Re: durability
This game needs a wipe. Plain and simple.
For the future clients (If they ever finish) there needs to be a set economy idea again, whether it's higher drop rates with decay, or lower drop rates with the ability to repair. Just like how Mumblee explained.
There is too much damage to this current client because of duping, xmas tree, gm spawned, etc
Too many items, too much inflated gp. You can't just fix these things with a single vendor. Even if Tinker were to be removed, it would take years for it to even dent the amount of items now. Such a gradual decrease wouldn't even lower the price of items since it wouldn't be an immediate effect.
So like I've said, and have said for years. We need a server wipe.