User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Skyrim Dragon Armor/@comment-1441235-20111106200322/@comment-4552472-20111106201827

Skyrim has actually changed to a more realistic way to handle it. Weapons and armor are less effective the more you use it. Skyrim has this. It's not a degradation like in oblivion, where it reaches zero and breaks. Equipment wears off, giving it less armor/damage rating. And if you repair/sharpen it in town, it gets back to its normal value. The main differences to Oblivion are: Equipment doesn't break (which is good. my daedric longsword shouldn't break after using it 1-2 days) and you can only repair in towns (More realistic than sharpening your weapon by smashing your hammer against it)