What do you say? I vote yes. I’d love to see my weapons dyed because there is so hard to find weapons that matches your outfit. Or if you want to mimic your favorite anime character and have found a sword that looks like the one he/she is using but has the wrong color. Start the debate! Maybe we can make Anet implement this feature.
Edit: This is not a discussion that focuses on “when” dyes for weapons should be implemented, if ever at all. I’m starting a discussion about the possibility of having dyable weapons. Not arguing what will be implemented in a specific order.
against, ANET has bigger prioties than letting OP make his character look like Pico from Boku no Pico.
Definitely this. There are a thousand more important things in the game, a lot more core issues to address, thousand of clipping to fix, and so on. They should fix what’s broken before adding more (broken) things.
“I think that players are starting to mature past the point of wanting to be on that
treadmill, of being in that obvious pattern of every time I catch up you are going to
put another carrot in front of me” – Mike O’Brien right before Ascended weapons
Against. I might be for it if the colors were reasonable or limited to metal colors or something. This game is already becoming an eye sore and going against the original art style. It’s starting to look like a bunch of people raided a toy store and went out to defend Tyria.
Completely for. I can’t imagine too many people being against.
That said, I think it could be completely moot. A dev for another AAA MMO explained to me once what was involved with making items dyable in their game. I don’t know if its the same here, but if it is then items would need to be designed from the beginning with the intention of being dyable- simply changing them later would be about as close to viably impossible as one could get.
For. There is a ruby colored gem in the handle of my scepter that I dearly would love to change.
I did hear a rumor recently that weapon dyes are coming, there was a dev discussion in game with players on TC within the last week or two and this was a topic that one of the players raised that a dev confirmed is being worked on.
+1 for weapon dyes since they made GW1 fun.
Maybe they will have that done in 2015 with a gemstore asuran weapon dye kit for the low low price of 1000gems?
The feature I want the most though for customization is heraldric shields. Of course, only 3 professions can use shields, but it would be pretty cool for a guild to have its warriors and guardians carry a shield with its colors on it.
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t start this way. They should have been dye-able from the beginning. If it’s something they were working on, they may have simply run out of time and put it onto the back burner for now.
Sarcasm, delivered with a
delicate, brick-like subtlety.
What if instead of being able to dye them we were able to enchant them. Doing this would give the owner the ability to alter the colors, size and tweak the skills attached to the weapons similar to how D3 does with the runes.
Weapon dyes, YES! This game, from the start, has really been soul suckingly dreary. The steam punk, tribal, and flaming skulls themes need an update badly. If not user dyeable, then just have multiple versions for us to choose from.
More Hair Styles!!
More Armor Skins!
More Weapon Skins!
More look’s with Life in them!!! PLEASE??
And, yes it should be a priority. Like in the next month or two. Stagnation is setting in hard. The only new looks were RNG gated and not very good.
Weapon dyes would be great. Also stop acting like Arena.Net’s artists are the same people who are balancing game mechanics and writing code. A company doesn’t focus it’s entire workforce on one thing at a time. They have different departments doing different tasks.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
- Mike Obrien
For, but NOT until 1 year or so. They have way bigger priorities currently so it shouldn’t take time from important fixes and patches. Maybe they can introduce it in next expansion?
