Should we be allowed to dye weapons?

bedlom · February 2016

I think ones we craft yes.
Whats the point in having red or whatever glass armor if your weapons stay green?
Kinda bugs me tbh I like my weapon color to match my gear in eso.

Zorrashi · February 2016

Perhaps the hilt/guards, but not the blade itself (imo).

Refuse2GrowUp · February 2016

In one of the ESO Live episodes (I believe the one where they announced shield dying was coming) they said specifically that they will not introduce the ability to dye weapons.

Thevampirenight · February 2016

I want, to dye weapons and I think its needed.

Asmodean · February 2016

The actual weapons?, not really. It would look weird. I mean the material. Like it was colored in using ms paint. Maybe quivers, though?.

I think it's a fine line with dying gear in games, before it gets to the stage of looking like it's from the power rangers.

Saying that. That's just my own opinion ofc.

Before somebody reports me for not agreeing with their pov.

TheShadowScout · February 2016

Yes, we should!
Looking wierd, people say? take a good hard look at the red-bladed rubedite swords... I'd love to be able to recolor those to some more subdued metal color.
As such, I'd love to see some way to recolor weapons. Maybe dye system (since its already in the game), but maybe some other system... a "visual recrafting" feature for master crafters, where you can adjust the color to any metal... dislike that voidsteel look? Reforge your sword to look orichalcic steel instead! Hate the red rubedite visuals? Go for plain old steel visuals through recrafting. Et cetera...

Drakilian · February 2016

Oh definitely, some of these standard weapon dyes look nasty. Maybe some people like wielding a weapon that looks like it was just lubricated with strawberries but I don't.

Emma_Overload · February 2016

This wouldn't be such a big issue if ZOS stopped releasing max level mats that are BUTT UGLY and clash with every color of the rainbow.

Why can't we have weapons that look like they are made of good old shiny steel?

Vaoh · February 2016

@Emma_Eunjung

*AWESOME IDEA: Using ten of a base material and one improvement material allows us to recolor a weapon of our choice in the base material's color.

For example: I have an Epic Rubedite Sword in Primal style. It currently has a shiny medium rubedite red to it. This doesn't match my character at all, so I use 10 Voidsteel Ingots to change the color to a V9-V14 dark voidstone blue color. I no longer have to craft my V16 weapons in Glass to avoid having a mismatched red to my character.

Since weapons also change appearance depending on quality, you just add an improvement material as well to give it the appearance of a green/blue/purple/gold version of the base material/level, or none to mimic the white.

The player cannot make an ugly bright pink sword. We get to reuse all of the other colors that weapons had while leveling to look cool, instead of that annoying rubedite red.

If you want to test this yourself, simply color your character bright white, blue and silver. Pull out a large V15-V16 red weapon. Now pull out a large V9-V14 dark blue weapon. Which looks better?

This would be so easy to put in and would make practically everyone happier.

Please ZOS

Discord_Days · February 2016

This is an awesome idea!

I'd also love to see Zenimax adding dye-option to costumes. I think that could boost the sales from the crown store!

khele23eb17_ESO · February 2016

Yes.

Mojmir · February 2016

Shields yes,weps no.

mistermutiny89 · February 2016

When they introduced shield dyeing and not weapon dyeing I just laughed.

Another job half done. Both should have been delivered together. Another thing we have to spend months fighting for. Where's the ingenuity and forward thinking at?

tengri · February 2016

Only if they introduce a proper scabbard or baldric first - then those should be dye-able ofc.
But the weapons themselves? Hell no.

KochDerDamonen · February 2016

-red, green, blue swords

-don't want people having silly colored weapons

/restscase

(seriously how can anyone use the excuse that we shouldn't have silly looking weapons when the standard right now is strawberry red)

Xendyn · February 2016

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

-red, green, blue swords

-don't want people having silly colored weapons

/restscase

Psst
Rubedite, Dwarven, Void.

We already have silly colored weapons, but we aren't allowed to get rid of it and make them look like steel.
That's just funny.

BurtFreeman · February 2016

i like black on my armour, but every single staff look like orrible blue purple.
this is a thing to be fixed.

Mr.Hmm · February 2016

Dye the blade? No.
Dye the other parts? Sure.
Dye the shield? Sure.

KochDerDamonen · February 2016

Xendyn wrote: »

Psst
Rubedite, Dwarven, Void.

We already have silly colored weapons, but we aren't allowed to get rid of it and make them look like steel.
That's just funny.

Heh, if I said the names it might've been too obvious I was referring to real things already in the game!

Xendyn · February 2016

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

Xendyn wrote: »

Psst
Rubedite, Dwarven, Void.

We already have silly colored weapons, but we aren't allowed to get rid of it and make them look like steel.
That's just funny.

Heh, if I said the names it might've been too obvious I was referring to real things already in the game!

Apparently I need more coffee

Totally mistook intent on that.

Gidorick · February 2016

A game that enables male characters to run around in wedding dresses and evening gowns having an issue with players coloring the blade of their sword ANY color seems odd to me....

Browiseth · February 2016

Yes please. I know people are going to bring up the usual "we dont want no pink swords" but let's be honest; most weapons are ridiculously coloured anyway

slumber_sandb16_ESO · February 2016

My character is dressed in plain old iron coloured armour, leather clothing beneath with some white fur details, an iron coloured metal shield and a bright red sword. Guess which part I'd like to dye ..

khele23eb17_ESO · February 2016

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

-red, green, blue swords

-don't want people having silly colored weapons

/restscase

And thats why wed like to be able to dye weapons. Not to have silly colored ones.

LadyNalcarya · February 2016

Mr.Hmm wrote: »

Dye the blade? No.
Dye the other parts? Sure.
Dye the shield? Sure.

Because purple and red blades look so realistic
I would really like to change this silly rubedite color, something like "Warrior's steel" or "Maormer's eye black" would look so much better.

KochDerDamonen · February 2016

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

And thats why wed like to be able to dye weapons. Not to have silly colored ones.

Kind of my point, ZOS is saying they don't want us to have colored weapons, meanwhile the things they design

Mivryna · February 2016

I think we should have that ability. I loved my v14 Daedric swords, all cold and blue. Now I have to use weird red v16 ones.

Glaiceana · February 2016

Yes it would definitely be nice to dye some parts of the weapons! I was slightly disappointed when I created my rubedite axe, it went from a beautiful blue colour, to a deep red, but I've got used to it now and kind of like it

Even so, it would be nice to be able to change your weapons to match in with the rest of your armour's colour scheme if you have one.
I asked for the ability to dye our mount's armour too, it was picked in an ESO Live and the answer was pretty much no

but they liked the idea.

LadyNalcarya · February 2016

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

And thats why wed like to be able to dye weapons. Not to have silly colored ones.

Kind of my point, ZOS is saying they don't want us to have colored weapons, meanwhile the things they design

Maybe people who are against it just dont have vr16 weapons. Because this bright red looks just ridiculous:

Low level weapons are fine though.

ListerJMC · February 2016

Yes!

My Ancient Elf staff is Christmas colours and I'd rather dye it to something a bit less bright.

This is the only image I can find but as you can see the top of the staff is bright green and half red. I'd prefer for it to be more subtle colours, so maybe I can go back to wearing blue robes instead of changing them to green to not clash with this.

Forestd16b14_ESO · February 2016

Refuse2GrowUp wrote: »

In one of the ESO Live episodes (I believe the one where they announced shield dying was coming) they said specifically that they will not introduce the ability to dye weapons.

No actually they said that weapon dyes were gonna come with shield dyes but when the date was approaching they said they have to delay weapon dyes by a few weeks cause there's more unique weapons than shields. Few weeks to few months later hey costume dyes int he works but nothing about weapon dyes.

@ZOS_GinaBruno please add weapon dyes already there's already a 3 slot color code for them already no? For you know the color that they already have.