does anyone know how it exactly works? My virtue armor set is tore up and its not self repairing at all. I also have a heater sheild with a sr of 4, it is not repairing either. I am using a holy sword... it is the only thing repairing itself. any ideas?

Guess I'll ask the obvious ones first... are you sure you have the full virtue armor set on (8 pieces)? Self repair only kicks in when wearing the whole suit.

As for the shield, do you have parry? Or are you human, so that jack of all trades gives you at least 20 parry?

The way self repair is supposed to work is that the item is repaired when it takes damage, as in SR4 would mean once the item takes damage, it's repaired by 4 points. Not sure if this kicks in with every bit of damage, I doubt it does. Otherwise SR 1 would be all you ever need.

Anyhoo, items won't repair while inside a container, because they have to take damage to do so.

Hi xApCx

The virtue armour will self repair in Ilshenar and the Holy sword will self repair by killing undead. Try killing something different than undead to see if your heater shield will self repair

*scratches head*

Are these new changes?

I was just going to say maybe the self repair on the virtue set wasn't working 'cause they kinda screwed it up in the first place. I could have sworn SR works no matter what, and the number along with it is how much durability is repaired in a given amount of time (a minute?)??

I have had a similar problem associated with this concerning the darkwood armour set. Its supposed to have self repair 3 but a while ago it stopped repairing.
I thought it was some kind of bug they would address in the future.

I don't have time to dig up a link to it, but I'm pretty sure Jeremy posted about self repair recently, maybe in the FoF before the latest, explaining how it works. That's where I took that answer from.

Of course it could be I totally remembered it wrong and botched the whole deal

I do have all 8 parts on. I have been fighting LichLords with the sword, sheild, and complete armor set. Each part of the armor is down near the 150 range, so that is 100 points off of the original 255. I tried fighting lizzard men for about 3 hours after I posted the first message. All that did for me was damage the armor more. I kept using the holy sword and it kept itself in full repair

Here's a bit more information after quite a bit of testing... If i put the armor on and log off, then log back on, the armor will NOT repair itself. However, if i put the armor on, log off, log back on, then remove one part and put it back on, the armor WILL repair itself. I have done a lot of testing with this, and right now it works this way everytime.

Thanks for the update. Have you submitted your feedback about this to EA?

The FoF explanation was :

"October 12, 2007

"So, if Self Repair is capped at 5, why do some of the Heritage items have Self Repair 10?"
I misspoke slightly in the patch notes - Self Repair isn't actually capped, it's just that 5 is considered "maximum intensity" for it. Functionally, there is little or no difference between SR 5 and SR 10 - or 20, or 40 - simply because equipment tends not to be damaged fast enough to overcome the self repair. (Short version: each second, if an item has taken damage, the Self Repair value gets added on to the item's current durability. So with SR 5, each instance of damage gets repaired up to 5 points. Your item would have to be taking MORE than 5 points of damage per second to get ahead of the repair)."

Which is not what we're seeing, but then again who here is surprised by bugs in UO?