For the past 2 days my repair bill has been outrageous. I don't even wear or use nice items - my best is a long sword espana - some heavy throwing axes and huscarl shield. But regardless of what happens in the battle, I always have about half my items break. Regardless of win, lose, live, or die.
I would have to estimate that 1 in 20 rounds I have no repair bills.
At this rate I have to grind away naked for about 3 hours in order to play for about 30 minutes of battle in my mid gear(less than 30k total) - to me grinding is the most god awful pain in the ass thing you can put in a game, but here it is - you have to grind or get 5x to use your mid-level gear.
Perhaps this is because I am using a thrower first time? I pick up my axes all the time and re-throw them, perhaps that is counting against my total equip used?
All I know is that the repair thing is totally overpowered now and it is ruining the game -
At least put in a REPAIR skill or something...