Originally Posted by Joram
Hi Nicknick,

Yes, you're right: it can save a lot of money if you repair your weapons and armor on you own wink
On the other hand: money isn't a problem (maybe only in the first beginning) at all in DD.

So for me it is just a pure personal thing to choose for these Skills (Repair and Identify).
Most of the time I choose first 1 point (or 2 points) in Identify so I can identify the most of equipment I can wear directly ... Later on I go for maximum 1 point in Repair (except if I find an equipment with +1 to Repair early in the game).

Mostly I find it fun to do things on my own (repair, identify, making potions...) smile


Or instead of them even aim for lvl5 in Trader's Tongue. Thats 15% discount, assuming everyone else get 2 free points there. Not sure if it will outweight the benefits of a highlvl rep/id. I find it increasingly annoying that with lowlvl repair and identify, stuff i actually want to use must be Id'ed in a shop anyway. And things where repairing would make a profit difference are expensive to repair. Kinda funny.

Say that merchant Kistandalius sells 4 gems for a total sum of 3*38k+1*18k=132000gp. 15% of that would be 20000gp. Thats the cost of 200 Id'ed items, and only for that transaction.