yes suda, its not exactly all clear to me the way the repair system is the way that it is anyway...but with these kits it is going to hurt us all in alot of ways, mainly the newbie chars, they arent going to have the funds to buy these, the strength to carry them, and also make a profit for better equipment at the same time especialy sence alot of them wont be able to mine gold or anything for a while or even find out how and where to do this..now maybe if the weapons armors and all of these would not go from 50 down to 0.0 in what seem to be the matter of 10 mins it wouldnt be so much of a problem........maybe its just more simple for the dev team to do things this way, or they just overlooked a few things. repair is a time consuming task of its own, and the repair kits are just adding to it....it is going to almost be cheaper and less of a problem to just kill something and take its weapon and drop the one you was using befor.
then again maybe this was what the DEvs are wanting concidering the fact everything you do takes about 30 mins at the very least ( even ranking up a skill 1 point ) it could be possible they dont want people to get to a dead end befor the game is 100% so they are slowing things down a bit more then how they work in other games and making them slightly more complicated
now im not 100% of how the repair kits and all of that work..im just making an observation from the things i have overheard and read in-game and on the forum and a very small bit of experience so if what im saying dont make any sense or its just flat out wrong please correct me and explain to me all of what i was mis informed about