WTB Dodore Doublet (Blue) - Let us dye our gear!

Dodore Doublet (Blue)

1 - Dodore Doublet
1 - Bleaching Agent
1 - Sea Blue Cloth Dye

Who else would love to be able to dye or paint the gear you have another color to match your favorite outfit?

How about to make yourself a little more unique among the ocean of everyone else in identical gear?

I've always wished we were able to dye items ourselves, but I also understand that this gives a way for crafters to create specific colored items.

Maybe they could make it so certain dyes can be created that can only be applied after crafting? More richer colors, more subdued, etc. I absolutely love gear color customization in mmos, so I'll admit, I was a bit disappointed seeing how it's handled in FFXIV, but at the same time I also like how realistic the approach to crafting can be.

Still, if they gave us actual dyeing options in this game, I'd be very, very happy.

From an Alchemist point of view it'd be nice to have the synths only give 4 pots, this way the market isn't literally flooded in dye and paint.

But it'd be nice to change the color after it's been dyed also.

Make your Typhoon sword blue!
Make your Flametongue Red or Yellow... even white?

Yeah =) I was hoping they could include an npc in every city that specifically handled coloring items. I'm not a high level crafter however, so I would understand if folks don't like the idea of being able to just change a colored item so easily.

Still, I'm always for anything that lets you make your character stand out a bit more or able to let you have that personal touch with their looks!

They should do something special for alchemy , its a beast to level if you arent a fisherman.

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

They should do something special for alchemy , its a beast to level if you arent a fisherman.

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Imagine how it was pre sp buff... I was the 3rd 50 alch on lindblum... I hit 50 with a 176 sp synth in like 4th degree fatigue.

All they'd have to do is make our synths give less product. Make glues and dyes give 4 per synth just like poison pots. That'll instantly increase our market value.

I wish they'd remove dying from Crafting and instead have it be something done AFTER its crafted.

Or have Materia have a hand in coloring the armor.

Oh by the way I made 12 more +3 lanolin after I talked to you in LS so I have pleeeeenty now lol.

Agreed, Cairdeas! I just want the freedom of armor coloring you see in other games to be in FFXIV... the designs for our gear is really wonderful, but at the same time so limited in how we can get it to look, it's such a shame.

I'm not trying to start anything here since I'm planning on playing both this and GW2, but when I read the dye system post in that game, it made me really wish FFXIV would do the same : GW2 Dye System.

I'd love to see SE give us players more options to really customizing our character!

As a TAN I'm 100% in favor of this. You wouldn't believe how annoying it is to make differently colored finished items... I mean it's easy to get more money cause people will pay more for black or red leather than they would for ochre or green but meh, at least I wouldn't be stuck with the same color forever.

Red Solid scale mail would rock :)

Go wear an onion doublet or something jeez.

Ya dying after the item is created would be fantastic!

I'm wearing a Revolutioner Bliad or whatever it spell

but I hate yellow!!

I can't see why this is so hard to do. Also the colour variations look all brown. Gear looks medieval enough without it all having to be brown. If colouring was easier to craft then there would be more of a selection. I don't think making it so hard that it costs a fortune is a good idea since the colour aspect is so superficial anyway. It would just be nice to see people looking a bit more individual and this would be an easy way to do it.

Maybe metallic colors could be really rare/hard to craft?

I agree, let us dye our gear whatever color we want that's available. Dye tiers are lame and permanent dying kind of sucks.

I love this idea. Some of the "special" gear in-game only comes in one color, and may not even be craftable . . . and what if I don't want to wear brownish-yellow? Sometimes I really wonder about the colors SE picks . . . :p

I agree with several things mentioned in this thread.

First the topic: We should not be limited in what colors we can dye items. These items are plenty different in each tier to know what it is you are wearing, plus you can check anyway. I would say allow us to dye the item during synth (whatever color we want), but also allow us to re-dye an item to change its color.

Reduction of alchemist output: Our recipes need to produce less product to improve the value of alchemical wares. I think four of each per synth would be perfect.

I'm glad to see a lot of folks feel this way as well! Again, I really admire how crafting is handled in this game, but to be denied that option of freely dyeing items when it's a staple in other games, disappoints me.

Supported. No idea why this isn't in the game anyway.

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Originally Posted by Seif

I can't see why this is so hard to do. Also the colour variations look all brown. Gear looks medieval enough without it all having to be brown. If colouring was easier to craft then there would be more of a selection. I don't think making it so hard that it costs a fortune is a good idea since the colour aspect is so superficial anyway. It would just be nice to see people looking a bit more individual and this would be an easy way to do it.

Maybe metallic colors could be really rare/hard to craft?

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If you don't like brown you can have gray :D

this game has worse color palette ever

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Originally Posted by Evangela

If you don't like brown you can have gray :D

this game has worse color palette ever

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The designs for the armor are wonderful, but I agree, the palettes can be so bland.

Just curious, if they do implement being able to dye gear, how would you folks feel about dyeing things such as "AF"? Would a green WHM AF gear look strange to folks? Or perhaps have those be unable to be dyed?

At that rate, why not just reduce the obnoxious number of recipes and get rid of all the color recipes and keep the undyed version? Then just let us dye finished items.

Also I'd be okay with dying unique/untradable/job/etc... gear. I mean it's all about customization, it makes seeing everyone running around in the same gear a bit more bearable lol.

As long as the dyes are not bound by specific materials like they are now, I am in on this too.

Yeah I like that hempen, canvas, etc. all have different textures to them visually. Please Yoshi-P let us have more freedom with this.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

At that rate, why not just reduce the obnoxious number of recipes and get rid of all the color recipes and keep the undyed version? Then just let us dye finished items.

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I'd be so okay with that idea.

Metallic colors would be more for what tier the armor is, as different tiers would use different material.

However, i think a wide assortment of colors for each weapon/armor would do only good for this game, so much that people will have no problem gaining attachment points :3

@OP
When I saw the promotional videos back in 2009, I actually thought that's exactly what we would be able to do. Bummer.

I think being able to dye clothes is a great idea. I mean ALL things are dyed in the process of crafting the item at some point and from those dyed crafts we choose which color we prefer if price is not a concern. However with a maximum of 4 colors per craft, no options for unique items, and also choosing items for stats over appearance you might just end up looking like a rainbow or dressed in colors you hate, and I'm pretty sure MOST people would not like this.

I would love to see dyes added into the game in some form be it alchemist craft only or allowing players to dye clothes with an item. Now with being able to dye your clothes there will be much more diversity in players appearance and I think this is a great idea. Also, I would love to see dyes taken further and allow primary, secondary, and trim colors be added for options that you don't look like a big blob of -insert color here- by having something dyed turning every aspect/material of the item the same color.

And I want to see all colors available for all items (not just have SE say "We have decided to allow you to dye clothes only the other options already available to each piece of gear," this would be completely pointless).

everybody please click like on the original post to gain attention.

lucky theres only a few different sets of equipment in the game that way they can just set up a monochrome texture to make this possible with not too much effort on there part.

I'm not sure how creating new colours would work technically but I do think that armour should always be crafted as a base colour and be optionally dyed afterwards.

We fix our equipment magically with Dark matter, why don't we make Dark matter dyes?

I think the abnormal pre-requisits to creat coloured armour is asanine making it a pain to find a specific colour of armour unless your getting it custom made. Allow people to use dyes "Hell make them just specific to the allready created colour/fabric choices we have.

But needing to specifically make Blue canvas sleeves and black leather this, and woad blue that....eh.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

I'm not sure how creating new colours would work technically but I do think that armour should always be crafted as a base colour and be optionally dyed afterwards.

We fix our equipment magically with Dark matter, why don't we make Dark matter dyes?

I think the abnormal pre-requisits to creat coloured armour is asanine making it a pain to find a specific colour of armour unless your getting it custom made. Allow people to use dyes "Hell make them just specific to the allready created colour/fabric choices we have.

But needing to specifically make Blue canvas sleeves and black leather this, and woad blue that....eh.

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One of the suggestions I made back in march was to take Repairs and make it simple but add other features to it. So like repairing an item and adding a Dye to the repair recipe would color the item.

I want Crab Bow (Blue) with blue coral on the ends instead of red. Why can't we make different coloured weapons like that? Recipe would be the same but you could use blue or white coral instead of red to change the look. You could even have different colour crab shells. It doesn't have to be all about dyes and paints!

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Originally Posted by BloodLotus

Dodore Doublet (Blue)

1 - Dodore Doublet
1 - Bleaching Agent
1 - Sea Blue Cloth Dye

Who else would love to be able to dye or paint the gear you have another color to match your favorite outfit?

How about to make yourself a little more unique among the ocean of everyone else in identical gear?

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SIGNED All cloth items should be able to be dyed and maybe and maybe some type of leather dye or something as well. After the item has been completed, heck I wouldn't mind a extra bleaching process to turn the item color from whatever is back to white then dye it again to turn it into whatever color you wanted. Please consider these ideas SE.

Alchemist could do the bleaching process and weavers/tanners could do the dyeing process.

Yes, please!
I would love to dye my equip.

I like the idea. I would suggest an NPC to do the actual bleaching/dying process. Alchemists can still have a market in the creation of the dyes, and the other crafters can still make the undyed products. This just streamlines the dying process, and could even add a needed gil sink. I buy undyed gloves, I buy green dye, I take gloves and dye to dyer NPC to have my gloves dyed for a fee.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way!

I honestly don't like how some leather items say it's green and the only thing green on it is the little ropes tying it together.

Where is my dying system? I have to match my outfits and I'm wearing armor that doesn't suit my class!

how else are they supposed to come out with new gear if they can't just repaint existing gear types?

/sarcasm

Current gear system is kind of dumb how it's named specifically to that color.
It should of been gear name only with (color) after which you can change later by crafting like others are saying in here.

http://ffxiv.yg.com/items?f=s=stainsand

They got indigo, purple, white, gold. Haven't seen anyone with gear that has those colored armors (aside from ex/rare), at least that's for Melmond; are their actual synth that uses those after making the enamel? I wanted to play around if i ever come around those color stainsand but haven't so can't test :(

I can see I'm clearly in the minority here, but I want to chime in and voice my opinion anyhow.

I personally very much like FFXIV's system of dyeing clothing in pieces before it is made. For me it is a breath of fresh air from the persistent "recolor gear after find/buy" systems or nearly every other MMO.

Further, the recipes as provided by SE actually make sense. Every single component used is reflected in some way in the in-game model. If you see someone wearing an item, if you examine it closely, you can tell what components it was made from. I appreciate this kind of detail, although I can understand that others don't care.

In my eyes, the failure of the existing dyeing system was in the restricted recipes. Only specific color combinations are allowed, resulting in very few color palette choices. For example,
Leather Leggings only allow for undyed leather to be used ... the color variation comes from changing the cloth parts. However, I see NPCs with Leather Leggings with dyed leather ... however, we players are not allowed that gear variation.

In addition to restricting color variation of existing recipes, the majority of rank 40-50 recipes are just missing. Almost no linen gear recipes have been added. Linen Robe, Linen Acton, Linen Half-robe, Linen Dalmatica, Linen Doublet, etc, etc. This means that for rank 40 to 50, nearly every player is wearing unique/dropped items (vintage robe, harlequin acton, vintage haubergeon, solid scale mail) that only comes in one color. I don't think there will be much variation until SE finally properly fills out the upper-rank appropriate recipes.

For my part, rather then the larger step of adding an entirely new system for re-dyeing, I would love for SE to add more options for dyeing items while being created. Even keeping the material / dye restrictions there are, this would allow a huge variety of gear colorings. My example for velveteen robes: 5 choices for cotton underrobe, 5 choices for velveten overrobe, 7 choices for buffalo leather shoulder guards, 7 choices for buffalo leather straps on sleeves -> 1,225 color combinations. This, in combination with more recipe choices for rank 40-50 gear would greatly expand the choices.

Anyhow, I see I'm in the minority here, and I don't expect anyone to agree with me, but I thought I'd state my own opinion.