The real problem with unique items is the fact that I as a noble need to beg commoners to repair them for me.
Most of the time, no advies even bother to reply to my letter asking them to fix my item. The ones that reply either can't find a sage or don't have the required items for the repair.
When I play adventurer, I ignore request to repair items because I am worried about failing in the quest and getting my head chopped off.
Finding an advy that is good at repair does sometimes feel tricky. Arcaea was blessed with some advies that really understood the system, the Luria region also has some advies that seem decent at repairing items, though it can take them sometime to track down a sage.
