What is with these red bars on weapons and armors?

[AkatokuChaos]

what is with these red bars on the durability of the armor and weapons. they were not there before the update.

[LostBrythunian]

They are permanent damage.
When items are repaired now, they lose maximum durability.
The red bar represents how much of it’s max durability is permanently gone.

[AkatokuChaos]

so basically they are forcing players to waste legendary repairs only to repair a portion of the gear and than needing to farm the hell out of things to attempt to gain again once durability is too low? pointless if ask me than. why than waste time on repairs when better off attempting to farm the item again?

[LostBrythunian]

First of all, Legendaries can no longer be repaired at all

Secondly, from the Dev letter, forcing more grind- er, engagement with the map, was the idea.

Better repair kits hypothetically once had a chance of not reducing max durability as much or something to that effect. But that got nixed (gratitude @Tephra )

This one personally does not like the new system, but it is what it is.

[AkatokuChaos]

there was a mod to fix the durability i seen so i may just apply it. its called " No Repair Durability Penalty" by Nonecares.

[Tephra]

@LostBrythunian

Better repair kits have a chance of not reducing max durability as much or something to that effect.

They removed the chance bit. You can put it back in server settings, but the default is 100% now.

Xevyr posted the details here:

About the change from legendary to epic?

By default yes, it’s adjustable via ServerSettings.ini though Here are the defaults: Simple Weapon Repair Kit: 20% Weapon Repair Kit: 15% Advanced Weapon Repair Kit: 10% Master Weapon Repair Kit: 5% Grandmaster Weapon Repair Kit: 2.5% Relevant ServerSettings.ini entries: ItemRepairDurabilityLossByRepairkitTier=(0.2,0.2,0.15,0.1,0.05,0.025) ItemRepairDurabilityLossPenaltyChance=1.000000

The wiki has also been updated with the new effects, you can see the table here.