Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
Oh yeah, aside from the color. Or are you going to argue that color plays no role in aesthetics next? Although.... you just did. That is... amazing.

You have used up your argument a long time ago, that statement pretty much proves it. You can have your ill-formed opinion, I don't care.

No you misunderstand him. How is it aesthetically unique across the board for all archers of a same rank to wear a Blue Tunic? It's not. The colour offers an aesthetic, but you forget that if it's lightly impossed because of its stats, then how is it 'unique' for all archers to be wearing the same coloured piece of equipment?

The fact is its not.

The colour of your items used to not care and was just for aesthetic purposes, however now they do. And with the dyes bestowing stats, you may be able to tell what role the mage is playing depending on how he or she is geared, but can you really? As the dyes don't have a purpose that follows logic, it largely depends on the piece of gear itself and who it is made for.

Like you said, a red haub won't resemble a red robe. And a Gladiator cannot wear a robe, and so on and so forth. But that was never the case. They never offered similar stats, and were never offered in a way that they could equally wear the Haub.

When was this ever a problem that now we need a dye system to tell us further what to wear, that restrictions and new models couldn't achieve?

I like a bit of variety, I like the choice as a lancer to wear either scale mail, actons now? and I think there's a shirt in there somewhere I can wear. Each offer different stats, I suppose, but of course one model will always be better. Then what is the point of having other models available? You may as well lock 1 class per armour model.