Bare Hands (the weapon) count as if their durability is zero, making them suffer the penalties that usually follow. Repairing doesn't seem to help, nor does the mending staff.
I'll be sending you my hospital bills, Dev.
Bare Fists are still broken as of the latest Trait Rework.
Bare fists still suffer from broken weapon penalties.
Yeah, Dev should really look into that. From my understanding, it's still broken, lol.
The only time my fists fixed themselves was a fluke moment where I procced eviter with my broken fists and somehow the game took pity and said "Here...have one durability"