Questions on crafted armor

SadisticSavior · April 2014

So I have been improving armor to fine quality...does this just affect states or does it affect looks as well?

Are looks only affect by racial motif and type (light/medium/heavy)? Can you change colors or are all colors defaulted to whatever racial motif you use?

Shadowh86 · April 2014

for me it would be logical to improve looks of armor with quality. That way you have status of better quality armor/weapon. And if it looks better you feel good about making your armor/weapon that way

SadisticSavior · April 2014

Improving quality to "fine" does not seem to have an impact on appearance.

Shadowh86 · April 2014

yes. That is too bad

Zakua · April 2014

Umm I seem to recall it changes the "trim" lines around the armor. Like instead of a dull rusty trim line around the edge, once improved to "fine" it becomes a polished copper shine.

So it does not effect the geometry of the armor but its finish so to speak.

I could be wrong but I hope I'm not haha

Murra · April 2014

Depending on the level of the armor depends on how different it looks when you refine it and make it into a "fine" quality item. Armors below lvl 8 all look...novice, no matter what you do to them. 8+ look better, and do have visible color changes as you refine them, at least the ones I worked with. And the I think lvl 14 looks the "best" unrefined; I didn't get the opportunity to refine that set in the beta, sorry.
Dunmer armor however is the only armor that doesn't seem to have a lot of visible changes from my experience.

One character in beta had lvl 8 Khajiit medium armor, and when I refined them it turned from red to black and the stitching looked a little cleaner. It was awesome.

Shadowh86 · April 2014

Thnx guys that was helpfull. I hope that in time they will put some patches that will improve visual content and make gameplay mor satisfaing when improving your armor. Even for the dunmer, character i am playing

Srikandi · April 2014

There is definitely a visual effect. My Khajiit crafted an Argonian style leather chest in the Death's Wind set, and regretted the style choice because the pink leather clashed with her orange fur

When she upgraded the chest to green though, the chest turned a nice glossy dark red, which looks great.

But I agree that how dramatic the effect is depends on the item.

AreoHotah · April 2014

craft an armor, go to 3rd person view, zoom in, take screenshot, improve it, take another screenshot, compare.

SadisticSavior · April 2014

OK, I found an answer to my question. Yes, improvements do affect the look of armor items.

http://eso-fashion.com/crafting-guide-blacksmithing/

Normal:

Fine:

Superior:

Epic:

It's just so subtle I did not notice it. Which I guess is as it should be.

reignfyre · April 2014

crai7er_boy_4lif3b16_ESO wrote: »

craft an armor, go to 3rd person view, zoom in, take screenshot, improve it, take another screenshot, compare.

We shall not have scientific experiments here! Go away and take your little tests with you.

SadisticSavior · April 2014

Turns out it isn't necessary. Someone else already did it.

Castielle · April 2014

Murra wrote: »

Depending on the level of the armor depends on how different it looks when you refine it and make it into a "fine" quality item. Armors below lvl 8 all look...novice, no matter what you do to them. 8+ look better, and do have visible color changes as you refine them, at least the ones I worked with. And the I think lvl 14 looks the "best" unrefined; I didn't get the opportunity to refine that set in the beta, sorry.
Dunmer armor however is the only armor that doesn't seem to have a lot of visible changes from my experience.

One character in beta had lvl 8 Khajiit medium armor, and when I refined them it turned from red to black and the stitching looked a little cleaner. It was awesome.

I was wondering why my level 10 armor set looked drastically different than my level 6 armor set (this is with no improvements).

Cas

SadisticSavior · April 2014

I've been told that only the Level 1 and 4 armors look different.

This is a direct comparison between Cloth armor hats....Homespun hat at levels 8 and 12, with and without improvements.