How do you use repair kits?

[Spaz]

ive made several weapon and armor repair kits, but i cant find a way to make them work at all. Cant repair in inventory or at a work station, what am i missing? i do have the recipes for the things im trying to repair.

[nephilimnexus]

The repair kit system is not exactly intuitive or user friendly, but it does work... sort of. Basically each piece of equipment - armor, weapon, tool - has a catagory of power to it, from basic to legendary. The repair kits only work on items that are in the same catagory. So if you make a basic repair kit it won't work on an expert level item.

Plus the materials cost of repair kits can actually end up higher than the cost of just repairing the item through the UI unless the item is near death. Meaning you could spend, say, ten steel making a kit to repair an item that would only cost five steel to repair the other way, but if you wait until it's almost broken then the normal way might cost fifteen steel, so at that point the repair kit is now worth using.

When in doubt most repair kits are at or around the same materials level as the items they fix, so if a kit takes iron it will probably work on any item made from iron as well.

The point where they really become useful is when you get to higher tier stuff that would take several different types of material to fix through the UI, as opposed to just the one type needed to make the repair kit. So a hardened steel thing that would take both hardened steel and thick leather could be fixed with a repair kit that only cost you hardened steel to make, thus skipping the leather part.

They're also lighter to carry around in your inventory than the cartloads of materials you might need to fix all your stuff otherwise.

[SteelFire]

The repair kits also won't work until the item is sufficiently damaged, but not yet broken. It applies a certain amount of repair, but will never repair to 100% durability.

[Spaz]

Figures i unlock iron weapons and they only give me a stone level repair kits

[Bimdur]

Originally posted by nephilimnexus:

Plus the materials cost of repair kits can actually end up higher than the cost of just repairing the item through the UI unless the item is near death. Meaning you could spend, say, ten steel making a kit to repair an item that would only cost five steel to repair the other way, but if you wait until it's almost broken then the normal way might cost fifteen steel, so at that point the repair kit is now worth using.

To repair an item in the UI you need the knowledge to manufacture the item. With repair kits you do not need that knowledge and can therefore repair more or less everything.

One good example of when repair kits are the best options: Obsidian Tools, those require Composite Obsidian to repair in the UI and therefore it's much cheaper to use repair kits

[Jiala]

As an addition to what others above have said, actually using the repair kit is not exactly intuitive either.

You don't press the repair button.

Instead what you do is have both the item to be repaired and the kit in your inventory, then drag and drop the kit onto the item in your inventory.

Master kits can repair everything short of legendary weapons, but only to about 90% of their max durability. There are legendary repair kits in the game technically, but there is only one named Tier 4 thrall that can make the legendary repair kits, and he only shows up during a purge attack if he does at all. His name is Bassan Steeltoe. However I tested them in singleplayer, and legendary repair kits are the only repair kit that can do a 100% repair. And they can repair every tool or weapon. Can't use them on armor though.

[SteelFire]

There's actually more than one T4 Smith that can make legendary weapon repair kits, but, yeah, they're all limited to showing up in purges. Sassan Anvilbreaker, of the Blackhand, is another one.