Just checking but are weapons meant to lose qua? I've got one that is down to 76 qua
It seems to only apply to weapon and rest is fine. No idea if it's a bug or a feature. I'm unsure if I've done something unusual. I've fought giants in OP and beholders in DT and am a priest with a 2h weap 

Got it, so it's not a bug but a stealthy feature added when no one noticed

Would I be correct in assuming that skill value refers to the Blacksmith used? So if I go to a high level one I get no item damage and if I go to a lower level one (e.g. iluma or guild hall) my items will get wrecked?

Looking at code in layman's terms and ignoring random bit it's

qua/5 >= qua - con for threshold
qua >= 5qua - 5con
-4qua >= -5 con
4qua >= 5 con (hilariously if you add 5con and 4qua to both sides it reverse sign, although plugging into initial equation finds multiplying by -1 is correct)
If con =< 0.8qua then repair can lose qua

So for an 80 qua item threshold is 64 con. I'll note that as item gets more and more damaged threshold gets lower so for a 40 qua item it's down to 32 con or 8 dmg and at 10 qua it's down to 8

P.S. If code works as intended it would be possible to make perishable equipment. For example a temporary RoA with 1 or 2 qua that would get quickly destroyed with repairs

That long? I remember hearing that it used to be possible to lose qua but it never happened so I assumed it wasn't working so I was a bit surprised to see it happen. Maybe it's my imagination but rate at which equipment gets damaged has increased since it's introduction.

I guess if you want an extra money sink a potential thing to add is a restore feature that increases an item's qua from it's current level to it's initial level at a much higher cost than repair or an improvement skill that increaes an item's qua up to a certain cap.

If it's all working as intended then there's no problem. Although I'll need to be careful with my expensive equipment so it doesn't lose qua as it directly affects % prots and dps

The logic behind that change was that when you attacked, either your weapon or your shield had a chance to receive damage. But if you're attacking, you shouldn't be using your shield (unless you're attacking with your shield, which is implemented only in /streams/combatBalance). So I changed that.

Makes sense to damage weapons only on attack.

IDK how it decides which equipment is damaged after a hit. I assume it is random. Perhaps some things to do might be:

• if weapons only take damage on attack, they should not take damage when you are hit.
• shield then body armour then other armour should have precedence for damage when you are hit.
• can't remember if misses are just misses or if we can say was blocked, but perhaps we damage shield or weapon (parry) for block?