Durability...

[RyuKajiya]

Don't know if I am doing something wrong here but durability is very horrible.
I can't clear a small village or dungeon without ending up with broken weapons half way through.

Is it intended that you either port back and forth all the time to repair (since repair anvils are either super abundand or not there at all)? Or do you have to fill your hotbar with weapons to have any kind of chance?

Realy need a setting for the world to modify durability loss...

[Rad Spider]

No setting needed for durability loss. I can solve this with two recommendations.

(!) Carry more at least two melee weapons, and at least one ranged in your backpack at all times. If one melee weapon breaks, oh well. You have a secondary. You also have a bow to add some variety even if you're a melee only build, the bow doesn't care. It's still useful to you. If you pick up any junk weapons along the way, use those to smash objects for resources. To preserve what durability is left of the preferred weapons.

(2) Yes, it is intended you return to your home base from time to time to fix your gear. Drop off items into storage. And if you built a house, fort, tower, castle or hobbit cave - you'll get resting buffs by spending sometime inside your base. That's if you've been raising it's comfort level. It's worth it.

Alternatively, you can place a fast travel virtually anywhere by only having one proper base. You simply carry a flame altar on you to create a temporary base anywhere that allows it. Fast travel back to your home base. Then return to where you left off later. Pack up the recently place flame altar at your temporary base. Continue on your adventure. Easy.

[Vela Darney]

(3) Pay close attention to your surroundings, sometimes, there'll be repair stations in the enemy camps or dungeons.

[Sarcasteik]

My warrior has 4 2h hammers on him.
Mage has 3 wands, a staff and a sword and shield.
Ranger has 2 bows + sword and shield. All also carry two mining picks as I don't bother with the perks.

Been doing that since launch.

[whit]

Originally posted by Sarcasteik:

My warrior has 4 2h hammers on him.
Mage has 3 wands, a staff and a sword and shield.
Ranger has 2 bows + sword and shield. All also carry two mining picks as I don't other with the perks.

Been doing that since launch.

sounds totally awesome.

[RyuKajiya]

Well I know there are repair anvils around the world. But either places have several or none at all. Sometines you find one in a place. But generally it feels like they are not very well distributed.

And mainly speaking for wands, I go through the dura of them like crazy.
Then again I saw in patch notes that they had their dura loss increased which makes me wonder why?
Depending on your build they are not more powerfull then other weapons, so why penalize using them?

But oh well guess I have to look at them as consumables then and pack plenty...

[Blue Hasia]

still better than zelda BOW

[oulala]

I do think this feature is a bit annoying and redundant.

yes, there are repair anvils in many places etc...

but having full inventory is already a reason to return to base. resting buff is also a big incentive to return to base.

why adding the tediousness of durability? it doesnt bring much that's not already done by other features anyway.

merely a reason to justify upgrading to the next material for tools

[grinsekeatzchen]

Upgradoing weapons, should extent their durability.

Also, it's weird that weapons have durability but Armor don't. It's just an annoying mechanic. Like, you either have to carry a ton of weapons with you around, or you just repair them free on anvils.

It's just annoying and does nothing for the game ...

Esspecially, why are there weapons who have no durability and others who have less durability even fully upgraded, legendary?

Make it make sense.

[RyuKajiya]

Durability with no repair cost is a useles feature anyways.
I could understand it if you need some materials to repair the stuff as a resource sink and so on.

But with no cost for repair there is just no point for durability on the weapons.

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Vela Darney:

(3) Pay close attention to your surroundings, sometimes, there'll be repair stations in the enemy camps or dungeons.

This is beyond true i am just saying. There are actually tons more than people realize. good post.

[Avetembi]

I carry a flame and a workbench as I like to have a blunt for smashing and a slash/pierce+bow+wand+staff and that's enough inventory space taken up.
I've also got a specific colour icon for repair stations (yeah I know the map is crowded)
I'm hoping for a map filter so I don't need a third party program

[Humpenstilzchen]

No you´re not doing anything wrong. Weapons in this game have the durability of wet paper.

Having to carry multiple weapons because of that is just silly and annoying.

[Sarcasteik]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

No you´re not doing anything wrong. Weapons in this game have the durability of wet paper.

Having to carry multiple weapons because of that is just silly and annoying.

Should be carrying weapons of different damage types anyway, quit whining.

[RaderBad]

For my mage build I always have 4 wands (two on each hot-bar,) one bow, one melee and my staff. use the repair benches that are found whenever possible. As you get higher in levels you will encounter lots of bad guys and critters that are more powerful than yourself. I use ranged weapons whenever possible, stay out of the enemies reach. Most will find that carrying lots of high perk food/drink with stamina-health, constitution, strength, etc buff is necessary.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Sarcasteik:

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

No you´re not doing anything wrong. Weapons in this game have the durability of wet paper.

Having to carry multiple weapons because of that is just silly and annoying.

Should be carrying weapons of different damage types anyway, quit whining.

Not neccessary. Enemies are not hard enough to justify min/maxing. Sounds like a skill issue on your side.