Hey so I, like many people see the topic of gold coming up a lot and I see lots of answers, but I have yet to see some one suggest what I have used for a long time.
When and when not to use, the “Big Guns”. Durability is something that comes up a lot and when you are talking damage, weapon selection is important. Maxing your damage is great but you don’t need to do it all the time. Most of the time, for any style of combat there are okay weapons (maybe not great) but are very cheap to repair. If you choose to upgrade these you will be missing out on even less power.
These kinds of weapons are great for easy missions and other times when all your power is simply unneeded.
The same goes for armor. A cheap set of light armor may be all you need to still get some defense but not wear out your precious heavy armor durability.
By not using your best equips for activities that honestly don’t need then you save repairing (and possibly losing max durability) on those things that give you the “umph” to your attacks. This minimizes the times you have to repair and maximizes the time you have that weapon/other equip before having to replace it.
Also if you don’t feel like keeping a set of lesser equips around, just buy stock things and sell them to an npc at 0 durability and buy more. Buying a new 2h sword is the same price as repairing a 2h from zero durability at 95% and you are guaranteed to have a new weapon at full durability, rather than having that 95% drop you a durability or two.
This strategy does lower your damage but because of that teaches you to fight smarter too.
That’s the gist of it, sorry for the long post.
(Feel free to modify or shorten)
-letsplaymabinogi
