Design or bug? Dyes not properly representing color palate

Aliyavana · July 2016

Currently it seems that as the higher the materials used, the more unsaul the color palate is turned into. On end game rubedo gear for example, attempting to dye red will give a light pinkish color and blues will turn into a light grey color. I noticed on attempting to replicating a color scheme of a lower teir armor set from the same style, the same colors turned out to be vastly different compared to the previous one and it just looks silly because the dyes appear not as advertised. Is there a planned fix to give all armor types a standard color palate? I noticed the rare quality dyes seem to more strongly resemble their actual pictures and the lower level dyes seem to suffer the most of this color weirdness.

Nestor · July 2016

Every material and every Racial Style takes Dyes Differently. No one dye looks the same on two different pieces. Its kind of nice in some ways, but in others, like if you have a favorite color palette, not so much. I stopped creating color templates a long time ago.

Yes, Ruby materials have the least desirable effects from Dyes, not sure what they can do about that. Red seems to be the absolute worst, I can't find a Red Dye that looks good on Ruby, ironic as that sounds. I now stick to Grays, Silvers, Blacks, Purples and the like. Blue is not much better than Red on top end mats either. I have Dyes unlocked in all 3 tiers and it does not seem to really matter what Tier I pick them from. Its just a matter of trying different things until you find something you like. I have even gone to Randomizing a few times to see what other colors I might not like normally would look like. For example, the vile green color you get from Alchemy, looks bad on most things, but looks really good on Primal and Barbaric.

I am hoping that they open up all crafting materials to all levels and the amount of mats used determines the levels of the gear, but that is a dream.

Aliyavana · July 2016

I feel like their should be a material type category which determines the accuracy of color dyes incase someone wants to choose more accurate color or colors that they liked from a previous tier as rubedo isn't cutting it for me

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · July 2016

It is by (poorly thought out) design. All colors should look the same no matter what material they are applied to. This is a perfect example of how ZOS overthinks simple ideas.

newtinmpls · July 2016

Oh and sometimes even same material, same style I have to use a different "red" on shoulders than legs.

Aliyavana · July 2016

Its a very annoying design if you ask me

Nafirian · July 2016

Its even worse for legate black (AVA 39 Dye) It looks soooooo bad or indifferent to cold harbour ash black
but on high and light armour theres a clear difference >.>

Preyfar · July 2016

Outlaw armor dyes perfectly. The biggest difference on whether armor seeks to dye well is if ZOS considers what you're dyeing to be a metal. Metal dyes horribly and with no consistency. This is most noticable when it comes to shields... despite being made of wood.

fastolfv_ESO · July 2016

heavy armor has been virtually undyable since release, it lightens every single color to the extreme. Red to pink, black to barely grey, and dont get me started with violet