Will armor and weapon upkeep be substantial and will certain classes have more than others?

Qitorien

Will armor/weapon upkeep be the same across the classes? In my experience in some of the IRE games, equipment upkeep has suffered greatly between classes. What sort of upkeep should we expect? Will there be other types equipment upkeep costs outside armor and weapons? I realize the issue of whether it is substantial can be somewhat subjective and relative. And I suppose it also depends upon how much quality is affected by the creation process of the craftsman.

That’s another good question if I can squeeze it in here: will statistical quality of weapons/armor be greatly affected by the crafter and crafting process? Are weapon stats even a thing to worry about?

Tecton

Classes generally have a similar amount of weapons/armor to maintain, only +1 on BEAST and -1 on Fury. Weapon and armor takes damage with use, and require repair, but this is trivial in terms of time needed to maintain them (there's a config option to automatically do this every time you walk through a repair shop). 

Weapons and armor aren't crafted by players at all, they're item drops from bashing, so there's a wider array of different stats available across the various level bands.

Players with the appropriate tradeskills can craft mods for weapons and armor, which have multiple varying effects on each item.

Wilmer

Lovely answer from the best! This is just another reason why Starmourn will be the best ever.

Qitorien

Thanks for the answer! I think I knew that about armor/weapon drops, but I had forgotten and that fleshed out my understanding for sure. Appreciate that!

I love that there's some realism there with wear and tear, but that it's not a huge chore to repair. That's a tough balance to maintain, but looking at what you wrote, it's looking good so far.

Lhundrup

I imagine the engineers might have more to upkeep because of turrets and such. Or, are the engineer things considered 'consumable' and constructed each fight, or after several fights?

Tecton

Lhundrup said:

I imagine the engineers might have more to upkeep because of turrets and such. Or, are the engineer things considered 'consumable' and constructed each fight, or after several fights?

Turrets are consumables, yes, you can break down your turrets after combat too, to save yourself some resources.

Kestrel

Tecton said:

Classes generally have a similar amount of weapons/armor to maintain, only +1 on BEAST and -1 on Fury. Weapon and armor takes damage with use, and require repair, but this is trivial in terms of time needed to maintain them (there's a config option to automatically do this every time you walk through a repair shop). 

Weapons and armor aren't crafted by players at all, they're item drops from bashing, so there's a wider array of different stats available across the various level bands.

Players with the appropriate tradeskills can craft mods for weapons and armor, which have multiple varying effects on each item.

Will there be a way for us to customise our weaponry without paying the standard 50cr or getting a weapon artifact? For example if I get a nice dagger drop, can I turn it into 'a dagger with a blue-enamelled handle' for a throwaway fee?

Tecton

Owing to the fact that all weapons and armor face the ravages of time, base item customization isn't something we'll be offering at the start. If/when we were to do it, we'd very likely have a system of saved customisation templates that you could apply to any item of that type. So you had a customization for "a dagger with a blue-enamelled handle", you could apply that to your current weapon, and when that decays, you could apply it to your replacement.