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'''Durability ''' refers to a property on [[item]]s that is an in-game indication for how damaged a piece of equipment is. Characters need to spend [[gold]] to repair items to keep them in usable condition. Items that run down to 0 durability become unusable, until they are repaired.
The [[D3 Team]] has varied their stance on durability throughout the game's development. Early on there was no durability on items, and the team said it might remain gone, since repairing was annoying. As of August 2010 though, and the reveal of the [[Artisans]], durability was back, with durability values on all items and a [[repair]] option in the [[blacksmith]]'s interface.
Most equipped items had durability in both [[Diablo 1]] and [[Diablo 2]], and had to be repaired periodically. In Diablo I items that went to zero durability vanished and were lost permanently. This penalty was softened in Diablo 2, with items simply becoming unusable once they went to zero durability. Other durability modifications were also introduced, including item modifiers that granted extra durability, self-repairing items, and a convenient "repair all" button on the various NPC blacksmiths.
==Repairs==
Haedrig Eamon, the [[blacksmith]] located in the [[Caravan]], handles all item repairs in Diablo III. His repairs interface has not yet been seen, but it will presumably work much as repairs did in Diablo II, with an icon to repair individual items, and a repair all button to speed things along.
==Loss of Durability on Death==
Diablo III will carry a similar penalty to [[death]] in durability loss that is seen in [[World of WarCraft]] which is, namely, a 10% durability loss of all equipped items.
The lost durability is not from the current amount left on the item, but 10% off of the maximum durability, meaning that items can and will break with enough death, or if they take enough of a beating.
It is also worth mentioning that characters in Diablo III will wear more [[item]]s with durability than they did in Diablo II. Even the [[quiver]]s equipped by the [[Demon Hunter]] has durability on it.
==Blizzard on Durability==
Item durability has been mentioned in passing a few times, but no detailed comments on it have been forthcoming. [[Jay Wilson]] mentioned it while talking about [[death]] and other gold costs in an interview in mid-2008. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-from-leipzig-5/]
