Suggestion: Rebalance of the Tomestone System

[Fevelle]

My only problem with the current Eso gear is that the augmentation items needed to make it dyeable are only dropped by Savage Raid. I don't like hardcore content at all, and I really want to dye my equipment. I don't care if the people get better stats when upgrading, but dyeing gear should be for everyone.

[Noxifer]

My only problem with the current Eso gear is that the augmentation items needed to make it dyeable are only dropped by Savage Raid. I don't like hardcore content at all, and I really want to dye my equipment. I don't care if the people get better stats when upgrading, but dyeing gear should be for everyone.

I agree ^^; Of course, the upgrade items will (if they follow previous methods) be available outside of Alex Savage at a later time. Whether that's 3.1, 3.15 or 3.2 -- or even later -- we of course have no clue =/
In a way, I can see how they probably meant for it to be something to strive for even for non-raiders, since a lot more people are interested in glamours (and thus dyeing) than are interested in going into savage raids against all odds. (My guesstimate; your opinion may vary.) If the base gear was dyeable, one might ask why people less interested in the stats would bother with those pesky upgrade items even after they make them available. I suppose it's also a handy way to tell the difference between upgraded and non-upgraded at a quick glance.
A slightly more cynical side of me is guessing it was equally due to thus having a convenient excuse as to why they didn't make the old tomestone sets dyeable. Except they did just that with the Darklight sets. All the other tomestone sets have been made dyeable through upgrades, including the i90 through the convoluted means of 'augmenting' our i50/55 AF gear with the ability to accept dyes (and at the same time making our armoires unable to accept those augmented versions).

Cutting my rambling short here, cos... yeah. It's getting ridiculous xD

TL;DR - I agree, dyeing should be available to everyone (who has done the dyeing quest). All dungeon/raid gear should be dyeable, as well ;_; (Looking at you, High Allagan/Dreadwyrm sets...)