Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-176.37.178.103-20170730144408/@comment-33763020-20180120163952

I guess you meant "good" as in "skillful" and not "Good aligned" ;). I tend to disagree though, as using up equipment can go faster than maintaining it, considering the constant archer fire down there. Unless you mean an "extremely cautious" player that gets hardly hit by arrows due to smart walls and is willing to spend far too long down there and drinking through endless amounts of (expensive) Dwarven Tonic or Ent-draught (which requires 64x more storage space than the Tonic, no matter how much I love the concept) to still enjoy the fights and gather enough loot to mend the worn-down equipment.

Most players probably play Good factions however, so materials in Utumno will serve most of us little for restoring your items' durability. I'm aligning with Good factions and my experience is that as a Good player, it makes little sense to have weapons and armour from enemy factions, as it not only makes maintaining much more complicated (either through the Oddment Collector with risk of loosing values, or by having enough enemy materials available all the time, both lengthy procedures in comparison to visiting your trusted smithy and restore items for coins), but Dwarven and Elven equipment is superior as well. So except for the exotic exceptions, I'm sure most of us are fully clad in Good equipment, which cannot be restored with whatever is found in Utumno. The only option would be that when the second or third full set of Galvorn armour runs the risk of breaking, we switch to using Utumno armour for protection. Still, reforging this to a high level would require much more Orc steel than what can be looted in Utumno, since we have to do it on a brought anvil and with ingots. And as we know, no matter how good of a player you are, even as much as an Utumno chestplate would need 3 pieces to make sure that it becomes both Tough AND Enduring AND Eolean or Belegostian. To have each of these three separately reforged until this combo is achieved can take well over 100 Orc steel ingots and this is just one piece of armour, there's three more, plus weapons.. So the economics of bringing enough Orc steel even inside Utumno would be decisive, if someone Good aligned would opt for entering with Evil armour equipped.