UO Second Age

Why buy them if the item will just break anyways?

Well, some people like to keep their stuff regardless, and also, it depends on what you're blessing.

For example, if you're blessing a pair of sandals, you can prevent them from breaking by wearing pants/kilt with higher AR than the sandals. That way the pants/kilt will take the damage, saving your sandals from breaking.

What Pirul said. The sandals will never break if you just wear something on your legs-layer.