Talk:Durability
so what happens if (through neglect or otherwise) an item's durability and maximum durability both drop to zero. I assume the item breaks or does not work or disappears or something. This is really the key reason why you care about durability --- if I don't repair my favourite sword it will go poof --- but this information is not given on the current page.
(and if I knew then I'd update it myself)
- Geoffb
It's mentioned under this heading. Yeah, once current durability goes to 0, maximum drops instead; bring that down to 0 and you lose the item.
Typically you'll bust plenty of shields in this way training Parrying.
- Bomb Bloke 09:40, 1 July 2008 (PDT)
Added an "Example" bullet point under the mentioned heading, as well as a line in the introductory paragraph. --Cogniac 21:35, 1 July 2008 (PDT)
Thanks All !
- Geoffb
Durability Loss Formula Discrepancies.
Interesting post on stratics refuting the formula. [1]
Despite the little slam to uoguide, they do have some points and evidence.
They pointed to a five on friday dev quote from 2007
"I'm a Legendary Smith - why do I lose durability points so often when I try to repair things?" "Because there's a pretty high base chance to lose a point of durability" seems to be the simple answer. The formula is as follows: Chance to lose Durability = ((40 + Max Durability) - Current Durability) - (repairSkill / 100) (where repair skill is Test Center-style, i.e. GM = 1000, not 100.0) Example: Blacksmithing of 1100 (110.0), 50 current and max durability, yields a 29% chance that max durability will be reduced by 1. If an item has taken more than 71 points of damage, the chance for it to lose a point of durability reaches 100% even for a Legendary smith. So there's a definite choice to be made - do you repair early and often, and risk failure, or late and seldom, and guarantee it?"
This suggests there is always a chance to lose durability on any repair. Also someone mentioned that there is a possible penalty for using a repair contract that should be into the formula as well.