even in a non-porn game that can become broken.
see Final Fantasy Tactics and how the Knight classes can break equipment. The enemy loses all defense with armor broken, and can't use many of their skills if you break their weapons.
sure, stealing them with thieves is better, since they are now yours, but breaking is more certain to work and knights are less squishy.
useful in games where you else have to jump through hoops and gather armies just to get rid of one darn tank. or paladin, or whatever else just stands there shelling out and never really gets hurt. have one walk in with a powerful
"AHUMM." and the 1337 armour is gone, would be neat.
and, would shorten some of those painfully long games where you have to break a leg and again jump through hoops just to get some girl to allow to buy her a present, or even less.
luckily, this here game isn't as grindy, there's much worse out there..