Time to get rid of armor dye in EQ?Follow

I've never cared what anything looked like in the game. Not sure what percentage of the market really cares about this aspect of the game. (I'm not implying it's a small percentage. I literally have no idea how popular it is.)

I've only dyed stuff when making tailored bags, to make it easier to know which bag is which. In that case, I'm a HUGE fan of the dye system :)

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Yeah I just realized I can dye my bags... I'm a huge proponent of that. Armor dye? Ehhh. I think it comes down to choice, you can choose to look how ya want :)


I don't think Daybreak will make Heroes Forge FFA since it's a minor money maker that only a few choose to use as is. The only way they could or should make it FFA would be if the Heroes Forge started getting DB Market only items (like a Tuxedo armor set...which i would love.)

Honestly, I loved when they put the armor dyes into the game, and still use it. I never really liked that different armors had different colors. Those of you who played back in the day remember the sea of obnoxiously mashed up armor colors. Players hated the idea that you either had to look ok, or have good armor. It was nearly impossible to do both, since every new set seemed to come in a different color than the last. Armor dye allowed you to pick a color scheme and keep it, no matter what actual armor you were wearing, which I suspect most players still desire (any who aren't using HF augments anyway).

Ironically, while I do like the look of HF gear, and it doesn't have the color matching issues (assuming you use a single set), it does result in far far too many people looking more or less identical. At least back in the day of our mismatched armor, you could tell who was who because it was also very unlikely that more than one character of a given race/sex in the area had the exact same set of gear. With dye, each could customize their own color, also making each distinct. With HF, we've actually lost a fair amount of customization.

Personally, I really like the fact that I don't have to do anything at all to keep the color scheme I picked out years and years ago. Since the dye is on the location and not the gear (even in augment form), it's something you really just have to do once and then forget about it. My big turnoff with HF is that you first have to pay to unlock the capability of using the aug slots, then pay for the augs themselves. All so you can basically walk around in a stock appearance that looks neato, but isn't customizable in any way. Even if they make all of that free (which I suspect they won't), I don't see the problem with keeping the prismatic dye in the game as well. It's not like it breaks anything.

Edited, Jun 27th 2016 6:06pm by gbaji

On the plus side, it was badass in the old days to see a cleric in their purple plate and my bard used to look uniquely stellar in her turquoise Koada`Dal mithril plate.

A while back, I ran across a bunch of old screenshots from back in the day. Usually group shots of our guild at the end of a raid day in like Hate/Fear/Sky/whatever. OMG! Hideous. The only people who looked decent were the druids. And that's because they were in wolf form. Everyone else was sporting random bits of black, blue, pink, red, etc. And multiple shades of each. At least the dress wearers weren't too terrible since it was basically just their hat, shoes, and gloves poking out from behind a single colored robe. But the plate/chain wearers?