Durability

Durability is a reference number given to an item in-game that gives the player a value for how much damage an item can take before it breaks.

• Any equipped item has a chance to take a point of durability damage when a player takes damage from an attack or offensive spell, a trap, or falling. This chance increases for higher amounts of damage and decreases dramatically as item hardness increases. Certain enhancements (such as Item Defense, found in several melee-focused trees) reduce this probability, as does the Item Durability Ward from the VIP Loyalty Program.
• An equipped item that reaches durability automatically unequips; broken items cannot be reequipped or reused until they have been repaired.
• Worn / damaged unbound items have a chance to take permanent damage equal to the amount of wear / damage (excluding the fixed amount of damage all items taken on character death, which never causes permanent damage.) If an item takes permanent damage equal to its durability it becomes "Broken Beyond Repair" and cannot be equipped or further repaired.
• You may reduce your chance for permanent damage by taking your equipment to an apprentice or expert repair location. Details on repair can be found on the equipment repair page.
• Bound items never take permanent damage. You may eliminate the chance for an unbound item to take permanent damage by performing the binding and attuning ritual at a Stone of Change - note that this will preserve the amount of permanent damage the item has already taken, so try and do this as quickly as possible!
• Only an Item Restoration Oil from the DDO Store can repair items that have permanent damage. However, you can perform adamantine rituals to increase the overall durability and even make items that are "Broken Beyond Repair" usable again.