I have made a plugin that counts the damage done to your equipment while you are fighting, and alerts you when your eq is about to scrap (break). It is designed for the Realms of Despair MUD, but i am sure it can very easily be changed for other muds. The listing is below.
Type EQHit:Help to see the help screen
Umm, as it turns out, I cannot paste that much data in here :) So i'll just give you the URL, it's: