Repair cost scaling seems to be a little off

[Kryten]

I just spend over 650 crowns to repair around 100 durability on my helmet and noticed that the costs per durability seems to go up a lot with higher level equipment. For me that seems to be a little too much to be honest. Doing a contract from Brynn with some bandits on the way has me pay all the money I get from the contract just for the repairs of my stuff. If I don't bring a lot of valuable loot with me, then this means that I make only very little profit from that. Also if I just want to roam around for a bit, go exploring and stuff, I actually need to save up money beforehand so I can pay for the repairs afterwards. That doesn't seem right somehow.
Am I doing something wrong, could I be making much more money somehow? I don't want to run around in lower level gear just so I don't make so much losses....

Edit: Oh, I am level 14 now by the way, and my armor pieces have 14 to 16 protection.

[Berserkr]

Are you repairing every single time there's like 5-10% durability loss? Keep in mind it's not all battle either it rains a hell of a lot in the game and metal gear will degrade in the rain, it's not a lot but it can be 4-9% durability if you're wet tier 4 for a while

[Kryten]

I usually repair my stuff every time I get back to town, so mostly after a contract or when I was out exploring. And yes, sometimes it rains when I am out, but I can neither take off my equipment nor sit under a tree for a day.

[Sir Gura]

Afaik it's intended to have repair cost become progressively steeper the higher the level of the item and the higher the amount of repairing it needs to be done.
So repair often to avoid the second part of the equation and use low level equipment to avoid the first part.

[Kyosa]

i dunno your playtime, but it becomes a lot easier later, do the quests they give you a lot of money.
Talk with the elders often and ask for tasks.

[Destro]

If you are having money issues as melee then you should consider skinning mobs. Even wolves are great money while not being too challenging. And, once you can kill higher level mobs, you'll literally never need to worry about money again, which you may already be able to do given your level and gear quality.

[IrishUnicorn]

Prices won't go any lower as You progress, and heavy armour repair prices are...oof even at late levels, but generally the stronger Your character the faster You kill stuff which means Your gear is breaking less and You make more money.

Funny thing is, that once You get to that point of strenght where You easly kill everything, You don't really need that heavy armor, so while it does not bother me much, I wouldn't mind lowering the repair prices of medium to heavy gear, especially since say - greatswords are most prone to breaking, maintaining top gear like stuff above flamberg might be hard, and their users cannot skin monsters for money, while blunt/piercing weapon users swim in money.

[Kryten]

Yeah, I guess I am at the point where I can kill most standard stuff relatively easy. I am using 1h Axe though, so skinning things mostly does not give me pelts.
Next level up I can take the survival skill which increases drops from skinning, maybe that will help a bit, but with the small inventory space I can probably carry 2 or 3 pelts....I hope that is enough to make some decent profit then.
I will also consider going back to lower level armor, but somehow that feels wrong to me....I was so happy once that I could afford it and it made stuff so much easier.

[brown29knight]

the heaviest armors in the game are something akin to a trap: As the end game foes are not yet in the game, the top tier armor is overkill, with a repair bill to match.

Means you can wind up spending WAY too much on repairs.

As was already said, try toning it down to a medium armor set. Should still be enough prot, but not obscene repairs.

[Drewsko]

end game u have obscene amount of cash so having hvy armor is kind of like insurance?

[Rhapsody]

Waiting for the Armor utility tree...

[Kryten]

Originally posted by Drewsko:

end game u have obscene amount of cash so having hvy armor is kind of like insurance?

Maybe I am the stage right before that: I can buy the late game armor, but I do not have obscene amounts of cash :) I have 4k lying around in Mannishire and the money I had in Brynn was now all spend for repairs, after doing some roaming around without dungeons or contracts...

Where does the money come from in the endgame? Surely not only from contracts and wolf pelts?

[Berserkr]

Gulon and Bison pelts, probably 40 Gulons all around Brynn within a few map tiles maybe more, they're like Orcs in Durotar they're everywhere. Just go out with almost empty inventory you can carry back quite abit, merchants don't have money or it's night time dump it all on the ground outside the elf store or the general merchants and go get some more, bring a crossbow to get a few hits in if needed. Bring a 2 handed mace if your axe is gonna ruin pelts and just swat them with basic attack, at level 15 you should roll them easy.

[IrishUnicorn]

Contracts, mostly bandit and vampire ones since those net treatises. A lot of the time You will get more than 1 of tier 3-4, and those are worth as much as Brynn contract reward sometimes.. then selling valuable stuff, generally using top medium armor I was able to stash 30k gold till lvl 20, granted I had pretty good build and I didn't really have to spend a lot on repairs for this reason. I was playing greatsword so no pelts were involved.

[Kryten]

I just started hunting some Gulons and with the extra skill from survial tree I was able to stuff 4 pelts in my (not so empty) inventory. I am level 15 now, but they still give me a good fight with lots of hits that I take...so I will have high repair costs again. Contracts in Brynn are good yes, and I also had some good books to sell, but there are not enough contracts and I have to wait a lot before I get a new one.

I guess my build is just not that good (Jorgrim 1h Axe with shield) and I have to get a bit stronger still to have less repair cost per fight.

[jotwebe]

What armor are you using anyway? I played the same build a couple of months ago - before the 8.0 update, but I don't think things have changed that much - and didn't have massive money problems, although repair costs were pretty notable. Maybe you need a bigger shield - shields are relatively inexpensive to repair, I think, and with higher block chance your armour doesn't get hit as much.