Lesson #5a: Serious Damage

Just a little addendum to the last lesson...
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Say you've been fighting for a long time and you've died a couple of times. You might see something new appear on the far right side of your screen, under the mini-map. It will look like a little suit of armour, and parts of it will be coloured yellow or red.

This indicates that your character has suffered some serious damage to one or more pieces of equipment. The parts that are coloured are the worst damaged pieces. Yellow is better than red, but none of it is very good. Just the fact that you're seeing it is a warning. It means you should hightail it to the nearest blacksmith or weapon vendor, and get repaired. Hover over a vendor to see if he or she makes repairs. If your cursor turns into a little grey anvil, then that NPC does repairs. Right-click to open their window, and look at the bottom to find another little anvil. It will probably have a small yellow cross on it. Right-click it to automatically repair everything. Some money will disappear from your bag, but I gave you over 10 gold so you should have plenty. The more damaged your equipment, the higher the cost to repair.

It's best to keep your equipment in good shape, so that you hardly ever see that suit of armour. Just get in the habit of visiting the repair guys often and repairing whenever you have a chance. It'll save you money too. Once that suit of armour appears, you're in pretty bad shape and it'll cost you... and if you still have a bunch of mobs to kill, then chances are high you'll die before they do. So try not to go too long between repairs and chances are you'll hardly ever see the Armour of Doom.