I didn’t realize this when I was first starting out, so hopefully it helps someone else.
Since you get some gear as loot or for finishing quests, they also lose durability points if you die. When you get ready to repair, however, the list shows all repairable items in your inventory. To save time, I generally just did “repair all†rather than seek out individual pieces to repair. In the first few levels, I thought, repairing sure is expensive compared to what I manage to raise with vendor loot.
Later I realized that I was also repairing items in the inventory which I didn’t intend to keep. So to get around this, either sell off items first, before repair, or click on the check box to show only equipped gear. (It defaults to show all gear). Another way to get around this is that for gear you want to keep, keep it in the bank, not on your personal inventory. This keeps you from having to repair it when you didn’t even really use it (since dying will happen).
Also, I know some people like to have exceptional gear whenever they can. At early levels, this may go against your goal of raising money because it costs more to repair exceptional gear.
Generally I still like to repair everything in inventory, so I chose the method of selling items first to get rid of gear I don’t want. This is because some items I may switch in and out, or for my tradeskill tools, I always want to repair them also, even if not equipped.
Edited, Nov 9th 2007 9:38am by bluegayle