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Unable to change hair color without paying for it?
Shagreth
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Am I missing something here, do we really have to pay to change something as trivial as that? I mean, monetization is completely out of hand at this point, but this.. this is ridiculous, if true.
Edited by Shagreth on October 7, 2020 7:43PM 25
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✭✭✭✭✭I agree. I want to change my Sorcerer's hair color so I thought I'd buy the Style thing that let's you change your hairstyle on all your characters as often as you like. Then I found out this only changes the style and not the color. To change the color you need to buy a complete character recustomization, which you can only use once.
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This HAS to be an oversight!SilverBride wrote: »I agree. I want to change my Sorcerer's hair color so I thought I'd buy the Style thing that let's you change your hairstyle on all your characters as often as you like. Then I found out this only changes the style and not the color. To change the color you need to buy a complete character recustomization, which you can only use once.
What the...?
@ZOS_GinaBruno Come on guys, I know it's probably not the call of the devs, business side of things is tough, but god damn it, this is insane.. having to pay real money to change hair color in this day and age of gaming is asinine!7 -
NolaArch✭✭✭✭✭While we're at it, why are all colors not unlocked? I hate that they're race locked.Ardat-Yakshii EP Stam NB
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zergbase_ESO✭✭✭✭That is a good question where is a barber shop for this game. It is way long over due.8 -
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✭I hate this also. I mean hair dye should be a thing. How about letting Alchemy make it?The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~Pablo Picasso6 -
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✭✭✭✭You need to pay, but not necessarily real world money. You can pay a player in gold to send you a crown store token. It’s at least better, even if it isn’t actually good (imo).1 -
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✭✭Donny_Vito wrote: »
They don't have hair dye in tamriel? There's also many high elf npcs in game that have black hair. Why not us?4 -
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✭Honestly it's one of those features that seem missing, since we can buy packs with different hair styles, facial/body markings, adornments, etc. I'd pay to have generic hair color collection unlocked on my toons.
Quite rubbish to pay to completely change a character's appearance just for hair color.Edited by Artim_X on October 7, 2020 10:23PM(AD) Artim X/Xirtām/Måtrix |PC/NA| Casual staff wielding vampire sorcerer/templar/arcanistElectric-Stunhttps://media.giphy.com/media/Av0zcKH3i2BkaY1GXW/giphy.gif/https://c.tenor.com/jQHdFftrgwMAAAAC/tenor.gifElectric-Pets- Roleplay Damage Dealing Build.
- Gear: 5 Infallible Aether (All apparel light and Divines with Max Mag Enchants), 1 Slimecraw Guise for max spell critical (Divines, light, Max Mag Enchants), Maelstrom's Perfected Lightning Staff (infused/shock enchant), and Kinras's jewelry (bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant)/lightning staff (infused/flame/weapon damage enchant). 1 Mora's Whispers.
- Ability-Bar 1: Critical Surge, Boundless Storm, Mages' Wrath, Lightning Flood, Shocking Soul (Shock damage, Class Mastery Signature Script, and Empower), and Power Overload.
- Ability-Bar 2: Storm Pulsar, Streak, Shock Reach, Unstable Wall of Storms, Shocking Burst (Shock Damage, remove 1 negative effect, and interrupt) and Thunderous Rage.
Solo: Use Kinras's chest, replace Mora with Ring of the Pale Order, and use a heavy Slimcraw piece for max critical.
https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNHVjemwxZHI2ZmQ2bTg1ZG0xOTZ3b2QwajBzNGxmaHh6OXRpN3p6YSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/eBgWizk5dmZRS/giphy.gifElectric-Heal- Stress free one bar pet build .
- Gear: 5 Infallible Aether (All apparel light and Divines with Max Mag Enchants. No chest piece), 1 medium Slimecraw for max spell critical (Divines, medium, Max Mag Enchants), Lightning Staff of the Sergeant (precise/shock enchant), Sergeant's chest (Divines and max magicka enchant), and Sergeant ring and necklace (bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant), Oakensoul ring (bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant)
- Ability-Bar: Daedric Prey, Summon Volatile Familiar, Bound Armaments, Unstable Wall of Storms, Summon Twilight Matriarch, and Greater storm Atronach.
https://media.giphy.com/media/5ibGIHneWS6ek/giphy.gifElectric-Ward- My Healer Build.
- Gear: 5 Spell Power Cure (All apparel light and Divines with Max Mag Enchants), 1 Slimecraw Guise for max spell critical (Divines, light, Max Mag Enchants), Maelstrom's Perfected Lightning Staff (Charged/shock enchant), and Infallible Aether jewelry (arcane with spell damage enchant)/restoration staff (Powered with absorb magicka enchant). 1 Mora's Whispers.
- Ability-Bar 1: Power Surge, Boundless Storm, Blessing of Restoration, Energy Orb, Twilight Matriarch, and Replenishing Barrier.
- Ability-Bar 2: Dark Deal, Overflowing Altar, Elemental Drain, Blockade of Storms, Twilight Matriarch, and Aggressive Horn.
https://media.giphy.com/media/Wa0TGmtDvwW3e/giphy.gifElectric-Vamp- My Meme Tank Build that uses high resistance and variety of wards.
- Gear: 5 Brands of Imperium (All body pieces except Head and Shoulders, with Divine trait, and with Prismatic Defense Enchants), full Iceheart (1 light and 1 medium. Divines and Prismatic Enchant), and Combat Physician jewelry (bloodthirsty with Prismatic Recovery Enchants), Combat Physician restoration staff (Infused with hardening enchant), and combat physician ice staff (Infused with crusher enchant).
- Ability-Bar 1: Critical Surge, Bound Aegis, Deep Thoughts, Boundless Storm, Healing Ward, and Replenishing Barrier.
- Ability-Bar 2: Silver Leash (Elemental Drain if healer isn't running it), Bound Aegis, Frost Clench, Blockade of Frost, Empowered Ward, and Temporal Guard.
https://media.giphy.com/media/ukDQiYZzRAxMZKcK86/giphy.gifDawnfang- Tanky stage 4 vampire utility focused PvP healer that can take down very inexperienced players but is primarily focused on working alongside others in an organized group, PUGs, or zergs.
- Gear: 5 Torug's Pact (medium chest and body pieces light. All Impenetrable with Prismatic Enchants). Gaze of Sithis and 1 light Mighty Chudan/Pirate Skeleton (light shoulders, and impenetrable with Prismtaic Enchants). Knight Slayer (Swift with spell damage enchant)/lightning staff (infused with oblivion enchant)/restoration staff (infused with oblivion enchant).
- Ability-Bar 1: Structured Entropy, Boundless Storm, Soul Splitting Trap, Radiating Regeneration, Healing Ward, and Life Giver.
- Ability-Bar 2: Drain Vigor (Elemental Susceptibility), Race Against Time, Rune Cage, Radiant Magelight, Regenerative Ward, and Shatter Soul.
https://media.tenor.com/ogWfvDdsqBIAAAAd/anime-black-clover.gifDuskfang- My casual one bar heavy attack Templar build that primarily utilizes Aedric Spear abilities.
- Gear: 5 Noble Duelist (Head or Shoulder and body pieces except Chest. All body pieces Divines with Max Mag Enchants), 1 light Slimecraw for max spell critical (Divines, light, Max Mag Enchant), Lightning Staff of the Sergeant (precise/shock enchant), Sergeant's chest (Divines and max magicka enchant), and Sergeant's Mail jewelry (One Ring and one Neck. Both bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant). 1 Oakensoul Ring (bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant).
- Ability-Bar 1: Puncturing Sweep, Aurora Javelin, Toppling Charge, Blazing Spear, Radiant Ward/Breath of life, and Crescent Sweep.
https://media.tenor.com/Jo8aG_ouy_oAAAAd/ac-odyssey.gifEye of the Queen- Tanky stage 4 vampire utility focused PvP healer that can take down very inexperienced players but is primarily focused on working alongside others in an organized group, PUGs, or zergs.
- Gear: 5 Torug's Pact (Heavy Chest with light Head, Waist, Hands, and Feet. All body pieces Impenetrable. Health enchant on chest/head/legs and everything else Prismatic Enchants), 1 Medium Mighty Chudan/Pirate Skeleton Shoulder (Impenetrable, Prismatic Enchant), Knight Slayer Restoration Staff (Infused/Decrease Health enchant), and Knight Slayer jewelry (One Ring and one Neck. Both Swift with spell damage enchant). 1 Oakensoul Ring (Swift with Spell Damage Enchant).
- Ability-Bar 1: Radiant Oppression, Race Against Time, Aurora Javelin, Breath of Life, Resolving Vigor, and Life Giver.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fd/44/1c/fd441c8242af6ec35ada94496feb0901.gifEye of the King- My casual one bar heavy attack Arcanist build that primarily utilizes Herald of the Tome abilities.
- Gear: 5 Noble Duelist (Head or Shoulder and body pieces except Chest. All body pieces Divines with Max Mag Enchants), 1 light Slimecraw for max spell critical (Divines, light, Max Mag Enchant), Lightning Staff of the Sergeant (precise/shock enchant), Sergeant's chest (Divines and max magicka enchant), and Sergeant's Mail jewelry (One Ring and one Neck. Both bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant). 1 Oakensoul Ring (bloodthirsty with spell damage enchant).
- Ability-Bar 1: Escalating Runeblades, Pragmatic Fatecarver, Cephaliarch's Flail, Rune of Displacement, Inspired Scholarship/Evolving Runemend, and The Languid Eye.
https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOTAzdjV1eTgwbDFmM3lrZmxuMXRqdDR3Y3h1ZDRpajR0M3VjZzQ3NSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/zXmbOaTpbY6mA/giphy.gifPvE Starter Gear- Tanky stage 4 vampire utility focused PvP healer that can take down very inexperienced players but is primarily focused on working alongside others in an organized group, PUGs, or zergs.
- Gear: 5 Torug's Pact (Heavy Chest with light Head, Waist, Hands, and Feet. All body pieces Impenetrable. Health enchant on chest/head/legs and everything else Prismatic Enchants), 1 Medium Mighty Chudan/Pirate Skeleton Shoulder (Impenetrable, Prismatic Enchant), Knight Slayer Restoration Staff (Infused/Decrease Health enchant), and Knight Slayer jewelry (One Ring and one Neck. Both Swift with spell damage enchant). 1 Oakensoul Ring (Swift with Spell Damage Enchant).
- Ability-Bar 1: Escalating Runeblades, Race Against Time, Rune of Uncanny Adoration, Evolving Runemend, Resolving Vigor, and Life Giver.
https://media.giphy.com/media/6CovzgyTig7M4/giphy.gifRace- Gear: 5 Law of Julianos (heavy chest, gloves/belt light, and the rest can be light or 1 medium piece if you're not wearing medium anywhere else on your body. All in training if grinding for XP or divines), Armor of the Seducer or Magnus' Gift head, shoulder, and staves (light with 1 medium piece if you are not already wearing 1 medium Julianos piece. All in training or divines. The staves should be training or infused), and 3 purple Willpower Jewelry with Arcane trait (can be bought from trading guilds for relatively cheap.
- Check tamrieltradecentre.com for the best deals if you're not using a price checking addon).
https://media.giphy.com/media/sdEkeWpiaGz0A/giphy.gifMundus Stones- High elf, since you will not have issues with sustain, but other mag based races are also fine so this is more of a personal choice.
https://media.giphy.com/media/cT3wMhLGQWdKU/giphy.gifCurrent Champion Points- PvP: The Steed for speed. Gotta go fast!
- PvE Healing/Damage: The Thief for decent crit rate.
- PvE Tanking: The Lady to get close to resistance cap.
https://media.giphy.com/media/l4FGDAx6u3hthMhgI/giphy.gifFavorite Foods and Potions- DPS: Shadowstrike/ Master Gatherer, Meticulous Disassembly/Plentiful Harvest, Steed's Blessing, Sustaining Shadows, Exploiter, Weapons Expert, Fighting Finesse, Master-at-Arms, Celerity, Rejuvenation, Fortified, Boundless Vitality.
- Healer Sorc: Shadowstrike/ Master Gatherer, Meticulous Disassembly/Plentiful Harvest, Steed's Blessing, Sustaining Shadows, Enlivening Overflow, Hope Infusion, Weapon's Expert, Arcane Supremacy, Celerity, Rejuvenation, Fortified, Boundless Vitality.
- Tanky Sorc: Shadowstrike/ Master Gatherer, Meticulous Disassembly/Plentiful Harvest, Steed's Blessing, Sustaining Shadows, Ironclad, Enduring Resolve, Reinforced, Duelist's Rebuff, Bastion, Ward Master, Rejuvenation, Fortified.
- PvP Sorc: Shadowstrike/ Master Gatherer, Meticulous Disassembly/Plentiful Harvest, Steed's Blessing, Sustaining Shadows, Enlivening Overflow, Weapon's Expert, Occult Overload, Arcane Supremacy, Bastion, Rejuvenation, Fortified, Boundless Vitality.
- PvP Temp/Arcanist: Shadowstrike/ Master Gatherer, Meticulous Disassembly/Plentiful Harvest, Steed's Blessing, Sustaining Shadows, Enlivening Overflow, Weapon's Expert, From the Brink, Arcane Supremacy, Celerity, Rejuvenation, Fortified, Boundless Vitality.
https://media.giphy.com/media/3otPoTggaYFNd1FdAI/giphy.gif- Parse Food for PvE:(DPS) Ghastly Eye Bowl (increases Max Magicka by 4592 and Magicka Recovery by 459 for 2 hours).
- Gold/Purple Food for Sorc PvP and Meme Tanking:(PvP) Clockwork Citrus Filet (increases Max Health by 3326, Health Recovery by 406 [useful if stage 1 vampire], Max Magicka by 3080, and Magicka Recovery by 338 for 2 hours). Witchmother's Potent Brew (Increase Max Magicka by 2856, Max Health by 3094, and Magicka Recovery by 315 for 2 hours.
- Trash Potions when feeling cheap: Regular CP150 Essence of Magicka pots that I obtain frequently from playing the game or Crown Tri-Restoration Potion obtained from dailies.
- Crafted Potions: Essence of Spell Critical (Bugloss, Lady's Smock, and Water Hyacinth). Without magelight this is my primary means of obtaining Major Prophecy on my Sorc, which increases my Spell Critical Rating. This also heals and restores magicka. Essence of Immovability (Columbine, Corn Flower, and Wormwood). I use this in PvP, since this gives me stealth detection, knockback immunity, and restores magicka (better to use it when competent allies are nearby, since it might reveal that you are surrounded by multiple players in stealth and you will not have an emergency pot available after use). Essence of Invisibility with only 2 ingredients (Blue Entoloma, Namira's Rot, Nirnroot, or Spider Egg). I use this in PvE content that requires stealth and if I need more speed I'll use Rapid Maneuver before using the potion. Essence of Invisibility with 3 ingredients (Blessed Thistle, Blue Entoloma, and Namira's Rot). Very useful in PvP alongside the vampire Dark Stalker passive, since you'll be invisible, ignore movement speed penalty while in Crouch, and you'll have a 30% movement speed boost from Major Expedition (I always have this slotted when riding from point A to B in PvP land, since gankers are always lurking). My templar/arcanist will mostly use Essence of Health (Tri-Stat Potion) Ingredients: (Mountain Flower, Columbine, and Bugloss).
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✭You need to pay, but not necessarily real world money. You can pay a player in gold to send you a crown store token. It’s at least better, even if it isn’t actually good (imo).
Yeah but someone is still paying money for those crowns, so it’s still a silly, unnecessary monetization. If you pay for the hair pack, you should be able to dye your hair too.
You should also be able to change your skin tone after you buy the body/facial markings packs (which is more relevant for khajiit and argonians, but still).1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Appearance change tokens need to be removed. Most MMOs let you change your appearance later on for free (or gold) and it's not a good look on ESO that you need to pay actual money for that.
Race and name change tokens I can get behind, although I think they are ovepriced, but mere appearance changing should be made available for free.
Where is the Face Sculptor when you need her?This Bosmer was tortured to death. There is nothing left to be done.10 -
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This HAS to be an oversight!SilverBride wrote: »I agree. I want to change my Sorcerer's hair color so I thought I'd buy the Style thing that let's you change your hairstyle on all your characters as often as you like. Then I found out this only changes the style and not the color. To change the color you need to buy a complete character recustomization, which you can only use once.
What the...?
While it would be nice to be able to buy a package of the base hair colors as we did with hairstyles I think it is pretty clear this is not an oversight as it has been this way for several years. Heck, Zos could even sell additional colors individually and make even more.2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Appearance change tokens need to be removed. Most MMOs let you change your appearance later on for free (or gold) and it's not a good look on ESO that you need to pay actual money for that.
Race and name change tokens I can get behind, although I think they are ovepriced, but mere appearance changing should be made available for free.
Where is the Face Sculptor when you need her?
While I agree that appearance change should have a gold cost if any at all, but none of the MMOs that I've played (GW2, SWL, BDO) offer that without charging money.The Moot Councillor1 -
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✭Other mmos I've played didn't force you to pay real money for just changing default looks. Appearance token I always hated.
Why is Raz the only one who can get nice exotic hair? This one would like to know.Edited by Ryuvain on October 8, 2020 3:47AMThat one khajiit obsessed with werewolf behemoth and vampire lord. Lady Thorn is bae, dont @ me.
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hair style need crown i accept.but dye should not,just pay gold for it like what we do in outfit station.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭gongxizhirwb17_ESO wrote: »hair style need crown i accept.but dye should not,just pay gold for it like what we do in outfit station.
Maybe they could add hair color to the outfit station.PCNA1 -
Nisekev✭✭✭✭I bet they think that lack of mandatory subscription is a good excuse to charge cash for such triviality. "It's just cosmetics!"0 -
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✭✭✭Much as I'd love that, I highly doubt they'll add hair colour change for free in any shape because 1)they can currently gain money for it 2)if they were to do it, there'd instantly be people asking for free eye colour change, free hairstyle change, free skin colour change etc because if you do one, why would you not do the others? Where do you draw the line? (Don't get me wrong, I'd love free (well, for ingame gold) appearance change, but that's clearly not what ZOS would like)
I think the best we can hope for is hair colours coming to crown store as a pack like hair styles. Which I actually would be pretty happy with - pay once, use forever on all your toons.Edited by Magdalina on October 8, 2020 7:03AM2 -
hexentb16_ESO✭✭✭✭ESO. A game where you can change skins like your clothes but can't dye your hair.5
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Anentet✭✭✭And also they need to cut the tie of hair color = adornment color and give us a box to choose silver/gold. But yeah, they really should offer a hair color cosmetic pack. I will never pay the full customization ticket just to change hair color.4 -
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✭I vote adding it to the Dye Station. Who is with me?!
If I want Gold Hair, I should be able to dye it gold!PS4-NA. Breton Templar Healer, Bosmer Stamplar, Breton Magplar, Orsimer StamDK, Dunmer MagDK, Khajiit StamNB, Dunmer MagNB, Argonian Warden Tank, Altmer Magsorc1 -
TheTwistedRune✭✭✭✭✭A compromise would be to add appearance change as part of ESO+. That way ZOS would not lose as much income. Can't see it happening otherwise.
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✭✭✭✭✭if they were to do it, there'd instantly be people asking for free eye colour change, free hairstyle change, free skin colour change etc because if you do one, why would you not do the others?
WoW already does all that. I don't see why this would be a problem here, especially for ESO+ who already pay for the perks.PCNA1 -
Morwaenna✭✭✭Let's just be thankful they don't ask us to GAMBLE in their crown store for a surprise mechanic chance to change our hair colour.0
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there ARE black haired altmers by lore and can't be created ingame.2
