Guild Wars 2

Someone raised this idea in another thread, and I thought it intriguing enough to warrant a repost here.

Essentially, the idea was to allow Tailors/Leatherworkers/Armorsmiths to craft Armor Repair Kits, using:

- 25 Cloth Bolts
- 25 Leather Squares
- 25 Metal Ingots

Different Armor Repair Kits for each Tier exists, and each comes with 25 uses. They are used to repair damaged/broken armor instead of going to a Repair vendor. (Each broken armor piece costs 2 uses as opposed to 1 use for a damaged piece.) This method allows players to repair their armor on the fly (and possibly more cheaply too), and at the same time it should also help to consume all those massive stacks of unwanted basic crafting materials on the TP.

I was originally thinking that each of the three Armor-crafting disciplines has its own unique Repair Kit, but that might be needless complexity.

Thoughts?

Good idea, but it would all but make the instant repair kits on the Trading Post redundant and I guess Anet really wants people to buy those.

The Repair Canisters repair all of your armor in one shot though. The Armor Repair Kits only repair one damaged/broken piece of armor at a time. The number of uses for the Kit may need to be scaled down to avoid it overshadowing the Repair Canisters, I guess.

Or just throw some orichalcum and some ectoplasm into the recipe. Oh how about some lodestones too? And there you go.

Or give those craftable repair kits only a chance of repairing.
- 25 Bolt of Jute – 25 Stretched Rawhide Leather Square – 10 Pile of Glittering Dust – 10 Bronze Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 6% repair chance
- 25 Bolt of Wool – 25 Cured Thin Leather Square – 10 Pile of Shimmering Dust – 10 Iron Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 12% repair chance
- 25 Bolt of Cotton – 25 Cured Coarse Leather Square – 10 Pile of Radiant Dust – 10 Steel Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 25% repair chance
- 25 Bolt of Linen – 25 Cured Rugged Leather Square – 10 Pile of Luminous Dust – 10 Darksteel Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 33% repair chance
- 25 Bolt of Silk – 25 Cured Thick Leather Square – 10 Pile of Incandescent Dust – 10 Mithril Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 50% repair chance
- 25 Bolt of Gossamer – 25 Cured Hardened Leather Square – 10 Pile of Crystalline Dust – 10 Orichalcum Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 66% repair chance
- 30 Bolt of Gossamer – 30 Cured Hardened Leather Square – 10 Glob of Ectoplasm – 20 Orichalcum Ingot
= 25x repair kit with 75% repair chance

Tailor and leatherworker can not craft ingots so they use the respective Spool of Thread depending on the tier.