Should ESO utilize armor dye? Just want to know how important it is for people.

Its a decent idea and was a nice change in AION (although it was extremely limted)....but how much would it take from the aesthetics of Eso?

I don't see the harm.

Yes, but I would like to see reasonable colors.

I really don't want to see a huge Orsimer running around wearing hot-pink heavy armor.

Of course, if it is implemented and someone likes this kind of stuff, I won't complain. I am against telling people how I think they should play the game.

Only if they severely limit the colors.

I have no desire to see the tank wearing a bright neon pink dress.

Makes my eyes hurt.

I voted yes but it really depends on how ugly the colours are on the gear we will be finding.

Personally, it would be nice if dyes had to be crafted, and then had to be applied in the crafting of the armor, rather than afterwards. Would raise the value of certain crafted pieces. I personally don't like flamboyant colors, but I am not against someone else having them. Just my two cents.

I wouldn't mind shading armor or doing what Asheron's Call did(only certain parts of the armor can be dyed, notably the cloth looking parts - anything else was just tinted ever so slightly).

But yeah, neon colors? No thanks. Glass armor is bad enough with that electric green going on.

yes, all mmo games should have an armor dye system imo

Don't need it in games where you can show the appearance of other items in their place.

EQ2 had that "problem". Hence, my comment about my tank in a neon pink dress.

Our guild's main tank was a shadow knight(male, ogre) that wore a bright pink dress, weilded a candy cane and peppermint swirl round for a sword and shield, rolled around with a santa hat on and rode a flying squirrel mount.

Absurd. Amusing, but got old really REALLY fast.

This is a better idea....you can then specifically craft an item tailored to a specifc request. Although, to spread the joy, only alchemists can create the dyes.......but where do they get the colourings from? Do they make dyes specifically for specific armor types?

It would make full-time crafters more valued.

But I think it might be a tricky thing to implement.

Flowers, plants, minerals, and insects are some traditional sources of pigments.

Edit: I read on a recent trip to a local preserve that the natives here used to use tree bark.

I don't think it would be as tricky as you think it would. I would LOVE a system like this though. It is my ideal system for dyes. Clicking a button and "presto! Newly colored armor!" seems cheap to me. Even when some dyes are hard to find.

i get why some people dont want it but i personally like the dye system far more than an transmog or costume system

I'd prefer not to have dyes. If there were going to be dyes I hope they are limited in the colour range available.

I'm really enjoying seeing other people around without it looking like a tripped out acid flashback

I voted yes, but within reason. NO pink haired gnomes and disco dudes. Lore correct dyes please.

Yes and I want them a NORMAL part of the game.

Not rare boss loot, special event give-away, not cash shop stuff, but a normal part of the game that can be crafted with NORMAL materials that are obtained in NORMAL ways. No hunting down special boss ingredients or any of that other garbage that makes MMO's not fun for crafters.

I think it would be fine and a good thing as long as they did limit the color schemes to reasonable colors that go along with ESO theme, because it would ruin the game for me if they let people change their gear to all purple or any and every color in the rainbow.

i would even be ok with a dye system where you had to dye all armor the same color to avoid the clown armor that people seem to hate so much. personally i dont care, the point of a dye system is to allow people to be more creative and stand out, why would i be against that?

because, wouldn't it take away the lore of skyrim if a rainbow colored armored npc came out of nowhere to attack you when there is no rainbow colored npc or anything for that matter anywhere in the game, same reason here...

the color of armor has nothing to do with lore.

ok maybe I lore is the wrong word, honestly if that's not the definaitiion kinda then I have no idea what it means, but either way it would seem out of place you understand that?

I agree.

After playing games like CoH, GW2, STO and being able to customise the colour of different pieces to get the exact look I want, it's hard to imagine not being able to do that.

I find it much more satisfying playing a game when I'm snappily dressed.

No to crafting interdependence.

Since you can take all crafting skills on one character there's no point to making interdependence using "community building" as an excuse.

And with the atrocity that's the method of selling to other people, there's nowhere to hawk your wares outside a guild store(that might not even be a great implementation) or sitting in channel screaming you have stuff to sell.

Give me an NPC to sell my stuff through thanks.

No, I find the dye serves the purpose to make all your stuff match more than the clown thing.

I have no problems with mismatched dye. I *do* have problems with this stuff:

http://www.diablowiki.net/images/1/1c/Elegant_dye.jpg

And this:

http://www.diablowiki.net/images/8/84/Dye_foresters.jpg

even this:

http://www.diablowiki.net/images/e/e1/Dye_royal.jpg

and this:

http://www.diablowiki.net/images/1/12/Lovely_dye.jpg

Full palette on the same armor set.

http://www.diablowiki.net/images/thumb/d/d3/Dyes_all.jpg/399px-Dyes_all.jpg

Good number of those colors are so gaudy its disturbing and I'd prefer them to not exist in ESO.

i can see how some people would be against odd colors and even more so with multi colored armors but its never been an issue for me. for example you mentioned purple but i was always in purple armor (royal) in daoc. imo it was hands down the best looking armor. i can deal with people being all crazy with colors as i ran into far more people who used sensible dye colors for their armor. i was purple and black always except for my hunter who was 2 shades of green and some brown.