Repairing things

[heervandering]

How can I repair things, when I buy a 'kit' and try it out, it says that I haven't the skill, so how can I get the skill?

[CidDaBird]

The gridstones.

[BlackGhost]

You can develop your repairing skill using the grindstones, once you have high enough repairing skill you can use rapairing kit to repair around 60% damaged gears

[crazyorse]

Use grindstone and then use kits to repair equipment before it is too badly damaged. If you let equipment deteriorate too far your only option is to go to a craftsman.
You can also get trained in maintenance.

[heervandering]

I am still in the tutorial, I suppose it goesn't work there for repairing, I tried a (stolen) dagger on my father's grindstone but It didn't even show up in the inventory, and wat about repairing the clothes?

[Au milieu d'un monde des ruines]

You can't use daggers on grindstones as far as I know and they're never supposed to get damaged, they're only used in stealth kills which is an insta-kill. For clothes you can only go to the tailor and use tailor repair kits.

[breversa]

Your repair ability is limited by your Repair skill, down to 50 condition at level 20, IIRC.

So start repairing lightly damaged items to improve your skill and move on to more damaged items.

Also, any sword (short, long, hunting or sabre) or axe (but not daggers nor maces) can be sharpen with a grindstone, regardless of its condition. It's a good way to level up your skill at the beginning of the game.

You can even abuse the system by first deliberately blunting your blade with the grindstone (force the edge against the stone until it smokes), then sharpenings it properly (let sparsk fly !), for unlimited Repair XP. :-)

[freddebw2]

repair after every fight

[Jeff]

Originally posted by freddebw2:

repair after every fight

i do this , most the time i can repair everything, I got one of each tool kit on me and spares on the horse. also still use grind stones when i can to help with perk boosts and cleaning off the blood if needed. also a grind stone on things your selling is cheap and effective for a boost in value to not repairing.

[YOGI]

Some "SELLERS" will teach you...look for the "TEACH" writings in the same "TRADE" area...

[heervandering]

Thx everybody, I can also recommend the 'KCD hintbook' by Hieronymus Alloy in 'Guides', in this case how to use the grindstone, but also everything else.