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

[Calandra]

Had a discussion with Yoshi-P about changing the color of you gear through crafting. Currently the strength of your gear is often demonstrated through color variance, however, in 1.19 we will be eliminating this system. Yoshida believes it will be possible to make it so you are able to change the color of your gear through crafting. However, since it is a higher priority for us to add new variations of equipment, we can't promise implementation, but we are looking into it.

It could be as simple as adding a new set of recipes (I know, more complex than it sounds, but less complex than some answers).

WVR 19: Fire Shard x1, Water Shard x5 Cotton Acton + Distilled Water + Celest-blue Cotton Dye --> Cotton Acton (blue).

If you wanted to get a bit more complex, you could add recipes that took a colored item and changed to a different one.

In either case, cotton items would still be restricted to (uncolored), blue, green, red, and yellow, the same as now.

If you wanted, you could also add bleach, used to return a colored item to it's uncolored version before dyeing it again.

(there's a possible abuse here, something would have to be done to keep this from acting as an alternate item repair system. Either require ingredients to be at 100%, or carry over damage from ingredients to finished items.)

[Perrin_Aybarra]

It could be as simple as adding a new set of recipes (I know, more complex than it sounds, but less complex than some answers).

WVR 19: Fire Shard x1, Water Shard x5 Cotton Acton + Distilled Water + Celest-blue Cotton Dye --> Cotton Acton (blue).

If you wanted to get a bit more complex, you could add recipes that took a colored item and changed to a different one.

In either case, cotton items would still be restricted to (uncolored), blue, green, red, and yellow, the same as now.

If you wanted, you could also add bleach, used to return a colored item to it's uncolored version before dyeing it again.

(there's a possible abuse here, something would have to be done to keep this from acting as an alternate item repair system. Either require ingredients to be at 100%, or carry over damage from ingredients to finished items.)

he just confirmed that they would be doing away with the restrictions of colors per tier level. Why do you come back and suggest to keep the restrictions depending on the fabric?

It would be much simpler to have all colors available to all fabrics and have the crafters dye the items with recipes like you suggested but simplified :

WVR 19: Fire Shard x1, Water Shard x5 Cotton Acton + Distilled Water + Celest-blue fabric dye --> Cotton Acton (blue).

recipes to be able to change colors after the dyeing would be nice also. Would be basically the same recipe but could have bleach instead of water ^^

[Arcell]

I'd rather they just take out the dye for very specific types of materials and just do general metal, cloth, wood, etc... dye. I just don't like being restricted to a specific tier of dye for a specific item. Why can't we have pink Velveteen items or red Canvas items?

[Zahak]

I remember Ultima Onlines dyeing system. Was very nice! Please allow us to dye what equipment makes sense to dye

[Winterclaw]

I just want the colouring process to be simplified. it is such a pain to colour items it was hard to find something that wasn't popular.

For all of the effort squenix put into its visuals, I still don't get why we don't have something like this.

[Griss]

alls i can say is i hope these are no fail synth's or at least the peice of gear is saved. also would really hope that a +3 peice of gear would come out the other side as a +3.

[Alzelia]

That would be very very very nice. With more customization we can have more variety even if many people are wearing the same gear. I know they focus on higher priority stuff but even small things like that can go a long way into making the game fun.

If people could add a signature to a crafted piece of gear and customize it like that, it would be awesome!! We could have fashion shows lol! A lot of girls I know would play the game if they could be "fashion designers"

[Galka75]

For all of the effort squenix put into its visuals, I still don't get why we don't have something like this.

I prefer good graphics than that. But a recipe/craft system to dyeing is really cool i think. just let us paint whit more colors.

[Galka75]

If people could add a signature to a crafted piece of gear and customize it like that, it would be awesome!! We could have fashion shows lol! A lot of girls I know would play the game if they could be "fashion designers"

the girls will come to play when that "thinks" desapear from "hardcore" players.

:S

[Seif]

Currently the strength of your gear is often demonstrated through color variance,

O_o() Wow, lol I design the look of games for living and even I haven't picked up on this feature in the game.

Anyway I'm glad that they seem to know that customization should be priority over this aspect of the game. I hope they also up the palette of colors we can dye the gear with. Gradients from color A to B would be nice and like I suggested earlier metallic colors via high level crafting or questing would be nice.

It would be cool if bronze silver and gold were the most sought after legendary dyes but only few players in the entire game could get access to those.