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While running boxing content, crafting, or gathering in Last Fantasy XIV, yous wear downward your gear over time. When examining your equipment, you'll notice your gear's condition getting worse and worse. When your gear's status reaches 0%, it's "broken." The stats provided past whatever cleaved equipment are gone until yous repair your items. Then how exercise you lot gear up your broken stuff?

Paying mender NPCs with gil

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You can pay mender NPCs to fix your equipment. You'll usually find these NPCs standing around in towns or at aetheryte camps. You can repair your items at any fourth dimension in one case their condition falls below 100%, just to go along your gear's condition from getting as well low in the showtime identify. Depending on how low your gear'southward condition is, yous'll need to pay a certain scattering of gil to repair everything you're wearing. Clicking around the mender'due south carte will permit you to repair other items you lot might have in your inventory or armory chest too.

Repairing your ain gear with night matter

Leveling your crafters allows you to fix your own equipment. When examining a piece of equipment, you'll see its Repair Level information only underneath the gear's status and spiritbond percentages. If you've met the listed conditions for the Repair Level (leveling a certain crafting task to a certain level), then you can utilize dark affair to repair the slice of gear.

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Right-click the detail and select Repair. You'll run across a similar list and menu from the mender NPCs, this time with nighttime matter listed instead of gil. You'll need a certain grade of dark affair depending on what level your equipment is. You tin can find dark thing for sale on the market place board, or you can get your own with Thou Company seals.

Repairing your equipment with dark thing is the most user-friendly option. You lot can manually repair your own gear even in instanced content, unlike with mender NPCs you'll only notice out in the open world. You'll have to work at leveling your crafting jobs to reap the full benefits, merely it's definitely worth it in the long-run.