Am I the only one here who think that at a certain point that our armor and our weapon should break? or require repairs?

I do too. It seems stupid that fur can survive 100 sword strikes, and be set on fire, yet still offer the same protection.

No, I do not think so, because I believe that I enchant my weapons to be unbreakable.

That is something I overlooked. It would be cool as it adds to the realism of the game having wear and tear on equipment and armor used. FO3 had that, and it was cool. as well as FONV. I can imagine all it would take is some pieces of leather or fur, or metal or whatever to fix the items. Or, like in FO series, you could use the same item to fix. I cannot imagine that RPG players would oppose to this addition of realism to the game. Should this be chalked up as a(nother) short coming of the game?

Oblivion had this too.

This was extremely annoying in the past games. You either had to carry around a whole lot of repair hammers or spare weapons. They took it out and replaced it with weapon improving just for that reason.

yah it was a part of the TES design and people complained so they adpated it now people are complaining about the new system.
The good thing is I have seen posts about it in the modding community so there will be a mod that changes it.

It was in Oblivion but to many people complained about it so it was removed from Skyrim.

I personally didn't mind it.

I miss it. Plain and simple.

I honestly can't say I miss it, though with the new crafting stations set up the way they are I think if they'd left it in it would have been a much better system than Fallout's "bang two items together to improve quality" or Oblivion's mystical consumable repair hammers. What I'd like would be much slower degradation than either of those games, with the repair process consisting of taking your armor or weapon to a work bench, and using the appropriate material (refined malachite or steel ingots or whatever) to do the repairs, possibly with the option of breaking down armor and weapons for raw materials.

I don't understand why anyone would want to complain over the fact that your armor and or weapons can break during the game. Here you are getting perked up in smithing and so what if your armor/weapon break.

You have 2 options:

a. Repair the items
b. Build a new one

As far as enchantments goes how hard is it to -Re-enchant your items again? This could actually rise up your enchantment perk.

i suggested it in a thread that i made, when i think repairing i think depth, you could use ingots to repair, however i do think that the items should last longer than what they did in oblivion, at least twice as much.

Sounds very reasonable. In most beth games after and before each quest you are usually in a town, plenty of time to repair.

They should have carried over the armor and weapons maintence from past titles.

In my opinion, they could have replaced the repair hammers (that were taking up space inventory) with the forges / repair stations that dot the map.

It adds realism but is a major PITA. I'm glad they took it out.

The problem with repairing is how unrealistic it was handled in bethesdas last two games. It made absolutely no sense that by simply walking around with magical repair hammers that you were able to repair your gear anywhere, anytime. While damaged and breaking gear is realistic, it is tedium. Simply, Bethesda would have to have forced every heavy equipment user to run to a blacksmith area everytime they needed to repair. I think this was something removed from the game because of its tedium. Its not a heavily missed attribute and would rather like to see Bethesda focus on more important parts of the game then a small and tedious idea.

TL;dr
-Game advancement in other areas > Repairing

I remember in morrowind i used to stop of at a smith and repair all my broken armour and weapons whenever i could. It never really bothered me unless i got lost (no fast-travel in those days) I would probably use a mod if one was made depending on how it was implemented

Since when does hitting something over and over again break it?

would you like to be a volunteer and see if it works.

I'm a huge supporter of degrading armor and weapons. It would force you to be smarter with your choice of weapons, and also make Smithing an important and fun part of the game. I love the idea of weapons and armor being damaged and possibly breaking. That would be really fun.

I can see it now...You're in the middle of a huge battle, and a Baddy power hits you and breaks your shield, with a nice theatrical effect to go along with it. that would be awesome!

I'm going to assume you're joking around...

Item degradation in previous games adding nothing more than tedium, in my opinion. It got to the point in Oblivion that I only used heavy armor to work up my Endurance (the skill/attribute system was another level of tedium in an otherwise entertaining game), and then I wore regular clothes enchanted with elemental shields for my defense. Otherwise, I had to repair my gear every couple of fights in order to keep my armor rating at an acceptable level; it was especially bad for light armor characters, where some stuff would literally go from full condition to broken in one battle.

I'm quite happy to not need to deal with that headache anymore.

It would add an interesting dynamic to the game.

Initially having your weapon or armor never break sounds like a great idea. Less time spent on repairs and more time spent playing the game.

But it has made things too convenient and too easy.

A compromise can be made:
1. Only weapon and armor improvements degrade.
2. Weapon and armor condition will degrade to 50% rather than 0%.

From that point on, there are many possibilities. Instead of just adding improvements for damage, you could mix other metals to make it degrade less.
Different materials have different +damage value and different rates of degradation.

The reason for adding this feature is twofold.
One is that it adds an interesting dynamic to a monotonous game.
Two is that it gives people a proactive approach to level smithing by constantly re-improving their gear, as opposed to crafting 10,000 iron daggers. Thus people can level smithing by just playing the game normally instead of grinding.

I think it's dumb that it is not present.. I understand why they took out broken ness..

I don't understand why they took it out completely, however. IT would have made sensefor the the Legendary gear to slowly (EVER SO SLOWLY) degrade back down through all the ranks to normal gear again... But no.

I don't miss it. It made more sense to me in Fallout, with pre-war guns that had centuries of sand gunking them up, than using the blade of one knife to repair the blade of another knife (and meanwhile, whetstones aren't usable items).