You should be able to restyle only the rest of the equiptment as long as you have the motive as well as the trait researched that has been used on the particular piece of equiptment.This would encourage people to research traits as well as collect motives.
I think changing the actual trait to something else should not happen. The game is too simple as it is and is slowly becoming a child's game .
Of course I think the chances of this happening is close to Zero. ZoS wants to make money selling 'costumes' to hide your mismatched equiptment and the type of monster set you are wearing.

I agree that this needs to happen. If ZOS wants to make any modified item bound then that is fine but we shouldn't struggle with RNG after spending months researching traits. Worse yet, there will be more BoP sets than BoE sets for the first time in ESO. Good luck finding that item with the correct trait.

TBH i dont think zos thinks about this as much as they should, for me they bring out cool motifs yet im stuck with old styles as my gear is yellow so i miss the opertunity of the new styles. All we need is a way to change the look to a difrent style - could be done that u need 10 of that crafting style mat to make one bit that style.

Trait change maybe make it cost x amount of gold for a random nee trait

Re-style - yes.
Re-trait - no on dropped sets, maybe on crafted gear.

Bah, just learning how to use the forums. Anyways I voted other. In a way I'd like to see both, but should be just as difficult if not harder to change traits and or appearance.

The items you would like to change are "magical in nature" otherwise we would be wearing just a piece of metal, leather or cloth. So, just as it takes a hidden crafting station to create many pieces, it should take something similar to change them. Now I'm under the assumption that zos will keep useless traits on items to keep people coming back to the dungeons, or the content will die out. So I understand that being able to just change a trait shouldn't happen unless you have something challenging in its place. So here is my suggestion...

1. Fighters, mages and thieves guild repeatable questline. So I have a piece of heavy armor that I want changed, I run over to the fighters guild and pickup quest.
2. They send me back to the dungeon where I have to grab x artifact. Or maybe I have to steal it (thieves) or decipher it (mage).
3. Now they tell me that the forge lies in (insert new dungeon name here) and that only a master crafter has the knowledge to modify the properties lying in the equipment.
4. So I take my team and battle my way through x dungeon until I reach the crafting station. Once I get it fired up, I can bind the artifact to the armor piece, and start the process. I start by going to the improvement window, where I can pick my new trait and or style (or something entirely different), and hit the synergy button. The master crafter who is standing right next to me(hopefully) hits their synergy button and viola! You can now equip your old but improved piece of armor. Or if you prefer, you can grind the same dungeon over and over and hope.

This method would serve many purposes. It keeps the old dungeons relevant. It allows for a DLC (think about it zos $$$), it gives crafters a new purpose (and might be profitable), it keeps the social part of the game going(must have two to craft the item unless your a crafter yourself, then your synergy would craft the item without outside support, but good luck getting there by yourself).

You could also put a questline in for crafters to obtain the synergy skill. (level 50 in all crafts gives you "crafting insight synergy").

You could have guilds compete for an npc that allows individuals in your guild to advertise services I.e. Craft for x gold, tank dungeon for x gold so on and on...

You could require the use of old mats (cp1-150 is almost pointless now).

You could make the 3rd and 4th group members fight off mobs, protecting you while you make the item.

You could have several different new dungeons (one for each trait), and slowly add a few at a time (sharpened and impenetrable and prosperous).

You could have pvp items only accessible in cyrodiil where it could be a contested forge. Or mix it up and put pve in pvp zones and vise versa lol. That'd tick people off for sure.

You could put in "ancient darkelf weaver or ancient nord blacksmith or ancient bosmer woodworker" from the crownstore to synergize with you if you can't get someone with the skill to go with (buy a scroll of summons for 750 crowns, one time use or 5k for another follower) again $$$$$!!!


There are a ton of other ideas you can do with this and sorry it was so long, and I expect some hate for even mentioning crown store, but I believe in capitalism.

Also, in regards to my #2, since you have the dungeons, why not make that a solo portion (special instance of dungeon) to get the artifact, making you "worthy" of being able to wield it. Could have (person x) from fighters mage or thieves guild come help by tanking healing or dps for you for a small fee (or a new mercenary guild). Or opt out of the help all together for an x dungeon leader board chance.

Oh and add crafting section to group que for crafters to find group and chance at crafting reward, add difficulty based on the station you want to use (sharpened should be considerably harder to get to than training, and divines much more so than prosperous).

And crafters questline offers drop sets that you must obtain in order to use your synergy, which can rarely drop from repeatable quests already in game, or from a new instance of cold harbor (I'm thinking world boss level stuff).

No if it is for crowns , it would be Pay to Win, plus i'm feeling robbed anyway with soooooo many crown change possibilities and nothing to spend in-game gold.

And jewelry crafting.

Crafting just had a giant steaming turd dumped on it with the awesome itemization changes.

only for style, yes.

Voted yes. Maybe it binds the armor to the crafter afterwards? This makes crafting skills much more useful, even of crafted sets drop in power compared to non-crafted sets.

As much as it pains me, I am not for the re-trait on gear... but I would LOVE to restyle my dropped gear. I would change that vMA staff the second this became a feature. I'm tired of carrying around the same damn stick everyone else is.

just re-style. re-trait would kill any replay value.

but restyle would be awesome, hate some of my sets current style.

Re-styling yes, but hesitant about re-trait.

The re-styling should offer some solution to BoP items. A client can't currently send BoP items to crafter. Same problem exist with improving bound items. A crafter can improve BoE sets. But when a client puts it on it gets bound.

Both Are awesome ideas...

Re-Style is great
Re-Trait is also great beacuse of ESOs RNG system is SUCKS...(pls no offence cuz it is true)112 RUNS of MSA and i have only one item i use others are all bad TRAITS)

And after u crafted or re_trait ur gear it all about how good player u are and how good you crate your gear...It is very good to gives players this option to crate their play style...

So we need both of this abilities.

I'd suggest that you only can re-style an item if you know both styles; the one the item has and the one you want to change it into. This would keep unique styles like undaunted helmets actually unique and discernable. I also wouldn't mind if it costed some materials as long as it's not involved with the crown store.

Sadly they already said they have no plans for this.