It's interesting how conceptually similar enhancives and enhancive maintenance are to breakage as it was written up. To wit, crumbly enhancives last for awhile then disappear from the game. They can be recharged (repaired) for a fee, using in-game currency. Enhancives that persist lose their charges and can be repaired, but don't crumble. If the benefits of an item are good (subjective decision), then the cost to recharge is acceptable. But the crumbly enhancives -- if fusion didn't exist, would they be of any value, even if they provided a significant benefit? Let's say you could buy an enhancive sword that provided +20 bonus to 2HW AND to OHE, had enough charges it should last a 6-12 months, or even 1-2 years, but it eventually crumbles. Let's say you could also buy the same sword with +50 to both. Knowing it will eventually crumble, how much would it be worth to have one? Just for the sake of discussion, what if breakage was implemented but catastrophic breakage didn't affect the items in the game now? What if only a select group of crumbly weapons and armor are made available? Everything else persists. Then, to throw a wrench in, what if these crumbly items are much better than what you have now? What if crumbly items go up to 20x? :)
