Are you Sick of Red Weapons?

madeeh91rwb17_ESO · January 2017

Or just give us an option to coat our weapons with the materials we have skills for.

Won't even mind if I have to buy and spend an ingot or two.

Danikat · January 2017

One reason I'm in no rush to get to CP160 is that I'm enjoying using weapons that look like they're made from metal.

Weapon dying would be a good fix.

The other option would be a restyle system. There's been numerous variations on this proposed and personally I don't mind too much how it works. For me the key points are you have to own the object with the style you want before you can apply it to another object, and it should work across all equipment - including dropped pieces. If you want your super-rare dungeon helm to look like a level 20 crafted one you should have that option. Other than that I don't mind how it works.

But weapon dying is probably easier to implement. (Probably, the developers of Guild Wars 2 claim it would involve re-writing the entire system for equipping weapons and re-making every single weapon in the game because of how they designed it originally, but that seems to be unique to that one game. As far as I know ZOS haven't said anything similar.)

AnviOfVai · January 2017

TO be honest I can see why weapon dyes are a good thing, for examplethe crafting for glass weapons is a horrible greenish white and I would LOVE to dye that.

BUT most of the time im too busy stabbing other players or using my weapon to care what color it is.

Red for all the blood of my enemies!

actosh · January 2017

Thats why i use frostcaster weapons when i have the chance to use crafted ones ^^

Vmsa weapons r as well nice to look at and as a tank my alkosh weapon is surrounded by that blue stuff.

So for now i dont care about weapon dyes

Izaki · January 2017

My weaons are gold. Firstly because every weapon I own is gold and second because they are all Maelstrom weapons. Or Master weapons.

KochDerDamonen · January 2017

Turelus wrote: »

I want weapon dyes, but only if they stay in colours which make sense. #NoPinkSwords

Stop this, we already have the option of running around in purely bright pink/blue/purple/red/green(very green((very very green)))... how often do you see someone dressed like that?

ArchMikem · January 2017

Some styles don't show off the color nearly as much, such as Mercenary, Soul Shriven. It's just something you need to put your mind past and try not to focus on too much.

I mean really if we had Weapon Dyes people would go around with bright Yellow or Pink weapons. We already have giant Male characters in Wedding Dresses, you KNOW they're not above this.

Vanthras79 · January 2017

I am so sick of red weapons, I cannot even use the motifs I like for weapons because they come out blood red. I really, really want weapon dying. I remember an ESO live where they said that weapon dying was a hotly debated topic internally. Why would this be hotly debated? It seems that a "yes" to the decision would be a no-brainer. Its just the matter of the ETA. Please don't make me quote Matt on the ETA side.. It hurts too much now.

Uriel_Nocturne · January 2017

I understand the desire for the ability to dye a person's weapons, I do. IMO, personally, I rather like my Crimson Rubedite swords, but I wouldn't argue against the option to dye weapons.

To be quite honest, I like the look of Voidsteel Weapons even more than the Rubedite, and I'd love the option to craft Voidsteel Weapons at CP160. But that's not likely to happen at all, which is a shame. I've got so many stacks of the "lesser" CP ingots, I'd love to be able to craft items at CP160 using those other mats.

But again, this won't ever happen, so... even though I won't use it, let them dye their weapons ZOS. It harms nothing in the game, nor does it devalue anything in the game.

Kodrac · January 2017

Red quivers are an annoyance but otherwise I don't even notice.

TheShadowScout · January 2017

I am pretty sick of red weapons, so I am all for some sort of weapon color change option.

Could be weapon dyeing, even if they limited the "business parts" of the weapon to metallic colors only it'd be pretty nifty to be able to recolor your blades to something more reasonable.

Could be style recrafting, possibly with the added option of choosing the "crafting material color" in the process, which would again limit to the available metals, but that too would be good enough.

DMuehlhausen · January 2017

I don't mind them, but yes you should either be able to change the style through crafting and the look, or the ability to dye weapons

Vyle_Byte · January 2017

Ok ok maybe if we didn't call it "dye" people would stop freakin out so much, call it something else, give us a METAL color scheme to work with. The metal colors are already there in the game, let us choose with those.

On the other hand, who gives a rats ass seriously, about pink or blue or whatever? I mean, we can have pink Heavy Armor... its the same thing lol! Understood the argument before armor dyeing, now it makes no sense at all. I can dye my armor any color and look as ridiculous as Id like but my freakin sword has to be realistic? That argument has become invalid. Also, that red isn't realistic anyway. So, still... invalid.

Personally Id love a metal scheme to work with and YES I'm sick of all my top lvl weapons being red.

NewBlacksmurf · January 2017

I don't want weapon dyes

I do want the ability to change the artwork or material which addresses this.

I do not want to see weird colors in the game. I like what exists but it's just too limited in the level restrictions.

strikeback1247 · January 2017

I want my sword to look like the OSRunescape rune scimitar dammit!

starkerealm · January 2017

darkllord wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

darkllord wrote: »

AzuraKin wrote: »

you dont need weapon dyes, change style of your damn weapon to change color. for example v160 soulshriven weapons are coal black, glass weapons are translucent green.

Problem is, that i dont like above mentioned styles, nor I want green or black blade. I want my blade look like blade - made from metal, not glass, coal or potato.

Not wanting black blades is pure heresy.

Burn me! Burn the heretic! :-)

Man, Slaaneshi cultists are weird.

Sigtric · January 2017

I'm too busy swinging them around like a maniac to notice what color they are.

Katahdin · January 2017

Need the ability to change the style to any known style: transmog system.

Lord_Eomer · January 2017

There are important things to prioritize i.e. jewelry crafting, able to change style etc. Then weapon dying

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KochDerDamonen · January 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

Some styles don't show off the color nearly as much, such as Mercenary, Soul Shriven. It's just something you need to put your mind past and try not to focus on too much.

I mean really if we had Weapon Dyes people would go around with bright Yellow or Pink weapons. We already have giant Male characters in Wedding Dresses, you KNOW they're not above this.

Yes, and we have teeny tiny bosmeri women with large gozongas waggling around in very little clothing. It's not very interesting that you chose an example that displeases you instead of this one. How many people dye their gear bright obnoxious colors after having dyes available for years?

TheShadowScout wrote: »

I am pretty sick of red weapons, so I am all for some sort of weapon color change option.

Could be weapon dyeing, even if they limited the "business parts" of the weapon to metallic colors only it'd be pretty nifty to be able to recolor your blades to something more reasonable.

Could be style recrafting, possibly with the added option of choosing the "crafting material color" in the process, which would again limit to the available metals, but that too would be good enough.

So much more needlessly complex than just working in the current dye system onto weapons, and limiting too.

Vyle_Byte wrote: »

Ok ok maybe if we didn't call it "dye" people would stop freakin out so much, call it something else, give us a METAL color scheme to work with. The metal colors are already there in the game, let us choose with those.

On the other hand, who gives a rats ass seriously, about pink or blue or whatever? I mean, we can have pink Heavy Armor... its the same thing lol! Understood the argument before armor dyeing, now it makes no sense at all. I can dye my armor any color and look as ridiculous as Id like but my freakin sword has to be realistic? That argument has become invalid. Also, that red isn't realistic anyway. So, still... invalid.

Personally Id love a metal scheme to work with and YES I'm sick of all my top lvl weapons being red.

We already "dye" metal, and other sorts of things like bone or whatever, on armors that are expected to take a repeated beating. I don't know why people are suddenly up-in-arms about muh realism when it comes to weapons, haha.

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I don't want weapon dyes

I do want the ability to change the artwork or material which addresses this.

I do not want to see weird colors in the game. I like what exists but it's just too limited in the level restrictions.

Things existing in-game include: Red/pink, blue, green, yellow... All we'd be doing by limiting it to the existing artwork colors, is less options of what shade of these colors. Needlessly restrictive. Though I WOULD like it if we could unlock dyes that matched item tiers precisely, perhaps by upgrading things in that level tier to a certain level or some other achievement.

strikeback1247 wrote: »

I want my sword to look like the OSRunescape rune scimitar dammit!

IF you did, you would refer to it as a scimy

Danikat · January 2017

I find it kind of fascinating that this topic came up specifically because people want a way for their Rubedite weapons to be any colour except pink/red and yet the argument against it is still "No pink swords in the game!"

Preyfar · January 2017

At this point I don't care if ZOS implements dye packs for weapons from a pre-selected allotment of colors specific for weapons, I'm just tired of all my weapons look like they've been soaked in the blood of my enemies. I mean, that's the inevitable, but... the crimson has gotta go.

NewBlacksmurf · January 2017

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

Some styles don't show off the color nearly as much, such as Mercenary, Soul Shriven. It's just something you need to put your mind past and try not to focus on too much.

I mean really if we had Weapon Dyes people would go around with bright Yellow or Pink weapons. We already have giant Male characters in Wedding Dresses, you KNOW they're not above this.

Yes, and we have teeny tiny bosmeri women with large gozongas waggling around in very little clothing. It's not very interesting that you chose an example that displeases you instead of this one. How many people dye their gear bright obnoxious colors after having dyes available for years?

TheShadowScout wrote: »

I am pretty sick of red weapons, so I am all for some sort of weapon color change option.

Could be weapon dyeing, even if they limited the "business parts" of the weapon to metallic colors only it'd be pretty nifty to be able to recolor your blades to something more reasonable.

Could be style recrafting, possibly with the added option of choosing the "crafting material color" in the process, which would again limit to the available metals, but that too would be good enough.

So much more needlessly complex than just working in the current dye system onto weapons, and limiting too.

Vyle_Byte wrote: »

Ok ok maybe if we didn't call it "dye" people would stop freakin out so much, call it something else, give us a METAL color scheme to work with. The metal colors are already there in the game, let us choose with those.

On the other hand, who gives a rats ass seriously, about pink or blue or whatever? I mean, we can have pink Heavy Armor... its the same thing lol! Understood the argument before armor dyeing, now it makes no sense at all. I can dye my armor any color and look as ridiculous as Id like but my freakin sword has to be realistic? That argument has become invalid. Also, that red isn't realistic anyway. So, still... invalid.

Personally Id love a metal scheme to work with and YES I'm sick of all my top lvl weapons being red.

We already "dye" metal, and other sorts of things like bone or whatever, on armors that are expected to take a repeated beating. I don't know why people are suddenly up-in-arms about muh realism when it comes to weapons, haha.

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I don't want weapon dyes

I do want the ability to change the artwork or material which addresses this.

I do not want to see weird colors in the game. I like what exists but it's just too limited in the level restrictions.

Things existing in-game include: Red/pink, blue, green, yellow... All we'd be doing by limiting it to the existing artwork colors, is less options of what shade of these colors. Needlessly restrictive. Though I WOULD like it if we could unlock dyes that matched item tiers precisely, perhaps by upgrading things in that level tier to a certain level or some other achievement.

strikeback1247 wrote: »

I want my sword to look like the OSRunescape rune scimitar dammit!

IF you did, you would refer to it as a scimy

@KochDerDamonen

Specific to your reply on my comment. I think you've misunderstood it completely.

I'm not talking about colors.
I'm suggesting that instead of being limited to one material type which does cause the item to have a color and appearance, I'm saying that the ability to craft as well as change a drop to any of the artwork that's determined by the material, it the level restrictions were removed, that would allow much better color changes that actually look real vs just changing a weapons color

Rosveen · January 2017

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

There are important things to prioritize i.e. jewelry crafting, able to change style etc. Then weapon dying

I'd take weapon dying over jewelry crafting tbh.

KochDerDamonen · January 2017

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

Some styles don't show off the color nearly as much, such as Mercenary, Soul Shriven. It's just something you need to put your mind past and try not to focus on too much.

I mean really if we had Weapon Dyes people would go around with bright Yellow or Pink weapons. We already have giant Male characters in Wedding Dresses, you KNOW they're not above this.

Yes, and we have teeny tiny bosmeri women with large gozongas waggling around in very little clothing. It's not very interesting that you chose an example that displeases you instead of this one. How many people dye their gear bright obnoxious colors after having dyes available for years?

TheShadowScout wrote: »

I am pretty sick of red weapons, so I am all for some sort of weapon color change option.

Could be weapon dyeing, even if they limited the "business parts" of the weapon to metallic colors only it'd be pretty nifty to be able to recolor your blades to something more reasonable.

Could be style recrafting, possibly with the added option of choosing the "crafting material color" in the process, which would again limit to the available metals, but that too would be good enough.

So much more needlessly complex than just working in the current dye system onto weapons, and limiting too.

Vyle_Byte wrote: »

Ok ok maybe if we didn't call it "dye" people would stop freakin out so much, call it something else, give us a METAL color scheme to work with. The metal colors are already there in the game, let us choose with those.

On the other hand, who gives a rats ass seriously, about pink or blue or whatever? I mean, we can have pink Heavy Armor... its the same thing lol! Understood the argument before armor dyeing, now it makes no sense at all. I can dye my armor any color and look as ridiculous as Id like but my freakin sword has to be realistic? That argument has become invalid. Also, that red isn't realistic anyway. So, still... invalid.

Personally Id love a metal scheme to work with and YES I'm sick of all my top lvl weapons being red.

We already "dye" metal, and other sorts of things like bone or whatever, on armors that are expected to take a repeated beating. I don't know why people are suddenly up-in-arms about muh realism when it comes to weapons, haha.

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I don't want weapon dyes

I do want the ability to change the artwork or material which addresses this.

I do not want to see weird colors in the game. I like what exists but it's just too limited in the level restrictions.

Things existing in-game include: Red/pink, blue, green, yellow... All we'd be doing by limiting it to the existing artwork colors, is less options of what shade of these colors. Needlessly restrictive. Though I WOULD like it if we could unlock dyes that matched item tiers precisely, perhaps by upgrading things in that level tier to a certain level or some other achievement.

strikeback1247 wrote: »

I want my sword to look like the OSRunescape rune scimitar dammit!

IF you did, you would refer to it as a scimy

@KochDerDamonen

Specific to your reply on my comment. I think you've misunderstood it completely.

I'm not talking about colors.
I'm suggesting that instead of being limited to one material type which does cause the item to have a color and appearance, I'm saying that the ability to craft as well as change a drop to any of the artwork that's determined by the material, it the level restrictions were removed, that would allow much better color changes that actually look real vs just changing a weapons color

I did misunderstand ^^
Lots of suggestions pertaining to the color in this fashion, my bad. Being able to use lower tier appearances in general would be nice, yes. Though I don't like it as a replacement for weapon dyeing entirely.

Djeriko · February 2017

Majic wrote: »

"Do you want me to be frank, I just don't know how cool its going to be to run around with your pink sword." -- Paul Sage

Ironically enough, thanks to rubedite, now we know.

It ain't.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom this is from 2 days of polling. Imagine if all of the entire community was polled for this. (hint: the results are very much a landslide for having weapon dyes)

EvilCroc · February 2017

Somebody should make a survey and draw a graph with frequency of "weapon dye" topics appearing.
But it has no sense cuz "we do not want to see people with pink weapons".
No ETA.

FloppyTouch · February 2017

EvilCroc wrote: »

Somebody should make a survey and draw a graph with frequency of "weapon dye" topics appearing.
But it has no sense cuz "we do not want to see people with pink weapons".
No ETA.

<.< I want pink swords

ZiRM · February 2017

Yes! I want to customize my weapon color, I would also like to be able to dye hair.