Colored gear with specific classes.

[Razor]

I don't think missing out on 4 Attack, 1 Accuracy, 2 Dex, and 3 Parry makes you completely gimp. Stats are in the several-hundreds now.

In the grand scheme of things, it may not. But still, if you're going to drop a healthy penny on a piece of gear, to me its only logical to buy the best you can get. It has never been uncommon for MMO players to go to outrageous lengths to get that extra point of stat.

[Alhanelem]

I know of a few games where items have colors associated with stats, so I can understand where they're going with this, though it's not really something people would have expected here. It's not so much a bad thing as it is unexpected.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

Oh wow. O:

[Sagagemini]

That's just terrible.
Great job, SE!

[Alkoun]

I have to agree with most people on here: color coding people's gear is dumb. I'm voting NO on dyes affecting stats.

[Dreadnought]

The reason that different colored equipment now offer different stats was because when making the item-related adjustments, the team changed it so you can easily differentiate stat differences by the color of the gear.

I understand that some people want dyes to just be an aesthetic-only option, and I'll be sure to pass that along to the dev. team along with other feedback.

the devs think so lowly of us that they think we actually need gear to be color coded so we know which gear has which stats?
first of all, if we really want to know another persons geared stats then we use the EXAMINE feature.
second of all, no one asked for color coded gear so we can tell which stats have which just by a quick glance at a character.
third of all, even if the color says which stats are which, we still dont know to what extent those stats are because of other modifyers such as materia.... LEADING US TO USE THE EXANINE FEATURE

couldnt the actual model of the gear be what reflects its stats?
this is the only thing i hate about the patch SE, please change it.

[Reinheart]

Here thanks to the JP thread for finding old post from YoshiP with a date so I can dig my translation thread.

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夜遅くまで御疲れ様です。
thanks for working till late (Otsukaresama again... hard to explain this... ><)

お気遣い感謝です
Thanks for your thoughts

コレを見る限り”レッドカララント”が着色の要素に見えますが、やはり装備の色味が性能のカスタマイズ（例の場合赤が盾向き）のキーに充てられる訳ですかね…。
When looking "Red Colorant" looks like the color material, so the color will define stat customize (example like red being tank) is the key.....

性能カスタマイズはカララント+素材+クリスタル属性で、というイメージです。
The image is Stat customize is colorant + material + crystal

単純にアイテムを後から「染色する」という遊びは、全アイテムに全カラーを用意する必要、もしくは、
一括して色変更するシステムが必要なので、また別にと思っています。
（全カラーを用意する方法では、メモリが破綻しますし、システム対応の場合は、
見た目のクオリティを維持しつつなので、今すぐは難しいのです。
他のゲームでは頂点カラーのみで、とかマテリアルカラーで、とか方法はありますが、
テクスチャの書き込みがその分制限を受けています）
To generally coloring the item later on, it will require to have all colors for all the item, or will require a system to change color together so thinking of this for another.
(to prepare every color it will break the memory, to work with the system it we have to preserve the quality of looks so it's hard to do right away. In other games there are ways to change the material colors but the texture writing is taking some limitations.)

[Kiote]

It's a real shame that the PLing issue is so extreme most NA players haven't even seen this thread.

[RethDaron]

Even with the explanation, it's escaping me how they thought it was a good idea to have different colored pieces of the same gear have different stats. I know it's a lot to ask, but being able to dye your own gear without having to worry if your gimped or not would be welcomed.

[Tsukino]

I know this thread is long and everything has pretty much already been said.

But I wanted to just highlight the fact that one of the biggest complaints I hear from people playing many MMOs out there, successful and otherwise, is that there's a "uniform" associated with their class and level. People want their accomplishments to show in their equipment, so that people can see what they've done at a glance. However, they also want to not look exactly like everyone else playing their same class at the same level of progress.

Dye is normally a way to accomplish both of these. The base equipment shows what you're wearing, but then the coloring is a way for you to personalize it. If you take the previous system that was in place: you look at a mage wearing a pointy hat and you know they're probably in the 30s or 40s because it has feathers and doesn't cover their eyes, but then they also had four color options which were entirely made based on their own aesthetics. That's a good way to balance showing off with personal taste. The current system, on the other hand, dictates "you are a level 36 conjurer, so you will wear a pink linen hat like every other level 36 conjurer in the game."