It appears Weapon Dying will be coming to ESO

AdamBourke · May 2015

Found this image on the pocket-lint website today, with the caption:

"These Ophidian weapons are only found in ESOTU’s Trials: our most difficult dungeons, requiring a dozen people to navigate and conquer. The red, blue, and green tinted sections indicate the three different areas that players can dye to suit their tastes at any of the dye stations found throughout Tamriel."

I don't think there was anything else new - some stuff about craglorn and refuges that I don't know if it's anything new or not... The original article is here pocket-lint.com/news/133981-exclusive-elder-scrolls-online-making-of-pics-show-a-ps4-and-xbox-one-game-waiting-to-shine, and you have to click on the gallery to see the image above

Davadin · May 2015

i'd be pissed if its console exclusive lol

pema · May 2015

Hounestly this looks more like a render of how they made it.
Their texture maps before rendering the object (3D sculpt to object)

So I woudn't hold your breath

Wyietsayon · May 2015

This is cool. At first I thought it was weapon dying, like weapon deterioration, and I was about to cry. So many terrible gaming memories from Dark Cloud. But no, this is good. Especially for swords, I always wanted to change the color of the jewel in the hilt, and stuff like that.

Pallmor · May 2015

No Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood, but I guess I can have a blue sword now.

Alphashado · May 2015

There has been a lot of feedback asking for weapon/shield dyes. We already know they are working on Dark Brotherhood, so it's good to see they are working on this as well.

Sotha_Sil · May 2015

There is one screenshot with this quote :

"Access to this pocket of the lava and ash-filled realm ruled by the Daedric Prince Boethiah is only granted to those whom the Prince of Deceit deems worthy. Here she seeks champions to honor her name by offering trials of combat and survival. Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."

I heard Mephala's realm was in the works but is Boethiah's realm too ?

MCMancub · May 2015

I just don't see the point of this. Shields I could understand, but weapons are so small and have so few "dye-able" parts that it feels like it would be a completely wasted feature.

BBSooner · May 2015

Would love for this to be a thing. I'd immediately hop on all my VRs and change the color of my purple weapons.

Shunravi · May 2015

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

There is one screenshot with this quote :

"Access to this pocket of the lava and ash-filled realm ruled by the Daedric Prince Boethiah is only granted to those whom the Prince of Deceit deems worthy. Here she seeks champions to honor her name by offering trials of combat and survival. Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."

I heard Mephala's realm was in the works but is Boethiah's realm too ?

Sounds like a next step after vDSA.....

PBpsy · May 2015

Damn that looks atrocious.

Heromofo · May 2015

AdamBourke wrote: »

Found this image on the pocket-lint website today, with the caption:

"These Ophidian weapons are only found in ESOTU’s Trials: our most difficult dungeons, requiring a dozen people to navigate and conquer. The red, blue, and green tinted sections indicate the three different areas that players can dye to suit their tastes at any of the dye stations found throughout Tamriel."

I don't think there was anything else new - some stuff about craglorn and refuges that I don't know if it's anything new or not... The original article is here pocket-lint.com/news/133981-exclusive-elder-scrolls-online-making-of-pics-show-a-ps4-and-xbox-one-game-waiting-to-shine, and you have to click on the gallery to see the image above

This is brillant good job ZOS cant wait for it gonna die all my items purple and green.

Paulington · May 2015

Shunravi wrote: »

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

There is one screenshot with this quote :

"Access to this pocket of the lava and ash-filled realm ruled by the Daedric Prince Boethiah is only granted to those whom the Prince of Deceit deems worthy. Here she seeks champions to honor her name by offering trials of combat and survival. Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."

I heard Mephala's realm was in the works but is Boethiah's realm too ?

Sounds like a next step after vDSA.....

I would love Mephala's Realm to have the entrance inside the loot room after vDSA so it has a logical "progression" to it, i.e. you must be her champion to enter the Trial in the first place.

Obviously it'd have a wayshrine so you could auto-port to it once discovered, but you'd have to finish vDSA to discover it.

Acrolas · May 2015

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."

I guess Boethiah is also the Daedric Prince of Subscriptions, Microtransactions, and Paywalls.

Maybe that's why they dumped his shrine into the inner sea...

ThatNeonZebraAgain · May 2015

MCMancub wrote: »

I just don't see the point of this. Shields I could understand, but weapons are so small and have so few "dye-able" parts that it feels like it would be a completely wasted feature.

Agreed. However, they should add a feature so that blacksmiths can select the "tint" of the weapons they make. These colorations already exist in the game and correspond to different level items; just unlock them so you can select which one you want (and you could only make those tints at or below your crafting level). They could even add another crafting mat you'd need to make a weapon with the non-default tint.

LegacyDM · May 2015

Cool. Now how about costume dyeing @zos.

Shunravi · May 2015

Acrolas wrote: »

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."

I guess Boethiah is also the Daedric Prince of Subscriptions, Microtransactions, and Paywalls.

Maybe that's why they dumped his shrine into the inner sea...

Sounds like a page from clavicus vile.

AdamBourke · May 2015

MCMancub wrote: »

I just don't see the point of this. Shields I could understand, but weapons are so small and have so few "dye-able" parts that it feels like it would be a completely wasted feature.

In first person mode, the weapons are really the only thing you can see over than gloves. So it probably makes a big difference there.

As for dye-able parts... In the items in the picture, the whole thing is dye-able. Unless you mean that they are metal and shouldn't be able to be dyed - in which case I would say that since we can dye heavy armour - we should be able to dye weapons as well...

Drazhar14 · May 2015

Thank goodness. I can finally get voidstone silver blades. I hope this comes out soon.

Moonshadow66 · May 2015

AdamBourke wrote: »

MCMancub wrote: »

I just don't see the point of this. Shields I could understand, but weapons are so small and have so few "dye-able" parts that it feels like it would be a completely wasted feature.

In first person mode, the weapons are really the only thing you can see over than gloves. So it probably makes a big difference there.

As for dye-able parts... In the items in the picture, the whole thing is dye-able. Unless you mean that they are metal and shouldn't be able to be dyed - in which case I would say that since we can dye heavy armour - we should be able to dye weapons as well...

^This.
As you said, since heavy armor is dyeable, why not the metal weapons as well.
Since we're at it, I still wait for the day when we can dye ALL leather parts of armor, there're still some parts like belts which are not dyeable atm, also the complete Dunmer medium armor has a lot of spots which are not dyeable, which looks odd.

To the OP: this is great news, thanks for sharing it

rb2001 · May 2015

Any idea when?

rb2001 · May 2015

AdamBourke wrote: »

MCMancub wrote: »

I just don't see the point of this. Shields I could understand, but weapons are so small and have so few "dye-able" parts that it feels like it would be a completely wasted feature.

In first person mode, the weapons are really the only thing you can see over than gloves. So it probably makes a big difference there.

As for dye-able parts... In the items in the picture, the whole thing is dye-able. Unless you mean that they are metal and shouldn't be able to be dyed - in which case I would say that since we can dye heavy armour - we should be able to dye weapons as well...

Lacquer. Seanchan. Lacquering metal is a thing.

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · May 2015

Shunravi wrote: »

Acrolas wrote: »

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."

I guess Boethiah is also the Daedric Prince of Subscriptions, Microtransactions, and Paywalls.

Maybe that's why they dumped his shrine into the inner sea...

Sounds like a page from clavicus vile.

~GASP~

And we've already made the deal.

DIVINES, HELP US!!!

MornaBaine · May 2015

One hopes this applies to ALL weapons in the game, not just "super special" rare ones.

oddavi · May 2015

Pallmor wrote: »

No Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood, but I guess I can have a blue sword now.

It was already possible, even a pink sword

UrQuan · May 2015

rb2001 wrote: »

AdamBourke wrote: »

MCMancub wrote: »

I just don't see the point of this. Shields I could understand, but weapons are so small and have so few "dye-able" parts that it feels like it would be a completely wasted feature.

In first person mode, the weapons are really the only thing you can see over than gloves. So it probably makes a big difference there.

As for dye-able parts... In the items in the picture, the whole thing is dye-able. Unless you mean that they are metal and shouldn't be able to be dyed - in which case I would say that since we can dye heavy armour - we should be able to dye weapons as well...

Lacquer. Seanchan. Lacquering metal is a thing.

I find it somewhat amusing that you used a fictional culture to prove your point that lacquered metal is real...

Of course, you're absolutely right, but if I were you I maybe would have used Japanese armour to illustrate the point. Mind you, Japanese armour is clearly where Robert Jordan got his inspiration for the Seanchan armour, so it amounts to much the same thing

Yolokin_Swagonborn · May 2015

Can't wait to rock out with my pink sword out.

NadiusMaximus · May 2015

More animated weapon buffs would be better I think k. Like some of the things from rift, where the ends of staves are moving snake heads, a day swords with fire effects, you know, stuff that and has been in other ES games.

Enodoc · May 2015

Shunravi wrote: »

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

There is one screenshot with this quote :

"Access to this pocket of the lava and ash-filled realm ruled by the Daedric Prince Boethiah is only granted to those whom the Prince of Deceit deems worthy. Here she seeks champions to honor her name by offering trials of combat and survival. Very few are invited to this great challenge. Even fewer survive."
I heard Mephala's realm was in the works but is Boethiah's realm too ?

Sounds like a next step after vDSA.....

Dragonstar Arena mostly takes place in Boethiah's realm anyway. I think this is concept art of Round 10.

Turelus · May 2015

One can hope this is real. I would love to finally have my swords actual metal colours rather than that horrible purple that VR gear seems to be.
I know in the past they had said they didn't want to do it because of "pink swords" but I don't see the issues with just limiting the colour selections of specific parts of the weapons keeping the unconventional colours to only gems etc.

Also they did confirm shield dyes eventually, just no idea when.

HaldaAinur · May 2015

Honestly, I feel like this is something that will be made exclusive only to vet levels- don't get me wrong, after all the work they put into leveling, they deserve a reward -but it makes me worry that those who don't want to level to vet will be left out of this plan altogether.

I'm all for working for a good reward, but frankly I have never been able to force myself to be excited about doing vet ranks, and have never found a good cause for doing them myself, although this is just a preference of my own. In short, I just hope that they make this available to all level players, vet or not, via not various challenging achievements.