Scion Outfits

I understand that there are no plans to allow players to dye the Scion character outfits that will be up for sale on the Mog Station, and this cannot stay.

Seasonal outfits, including those now available for purchase, can get away with being locked to a specific color because they are meant to represent a theme or season. The Scion outfits, however, do not represent anything other than individual fashion taste. If we as customers are expected to pay real currency for these, then it is the least the developers can do to allow us to dye them, and put our own fashion spin on the gear.

Please do not include these outfits at all if we cannot dye them.

I do strongly feel that these outfits, in all their popularity, should be something we can dye to suit our character palette. I want to take advantage of them, but I have a specific "look" for my character that makes me recognizeable regardless of the class I'm playing and people know me by that design. I would love the opportunity to use these outfits, but if I can't make them a part of my character design with dye then I see no reason to purchase them.

What outfits exactly? Apart from Minfilia and Alphinaud, all the Archons wear... regular gear (okay, I guess Urianger's robe is a unique colour, and

Y'shtola's new robe in Heavensward is unique too.

And to say nothing of the constant wardrobe changes Tataru goes through during HW's storyline. :p).

Why else are people able to cosplay as Y'shtola and Yda in game for example? Their gear is rather generic, even if it does tend to violate class restrictions (this is because their designs originated in version 1.0, where originally there was no actual class restrictions on gear - any class could equip any type of gear, although if a class was wearing something 'not recommended' for that class, say, a mage wearing heavy tank armour, or wore something twenty or thirty levels ahead of your current level, you took a stat penalty. Naturally ARR changed this, but the Archons retained their 'no class restricted gear' designs.

Anyway, the reason why a lot of gear cannot be dyed is probably due to the design of the gear being more intricate and thus it's textures are too complex to add dye overlays on (hence why originally it was the generic gear that could only be dyed and took time for other types of gear to be dyeable too). Not impossible of course, but just time consuming.

I'm sorry, I can't find where I've read the specifics, so I know that doesn't help much. But I had read that Minfilia's outfit will be first, and the other Scion characters will have their outfits up for sale later. I can only assume that all the Scions will be given some makeover like Y'shtola had.

If these outfits are too complex to allowing different dyes, then perhaps that's a sign that these shouldn't be sold just to tease players. As Ayame above said, some players play with a color theme for characters, as I do, and if we're going to pay real money for these things, we should be able to color them to suit our own fashion.

I agree with Ginal on this. With the developers putting out a outfit that can be purchased with cash, we should have the freedom to modify at least the colors. Why pay money for something that will otherwise just be locked away for periods of time after its novelty wears off. Make it last longer by allowing us to harmonize it with other pieces and have versatility to change colors to help match it to our personas.

I'm only looking forward for the hairstyles to be honest. No dye = no interest.

I really wish the hairstyle was not cash shop exclusive :/ It makes me worry that they will keep adding cash-shop exclusive hairstyles.

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

I'm only looking forward for the hairstyles to be honest.

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This, Give me Y'shtola's new hair.