not going to discuss balancing, but yes I'd like a way to tell if my weapon/tool is becoming ineffective . Its perfectly realistic for a game to have a HP bar on an item, why ? IRL you can see and feel it, your ax getting dull ? You can see it but mostly feel it, in this game you can not. You just have to guess what is a horrible thing to do, imagine loading up a game after a few days not knowing you Zeds count and oops, stuffs coming at you while that ax is doing noting. yeah, no, unacceptable sort of gameplay.