Do you want the ability to dye your shield/weapons?

KanedaSyndrome · April 2015

So for how long has this game been out now? Wasn't it about time we finally get to dye our shields? Perhaps even our weapons (even though this isn't as critical.

KanedaSyndrome · April 2015

Yes!

First!.

Seriously, I'm annoyed that I still can't dye my shield. It clashes with so many great color combinations, and it pretty much forces me to dye according to the shield.

Let me clarify that when I've talked about dyeing your weapons, then it's only the hilt etc. that I consider for the dye, not the actual blades and such.

Zhoyzu · April 2015

Yes!

i think this is a bad poll. the only option should be yes.

but tbh, i think id rather have my guilds crest on my shield.

dont care for weapons

NovaMarx · April 2015

Yes!

I agree. Yes, yes and YES!
Shields are pretty much armor anyway, so it seems an oversight not to have them in the dye system.

And as for weapons, they aren't as important, but it would still be nice to have the option - especially staffs, since they are the biggest and most noticeable weapons.

Eliteseraph · April 2015

Yes!

Absolutely! Why it isn't already an option is beyond me.

Throw in a barber shop as well, that'd be great.

SHADOW2KK · April 2015

Yes!

Aye, think I did see somewhere, that its coming at some point.

Sylveria_Relden · April 2015

Yes!

Yes. Choice is a good thing- it doesn't have to be applied by "default" for everyone. If you choose not to color yours, great. But restricting options for others because of your own personal aesthetic tastes is wrong, period.

djnapstyb14_ESO · April 2015

Yes!

only realistic colors tho

SHADOW2KK · April 2015

Yes!

Sylveria_Relden wrote: »

Yes. Choice is a good thing- it doesn't have to be applied by "default" for everyone. If you choose not to color yours, great. But restricting options for others because of your own personal aesthetic tastes is wrong, period.

Aye well said.

slumber_sandb16_ESO · April 2015

Yes!

Yes please. I can't stand that my weapons/shields don't match my armour..

MissBizz · April 2015

Yes!

Really, I just want shield. I'll take weapon dye but it doesn't matter.. a shield is just so much more noticeable.

UrQuan · April 2015

Yes!

I don't care about being able to dye weapons (I mean, sure, give us the option if some people want to be able to dye their weapons, I most likely won't ever bother to dye my own weapons though), but I definitely want to be able to dye my shields. I mean, seriously, historically shields were the most colourful pieces of gear on the battlefield... Let us put colours on our shields!

Zhoyzu wrote: »

but tbh, i think id rather have my guilds crest on my shield.

That too. If I was given the option between being able to dye my shields and being able to put guild heraldry on my shields, I'd definitely pick the guild heraldry. I mean, I'd like to see both options ideally, but guild heraldry on shields would be awesome.

Sylveria_Relden · April 2015

Yes!

UrQuan wrote: »

If I was given the option between being able to dye my shields and being able to put guild heraldry on my shields, I'd definitely pick the guild heraldry. I mean, I'd like to see both options ideally, but guild heraldry on shields would be awesome.

Didn't they add this to DAoC a while back? Been a while- I quit after they added the Champion level system (Darkness Rising?) before the whole Leviathan spiel, but I'm pretty sure they had this. Can anyone else confirm?

Snowstrider · April 2015

Yes!

Of course i do,More customization is always something i wish for
Pls cosmetic/appearance slots for every piece of armor

Takhistis · April 2015

Yes!

Yes!!!
But I also want to wear medium armor but have it look like cloth

Sylveria_Relden · April 2015

Yes!

Takhistis wrote: »

Yes!!!
But I also want to wear medium armor but have it look like cloth

There's a costume system available for this.

Egonieser · April 2015

No.

I want to run around in a bright pink sword!
The reason weapons aren't and never really were dyed (apart from shows or displays) is that in battle the dye would wear off in no time while slicing through flesh, bone and armour, you'd have to re-dye it after every prolonged encounter.

Staves/shields? Perhaps, but axes, swords and such - no way.

SHADOW2KK · April 2015

Yes!

Egonieser wrote: »

I want to run around in a bright pink sword!
The reason weapons aren't and never really were dyed (apart from shows or displays) is that in battle the dye would wear off in no time while slicing through flesh, bone and armour, you'd have to re-dye it after every prolonged encounter.

Staves/shields? Perhaps, but axes, swords and such - no way.

Fair point and very true, but lets not stop there, and slightly unrelated, but uh, what about (and no offence to anyone), in PvP, our glorious warrior DK`s, not in heavy armour and wielding proper weapons and locked in combat, as was shown in the videos for the game, but ...Harry Potter style with bathrobes and staffs somehow surviving a full assault upon them and taking ages to die, ok ye there is magicka regen and blah blah from the game mechanics.

Im not talking about game mechanics, im talking about real life combat, they would be hacked to pieces within seconds and rightly so.

This game, although stunning and fantastic in many ways, will never be realistic, and some common sense mechanics simply do not apply.

So if people want to run about with bright pink weapons, although personally I never would, I say let them, its their game, they paid for it, let them enjoy the game for what it is, a pure fantasy.

Sylveria_Relden · April 2015

Yes!

^ the important caveat that it not be applied to everyone by default

Danikat · April 2015

Yes!

Yes I'd like this.

Of course it should work like armour where it starts off undyed (does that even need to be specified?) and the colours should be 'natural'/reflect the material it's made from. But it would be nice to be able to match it to your outfit.

As someone else said historically painted shields were very common, either with heraldry or simply with patterns/colours the owner liked.

Egonieser · April 2015

No.

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Egonieser wrote: »

I want to run around in a bright pink sword!
The reason weapons aren't and never really were dyed (apart from shows or displays) is that in battle the dye would wear off in no time while slicing through flesh, bone and armour, you'd have to re-dye it after every prolonged encounter.

Staves/shields? Perhaps, but axes, swords and such - no way.

Fair point and very true, but lets not stop there, and slightly unrelated, but uh, what about (and no offence to anyone), in PvP, our glorious warrior DK`s, not in heavy armour and wielding proper weapons and locked in combat, as was shown in the videos for the game, but ...Harry Potter style with bathrobes and staffs somehow surviving a full assault upon them and taking ages to die, ok ye there is magicka regen and blah blah from the game mechanics.

Im not talking about game mechanics, im talking about real life combat, they would be hacked to pieces within seconds and rightly so.

This game, although stunning and fantastic in many ways, will never be realistic, and some common sense mechanics simply do not apply.

So if people want to run about with bright pink weapons, although personally I never would, I say let them, its their game, they paid for it, let them enjoy the game for what it is, a pure fantasy.

Yeah, i know it's a game and many real world aspects will never apply to it. It's just my personal opinion. I like the way this game has somewhat reasonable and practical armours as opposed to skimpy korean bikini-suits or oversized shed-like WoW armours. (Not talking about the lore or the fact you play catpeople and lizardmen - just armours) But the realistic looking armour when suddenly combined with a bright neon coloured weapon would ruin it for me. The shine from enchantments is just about enough i can tolerate.
Again, just my opinion.

Elsonso · April 2015

Shield, not weapon.

They talked briefly about this a ESO Live.

AH93 · April 2015

Yes!

Yes, this should be in the game right now, my shield doesn't really fit in with my armour.

Dre4dwolfb14_ESO · April 2015

Yes!

I would like a bunch of customization options
Things that would make items a lot more interesting:

1)Dye/color customization
2)Sockets (if Items had 1 ~ 8sockets randomly assigned) that gems and other things can be placed in (and removed).
Its just fun to stack tons of gems into items.I really dont like glyphs I find them lacking/boring, It would be nice to do away with glyphs and just give us gems that add diff dmg types -Topaz for Electric dmg Ruby for fire dmg Diamonds for Cold Dmg etc. . .

Would be nice basaed on how many gems you placed into an item the item (weapons specifically) would start to glow or something, so if you placed like 8 gems into an item it would glow with 8x intensity.
And in order to get that many gems into an item, the item would need to be leveled up (by using it ) or something to unlock the slots.
So the longer you use an item the better it gets till it hits max potential

Or some kind of cool system like that

Just another layer of progression / stuff to do.

Kind of tired of games where you just get an item that adds some trivial stat and thats the end of it . . .

SHADOW2KK · April 2015

Yes!

Egonieser wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Egonieser wrote: »

I want to run around in a bright pink sword!
The reason weapons aren't and never really were dyed (apart from shows or displays) is that in battle the dye would wear off in no time while slicing through flesh, bone and armour, you'd have to re-dye it after every prolonged encounter.

Staves/shields? Perhaps, but axes, swords and such - no way.

Fair point and very true, but lets not stop there, and slightly unrelated, but uh, what about (and no offence to anyone), in PvP, our glorious warrior DK`s, not in heavy armour and wielding proper weapons and locked in combat, as was shown in the videos for the game, but ...Harry Potter style with bathrobes and staffs somehow surviving a full assault upon them and taking ages to die, ok ye there is magicka regen and blah blah from the game mechanics.

Im not talking about game mechanics, im talking about real life combat, they would be hacked to pieces within seconds and rightly so.

This game, although stunning and fantastic in many ways, will never be realistic, and some common sense mechanics simply do not apply.

So if people want to run about with bright pink weapons, although personally I never would, I say let them, its their game, they paid for it, let them enjoy the game for what it is, a pure fantasy.

Yeah, i know it's a game and many real world aspects will never apply to it. It's just my personal opinion. I like the way this game has somewhat reasonable and practical armours as opposed to skimpy korean bikini-suits or oversized shed-like WoW armours. (Not talking about the lore or the fact you play catpeople and lizardmen - just armours) But the realistic looking armour when suddenly combined with a bright neon coloured weapon would ruin it for me. The shine from enchantments is just about enough i can tolerate.
Again, just my opinion.

Lol well said, and aye that is fair enough man, I suppose ones at the extreme ends of the spectrum would, as you eloquently said, go about in bikini suits and turn an already fantastical game into a farce, and I would shake my head and walk on, but I would still never take away the right for anyone, even them..., to dye their armour/weapons to whatever they wanted, but as you said, some would take extreme measures and well...

KanedaSyndrome · April 2015

Yes!

Egonieser wrote: »

I want to run around in a bright pink sword!
The reason weapons aren't and never really were dyed (apart from shows or displays) is that in battle the dye would wear off in no time while slicing through flesh, bone and armour, you'd have to re-dye it after every prolonged encounter.

Staves/shields? Perhaps, but axes, swords and such - no way.

Am pretty sure that a dye system for weapons only would apply to the hilts/grips etc. Never to the actual blade itself.

shiva7663 · April 2015

Yes!

I figure this is one of the most frequent feature requests the devs hear about. heh.

Romo · April 2015

No.

Shield yes, weapons -no.

KanedaSyndrome · April 2015

Yes!

Romo wrote: »

Shield yes, weapons -no.

Then when did you vote no?

NewBlacksmurf · April 2015

No.

No but there should be other cosmetic customization.

Possibly shields could have guild or faction based even town based design options unlocked after an achievement but dying or painting a weapon....no.

KanedaSyndrome · April 2015

Yes!

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

No but there should be other cosmetic customization.

Possibly shields could have guild or faction based even town based design options unlocked after an achievement but dying or painting a weapon....no.

Think you misunderstood my intent.

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