gloves.
Why do we need to be real world accurate for everything? This is a game, it's meant to be fun. Having to farm to keep your armor in good shape for the sake of realism is not adding anything fun or worthwhile to the game. I work 40 hours a week and play games to escape real world, why would I want the tedious parts of real world to be a part of my entertainment? Why don't we just make everyone be perma dead when they die? That's realistic, too, and just as "unfun" for a vast majority of people. Oh, and take out magic and dragons and everything else because they aren't realistic either. How about armor washing and bathing as a requirement to prevent stink clouds around you that disgust other people to the point where they won't group with you?
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Think, too, of the secondary benefit: Unless a real human takes the character to the weaponsmith, bots would, after a time, have no armor on and it would consequently shut down bot farming.........at least for awhile.
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Why do we have to add stupid and unnecessary things like this just to stop botters? I think you seriously underestimate people who run bots. They'd just add the ability to repair armor to their bot routine.
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I'm sorry to be offtopic but...honestly, who the hell polishes their silverware?!?
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Genuine silverware, as in made from real silver, must be polished to prevent/remove tarnish. These days, "silverware" is a generic term applied to forks, spoons, and knives, even though they aren't actually made of silver.