Light Steel Galerus dying SUCKS!!!1!!

As many have seen, we have a new long list of generally nice items for glamouring. However, I just used a lot of coke making myself a Light Steel Galerus because it was dyeble to find that THE STRAPS, the barrally visible straps are the part that is dyed.

This is ridiculous and needs to be fixed! Make the metal the part that is dyed already!

While I was some-what miffed about the Taffeta clothing, having that horrible half colored aspect that more often than not didn't work relegating it to often being died white, this is a total LAZY failure.

P.S. It LITERALLY looks like the accidentally inverted the selection when they decided which part they should texture to be dye-able

FIX IT!

P.P.S. In fact, I am going to say REMOVE the dye-able aspect, because as is, it is usless, and having it dye-able will FOOL a lot of people into getting it. As is, making it dye-able is a trap; a trap I fell into. Wish I could have previewed this before I made it.

it's not like SE promised something else

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Originally Posted by Bloodclaw

Wish I could have previewed this before I made it.

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Looh Gah from the Amalj'aa daily questshttp://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...afd1e730cc.jpg

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Originally Posted by Felis

it's not like SE promised something else

Looh Gah from the Amalj'aa daily questshttp://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...afd1e730cc.jpg

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The straps are such a minor part that it totally favors the lighter colors. I will admit it does seem more prevalent with this baby blue and the like light colors. I usually dye things black or wine red, and due to the idea of using the smaller aspect of the armor piece those colors are useless. This is poor design if not a mistake. You should optimise the options rather than super focus, and having the metal dye-able would have been the better option.

Yes it looks good in that picture especially with the yellow-grey background to highlight the baby blue. But dying pieces is about the option best for the entire game.

The vanity system is pretty tricky. You can't preview, and even if you could the looks on some parts depend on what they are matched to.

I kind of fooled myself there and bought the pants, tested with a poor choice body, and saw it was nothing else than metal swimsuit. But then I resold it, and saw someone else wear it with a suitable body and noticed that yea they actually had more details, in certain situations. Might need to rebuy some again, but it is kind of silly how hard it is to know what things will look like. You'd kind of need a super advanced preview system that you can preview with different other gear.

I made the light steel galerus a few weeks ago as well. I assumed the same thing: that the main part is dyeable. I sold it off within seconds of crafting it -___- Very disappointing to say the least...

This is still rather horrible. Maybe one day we can color both? IDK

Yeah I wish the dyes on this gamed worked similar to Guild Wars. I recall being able to combine different dyes to create colors, and I THINK you could dye different sections of the gear but on that I could be mistaken.

I remember making the shawl(?) for one of my alts and tried to dye it black, but was greatly disappointed that only part of the outfit was actually black, while the rest turned gray. It also removed the shiny leathery texture on the armor, so I decided to just remove it...

I know in GW2 you could dye up to 4 different parts of some individual pieces of gear, but it depended on the armor; some of them I think still only had 1 color you could dye. Also, once you found a dye, you could consume it to have that color permanently unlocked to use whenever you wanted via your character menu:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/9/9f/Dyes_1.jpg

GW2 also let you preview how gear and dyes would appear on your character before you decided to buy it on the markets - very helpful when looking for vanity pieces. It'd be nice if FF14 could have something similar.

Yeah all of this would be nice. I should have to start an extensive Google search or something just to see how things are dyed before I buy/make them.

I actually like how it dyes, so each to their own.

Yes, it would be awesome if they would give us 2 separate dye channels for this and be able to dye the metal as well, but I for one am happy enough with it.

If you want to complain about what "channel" dyes on armor, choose something else. Say... just about any DoL/DoH "AF" where we often see each piece dying a different part of the item. Or say.. the new "Mariner" stuff where the pants and shoes clearly dye a different major color than the top. At least Light Steel is consistent at which part it dyes.

How long did it live? is it dead yet?

Well they could add the better dye option to the level 44 versions of the equipment. That would be nice and a good alternative.

In addition to dyeing more than one part of gear, I wish we could zoom in on the dye preview and use different backgrounds like we can during character creation. I've found many times that the colors shown in the preview do not look the same as in the open world.

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Originally Posted by Sadana

In addition to dyeing more than one part of gear, I wish we could zoom in on the dye preview and use different backgrounds like we can during character creation. I've found many times that the colors shown in the preview do not look the same as in the open world.

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You can zoom in, move and rotate ^^. Bottom right of the preview screen the eye icon: "toggle character display mode on/off"

@OP, I bought it too and am quite sad that the straps are the only dyable part :(

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Originally Posted by Suki-

You can zoom in, move and rotate ^^. Bottom right of the preview screen the eye icon: "toggle character display mode on/off"

@OP, I bought it too and am quite sad that the straps are the only dyable part :(

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Ah! Thank you! :D