Firstly, items don't take wear & tear damage, only weapons and
armours. (Named weapons and armours are still safe, the only
change was to wear&tear of items).
Second thing: Items that monsters are wearing/wielding are now owned
by those mobs. In effect this means that the equipment worn by
monsters doesn't take permanent damage, and regular itemdamage is
somewhat lessened. This only applies to regular item damage; specials,
reaver skills/spells, dests etc. should be unaffected. If item
breaks, it still breaks.
-Era of idling
PS: Unfortunately it seems this was an uptune. I promise to make a
downtune next.