I also think it sucks that we get cool/awesome loot, but then have to make the decision on whether to use it despite it looking horrible (or not matching your personal look), or not using it and going with crafted instead. I always thought the real reason for having a robust crafting system was to have the option to pick your own setup stat-wise, but, apparently in ESO, it's very much about gear style choice as well...

Another problem is that when you make a really good gear set, but a DLC drops with a new Motif/Style... Gotta make new gear to use that style. Would be much more cool to be able to just change styles to any that you know and have the style item for.

Yes. Especially since some styles are bugged on female models and you can't always tell which ones until after you craft them.

Yes please or at least let us preview what it will look like dyed and equipped.

Please, I really want this feature.

tl:dr I can't possibly see a negative to this. I think it would increase the demand for style mats and motifs for people to sell. If they get too expensive, great I can buy crown mimic stones and/or the motif I want. It's a WIN WIN..

Me blabbering on:

This would be exactly what I would do each time I get a drop, first thing I would do is change the appearance to a known style that character know, say Mercenary. Now charge me a Laurel.....and let's say I don't have the gold, well I can just buy some mimic stones from the crown store.

I spent time getting Caldwell's Silver for the motif and bought some other motifs. And now, if I upgrade my gear with the look I want, I won't do dungeons since I will not use any rewards. And honestly why deal with the hassle as a tank for a reward I don't care about.

But if I don't upgrade the gear via crafting, then I'm stuck looking at something I don't like. I already bought the costumes I like and I'm kinda bored of them. I want to use the motifs I specifically went for. Now it seems like it's only my alts that get to use the motifs.

So I've only done one dungeon since hitting 160 on my one lvl 50. And only log on to that guy to do crafting writs. I still need to finish the DLC's so I will still do that....but after?????

I do have one more alt that I'm getting close to hitting 50, but once that guy hits 50 I will probably park him as well and do crafting writs. And not entirely sure if I want to level up another char after this.

With so many motif options we need something for visual change