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[[Durability]] is a feature of items in Diablo III, though it was not in the game during much of the development cycle. Eventually the [[D3 Team]] decided that repair costs were too useful a [[gold sink]] to leave out of the game entirely. Nothing is yet known about repair costs or how frequently they will be required.
==Binding Weapons==
The issue of weapons that "bind" or stick to a given character, is a contentious one. No items in Diablo II were [[BoE]] (Bind on Equip), [[BoP]] (Bind on Pickup), or [[BoA]] (Bind on Account). There are plans for items in Diablo III to be Bind on Equip (either to a character or to an account), since this has the effect of removing those items from the economy. Once a player equips such an item, it can be removed from that character and sold or [[salvaged]], but it can not be given or traded to another character.
Jay Wilson spoke about the current binding weapon plans as of August 2009. [http://g4tv.com/games/pc/28197/diablo-iii/articles/68225/blizzcon-2009-diablo-iii-game-director-interview/]
::'''Jay Wilson: '''We have no “Soulbound” or bind-on-pickup, except for quest items. We do have bind-on-equip for the highest end items in the game. We targeted, roughly, any item above level 85. These we will do as bind-on-equip. The reason for this is that we want people to be able to trade them, but we also want to remove the high-end items from the economy. One of the greatest ways that you can do that is with bind-on-equip.
::What we don’t want is to have a situation where you find something on the ground like, “Oh, man. This would be a perfect weapon for my Monk. Oh, but I just picked it up and now it’s on the wrong character.” We don’t want that at all. Most of our focus on Diablo is as a trading game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.
