Sorry for reviving this but I have a question that fits this and don't want to start a new topic:
If you have a combined item where one card enables you to perform an action and another to be used within that action, by how much do you have to reduce the durability of the item?
The rules (p. 21) state
A player may use an item in their inventory – by lowering its durability by 1 –either to apply some or all of the the item’s effects when they are involved in an action to which the item’s effect applies, or to take an action featured on this item.
(emphasis mine).
The either/or suggests exclusiveness as in you spend 1 point of durability to start an action, then the item phase of the action happens, in which you choose the same item stack again, lowering the durability by 1 more point, by a total of 2.
Or is the either/or not exclusive and the rule to be understood in an "and/or" way that when activating an action on an item by lowering the pip by 1, this item is already automatically available in the next action without having to use another point of durability?
The consens on bgg has been the latter case. It would be nice to get an official answer to this, though.
